John McCain was so punchy that he got up in front of a crowd in Western Pennsylvania and accidentally said that he agreed with comments allegedly put forward by others that Western Pennsylvania is filled with racists.
And all I could picture was the Doctor standing toward the back of the rally and saying quietly to reporters within earshot, “Don’t you think he looks tired?”
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When I first posted my essay on “McCainism,” noting the McCarthyesque vibe from the McCain campaign, some folks here claimed that Jon Stewart’s likening McCain to Frankenstein–inadvertently unleashing a monster he couldn’t control–was far more apt.
On last night’s “Daily Show,” Jon Stewart drew parallels between the latest speeches and comments from the McCain campaign, not to mention a mid-West congresswoman, that had a definite McCarthyesque tint to it that didn’t even involve terrorism: instead it centered around real Americans versus, you know, people like me, who live in (or near) cities and aren’t voting for McCain. You know: unAmericans.
Now to be wholly fair, I watched the full video of the Congresswoman who stated that the media should launch an investigation into who in Congress might be, y’know, unAmerican. And I tend to blame her interviewer, Chris Matthews, who basically strung together stuff that she didn’t say, acted like she said it, and then hammered her until she blurted out something stupid. She was thrashing about in the deep end and Matthews tossed her an anvil for a flotation device. Still, McCain’s team seems to be moving beyond this whole notion that there are two Americas (Linda Ellerbe pointed out that red states/blue states is entirely a media construction) and floating the notion that those who aren’t with them aren’t part of “real America.”
Apparently I’m not a real American. And if you’re not voting for John McCain, why…neither are you.
Apparently the question has been asked and answered: No sense of decency at all.
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