Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention war hero?) John McCain

Am I being “age-ist”? Maybe. But maybe not. The world is a pretty complicated place right now and I’m thinking that it’s not such a great time to elect our oldest President ever. So sue me.

Monday, July 21, 2008

McCain mistakes The NY Times for Fox News.


So here’s the story - and, while it has nothing to do with McCain’s age (except perhaps that it shows how childish he is), I think it’s important to post it wherever possible before the conservative media goes to town and distorts the facts.

Barack Obama wrote an op-ed piece for The NY Times called “My Plan for Iraq”. Note that the key words in that sentence are “op” (as in an “opinion”) and “My Plan” (as in “here’s what I think we should do”).

Not to be outdone, Senator McDepends wrote his own op-ed that basically said that the war is going swimmingly now and that everything Obama wants to do is wrong… and then he subsequently got his military-issue panties in a bunch because the Times wouldn’t act as his mouthpiece and print his idea-less rebuttal.

The soundbite for the next 48 hours is going to be “liberal media” this and “unfair coverage” that. It will continue longer if people remain uninformed about the content of the individual pieces.

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posted by admin at 7:52 pm  

5 Comments »

  1. Now, “McDepends” is over the line there, young fella. We only know for certain that McCain is MENTALLY incontinent; we don’t actually have the facts on his bladder control…

    And, if you actually expended the effort to read McCain’s op-ed you would have learned a very important historical fact. McCain said, “I know how to win wars!” but the only war he was actually part of was the Vietnam War.

    So there, Mr. Liberal Blogger - we now know that for all these years the liberal media has been hiding the fact that we WON the Vietnam War!

    Man, was I relived to hear that - all this time I had been walking around thinking we’d lost that one.

    Comment by Dork — July 21, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

  2. wait. obama explained his PLAN???

    yes, i am STILL pissed at kerry.

    Comment by pansypoo — July 21, 2008 @ 10:48 pm

  3. It hardly helps to call him such childish names.

    Comment by Jen — July 22, 2008 @ 2:38 pm

  4. Good points, but I must correct you on the explanation for “op-ed”. It means “opposite the editorial page” not “editorial opinion”. It’s a common mistake. The New York Times explains it here: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990deedb1e38f932a35751c0a9629c8b63

    Comment by Sharon — July 23, 2008 @ 4:33 pm

  5. Thanks for correcting me - I always thought it was Opinion/Editorial!

    Learned something today….

    Comment by admin — July 23, 2008 @ 4:40 pm

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