{"id":2867,"date":"2008-07-15T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2008-07-15T06:47:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T11:47:03","slug":"from-the-too-loathsome-to-loathe-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"From the “Too Loathsome To Loathe” Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times I almost feel bad beating on the Minnesoros “Independent”<\/em>. The site – a paid propaganda site funded by “liberals with deep pockets” and now staffed mostly by refugees from the City Pages<\/em> – is (occasional and, I stress this, rare<\/em> bits of good reporting notwithstanding) kind of like the the really <\/em>drunk guy who walks into a bar spoiling for a fight after he’s already had sixteen beers. You shake your head and hope he doesn’t hurt himself. You hope he goes away, and gets home safely. You try to mute a chuckle as he tries to pick fights with bartenders, waitresses, the barback. You try to continue talking or playing trivia or dancing.<\/p>\n

And then the drunk – or the “Independent”<\/em> – staggers over to wherever you are, and says something really, “beneath and below the call of duty” stupid and inflammatory. And as you’re trying to wave it off, he throws a punch – a sloppy, drunken roundhouse you duck easily. And, earlier sympathies and compassion and best wishes notwithstanding, you’ve had enough, and you smack his jaw so hard he falls down like a load of old City Pages <\/em>returns getting dumped in the landfill, and despite yourself, you have <\/em>to laugh. He pissed you off that <\/em>bad.<\/p>\n

Steve Perry staggers over and calls your date a whore as snot drippes over his stubbly mustache<\/strike> thinks he’s got big goods on Mac:<\/p>\n

Steve Benen<\/a> at Carpetbagger Report and Jake Tapper<\/a> at ABC pick up on a rather astounding fib told by John McCain to a Pittsburgh TV station:<\/p>\n

“When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, physical pressures on me, I named the starting lineup, defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates.”<\/p>\n

“Did you really?” asked the reporter.<\/p>\n

“Yes,” McCain said.<\/p>\n

“In your POW camp?” asked the reporter.<\/p>\n

“Yes,” McCain said.<\/p>\n

If you’ve heard this story before–and it’s one of the staples of McCain’s POW yarns–you know that it has always been the Green Bay Packers whose starting lineup McCain claims to have recited for his captors. In his 1999 book Faith of My Fathers<\/em>, McCain wrote: “Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steve Perry – paid propaganda streetwalker of the party whose previous nominee presumptive concocted a dash through sniper fire<\/a> that was invented from whole cloth, whose hubby invented terror-bombings of black churches, and whose last Prez nominee had a completely fictional Christmas trip to Cambodia “seared, seared” in his memory, goes on:<\/p>\n

So much for the third-rail sanctity of John McCain’s time as a North Vietnamese POW. In his own mind, clearly, it’s just another tool in an old campaigner’s arsenal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And you know what, Steve Perry? More power to him<\/em>. If this is the best “lie” you can come up with, then you are going to have one long campaign, little fella.<\/p>\n

For starters, Mac survived one of the ghastliest ordeals any American has ever suffered, and I don’t care if he claims, forty years later, to have recited the entire lineup to Disney On Ice <\/em>or the cast of The Fantastics. <\/em><\/p>\n

Second – so what? It has what <\/em>to do with policy?<\/p>\n

That’s right – exactly the same as Norm Coleman’s “luxury apartment” or any part of Barack Obama’s platform.<\/p>\n

Funny this is coming to light a day after McCain confessed in the New York Times that he is not really up on his computers and internets<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Life is full of ironies, if you’re stupid”. P.J. O’Rourke.<\/p>\n

This is your lefty “alternative” media at work; nitpicking a triviality spoken by a guy whose suppositories Steve Perry is not fit to carry.\u00a0 I have a hunch that in five years, he probably managed\u00a0 to get through the Steelers, the Packers, the rest of the NFL, major league baseball, and every cabinet officer in US history.
\nAnd it’s “Internet”. What, you’ve been taking “glib and cutesy” lessons from Priesmeyer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are times I almost feel bad beating on the Minnesoros “Independent”. The site – a paid propaganda site funded by “liberals with deep pockets” and now staffed mostly by refugees from the City Pages – is (occasional and, I stress this, rare bits of good reporting notwithstanding) kind of like the the really drunk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}