David Letterman isn’t the only one to blow off NBC for CBS.
Republican Tom Foley found time in his busy campaign schedule Thursday night to do a taping of the Sunday political talk show, “Face the State,” at the Rocky Hill studios of Connecticut CBS affiliate WFSB.
Up the road in West Hartford, NBC Connecticut had been saving a seat for Foley on the set of its primetime gubernatorial debate pitting Democratic incumbent Dannel P. Malloy against petition candidate Joseph Visconti.
Rather than risk his conservative street cred in a side-by-side comparison with the pro-gun Visconti, Foley boycotted NBC.
Not only did Foley decline the peacock network’s invite, but he glowingly Tweeted about how great it was to be in studio with WFSB newsman Dennis House.
The gamesmanship on the part of Foley set Twitter ablaze, with Democrats knocking Foley for blowing off the NBC debate.
Hey, at least NBC wound up with Jimmy Fallon.