May 13, 2009
Senator John McCain’s still fierce 97 y/o mother, Roberta McCain, was on Jay Leno last night. It’s clear who he takes after. She was entertaining but also had a message.
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KEVIN SPACEY, who had just done spot on Bill Clinton and Johnny Carson impressions said to Mrs McCain:
It sounds to me like you ought to run for politics.
MRS MCCAIN:
No. They’d never elect me, because I am not diplomatic enough for that.
JAY LENO:
What about being diplomatic. Let’s talk about some of the commentators from the left and right. Who bothers you on the left?
MRS MCCAIN no hesitation: Olbermann.
[laughter]
LENO: What’s wrong with Keith Olbermann?
MRS MCCAIN:
Well, I don’t know if there’s anything wrong with him. I just, myself, can’t figure out that type of person, who really more or less gets joy out of denigrating people, humiliating – I’m just not that type of person. I don’t have friends like that. And thank God I am not around people like him.
LENO: What about on the right?
MRS MCCAIN:
David Brooks is a man I really respect at the New York Times….He’s a wonderful writer.
LENO: What about Rush Limbaugh? You one of his fans?
MRS MCCAIN:
I belong to the Republican Party….What he thinks about or represents in the Republican Party has nothing to do with my side of it. I don’t know what the man means, I don’t know what he’s talking about.
I think that the Chairman of the Republican Party Steele was exactly right when he defined this man as an entertainer. Limbaugh — you’re a compliment when you say the man is an entertainer. And to my horror, the Republican Party made him back up on it.
I don’t know what he [Limbaugh] is — but he does not represent the Republican Party that I belong to.
I bet she doesn’t like him personally either. Especially after he told his listeners that Arlen Specter should take her son and granddaughter with him.
