David Letterman's War Against John McCain Day 4: "Good Thing John McCain Blew Me Off To Go Save The Economy"

Tuesday night, David Letterman kept his war with John McCain raging strong, weaving another McCain joke into his monologue (that's 4 shows in a row, not counting the Friday show which was seemingly pre-taped earlier in the week).

"Yesterday the stock market...suffered its biggest one-day drop in history....And I'm telling you, boy, it's a good thing John McCain blew me off to go save the economy. Thank god is all I can say!"

Watch:

Previously:
David Letterman vs. John McCain Continues: "McCain Loves Bailouts, He Bailed Out On Me!"
WATCH: John McCain Cancels Letterman Appearance, Letterman Catches Him In A Lie
WATCH: Letterman Attacks McCain Day 2: "I Feel Like An Ugly Date"
CBS News Executives "Aggravated" By Letterman's Use Of Internal News Feed

Comments

[Js420]

Ride this out Dave! Fu*& McCain

[GIBill]

Letterman is the REAL barometer of political opinion in this country, just like Johnny Carson & Bob Hope were for years.

[getoffthecross]

Satire is ABSOLUTELY the best way to beat people over the head with common sense...

http://www.jokerzinternetradio.com/phpmotion/play.php?vid=106

[garmahis]

What do you think McCain looks like more: Casper, Dr.Evil, Cotton Hill, Evil Monkey, Husky, Jubba the Hut or Evil Overlord?
Have a look at this funny video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U5a8pcSXZM

[AnneElk]

ROFLMAO!!! Cotton Hill...Han­ds down.

[SecondBase]

I'll tell you who McCain looks like...

... Paul Simon.

[M1]

McCain deserves this....he really punked Letterman out!! Turnabout is fair play!

[MadeinAmericaProud]

Agree.

Think about what mccain has done. He disrespected a man that provided time for him to run his primary on the cheap. Now that he has made it to this point he is acting like he does not letterman any more.

That is not right. McCain will trash us too.

[Busterdawg]

Letterman's longest running bash-fest occurred during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. It went on for years afterward.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

Not so. He was after Oprah for years. she finally showed on his show.

[ShanniC]

Dave is gonna ride this thing until the wheels fall off!

[PoliSci2008]

LOL ride mccain all night

[Hedonist88]

Hahahahaha!

[ramblingjohnny]

Rule number one of politic don't mess with Letterman!

[andvoodoo2]

Thank you, Dave, for carrying a grudge! We may win this thing with help from people like you. Keep reminding them!

[aquarius2001]

Remember how long he went at it with Oprah.

[rzan1]

Except I am convinced Davd has a secret crush on Oprah.

[LeahDarling]

Me too. I think he was trying to get her attention like a third grader would pull the cute little girl's ponytail at the desk in front of him.

[lizr]

LOL me too!

[analisethis]

If they "can't stand the fire,then get out of the kitchen.We­lcome to the information age Senator McCain.


OBAMA-BIDEN 08

[RobinM]

This should be kept alive, the people need constant reminder that McSame is a liar. He didn't even need to lie to Letterman, it just comes so naturally to him these days.

[timberdoodle]

Come on people give poor old John a break and cut him slack. Beating up on McCain is similar to beating a chained up dog. Let's face it all the comedy shows are nuts if they don't vote for McCain and Palin it's their bread and butter. Actually none of these shows will even need writers as a ten year old could find enough simple minded rhetoric and gaffs to create a half hour show every day of the week.

[notthistime]

McCain needs to man up and apologize to Letterman for lying.

[Dodge]

McCain needs to man up and admit that he did not vet Sarah Palin

[lizr]

how

[Yermammy]

It's going to be hard to yuk at the jokes when we're sitting in shanty towns with no electricity, eating Hoover Hog stew (ground hog).

[minidriver]

Oh, so that's what happened to the half hour news hour (or comedy hour) that Fox had on... It must have been way above their level.

[redsongia]

Are you surprised? Letterman's whole humor is based on his perseverating on something small for weeks. This is pretty big. He may set the record for the longest repeated reference with this. Obama will be in his second term, and he'll retired, but he'll call in to the new show, just to keep bringing this up.

[skippypicasso]

Can somebody define "perseverating" for me please?

[Brillig]

It is similar to the words used in Jabberwocky, that epic poem by Lewis Carroll.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves, did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves and the mome raths outgrabe"

Now perseverating is a combination word meaning:

Preserve - as in " to keep sound or to keep alive" and
Persevere - as in "to never give up" or "to keep going on and on and on".

So this word means that Letterman is keeping the fight strong AND going on and on about it - PERSEVERATING !

Thank you for asking.

[JeanPaulSatire]

'Perseverate' means to repeat something insistently or redundantly.