Keith Olbermann replaced John McCain on last night’s “Late Show With David Letterman.”
Talk about adding insult to injury.
McCain pulled out of his “Late Show” appearance in the wake of suspending his presidential campaign to focus on the Wall Street crisis and its economic ramifications.
“Late Show” immediately slotted in Olbermann–the outspoken (and left-leaning) MSNBC host who’s spent plenty of airtime blasting the Bush Administration and Republicans in general.
In last night’s monologue, Conan O’Brien may have captured the irony of replacing McCain with Olbermann most pointedly with this joke:
“Yesterday the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, challenged John McCain to a debate,” Conan said. “McCain says if he wanted to be attacked by an extremist in an unfair environment, he’d appear on MSNBC.”