{"id":2288,"date":"2008-03-19T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T20:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2008-03-19T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T20:43:59","slug":"have-no-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Go Perry Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who were afraid the retirement of Mark “The Wege” Gisleson would make the local Sorosphere a kinder and gentler place – well, don’t worry. Steve “Mister Furious” Perry is more than happy to take up the slack<\/a> – and watch his credibility crash harder than Lieutenant Commander McCain’s A4 Skyhawk:<\/p>\n

While we await the release of John McCain’s medical file–which his campaign has pledged<\/a> to disgorge by next month–I took a look through press accounts of McCain’s last release of medical information, during his 2000 run for the White House.One eye-opener: McCain’s startling claim that he believes the five years he spent as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam were actually a boon to his mental health and temperamental stability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s clear that Perry has given up being a “journalist” (he used to be a good one), and is auditioning for a job as a writer <\/strike>snarksmith on the “Daily Show”.<\/p>\n

Since modifying and controlling ones’ behavior was a prime survival skill among American POWs in North Vietnam, it’s clear that Perry knows no more about this subject than Dan Haugen knows about the law<\/a> or Molly Priesmeyer knows about business<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And I’d have to wonder – would Perry bring the same tact, intellect and sensitivity to the table if a woman ran for office and testified to having been raped? (“That’s a stupid question, Mitch. Of course he would! If she were Republican!”)<\/p>\n

One wonders how Steve Perry’s “behavior” would fare (he’s, um, notoriously “prickly”) if he spent a weekend in jail on a traffic warrant, much less five and a half years of torture, solitary confinement and the sort of systematic degradation most Americans couldn’t comprehend even if <\/em>the Daily Mold were still in operation?<\/p>\n

Given McCain’s enduring and well-known fondness for calling his Senate colleagues names and telling them to fuck themselves, what are we to make of this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That it’d be cool to stick Perry in a room with McCain for five minutes? (And since when does Perry, the guy who hired Mark Gisleson at the City Pages<\/em> in ’04, get the vapors about a little rudeness and cussing?)
\nI never thought it would be possible, but…:<\/p>\n