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McCain’s Late-night Lie

John McCain on the set of CBS News with Katie Couric. John lied to Letterman about the reason why he canceled his appearance on The Late Show, saying he was rushing back to Washington DC “to save the country” when in fact he granted an exclusive interview to Katie Couric instead.

John McCain bails on David Letterman, and the host is not happy

Hours after John McCain announced he was suspending his campaign to focus on fixing the nation’s ailing economy, he pulled out of his scheduled appearance on the “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

As our colleague Matea Gold reports on the Show Tracker blog, Letterman told the audience during the taping of Wednesday’s show that McCain had called him personally to apologize for bailing. According to Letterman, McCain said he couldn’t appear because he was rushing to the airport to get back to Washington.

But midway through the broadcast, Letterman appeared to learn that the Arizona senator was actually still in New York. In fact, McCain was just a few blocks away, at the CBS News headquarters. He was preparing for a last-minute exclusive interview with Katie Couric.

Incredulous, Letterman interrupted his interview with Keith Olbermann (who had filled in as a substitute guest for McCain) to show the audience a live shot on the internal CBS News feed of a makeup artist putting the finishing touches on McCain while he waited to talk to Couric.

“He doesn’t seem to be racing to the airport, does he?” Letterman said, shouting at the television monitor: “Hey, John, I got a question! You need a ride to the airport?”

Another overheard comment about Palin

“Palin has a lot of hockey-mom types feeling kinda smug–but how many of them would have voted for Obama anyway?” -pepsified thinker

Introducing Reality Chick

Bia Winters (of the ‘Change is Good’ cartoon I posted earlier) has set up a website for her political art!

Click the image to see the full comic.

From her email announcement:

On this eight annual Bush State-of Union BS fest, I once again respectfully submit Reality Chick Comix’s take on it all….Even Truer now than when the 2004 Sotu inspired it!
(Except now it is Pelosi sitting where Hastert was….not much changed THERE, did it? )

http://www.realitychickcomix.com/

Bia