"Big
news out of Cincinnati. And for the first time in modern memory it is not about
Nick Lachey. No, this time it's about John McCain. Oh, I hate him so much! I've
always hated him going all the way back to when Rush Limbaugh told me to hate
him. Now McCain briefly won me over when he was attacked in the New York
Times last week. I am
irresistibly drawn to anything the New York Times attacks, which is how I got hooked on tainted
beef." --Stephen Colbert
"But the lovefest
between me and McCain was short lived because of something that happened at his
rally yesterday. Conservative Cincinnati radio host Bill Cunningham warmed up
the crowd with a couple of tasteful zingers about Barack Obama. But the Bill
Cunningham wit-nado was just touching down [on screen: Cunningham saying,
'Barack Hussein Obama' three times]. Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein.
Obama was teed up for McCain like a golf ball with a turban.
And then what does
McCain come out and do? [on screen: McCain saying, 'Whatever suggestion was made
that was in any way disparaging to the integrity, character, honesty of either
Senator Obama or Senator Clinton was wrong, and I condemn it']. Senator, at
long last, have you no balls? I don't know what to say here. Cunningham pointed
out that your opponent's middle name was Hussein. Your next logical political
move is to point out that his daughter's names are Uday and Qusay. Isn't that
correct?" --Stephen Colbert
