Stupid anti-McCain stunt of the week
If they really wanted to push his buttons and address a real policy issue, they would press him hard about his open-borders Hispanic outreach director Juan Hernandez and his anti-assimilation campaign finance co-chair Jerry Perenchio, challenge his coziness with La Raza, and expose his border security double-talk.
But they’re the nutroots.
So never mind.
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More from the Des Moines Register:
A Clive man drew gasps from fellow audience members at today’s presidential candidate forum by using a four-letter word in a question to Sen. John McCain.
A member of the audience, identified as Marty Parrish of Clive, asked McCain during the event at the Polk County Convention Complex about a rumor that McCain had once used a profane word referencing female genitalia to describe his wife.
A book, “The Real McCain” by Cliff Schecter, accuses McCain of using the word in an exchange with his wife, Cindy, in 1992.
AdvertisementHere’s a transcript of today’s remarks:
PARRISH: This question goes to mental health and mental health care. Previously, I’ve been married to a woman that was verbally abusive to me. Is it true that you called your wife a (expletive)?
MCCAIN: Now, now. You don’t want to … Um, you know that’s the great thing about town hall meetings, sir, but we really don’t, there’s people here who don’t respect that kind of language. So I’ll move on to the next questioner in the back.
The audience gasped at the question and applauded at McCain’s handling of it. Parrish was escorted from the event and questioned by Secret Service, but not charged. Parrish had checked in to the event as a member of the press.
Parrish is identified as a “Baptist minister.”
He’s a former Joe Biden campaign worker and Obama supporter.
Jim Hoft has photos and background.
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Okay… well… I don’t like McCain, but that question was totally over the line. I guess the press believes that they can ask Republican candidates anything. I can’t see them asking Clinton or Obama something of that nature.
What a nutjob.
I’m not a fan of McCain and his open border posse but it was out of bounds. BTW I also think asking Chelsea about Monica is too.
Big surprise he’s a dimocraptic operative.
Well that explains why Baptists don’t have sex while standing up…people might think they’re dancing
Man-O-Man. What a stupid question. There is only one answer to a question like that:
“Have you stopped beating yours”
I had to laugh when I started reading this as I thought:
“If I called my wife that, she would make me a eunuch.”
Crude, dumb and useless Michelle?
There are people here on your own blog, who behave in exactly the same way. Their words may be slightly different, but the sentiment is the same.
Or are you even aware of that?
Some ministers study theology, some study political science. I’m guessing this wacko leans more toward Caesar than toward God when it comes to “rendering unto.”
I thought it was pretty funny. Every day the half-saying, “There’s always one…,” gets proven.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama sure can pick ‘em, can’t he?
I’m a Southern Baptist, myself. If that preacher wanted to ask about that, just to see if McCain is a good family man who respects his wife, he SURE could have worded it more tactfully!
the left thinks their little stunts earns them street cred, but with every stunt they make a republican voter.
democrats, from the top down, are proving to the electorate have no tact, couth, manners, class, etc.
oh, and the excuse for something being taken out of context is out of the window now that Wright confirmed that we weren’t stupid after all.
Irish Rose going after Michelle again. There is a shock.
He must be a Jane Fonda operative.
I can’t believe we now live in a world where some feel you can use that “nuclear bomb” word so freely. Rock bottom man…
If he wanted to ask a stupid, irrelevant question, Parrish should have asked why McCain’s left jaw is so much bigger than his right. Is he chewing Red Man? If he is that would be awesome!
McCain handled that with class as the audience response showed.Here’s wishing his comeback would have been,What did your wife call you?
And yes I know there are some here who are going to howl about my criticisms… I really could care less.
I’m a longtime reader and I’ve seen conversations on this blog from anti-divorce folks – who know absolutely nothing about McCains’ marriage, his former marriage, his ex-wife, or the reasons that the marriage broke down – use incredibly vulgar language to attack Mr. McCain and his current Mrs.
I’ve seen words like “whore” “adultress” “bitch” and “prostitute” used on multiple occasions HERE, on this blog. I’ve seen suggestions from some of your regulars that Mr. McCain should (pardon the vulgarity but this is a saved quote from one of your regulars) “learn how to keep his dick in his pants”. And worse.
Clearly, crudeness doesn’t bother you that much.
And what really bothers me? You’re complaining that the guy who used this phraseology was “dumb and useless”. Useless to whom, Michelle?
You’re a fundamentalist Christian, and yet you can’t be bothered to commend Mr. McCain for taking the moral high ground as any decent and dignified person should do. If this had been Mitt Romney, you would have been lauding his superior moral principles to the rafters.
And yet, not a single word in Mr. McCains favor or defense. All you can do is rail because the conservative attack dog in the audience wasted a golden moment to push the anti-McCain agenda.
Disappointed, but not surprised.
Why is Huffington allowing nutball activists to go around under her name?
Stay Classy, Libs!
I get the feeling this won’t be the last jerk to do something like this. There are a lot of serious questions for McCain, like you said, but the nuts are going to compete to see who can set him off.
Welcome to the “Don’t Tase Me Bro” election…
On May 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 am, On-my-soap-box said:
I don’t “go after” Michelle for fun and amusement. As I stated earlier I’m a longtime reader here and I have always appreciated Michelles’ diligence and insight.
But her hatred for John McCain is clouding her objectivity and sometimes, it makes her look childish and hypocritical. And I’m not first person to say so.
If you want to suggest that I have some kind of “evil agenda” for pointing that out here, be my guest.
I’m just a closet liberal, after all.
He SHOULD have said “now ‘my friend’ I don’t think this is helping our children”.
#18 Irish Rose:
That’s a bit contradictory toward the content of her post. You jumped in to post a knock on her and it was uncalled for. You tried to make this into some comparative issue and came off defending the guy in the story. I think you missed an invaluable opportunity to hold your tongue.
As I had to relearn my manners in an office environment after being medically disqualified from flight duty there are some words that are only fit for the flight line. I have big issues with the grumpy old man, but his ability to use foul language is the one personal trait I find somewhat endearing also being a former military aviator. After all what to you expect from a sailor and aviator. Leave it to the “nutroots” to make his historical use of foul language an issue. The few times I have visited a progressive/liberal website I find how shocked even I am by their vicious and crude vocabulary.
I don’t think Michelle “hates” anybody. Since you are now part of the all knowing OZ group, go ahead and think for McCain while you are at it.
She, like many of us here, think McCain is a rino. She has gone after Glowbama more than McCain. You should know this since you are:
Have some “insight” about what this thread is about. You went after Michelle and people on this blog.
I don’t like JSM, but that was a classy answer to a crude and rude question. Just when you think you can’t be surprised any more, the rhetoric gets worse.
On May 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 am, khan said:
#18 Irish Rose:
OK, I’m reading it again.
Not a single positive word there about Mr. McCains’ verbal deflection on moral grounds… only a lament that the guy in the audience didn’t do a better job of bringing him down.
I think that I read the intent of Michelles’ post correctly.
And it certainly is a comparative issue… if Michelle truly dislikes crudeness, then she should work a little harder to eliminate it from her comment section.
Apparently crudeness is only distasteful when it comes from the liberal camp.
Irish, while you may be right that people here hold certain sentiments, and fates know sometimes I want to rip into someone, I can’t think of the last time I went to a person’s website, or went to a public place, and dropped the C-word on someone like that. I would think that people can discuss/debate an issue and not have to resort to ad hominem attacks or try to stir up attention by use of curse words like this, but…it happens.
The man from the article, however, purposely went to a public forum to make this comment, and in the process make a complete fool of himself. It appears on its face to be a publicity stunt to make someone else look bad. In the end, he only managed to get himself walked out of an auditorium in disgrace.
I dont like McShamnesty either, but, i think this one was just a bit overboard, no?
just my 2 cents.
Seems like McCain handled it OK.
Other than that, I will NOT sympathize with McCain over anything that happens to him. He is a disgusting human being (even worse than Democrats) so I will be voting against him (Democrat)in November.
I wish Irish Rose would go back to the Huffington Post or the Daily Kos where she apparently feels more at home.
Of course it was, and that is where we agree. I’ve never used that word to describe another person, nor do I ever intend to use it.
Again I ask, where are the kudos for Mr. McCain for behaving with dignity and calmy taking the moral high ground here? Not a single kudo to be found.
Only regret that the guy didn’t push the right buttons.
…and take Bruce with her.
On May 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 am, JHSII said:
Yeah, because no real conservative would EVER think like I do… right?
So much for obama having the moral high ground.
Two points:
1. This blog has pumped up every trivial breadcrumb sin (Bob Dylan line) from anyone who knows a Democrat into a national crisis. This blog never has focused on the big issues: Iraq, deficit, … . Why should it complain about someone following in it’s sorry footsteps?
2. You guys are so big on character. McCain using a profanity to describe his wife (and apparently anyone else he disagrees with) goes to his character.
Well,
At least it wasn’t the Ron Paulians.
another tube for the windchime just showed up.
I notice Irish Stinkweed is dumping on MM again. (re: post #6)
IrishR: your comment will have relevence when MM runs for president.
Do you use PayPal? I’m willing to forgo my new battery for my powerchair so you can buy a clue.
- martin.musculus
So that Al Franken and the Hollywood stars will return her phone calls.
(She is a real mystery to me. How can one change all of her beliefs so quickly?? Is she just one who likes to be on what she believes is a “winning team”??)
David Brock mystifies me also. He went from being my favorite conservative writer, to moonbat. I believe the Clintons had something to do with that. One minute he is investigating impeachable offenses by Bill, the next minute he is photographed bare-chested and tied to a tree in Esquire magazine. He profusely apologized to the Clintons in the article.
At least he could have asked “Did you really call your wife the c-word as reported by such and such?”. Because, in my experience, women aren’t too fond of hearing that word, articulated completely, and all.
Sorry Irish Rose, I’m not the one who dropped into this topic attacking both Michelle and the other conservative posters.
Your “conservative” credibility just took a major hit.
Irish,
Fair enough. But there have been people on this thread that did, in fact, give him his credit for a situation handled decently. Even Bruce, who hates him, said as much. Here’s a few examples:
Just to cover the bases, yes, McCain handled that with alot more class than (likely) I would have. He fielded an ignorant question from a (likely) plant, and handled it with class.
And I don’t have the information at hand to question your politics. I’m sure that my views on some things isnt going to line up with everyone elses here. I take your point of view for what it is, and welcome good discourse from you on whatever topic we’re posting on.
again, just my 2 cents
On May 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 am, martin.musculus said:
And I’m willing to forego giving you a wordy response because you’re a simple-minded, potstirring career flamer who thrives on the adrenaline rush of conflict and the power rush of internet anonymity.
Have a nice day.
HuffPo? Has anyone asked Arianna if she really did offer to procure Ed Rollins a prostitute as he recounted in his book? Goes to character, you know.
On May 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 am, JHSII said:
Ya, whoopdee-doo… my “conservative” credibility took a major hit the first time I opened my mouth and uttered a word of support for Mr. McCain.
I’m really a closet liberal, you see… I’ve only been fooling myself by voting Republican all these years.
Anyway, carry on.
Allow me to sort of parenthetically come to the defense of MM…when she appeared on FNC last week talking about Bill Clinton,she was even so polite to say that he was ‘cursing’….I actually had to correct her by telling her that when Slick does it it is plain ol’ cussing…and that ‘cursing’ is what ladies do in a fit of pique…so any criticisms of her terminology on this blog are either uninformed or untruthful
My, my, my….I just dont even have the time.
LGM, you know…there are so many stories on this website about Iraq, the subprime issue, etc…You *HAVE* actually tried reading those stories, right? If you really cant find them, i’m sure we’re ALL willing to link them for you. There’s a search bar at the top too…type in Iraq, and see what you get back. This argument is, at the least, ignorant, unfounded and petty.
Your second point, I dont argue with upfront. McCain calling his wife something like that is inexcusable, and yes, reveals part of his character. I would be remiss, however, if I didnt point out the litany of examples that have been provided by the left on their character as well. What’s the greater sin? Calling your wife the C-Word, or having an intern provide oral services to you while married, then lying about it on national television? Calling someone the C-Word, or being exposed for paying for high priced call girls right before Valentine’s Day, while holding public office and embarssing yourself and your faithful wife? I could go on, but for brevity sake, you get the idea.
It doesnt make what he did right. And yes, he should be taken to task for being crude and disrespectful. But pointing that out as condemnation of a person, when there are others (and yes, on both sides of the fence) that have done far worse, doesnt really help the discussion. I mean, seriously…i’ve dropped that word quite a few times in my life (anyone with an ex wife can attest its at least thought of, if not muttered), but there’s a time and a place for it.
Irish Rose – thanks for proving me right.
As you’re going to continue to act like a troll; I’m going to treat you like a troll.
LGM, So one guy losing his temper (we all do that, even obama) is vastly more important than saint obamas 22 year membership in an anti-american racist church???? Lets compare that, 1 minute vs 22 YEARS. And that doesn’t even address the issue that his relationship with his wife is none of our damn business. So lets moveon.org
I saw the clip, McCains looked quite confused and rather weak. If he has trouble with questions like that, help us all if he is president.
Irish Rose – what are you….12?
Seems we can add you!
WOW – just WOW.
To her credit, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Michelle utter crude words, except to quote someone else.
You would think that someone who speaks up against crude language in the public square like Michelle does, would give a word of support someone else who refuses to engage in it… I guess not.
So lets put this in perspective shall we? This idiot asked McCain about a comment he made, in anger, in 1992. (thats 16 years ago) completely out of the blue. The source for this comment is an anti-McCain book that McCain probably never read. I would have the deer caught in the headlights look as well. Do you remember ever time you got mad in 1992?
lgm saith:
Cut back on the medical marajuana pal.The Dems and Reps are both guilty of wanton spending. The problem is we have no leaders only politicians who are more than willing to spend your tax dollars to buy votes to stay in power.
That can only be stopped by taking on one issue at a time; most of the time. Wars are won through skirmishes and battles, not just battles.
Note to Michelle:
Run your threads by Irish Rose before posting – for approval.
lgm,
Bob Dylan wrote:
“Saved” by the Blood of the LAMB
You must hate him.
Incredible! Simply, some people are simply incredible..or maybe just simple.
Those who tout “free speech,” live and let live spend a lot of time and energy dictating how others “should” feel or behave. They have become what they hate.
Irish Rose – so, you are basing your entire support of McCain on his public response to this one word, and totally ignoring everything else he has done in his entire career?
McCain-Feingold
McCain-Kennedy
unConstitutional Gangbang of 14
Shamnesty
I’m still waiting for McCain to reach across the aisle to conservatives with anything other than a fist.
Yeah that was classy where is the delay button? Did this have to go into the newscycle? McCain should have instructed the mic to be removed no dialog what so ever with the “plant” and told the person be patient, security is coming to excort you out. That would have been classy refusal to enjoin the lame person attempting to score some low brow media mention.
Just for clarification, this is where Michelle lost me on this post:
Yes, crude… very crude.
Whats’ really important here, you see, is that this “dumb and useless” leftist tool didn’t do a better job of discrediting the candidate before he was thrown out.
Marty Parrish posted that he took no pleasure in using the c-word and then he cites Matthew 5:9. His message: He was just trying to promote a more peaceful world.
Since he claims to be a Baptist minister I’d like to share a few verses about the government’s power in war-making and the showing of respect to officials: Romans 13:1-7; Titus 3:1-3.
“No, I never called my wife that, but I am calling you a d*ck.”
I believe this part was left out of the exchange…
I think McCain handled it pretty well. The guy was just baiting him to see if he would lose his temper, but it didn’t work.
This is off topic, but I was hoping to see something on O’Reilly’s interveiw with what’s her name last night. There’s something on Hot Air from yesterday, but I’m not registered to comment there. I’m still voting for McCain.
Democrat or Republican, a person using that language should be embarassed and asked to leave. I think that question, in a public setting, sets a new low.
BTW, if I ever called my wife that, in public or in private, I would have been “bobbeted” in my sleep.
Irish Rose said:
I think you’re drinking Irish Rose…
You’re comparing apples to oranges and it’s sad you’re not cognizant of that.
And yet MM still lets you post here despite the volumes of outright lies and far-left propaganda you spew.
As for a refute to the utter nonsense you posted in this thread I would point you to abstractmind’s post. Not that your post needs much of a refute, it should be left there for people to see just how unhinged your views are.
McCain handled this clown with class. I would have replied, “Who do you think I am, Jane Fonda?”
Incredibly, this moron named Parrish will now be celebrated by the Huffington Post, the Daily Kos and Olbermann, etc. By being vulgar to John McCain, he will become an instant hero on the left. What people like Parrish hate about McCain the most is not that he is the Republican candidate for president. It is not that he will run against either the Messiah or Hillary. What they detest the most is that he actually had the nerve to attend the US Naval Academy (horror of horrors) and that he was a POW in North VietNam. Let’s recall that when McCain came back from the hell of the prison camps run by goons, Jane Fonda called him ” a liar”. Fonda’s quote can be found in the archives of the NY Times from January 1973. Fonda and her acolytes like Parrish belong in the loony bin with Reverend Wright.
Isn’t everyone missing an obvious question – what, pray tell, charge did the Secret Service think it could bring against Parrish?
One man’s breadcrumb is another man’s indicator of character or future performance. Lest we digress once again, a side by side comparison with some liberal site such as DU make this site look quite restrained and polite. Can you really sit there straight faced and ignore what they do to Bush on a regular basis? Puh-leeze!
So true. Just as Hillary calling Paul Fray a “F***ing Jew B***tard” (and many, many others) or Obama using the phrase “typical white person” about his grandmother, or using black supremacists as advisers goes to their character.
We are expected to believe their denials, and should extend the same to McCain.
corona, being an asshole in the 1st degree? They probably just wanted to be sure he wasn’t going to do anything stupid.
I’m off to work, but I’ll leave you with this idea:
It’s pointless to feign false indignation over a crass word like “c*nt”, when you allow words like “dick” and “whore” to be uttered in your own public house on a regular basis.
It’s also disingenuous to rail about the evils of immoral communication when you refuse to give public kudos to someone who actually knows how to communicate morally (simply because you disagree with their politics).
Later, folks.
Big kudos to Sen. McCain for the manner in which he handled this idiot.
IR, spot on analysis btw. Soap, you’re one of the commentators to whom IR refers. I believe you’ve called various female political figures with whom you disagree “whore” on several occasions. Typical of your ilk.
Dimsdale (#69)
You should watch the whole thing. Obama was not speaking ill of his grandmother. He was saying something that Americans who are the tiniest bit “in touch” know to be true about most white people in America today. He said it not out of hatred. He was not trying to create racial tension. (That would be stupid: he knows that racial tension will not get him elected).
the reason i don’t talk to my liberal friends about politics anymore is because you have to have a 1st grade lesson in context.
somehow, random, anonymous posters on a message board that seems to be very casual, are being compared to someone who, in a presidential campaign forum, used an offensive word in front of young and old alike.
do you not understand the analogy problem you have there?
i don’t care if he asked the question. i care about the way he did it. one again, proving liberals have no tact, class, or manners.
sudden influx of trolls in this topic!!
No surprise to me that a little hostile vulgarity by a democrat plant will bring out the trolls!!
ooh, i get it. another “context” problem…
You know what, liberal trolls, this conversation doesn’t help my kids.
Not that I actually have kids, but the feeling is the same.
That’s a closet with no door and no walls.
Anyone who pumps for McCain is not a conservative. McCain is a middle left RINO. Your obvious adoration of him tells us all we need to know about your so-called conservatism.
like Barack focusing on the word “bitter” in his Cappagate comment, you’re focusing on the ‘word’ c*nt.
the word is vile, but that’s not the issue. he could have asked the question while NOT offending others in that forum. let me give you an example:
“is it true, Senataor McCain that you called your wife the C word?”
this is a matter of tact. and this epidemic of the tactless on the left does nothing to help the cause of the left. these actions can no longer be passed off as passionate…that ship has sail. the bottom line is that the left is classless.
when rational people ask themselves whom they’d rather have run a country…it’s not the classless. ultimately, the left does more to damage itself than the right could ever achieve.
At the expense of the response, I consider myself educated and “in touch”. Can you please tell me exactly this magical truth about white people would be? I’m curious as to what makes me a “typical white person” or what everyone else knows about me that I’ve so blatantly missed out on about…well, myself.
This, I have to hear.
Can you please tell me exactly what this magical truth about white people would be?
fixed it
Excuse me, but I’m a typical white grandmother and this is ridiculous! I’m amazed that people who use vulgarity at home don’t blurt it out in public more often. As someone else said, the guy was on a mission to trap JSM into a display of temper.
We had early voting in NC and our choice was “No Preference” for president. Still hoping for a miracle!
I must have missed the threads you referred to, IR. One of the reasons I enjoy reading the comments on Michelle’s blog is that the readers’ comments are polite, well-thought out reasoning, unlike the vitriol and crude language found at HuffPo, or any of the lefty moonbat blogs. They seem to be unable to string a sentence together without at least one crude, profane word included.
In your case, I believe your resentment of our disappointment in McCain as our candidate is clouding your interpretation of what Michelle said in this post.
Agreed
Figures. Birds of a feather…
One woman one time. Speaker of the House. I called her Palosi Gawhore (007 reference). And I clairified:
We pay her and are getting screwed (I believe it was in the first 100 days thread).
I call Hillary Shrill too – so what. You keeping score on Irish Rose too? Just look at the name calling she does on this thread and get back to me oaky?
Feeling the love – thanks dakine.
If McCain really has an explosive temper, he really did a good job keeping it together for this a-hole. That question was entirely inappropriate for that setting.
When I saw this on the news yesterday, I dropped my beer in slow motion with my mouth agape.
Anyway, War Barack Obama on Tuesday.
Out.
I think he would have gotten a knuckle sandwich from over here if that man would have asked me a question like that!
soap, I think I am probably “birds of a feather” with IR (meaning a pragmatic, mainstream conservative), so I’ll take that as a compliment. Otherwise, that was a pretty reasonable response from you, so kudos to you.
mistressjustice, are you a “clone”?
Hey, I apologized to lgm once. I even apologized for thread jacking. I can be reasonable.
lgm saith:
You can’t usurp what the majority of people think and perceive with lame smoke and mirrors dude. Indeed he could have meant what he said the way you say, but most people see it as throwing granny under the O’bus. An elitist miscalculation in rhetoric if you ask me; Obama is just another dirty sophist anyway.
I think I might have to be nice to you for awhile soap. I have to warn you though, I’ll probably get bored at some point and feel the need to rattle your cage (which would make me a troll I suppose).
This is an obvious McCain plant to upset and create sympathy for Juan. If there were honest questions asked, we would have people asking Mccain daily about his amnesty plans. About his associations with LaRaza and Hernandez, much like BO is getting for his associations with wackos.
Dakine.
Yes I am. I’m not smackoff material yet, though.
Oh yeah, I read that you are a Bill Simmons “Sport Guy” fan. That guy is amazing and gives me belly laughs when he talks about the NBA. He’s a genious with words. I’m a certified sports chick.
Irish Rose and LGM
You make good points about this blog, but it’s not analagous to putting a candidate in an uncomfortable position like that. The speaker was a standard yahoo looking for his 15mins of fame. He probably won a bet or something. He came across looking real bad. His actions were much more shameful than saying anonymous, vile(cowardly) things on some blog.
ABSTRACTMIND #89, according to Obummer his grandmother is A TYPICAL WHITE PERSON, because she was afraid of two black men walking toward her as she waited for a bus after dark one night. That makes the whole white race TYPICAL.
OK, but henry (and yes, i know thats what was said by Oblahma, but)…if i’m not scared of people like that, I suppose I’m not typical?
My other reference point was, his grandmother said this how many years ago, and lgm is making it sound like everyone sitting around his local starbucks and listening to Moby all feel things are still like that…
I’m glad to not be typical though
Funny. But this nut case doesn’t sound like too many Baptist ministers you’d ever run into. Gotta give McCain credit for not beaning this man.
That’s how I heard it as well, DagneyT. IR seems irked more by what Michelle didn’t do (give kudos to McCain for doing what most any reasonable person would do) than the topic itself.
Irish Rose, your initial comment was a bit similar to lgm’s typical tu quoque tactic: “So, a left-wing nutjob says the c-word to a presidential candidate, but that’s nothing like what conservatives say on Michelle’s blog.”
I’d guess this is why you painted a bullseye on yourself to be labeled as a troll.
To attribute comments on this blog as if they come from Michelle herself or that she supports them by not deleting them is nonsense. Every posting has this very line:
I would feel incredibly sorry for Michelle if she had to continue her writing and appearances while also policing our comments here like a school marm. To be perfectly honest, as much as many of us here would like to think that Michelle reads each and every one of our comments, I just don’t see how she could possibly have the time for it.
If you have an issue with something someone said here, take it up with them, not Michelle.
Seems to me that this was a deliberate attempt to goad McCain into a “Macaca” moment.
If I were in the Democrat Dirty Tricks Department, I’d figure as follows:
1. McCain’s got a reputation for a quick temper and a sharp tongue.
2. So why not zap him with a surprise, hostile question that includes a crude term about his wife? It’s an invitation for him to respond at the same level. If he takes the bait, the DNC and the drive-by media can pummel him with it through November.
Something similar worked with Mike Allen, didn’t it? I did a Google search of “Allen” and “Macaca” and got 497,000 hits.
This entire episode has the look, feel and smell of a trap. McCain did well not to charge right into it.