I'm a loser.
Great stuff from MSNBC's First Read. Scroll down a bit for the actual passage. The Steelers in question are the Pittsburgh Steelers, as in NFL,... gridiron,... American football:
Imagine if Al Gore or John Kerry had changed the facts of a story they told forever in order to appeal to whatever swing state they were speaking in? John McCain is getting killed on Steeler fan forums for claiming that when he was a P.O.W. he would tell his interrogators the names of the starting defensive line of the Steelers. The actual story in his book had to do with Green Bay Packers offensive line. Also, the famous Steelers defensive line that McCain was trying to refer to (Mean Joe, L.C. etc.) didn't become famous until after McCain was out of Vietnam. The actual Steelers front four McCain could have referred to, according to one the Steeler fan forum that is crushing McCain on this comment today: "When McCain became a prisoner of war, the Steelers front four consisted of Ken Kortas, Chuck Hinton, Ben McGee and Lloyd Voss." Not exactly household names.
Speaking as a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I can say now that McCain has lost my vote. OK, well, he never had my vote, but if he had my vote up 'til now...
Y'know, Al Gore never actually claimed to have invented the Internet. But McCain actually did share this casual, lazy fib. What does it say about a man who is able to lie so easily when the lie can so easily be revealed? Memo to Dan Savage: can you make a big stink about this the way only you know how to make a big stink?
Rather than deny the Chinese their tasty dog cuisine in the name of cultural differences, we should send them our doomed pitbulls! That way, everyone wins.
Why hasn't Charles made an Amanda posting yet this morning? Wake that man up!
someone sockpuppeting poe?
Is that guy drunk or is his spine broken?
Some photos of the iPhone3G line:
http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2008/07/11/iphone3g-line
@ 6 -- Aye, the "drunken referee" looks more like he had his backribs racked and his bell rung.
An authentic drunken referee would fall over if he tried walking like that wouldn't he?
DanFan is right. Human fed pit pull is very tasty.
And here's news even The Stranger missed:
InBev Raises Anheuser Bid to $70 a Share, Person Says (Update2)
... Discussions over the $70-a-share bid may still fall through, said the person ...
I feel suddenly empowered to move markets.
I don't quite know what to say about the traffic circle story, other than that it is horribly, tragically sad.
LOL I am embarrassed for iPhreaks
Look, I made my own iPhone out of oatmeal.
no interest in McCain's meltdown over a simple question about medical benefits for birth control?
i see there's another full post over a supposed obama gaffe.
i would think presidential politics + health care + women's reproductive rights would merit some attention and OUTRAGE on ye olde slog.
alas. even here, when McCain does it, it's not worth a mention.
no mention of McCain's meltdown over a question about his vote on heatlth insurance and birth control?
i see a supposed obama gaffe gets a full post.
i would think presidential politics + health care + women's reproductive rights + lying would rate a mention.
but alas, even here on ye olde slog, when McCain does it, it doesn't rate a mention.
dammit, slog. refresh.
@11 it's sad that he died, but reading the full story, the guy sounds like an angry old man. Did he deserve to die? not at all. Was it right for him to be punched? not at all.
But still he freaked out at some kids, sprayed them with his garden hose and may or may not have pushed one of them, all because he was too stubborn to move a few parking cones.
Mr. Poe is a loser, and he's not what he appears to be.
It's true!
It sounds like his maintenance activities were pretty typical and not unusual for an intersection with a roundabout. Why shouldn't he be stubborn? Why should he be "nice", or bend to the whims of a group of teenage girls. Have you ever dealt with a pack of teenage girls? A crueler, more arrogant gathering of humans one could not ask for. Teenage girls deserve to get yelled at by an old man every once in awhile.
Angry old man? If you survived Vietnam, and had your house hit by a car, I'd say you're completely justified in being an angry old man. In fact, anyone 60 and above has pretty much earned the right to be as angry and irascible as they want.
That referee is seriously injured, not drunk.
Well said, laterite.
chops: meltdown? really? Because he didn't want to discuss the issue? Important topic, okay, but not exactly front burner stuff. I don't think it's fair to castigate him for not being prepared on the spot to discuss a vote from 5 years ago. And then kos blames it on his age. spin spin spin spin spin I'm getting dizzy.
Drunken referee is beautiful. If he isn't drunk, then he has back spasms and is drunk. I've been there, just not as a referee.
@21.
it's the hipocrisy of it all.
your campaign co-chair says you're for it, but you voted against it. simple question: what do you think today? change your mind?
i won't answer until someone tells me what i should think. i don't really know what my position is.
would obama get away with this kind of response? no way. someone would want to cut his nuts off for about a week's worth of the news cycle.
but it's okay for mccain. he's a doddering old maverick straight talker. we can let it go.
I would love to see Mr. Poe sick a pitbull on McCain's campaign manager ...
No, wait, maybe not.
Totally agree with @17 -- it's sad it happened but that man seemed to have a history of provoking fights.
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