David Letterman Not About to Suspend His Campaign Making Fun of John McCain [Prisoner Of Late-Night War]
newVideoPlayer("/parmcc_def.flv", 506, 423,""); It looks like John McCain will be heading to tonight's presidential debate after all (according to this priceless pool report from McCain's plane, which also states, "General atmosphere is utter confusion"), but one no-show is continuing to cost the candidate, and that's McCain's now-notorious skipped Late Show appearance. David Letterman continued to rip into McCain during his monologue yesterday, even conscripting guest Paris Hilton (who had her own memorab

Letterman is Letterman: He does whatever he wants and always has (video)
John McCain cancelled an appearance with David Letterman to be interviewed with Katie Couric. Letterman was furious and showed an internal, live video of McCain being tended to by a make up artist before the Couric interview. Both Couric and Letterman are on CBS. www.nypost.com

Paris Goes Green to Tell Dave All About Her BFFs
Paris Hilton was in NYC yesterday to pay her third visit of the year to David Letterman at The Late Show. She was dressed up in bright green DvF to chat about her new show and explain the challenges she subjected her contestants to, like playing polo on male models' backs and enduring a 24-hour partying marathon, along with a few Benji shoutouts. Things also got political as they discussed their mutual disses from John McCain. Paris and Dave have quite a rapport, and with all of the products Paris has to pu

WHO WOULD YOU RATHER: DANCING HUNKS EDITION!
With all a courtesy paid to Kim Kardashian upon Dancing With a Stars this week, we’ve mostly abandoned a single vicious member of a strike TV competition: Hunky masculine stars. Without these guys next, a uncover would be zero . Ladies adore a likes of Derek Hough, Maksim Chmerkovskiy as well as Mark Ballas . Tell us, Dancing fans … Who would we rsther than … Maksim Chmerkovskiy Derek Hough Mark Ballas View Results Related: Syndicated

Letterman is Still Letting McCain Have It
Like momma says, lies always catch up to you. David Letterman, again, gave it good to lying presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday night. Dave likened McCain's diss on him for Katie Couric Wednesday night to feeling like 'an ugly date'. At first, Letterman said to his Thursday night audience, he felt like a "patriot" to let McCain [...]

Whoopi Goldberg, Master Of Eloquent Political Analysis [Short Ends]
newVideoPlayer("/viewfight_def.flv", 506, 423,""); · We don't know how long that Whoopi Goldberg has been on The View—we suppose we could look it up, but it's Friday night and we're tired as shit— but nary a day goes by when we don't think to ourselves, "How in tarnation is Whoopi qualified to be The View's de facto leader?" Today's evidence of her ineptitude involved her trenchant (and bipartisan!) insight that Barack Obama and John McCain have each "stuck their foot in the doo-doo and

Obama Campaign Wants You To Watch CNN Tonight
You know that text message the Obama campaign sent out to announce their VP pick? Well, the campaign is still sending out texts to many of those who subscribed, including HuffPo's Danny Shea. Here's one they sent out this afternoon: Watch Barack debate John McCain tonight at 9pm Eastern on CNN. Also, remind friends to register to vote at VoteForChange.com. Please forward this message. Um. A campaign asking voters to watch on a specific network? Could you imagine if the McCain campaign had asked voter

Chris Rock: Vote for the guy with one house
Rock, an avid supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, spoke with CNN’s Larry King on Thursday. He said Obama is more grounded with your average American -- not somebody like McCain with "12 houses." "The other guy [McCain] can lose five houses," Rock said. "I’ll go with the guy with one house. The guy with one house is scared about losing his house." Watch Chris Rock describe a beaten up McCain » King began the interview by ask

Double Jack Manhattan and Pretzel Links
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No, John McCain, You Can't Really Win Just By Showing Up [News Roundup]
John McCain will be debating after all tonight in Mississippi, and I'll be live-blogging it at 9:00 ET to help you get through it. [Washington Post] As the ad indicates, McCain started declaring victory in the debate right about the same time he decided to attend it. Talk about lowered expectations. [CNN] Everyone from his former adviser Craig Shirley to his former opponent Mike Huckabee thinks McCain fucked this up. Ya think? [Huffington Post, CNN] Aides to Sarah Palin are defying subpoenas issued in respo

Today in Odd McCain Ad Buys [Advertising]
So maybe you've seen this, right? The McCain campaign already bought some ads (we thought they suspended their campaign!) announcing that John McCain won the debate, which happens tonight, and which McCain had not yet even said he'd attend until late today. Great work, guys. Really nice, really professional. But what is more funny is this ad in today's Wall Street Journal (supposedly!). Do you want to buy one of John and Cindy McCain's 500 houses? You are in luck! Are they being foreclosed on? No wonder

The Ticker (Programming Edition): FNC, CNN, ABC...
> Tomorrow morning from 10am-NoonET, FNC's Neil Cavuto hosts the live business special "The Rescue Rumble." Cavuto will look at the bailout and discuss whether or not it's necessary for the country. > Tomorrow night on CNN, Roland Martin, along with a team of panelists, looks at what Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama did not address during tonight's presidential debate. "What They Didn't Say...In The Debate," airs at 8pmET and re-airs Sunday at 8pmET. > Nightline and The Oprah Winfrey Show are teaming

CNN HD Brings New Technology
CNN HD is premiering some new technology tonight, which includes an "analyst scorecard" in the side panels and an "audience reaction" bar in the lower third. While the "audience reaction" lines, which show real time reaction from a focus group regarding the debate, is displayed on the non-HD channel as well (and is fairly difficult to decipher), the scorecards are exclusive to HD. They allow six of the BPTOT to give their opinions while the debate is occurring. Some notes: Alex Castellanos has been most act

Clash between candidates eagerly awaited by TV
After a two-day cliffhanger over whether their first debate would take place, John McCain and Barack Obama take aim at the ultimate record: most-watched presidential debate ever. The standard was set in 1980, when 80.6 million people watched that campaign's only debate between President Jimmy Carter and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan. TV audiences that big typically gather only once a year, for the Super Bowl. Doubt over the debate even happening, which ended Friday when McCain said he would attend, pr

2 quick polls give Obama edge in debate
Fifty-one percent said Obama, the Democrat, did a better job in Friday night’s faceoff while 38 percent preferred the Republican McCain, according to a CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey of adults. Obama was widely considered more intelligent, likable and in touch with peoples’ problems, and by modest margins was seen as the stronger leader and more sincere. Most said it was McCain who spent more time attacking his opponent. About six in 10 said each did a better job than expected. Seven in 10

It's Friday, And There's Just Too Much Good Stuff To Squeeze It All In
 We're busy getting ready for the debate tonight... stocking our liquor cabinets, preparing pancakes, you know, the usual...We don't have time to tell you all about the other amazing stories going on in the world right now. The stories that involve Sacha Baron Cohen's invasion of an Italian fashion show... Wonkette's most hilarious debate watch party drinking game... Johnny Cash's beyond-the-grave meditation on freedom... and much more...But we'll give you a varrry nice taste...

The Mac is back
In the first presidential debate, John McCain comes out swinging against Barack Obama. VIDEO: Candidates on energy, Iraq, Bush policies

John McCain Curses at Debate! [McRage]
John McCain, the angriest Presidential candidate ever, has such a total lack of impulse control that he uttered "Horseshit" live onstage at last night's debate. For real! Barack Obama was discussing McCain's seething hatred of the Spanish prime minister when McCain's seething hatred took over his body and caused him to curse Obama out. Or the whole thing could've been an elaborate ploy to showcase his bitter-millionaire-anger to blue collar types bitter over losing jobs and homes, in the hope that they woul

McCain-Obama debate pulls average early rating
The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama is on track to pull a surprisingly average viewership number, drawing fewer households in the preliminary ratings than George W. Bush's face off against John Kerry four years ago. In the meter-market overnights, Friday night's 90-minute debate in Mississippi received a preliminary household rating of 33.2. That's 16% lower than the national number from the 2004 debate, which aired on a Thursday -- generally TV's most-watched night of the week. Friday'

2008 Presidential Debate VIDEOS!
VIDEOS! Here are you 2008 Presidential Debate videos. LALATE NEWS has all the John McCain and Barack Obama Presidential debate videos, and the Joe Biden Sarah Palin Vice Presidential Debate videos will be added Thursday. The Presidential / Vice Presidential Debate Schedule is the following: Last Night - Jim Lehrer Presidential Debate Thursday - Vice Presidential Debate Washington University October 7 - Town Hall Format, Presidential Debate First Debate. It was exciting last night here on LALATE NEWS t

Debate Ratings RECORD
A Record? Last night’s first Presidential McCain Obama Debate might have broke a ratings record. The current debate ratings record is Carter Reagan. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan set the ratings record in 1980 with 80.6 million viewers. But they only had one presidential debate back then. The second biggest debate - Bush - Clinton - Perot in 1992 at 69.9 million. You remember that one? The debate’s tv ratings certainly was affected by the ability to watch instead online here at LALATE NE

9/26 Obama vs. McCain, Presidential Debate 1, Summary and Analysis, Stop Blaming Corporate America
We are carefully rummaging over the debate at this time and have so far come to the conclusion that little was said in the first round that was all that interesting.  With further analysis, we may be proven wrong, and there could be key items we are missing, so we will try carefully glean the important points as we watch more closely. It appears to us that both candidates in this debate spoke of the central problem (which is the economy) with hyperbole and promises rather than practical solutions and expl

Jamie Foxx Foxxhole Special: Obama vs. McCain Debate
The crew came back again tonight to bring us the first of 3 debates between Presidential Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Your anchor for this event was Tyronne Koppel.After the debate was over the crew gave their opinions on what was said during the debates and took a couple calls to see what the people had to say.If you want to skip over most of the debate and get to the commentary by everyone at the end it starts around the one hour thirty seven minute mark. And for the regular Friday Foxxhole Ra

Sarah Silverman: The Great Schlep Video
 Sarah Silverman used to grace these pages a bit more when she was the subject of pregnancy speculation by one Jimmy Kimmel (or Matt Damon).  Then she and Kimmel broke-up and the speculation ended.  Then she and Damon stopped f*@%ing, and Silverman rode off into the FameCrawler sunset.  Or so we thought.She has a new video and it doesn't involve her being a celebrity parent.  It involves her being a celebrity grandkid.  Sure, we'll roll with it (because it's funny).

Obama slams McCain for not mentioning middle class
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday called Republican rival John McCain out of touch with middle-class Americans, telling supporters that the GOP senator never once uttered the words "middle class" during their first debate. "Through 90 minutes of debate, John McCain had a lot to say about me, but he didn’t have anything to say about you," Obama told a cheering crowd at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot in downtown Greensboro. "He didn’t even say the words ‘middle cl