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Four more years
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The Age – McCain goes for jugular, but misses
(The jugular? What an amateur. The pros go for a carotid artery and let the heart do the rest of the work.)
Getting away from this picture (heh) and back to the substance (almost*); during the debate itself, and even for almost a day afterwards, bloggers and other users of Teh Internets knew more about the reality behind the invention ‘Joe’ the ‘plumber’ than those relying on Old Media. Why? Here’s a clue.
(*’Joe’ the ‘plumber’ was mentioned dozens of times during the debate… while Iraq was mentioned once.)
(h/t #1) (h/t #2)
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about 3 years ago
I missed the start of this story. But with all the talk about Weathermen and Gordon Liddy, I assumed it was a reference to the Watergate Plumbers. I guess I must have been sucked through some weird timewarp back to 1972. But then McCain seems to have the same problem.
about 3 years ago
Heh. Fair dues to the guy, but every time he drags his POW-cred out, I can't help thinking of (a) the Republican-funded Swift Boaters who dragged Kerry through the mud in '04 and (b) Principal Skinner:"The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong delta. An overheated private removed his flack jacket, revealing a T-shirt with an iron-on sporting the MAD slogan 'Up with Mini-skirts!'. Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it. But our momentary lapse of concentration allowed 'Charlie' to get the drop on us. I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right!" – Seymour Skinner (The Simpsons: Team Homer)Links:http://tinyurl.com/5vpp9mhttp://www.factcheck.org/article231.html
about 3 years ago
"(The jugular? What an amateur. The pros go for a carotid artery and let the heart do the rest of the work.)"You need to stop giving people helpful hints such as this…