Leno pwns McCain

From the New York Daily News:

John McCain’s bid to upstage the Democratic national convention on national TV backfired Monday night as he took his lumps from Jay Leno over the forgotten houses gaffe.

McCain was riffing on NBC’s “Tonight” show about the perks of being President and said “the house is nice.” Leno pounced: “You have enough of those.”

Later, Leno said, “For $1 million, how many houses do you have?”

Absolutely brilliant. Not only absolutely politically spot on, but comedy gold. The audience absolutely ate it up. McCain didn’t do himself any favours by continuing:

On the Leno show, McCain tried to recover by citing his heroic service in the Navy during Vietnam and his more than five years as a POW, mostly in the jail called the “Hanoi Hilton.”

“I didn’t have a house, I didn’t have a kitchen table, I didn’t have a chair,” McCain said.

McCain also said his wife inherited the fortune from her father, Jim Hensley, a World War II B-17 bombardier who came home and “made a business, made the American Dream” with Arizona’s largest beer distributorship.

McCain listed some of the homes but said his wife was also “extremely generous, she goes around the world” on humanitarian causes and was on her way to war-torn Georgia.

Leno jumped in again: “That sounds like five houses.”

So to recap: McCain owns more houses than he can remember, repeats the gaffe on Leno, who turns it into pure gold for the comedy, and tries to make a big deal of the fact that he’s sending his wife to a dangerous war zone for some reason. And Obama is still polling near dead even with this douchebag?