To: Molly Priesmeyer, Rent-a-Blogger and Snark-Minx<\/p>\n
From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Unpaid Hack<\/p>\n
Re:\u00a0 John McCain’s Teeth.<\/p>\n
Ms. P,<\/p>\n
\u00a0I realized that I said that I’d try to contact you<\/a> the next time I had a question about your coverage of an event.\u00a0 And since the Sorosphere is suddenly all afroth<\/a> over the state of Senator McCain’s teeth (that’s why we go to the Sorosphere; all that cogent analysis!), it’d be a good time to ask you…<\/p>\n …except your email address doesn’t seem to be anywhere on the MNMon’s\u00a0(really, really badly-designed)\u00a0site.<\/p>\n Sorry.\u00a0 Pinky\u00a0swear,\u00a0I tried!<\/p>\n So anyway, here’s my question:\u00a0 When you If bloggers are saying one thing about John McCain this week it’s that the 71-year-old has some serious grit. Of course, that grit comes in the form of McCain Mouth, a deformity that apparently causes teeth to look like a mess of yellowed and contorted Chiclets. Today, BuzzFeed.com<\/a> has picked up on the mouth meme, turning McCain’s piano-key chompers into an official phenomenon.<\/p>\n The consensus? “They’re old.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, not nearly as old as the Senator is.\u00a0<\/p>\n Because – you do <\/em>realize this, don’t you, Ms. Priesmeyer? – Senator McCain had a bunch of his teeth broken off at the gumline<\/a> while he was being held as a POW.\u00a0 Which, of course, can set a guy up for a whole lifetime o’ dental hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n But you didn’t<\/em> know that – right?\u00a0 If you’d known that, you’d never, ever <\/em>have written such a deeply, disturbingly dumb piece.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n Seriously – please plead ignorance. I’d like to know that even the MNMon has a level below which even they <\/em>won’t sink – although reason tells me my faith is probably misplaced.<\/font><\/p>\n While looks are an easy and lame target,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n [Being more mature than he used the be, the writer bites his tongue at the too-easy retort, knowing he’s a better person for it]\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0it’s at least refreshing to see McCain’s teeth get a razzing (though, unfortunately, not a cleaning). It gets a little tiring listening to the same sexist cries that Hillary Clinton is just too ugly to be president. Hatin’ on the looks of all the candidates? Now that’s equality!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n No, that’s just stupid and sophomoric.\u00a0 Dinging Senator Clinton on her looks is stupid and sexist.\u00a0 Ripping Senator McCain for the appearance of a mouth that had the living sh*t beaten out of it by NVA goons is its own punishment, at least among people with consciences.<\/p>\n Glad to see Steve Perry’s bringing some professionalism to the good ol’ MNMon!<\/p>\ncopy and paste a line that 5,000 other leftybloggers<\/strike> write<\/a>:<\/p>\n