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.
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?
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. 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.
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