Rumsfeld cancels Letterman appearance

[sonicx]

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld won't be appearing on "The Late Show with David Letterman" next week after all.

Letterman's people announced earlier this week that Rumsfeld would be a guest on Tuesday night's show.

But Rumsfeld's office said Friday he will be too busy focusing on federal relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

"We obviously understand this decision," executive producer Rob Burnett said." "He is welcome to come here any time."

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_370555.html

[barbaraann]

1. He's busy pleasuring himself with pictures of the suffering.

n/t

[Mabus]

21. Well, those Abu Gharib photos get old after a while.

[Cocoa]

2. is the "freedom march" still on?

[Arkana]

3. Dave might actually ask him some straightforward questions.

That's like a taser to a Bush admin official.

[mountainvue]

9. Letterman does a damn good serious interview

when he wants to.

[chalky]

4. "...too busy focusing on federal relief efforts" my ass!

He knew that he'd have HIS ass handed back to him on a platter.

[blonndee]

10. Yup. And/or too afraid of the "political ramifications" among the masses.

eom

[librechik]

26. I guess he hasn't figured out his excuses for not helping yet

let me help him: go to Iraq and help there, you yutz! I don't want to hear how you can't do this and that cuz it's somebody elses's department!

[Mad_Dem_X]

33. He's afraid to face a live audience

who would no doubt give him a less-than-stellar welcome. Chickenshit!

[Peace Patriot]

43. Yup, I think you've nailed it, Mad_Dem_X. Afraid of a live audience.

And what is this crap from Letterman's producer--"He is welcome to come here any time"? WHY is this mass murderer of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, who sat out 9/11 in a meeting, welcome?

Welcome to get tarred and feathered and expelled from the country on a cruise missile, I'd have said.

[UpInArms]

5. wasn't Rummy the one that had so much

rock star appeal just before Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)?

[Drum]

12. yes, subject of disturbing man-crushes out in the Heartland nt

[ClintonTyree]

6. That's funnier than any Letterman "Top-Ten" ever written......

"He'll be too busy focusing on federal relief efforts"...... :rofl:

That's just TOOOOO much!

[aquart]

7. Hey, someone's gotta make sure that Halliburton contract is ironclad.

Otherwise they might not get paid when they don't do the work.

[TomInTib]

8. Backfire

They announced this appearance THIS WEEK!
Just goes to show you what happens when you stick a firecracker in a pile of dog doo. Blows it right in your face.
How the screw has turned.

[Drum]

11. He's not in a laughing mood...

...someone unlucky soul on his staff drew the short straw, and finally had to tell him about this article in The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37471

Tee hee hee!!!!

:woohoo:

[Prodemsouth]

13. He would have been booed off the stage. Those people in that

audience follow current events. That would have been humilating. They know the propaganda score here would be far down in the minus column. Dave might have not been able to conduct the interview.

[karynnj]

14. And it's a NYC audience

[RamboLiberal]

15. Rumsfeld can't win here and he can't win on Letterman

He finally made a smart move by cancelling. I also heard Condi is heading down to Alabama to help. Guess she got the message after the incident of the woman screaming at her buying expensive shoes in NYC. Bet a memo went out to all the Bush people - the boss looks bad, damage control time.

[Prodemsouth]

17. Buchanan said Bush was livid because of the way he and his

admin. looked.

[NYC]

24. Looked. LOOKED.

Bush is livid because of the way he LOOKED, not because of the way the hurricane victims were treated.

[Prodemsouth]

25. Exactly. And if he is really that concerned why hasn't anybody

been fired?

[NYC]

27. Because they tell the lies he wants them to tell.

[yardwork]

39. I doubt chimpy noticed. He looks drunk off his ass most of the time

I don't think bush knows what day it is.

[peaches2003]

19. They are circling the wagon

Orders are out and they all have put the grief look on their faces and are headed out to see who will fall for their act. Bush has ALWAYS been protected and had others get him out of a jam.

[NYC]

23. Will she be wearing her Salvatore Ferragamos?

The victims should really appreciate that.

[pursuivant]

35. Condi Rice = Imelda Marcos?

The more I think about it, the more plausible it seems.

[Demeter]

28. It Wasn't Just The Shoes, or the Money

it was a weekday, for crying out loud, during a national emergency! The little darling has no class or ethics.

[louis-t]

41. Hope Condi doesn't get her new shoes dirty.

Y'know with all the dead bodies 'n stuff down there.

[dannofoot]

16. How is Rumsfeld...

...a suitable guest on an "entertainment" program?

Is this a General Electric set-up? Was Rummy supposed to yuck-it-up with Dave?
This was a designed fluff-piece, a "let's report the good news from Iraq" 10 minutes; putting a "human" face on the miscreants that engineered this disaster. Imagining Dave asking Rummy any hard questions is absurd.
I'm really pissed at Letterman for allowing this. But he has bosses, and those bosses are part of the BFEE.
I have emailed CBS on their choice of guests, and suggest others do the same.

[DrZeeLit]

18. Right. Too busy. Something about heat/kitchen/frying pan? n/t

[Shipwack]

20. This calls for a Top Ten List...

From the home office in Grand Rapids Michigan,

The Top Ten Reasons why Rumsfeld Canceled his Letterman appearance:

10) He wasn't looking his best because abject failure makes him break out in hives.

9) Remembered that he had been previously scheduled to invade Iran that night.

8) Decided to set a good example and has enlisted in the Army to fight for freedom in Iraq.

7) Looked at projected gasoline prices and found out that even -he- couldn't afford the trip.

6) He's scheduled to get plastic surgery done in order to sneak out of the country and start a new life on a Japanese fishing trawler.

5) Now that the California legislature has approved gay marriage, he and his "room mate" are going to be tying the knot.

4) It turns out that that Tuesdays are the nights he bathes in the blood of virgins.

3) Three words: "Big Brother Six"

2) Too busy jumping into his vault, swimming through his money and going "Wheeeee!"

And, the number one reason Rumsfeld canceled his Letterman appearance:

1) "Frog March"

[scarletlib]

29. very funny

[Demeter]

30. All Valid Reasons; and All Probably True!

[Mad_Dem_X]

34. LOL! Good job! n/t

[daleo]

22. Letterman might have torn a strip off him, satiracally speaking.

Rummy didn't have the guts to be on Letterman right now.

[Judi Lynn]

31. All I'd ever like to hear from Rumsfeld is his announcement he's resigning

He's caused more suffering to the human race than a natural disaster.

[Don Claybrook]

32. Rumsfeld: isn't it a shame

that he wasn't convicted and hung at Nuremburg? Yeah, I know, it's an anachronism, but I think that goes to show that he was just born at the wrong time. The Reich surely could have used a man with his talents.

[JoFerret]

36. Off the hook (again)

...when "stuff happens" - take every advantage you can.

[uncertainty1999]

37. Rumsfeld is HIDING - plain and simple!

He could have gone on Letterman to motivate people to donate money or something useful like that. But I guess he would have had to defend the Iraq War in light of Katrina -- which would not have been an easy job to do on that show!

[Laughing Mirror]

38. Afraid Letterman will ask him to sing

Perhaps Larry King will get him on to do a fundraiser.

[AlCzervik]

40. Too late but i will say that is the only correct thing he's done in his

life. I cant evem imagine the result of him yukking it up on Letterman.

[SoCalDem]

42. He's a girlie man

afraid of what Dave would ask him