McCain’s appearance last night on Letterman brought in 6.5M viewers, the show’s highest numbers since Oprah was on in December 2005.

And that’s just the people who actually tuned in, despite knowing that anything important would be on the Internet like 20 seconds later.

In fact, we had the best clips up on this site before the show even aired on the West coast.

I wonder if McCain’s contrition won over any voters.

Did he redeem himself?

What do we think, kids???

Heh. This was my favorite part of the debate last night.

Thanks Danika!

A montage of John McCain’s eye rolls and other facial twitches from the debate.

Is it possible this guy has mild Tourette Syndrome? I’m serious here.

What I’m kind of disappointed about is that this video does not include the clip of John McCain laughing so hard he snorts a little. It was somewhere toward the end of the debate but I don’t know where. Does anybody know where I can find a clip of that shit? It was actually kind of endearing, because my little sister totally does that all the time. She’ll be laughing really hard and then she’ll just snort, like, really really loudly, and it’s about the cutest thing in the world. And I can say that without fear of repercussions, because she is currently conducting a bunch of fancy scientist experiments in a sea-faring vessel and doesn’t have access to the outside world. Which is good for her because she doesn’t have to hear about how our economy’s collapsing but bad for her because I can write about her laugh-snorts and know she won’t read it.

As John McCain trails Obama in the polls, he’s crawling back to David Letterman to apologize for standing him up to go save the world do an interview with Katie Couric. As you’ll recall, Letterman tore him a new asshole on national television for that little stunt.

McCain is scheduled to appear on the program on Thursday.

Should be interesting.

Here’s his thoughts on McCain’s use of the term “that one” during the debates last night. Between “that one” and “my friends,” all anyone can seem to talk about today is John McCain’s lingual pecadillos.

One of my friends changed her status message this morning to “THAT ONE ‘08″ and I thought that was kind of a riot.

I know there’s been a lot of posts on this website lately that seem to be poking fun of the McCain/Palin campaign. I know some people have a problem with it. And I know some people think I should come out and say where I stand on this election.

This is not a partisan website, nor is it on its way to becoming a partisan website.

I’ve been talking about John McCain and Sarah Palin frequently because they’re the ones who have been fun to talk about lately. They are the ones who have been making choices and taking actions and giving interviews that are, frankly, amusing and broadly newsworthy, in one way or another. It’s not that Barack Obama hasn’t been doing things this month, it’s just that he hasn’t been doing very interesting things. He hasn’t been newsworthy.

And I find that fascinating.

Six months ago, we all figured that Barack Obama would be the interesting candidate right now. That his campaign would be exciting. That we’d be hearing his words and his ideas and incessantly discussing his actions here, a month before the election. We thought, if nothing else, that Barack Obama would have the buzz. That there was no way an old white dude with zero skill as an orator could run a campaign anywhere near as enthralling — as attention-grabbing — as Barack Obama.

We figured wrong.

We, as a nation, have been talking entirely about the John McCain campaign for the past month, and all signs indicate that we’ll be talking entirely about the John McCain campaign in the next month.

Take a step back and think about it.

How the fuck did he pull that shit off?

It’s been brilliant. Phenomenal. And if what you’re looking for is a leader with the experience, the team and the finesse to think outside the box and execute risky choices that tilt the axis of history in unexpected ways … well, folks, that’s exactly what John McCain is doing right now.

I’m just saying.

For the sake of non-partisanship, here’s a video of Sarah Palin making an ass of herself for Katie Couric. And if John McCain dies while in office, this creature becomes the most powerful human being on the planet. I’m just saying.