After a fairly awkward interview with the less-charming-than-hoped-for Zooey Deschanel last night, Letterman welcomed former White House PR guy Scott McClellan onto the show.
LETTERMAN: My feeling about Cheney and also Bush, but especially Cheney, is he just couldn’t care less about Americans. And that the same is true of George Bush. And all they really want to do is somehow kiss up to the oil people so they can get some great annuity when they’re out of office. “There you go, Dick, nice job. There’s a couple of billion for your troubles.” I mean, he pretty much put Halliburton in business, and the outsourcing of the military resources to private mercenary groups, and so forth. Is there any humanity in either of these guys?
McCLELLAN: Look, I still have personal affection for the president. I can’t speak to the vice president’s thinking that well because he’s someone that keeps things himself and he believes in doing it his way, and he doesn’t care what anybody else thinks. He is going to do what he feels is best and that’s not always in the best interests of the country. As we’ve seen.
LETTERMAN: You told me backstage that you thought he was a goon!
McClellan then fake laughed and looked really, really uncomfortable. It was great.
Speaking of Letterman’s radness, this also gives me an excuse, however flimsy, to post one my favorite Letterman segments of late: “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches.”
Transcript from Huffington, and you can watch a video of the appearance there, too.
Letterman has been on fire as of late. Last week he had Tom Brokaw on and while assessing the Bush Presidency, he asked Brokaw “Can we get our money back?”
Daddy is still bring it…