Letterman brings up Liddy – to McCain

Going where the mainstream media hasn’t, and to McCain’s face in his “make-up appearance,” David Letterman brought up McCain’s association with G. Gordon Liddy:

“Did you not have a relationship with Gordon Liddy?” asked the host.

”Um, I've met him, uh, you know, I mean, um ...” began McCain.

”Didn’t you attend a fundraiser at his house?” asked Letterman.

“That’s,” sputtered McCain, looking trapped. “That’s, what ... Is ...”

Supposedly, before the cut to commercial, Schmuck Talk Express™ has the total deer in the headlights look.

Will Obama ask for copies?

Speaking of that, there’s video at the link.

"I object, your honor!" shouted Paul Shaffer, Letterman's band leader, only after several seconds of McCain looking like a deer in a car's headlights.

Letterman isn’t Jay Leno when he has politicians on. McCain was an idiot for blowing him off when he about to “suspend” his campaign late last month.

McCain-Palin campaign-debate watch

Palin-McCain is right; McCain ‘friends watch’; Mad Jack at debates?

Gail Collins has this great get:

The Republicans have discovered that McCain can’t draw a crowd without Palin, and the dangers of letting her float off by herself are apparent. So the two are manacled together these days like Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in that old escape-from-a-chain-gang movie.

And, every day she remains on ice, undergoing forced cramming for her Veep debate or whatever, is another day Schmuck Talk Express™ is out there on an island.

And, given McCain’s own growing propensity to shoot from the hip, it must be bad if Steve Schmidt thinks Palin needs to be put on ice.

SnowJob SquareGlasses — I like it. It’s going in my Palin nickname lexicon.

Friends watch: Uhh, Big John? If you’re going to be this close with mentally unstable Gordon Liddy, you have zero business commenting on ANY friends of Obama’s this side of Joe Stalin.

Friends watch part 2: John McCain and Jim Inhofe — Buddies in alt-fuel opposition.

Which John McCain will show up for the debates? Unfortunately, Obama doesn’t strike me as a button-pusher, so a mid-debate explosion from Mad Jack is (sadly) highly unlikely.