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In what was a costly PR error in someone’s strategy judgment John McCain ditched the David Letterman show last minute a few weeks ago claiming that he was on his way to sort out the country’s financial crisis.  This advice had to have come from a rookie strategist because anyone with any sense would know the outcome given that David Letterman is a very sharp comedian who isn’t that fond of the Republican party, especially its current President, as it is.  Surely someone in the McCain camp has been watching Letterman recently  and should have made sure that even if it was a walk-on, wave-by, walk-off segment, that McCain at least showed up!

I confess I love David Letterman!  His writing team write Jay Leno’s writing team off the script.  The fact that John McCain decided to drop out last minute didn’t mean that McCain was wiped off the show however.  Far from it.  The time allocated to the segment was filled instead with barbed comments about McCain and Sarah Palin.  Although these remarks were often funny, there was a high degree of truth about them that I don’t think was lost on the audience.  The comments have been on-going ever since, especially since Letterman later found out about McCain managing to make a quick stop at Katie Couric’s camp en route to Washington.  Paris Hilton must have found it funny how Letterman was going after McCain the day after he was “stood up” by the presidential nominee given how Letterman went after her when she appeared on his show following her time in prison.

Well now McCain’s going to face down Letterman this Thursday – further economic crisis requiring John McCain’s flaked crusader input notwithstanding.  Having watched Letterman make a number of celebrities squirm over questions they didn’t want to answer, this has the makings of a classic David Letterman show!

If you missed the Letterman segments, here’s the youtube version:

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