McCain and Able

[howeird]

Letterman caught McCain bailing on him to tape an interview with Katie C. According to Letterman, McCain said he needed to get to the airport to go to DC to fix the economy. We only have Letterman's word for this.

McCain wants to bail out of the debate, too. frankwu suggests McCain may have had a stroke (and listed several plausible symptoms) but he looked fine while they were putting on his makeup for the Couric clip.

The clip is shown at about 8:15 into the youtube video. Of course we have no way of knowing this was live or if Letterman pulled file footage for this. They are at the same network, easy for his staff to do.

Frank has a good point, though. McCain can't afford to look too weak to be Prez  until November 5. I wonder what the protocol is for RNC if McCain has to bow out for reasons of health. Does Palin move up a notch? Do they nominate one of the runners-up and keep Palin? Do they go for a whole different ticket? Anyone know?

Comments

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Hard to say -- in the clip, his left side is away from the camera.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

It gets better (assuming Letterman is telling the truth).

The Couric interview you see in the clip was the same day that McCain's canceled Letterman (pre-recorded) interview was supposed to be...

...after McCain called Letterman to cancel.

That's not the real whopper, though. Letterman didn't know about this when he was doing the show:

McCain didn't actually fly to DC until the next day.

[howeird]

McCain didn't actually fly to DC until the next day
Yeah, I forgot to add that. Thanks.

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

The news is reporting that that the Couric clip was live during the taping of the Letterman show. Admittedly it's MSNBC.

[yourbob.livejournal.com]

Just FYI, McCain aide did say that they had lied to Letterman. Yup.