Comments on: McCain’s Zapatero Gaffe http://www.lies.com/wp/2008/09/18/mccains-zapatero-gaffe/ believe nothing... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:07:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jbc http://www.lies.com/wp/2008/09/18/mccains-zapatero-gaffe/#comment-107958 jbc Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:47:42 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3059#comment-107958 Yeah, I'm with Craig on this one. It's an understandable mistake on McCain's part. The pretending he really meant to say it, and being willing to insult an ally in order to avoid admitting that he misunderstood the question, is where it seems more significant to me. Granted, the McCain campaign clearly has long since crossed whatever line normally divides campaigns from being willing to blatantly lie as a matter of routine. But it still strikes me as significant, and worth pointing out. Hey, Craig: I'm missing your insights lately. And with the predictable ratcheting up of the partisian snarkiness on both sides, I'd really appreciate a chance to get more of your take on what it all means. Please consider this an open invitation (well, a repetition of the existing open invitation) to post new items or comments here any time you feel the urge. Yeah, I’m with Craig on this one. It’s an understandable mistake on McCain’s part. The pretending he really meant to say it, and being willing to insult an ally in order to avoid admitting that he misunderstood the question, is where it seems more significant to me. Granted, the McCain campaign clearly has long since crossed whatever line normally divides campaigns from being willing to blatantly lie as a matter of routine. But it still strikes me as significant, and worth pointing out.

Hey, Craig: I’m missing your insights lately. And with the predictable ratcheting up of the partisian snarkiness on both sides, I’d really appreciate a chance to get more of your take on what it all means. Please consider this an open invitation (well, a repetition of the existing open invitation) to post new items or comments here any time you feel the urge.

]]> By: knarlyknight http://www.lies.com/wp/2008/09/18/mccains-zapatero-gaffe/#comment-107952 knarlyknight Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:19:15 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3059#comment-107952 Craig, A little too generous, as the speaker was very clear in setting out that she was talking about the preident of Spain. That part of her speech was remarkably clear, especially relative to the other parts that McCain did not have trouble with. Someone needs to take McCaain aside and tell him that Spain and Mexico have many similarities due to the former's conquest of the latter area in the late 1400's / early 1500's, but there is now a longstanding international understanding that they are in fact two different countries, and besides they are seperated by bodies of water that are even wider than the Rio Grande. Craig,
A little too generous, as the speaker was very clear in setting out that she was talking about the preident of Spain. That part of her speech was remarkably clear, especially relative to the other parts that McCain did not have trouble with.

Someone needs to take McCaain aside and tell him that Spain and Mexico have many similarities due to the former’s conquest of the latter area in the late 1400’s / early 1500’s, but there is now a longstanding international understanding that they are in fact two different countries, and besides they are seperated by bodies of water that are even wider than the Rio Grande.

]]> By: Craig http://www.lies.com/wp/2008/09/18/mccains-zapatero-gaffe/#comment-107951 Craig Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:54:15 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=3059#comment-107951 In listening to the interviewer's thick accent, I could understand it if McCain, over a phone line, could have been confused about who the question was about. So the spokesman for McCain is making a simple explanation into sometime much less plausible. Maybe they were afraid of the spin of "the old man can't hear very well and gets confused' (not that any bloggers would dream to go down that road ;>) Dumb move, but just another 24-hour news cycle mini-tempest. In listening to the interviewer’s thick accent, I could understand it if McCain, over a phone line, could have been confused about who the question was about. So the spokesman for McCain is making a simple explanation into sometime much less plausible. Maybe they were afraid of the spin of “the old man can’t hear very well and gets confused’ (not that any bloggers would dream to go down that road ;>)

Dumb move, but just another 24-hour news cycle mini-tempest.

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