At least the CSI: New York Commercials were interesting. . .

Kerry is getting some bad advice from his new people. Just as they sent a sinking Bill Clinton on Arsenio, they pulled a page out of their 1992 playbook and are sending him on the circuit of daytime talk shows.

I just watched John Kerry's performance on Letterman. The first segment was painful to watch. I actually felt sorry for the man. He screwed up his first joke. He looked like hell (His botox treatment this spring must have worn out.) His attempts at humor fell flat. It was his same, tired rhetoric, except the Kerry people probably overpaid some comedian to punch his tired cliches up with a few "hip" references. Letterman fed Kerry serious questions, and Kerry kept trying to deliver punchlines.

In the second segment, Kerry tried getting serious. He finally woke up and delivered a few of the points he tried to put forward in the first segment-- to the point where he sounded coherent for a few minutes -- and he put the audience to sleep. No applause came after he concluded a point he was making. The applause at the end of the second segment was tepid.

Third segment -- he tried to explain his war policy and clarify his flip-flops. Then he pulled out his Top 10 list. Audience response was pretty much polite applause.

Instead of Kerry's Top 10 list, Dave should have played "Will it Float?" with the Senator's campaign. That segment would have been a no-brainer.