Mad About Letterman. CBS News executives were red- faced yesterday trying to explain how David Letterman used unaired news footage of Sen. John McCain with Katie Couric to embarrass the Republican presidential candidate.
McCain canceled his appearance on Letterman’s show late Wednesday, several hours before he was due to appear – claiming he had to return to Washington to deal with the financial crisis.
But when Letterman discovered the Senator sitting down with Couric at the same time he was supposed to be taping “Late Night,” he unloaded on McCain.
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Later in the show, Letterman 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.
Letterman said on the air that McCain had called him personally to apologize and said he was racing to the airport.
“He doesn’t seem to be racing to the airport, does he?” Letterman told viewers.
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But several CBS News executives – who asked not to be identified – said that the stunt did not go down well within the news division.
“If we had done something like that to him, someone around here would end up getting fired,” one said. [New York Post]
Thanks to the unnamed executive for illustrating why the mainstream media has so little credibility. A senator and presidential candidate gets caught lying and his reaction is that if someone in the “news” division did it they’d get fired? So why on earth would anyone take them seriously as a source of news?
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