# Letterman and John McCain. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350 "2008-09-26T16:06:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/21 "2008-09-28T05:37:50Z")
What’s so astounding was that he skipped Letterman - on CBS - to do an interview with CBS News. Maybe if he was appearing on a network that wasn’t connected via routing switcher to Letterman’s studio, he might have gotten away with it. I have no doubt that the Letterman control room can call up the feed from any CBS studio in New York. If you can’t think any further ahead than that, you should seriously re-think a Presidential campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/22 "2008-09-28T05:47:03Z")
If the Larry Sanders show has taught me anything, it is that cancelling a talk show appearance in order to appear on a different show is the gravest crime known to talkshowdom. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/23 "2008-09-28T06:03:46Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > You can lie to news organizations, but you better watch out with late night hosts. News organizations need access. Late night hosts - and TDS - not so much. They can be more honest. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/24 "2008-09-28T06:04:16Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > You can lie to news organizations, but you better watch out with late night hosts. We saw some of this during the writer’s strike. You don’t screw with folks whose job it is to make fun of people for a living, because they will use you for material. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/25 "2008-09-28T06:12:25Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > News organizations need access. Late night hosts - and TDS - not so much. They can be more honest. Plus they seem to be the only ones with an incentive to investigate anything anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/26 "2008-09-28T06:13:32Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > News organizations need access. Late night hosts - and TDS - not so much. They can be more honest. What good is access if they aren’t going to do any reporting with it. By reporting I mean reporting the truth. It has been a while so some people might have forgot. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/27 "2008-09-28T11:26:51Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > He’s an American citizen with a vote. If McCain’s contemptuous of a citizen who’s a millionaire and has his own talk show, how contemptuous do you think he is of you? Good point. I think he’s very, very contemptuous of me. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/28 "2008-09-28T11:27:01Z")
Letterman is pure MSM, eastern establishment elite, and this will only play well with the base. Go, Johnny Mac!! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/29 "2008-09-28T13:51:01Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Letterman is pure MSM, eastern establishment elite, and this will only play well with the base. Go, Johnny Mac!! Weatherman from Indianapolis are eastern establishment elite? I honestly believe that this will be the election where the definitions of “eastern establishment elite” will become finally become so broad that it will begin to have a non-trivial intersection with the definition of a “[Plugger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggers)”. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350/30 "2008-09-28T14:24:30Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Weatherman from Indianapolis are eastern establishment elite? I honestly believe that this will be the election where the definitions of “eastern establishment elite” will become finally become so broad that it will begin to have a non-trivial intersection with the definition of a “[Plugger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggers)”. Tak a look at **pseudotriton’s** location field. I think you’ve ben whooshed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letterman-and-john-mccain/465350.md?page=1)