NEW YORK – “Late Show” host David Letterman kept up a verbal assault on John McCain Thursday, saying he felt like an “ugly date” because the GOP presidential candidate backed out of a scheduled appearance on his talk show.

The night before, Letterman had said McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign to deal with the economic crisis “didn’t smell right.” Letterman substituted MSNBC’s “Countdown” host — and critic of the Arizona senator — Keith Olbermann as a substitute when McCain called him to say he wouldn’t appear Wednesday.
The talk show host was unhappy when McCain sat for an interview with Katie Couric instead of him Wednesday — and even more perturbed to learn that McCain didn’t leave New York until Thursday.

I don’t think people understand how unprofessional this kind of behavior is in any context, let alone for the Republican Presidential Candidate. He basically just shat all over a bunch of American’s jobs (from Letterman all the way on down to the production assistant on the show) and lied about it. If he hadn’t lied about it, it still would have been lame but mildly understandable. BUT HE LIED…and it wasn’t like Letterman wasn’t going to find out about it; he and Katie Couric are on the SAME NETWORK.