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July 28th, 2008
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Yeah, we can’t take my grampa to the grocery store, either.
So…. he takes something off the shelf and carefully puts it in the cart. Then, while McCain is still standing by the cart, the stockboy causes the shelf to spill.
And this is somehow McCain’s fault?
And any idiot can see that there is a cut in the video, unless McCain shit the stockboy out while he was leaning over into the carriage.
Christ, this is beyond stupid.
41 years ago tomorrow, on July 29. 1967 a missile accidentally fired from an aircraft on the deck of the USS Forrestal. It flew across the flight deck, slammed into another plane, detonated that aircraft, its fuel, and its weapons. Shrapnel from that explosion punctured a dozen other aircraft that were waiting at the aft end of the ship-fully fueled and loaded with bombs for a massive airstrike. In the cockpit of the one of those planes-sitting right next to the plane that had accidentally launched the first missile, was John McCain. Less that 2 seconds after that first missile launched, the entire flight deck was an inferno. Pilots who had been strapped into their planes waiting for their turn to launch were trapped and surrounded by burning jet fuel, launching missiles, a hailstorm of shrapnel, and thousands of pounds of bombs.
John McCain unstrapped himself, climbed out on the nose of his A4 Skyhawk plane, jumped, and rolled through burning jet fuel. On his way to safety, some of the bombs on the burning planes began to explode, and he was knocked down by the shockwaves and by shrapnel piercing his body.
“Beyond stupid” is so, so right.
1) As noted, there is a jump cut just before the applesauce goes flying.
2) The applesauce that falls is two shelves below from the shelf McCain took the applesauce from.
3) The applesauce the mother grabs is from the shelf that has the accident.
4) The stockboy appears miraculously out of nowhere (well, the cut) and has his hands right where the applesauce starts to fall.
5) There is no one else besides the stockboy near the falling applesauce.
The point of this video? I’d take it as “if you don’t elect John McCain and send him to the White House, he’ll wander the aisles of our nation’s supermarkets and distract minimum-wage workers into spilling merchandise by his mere presence — or, possibly, the sight of his incredibly manly senior citizen ass from a distance of five feet.”
Vote McCain! Save our nation’s precious supply of applesauce from being slaughtered by stockboys!
J.
“Campaign cleanup in aisle five!!”
Mr. Tea said “McCain” and “applesauce” in the same post. You’re not implying that McCain is old are you?
Look, it’s just karma. Obama drains a three-pointer on his first attempt in front of wildly cheering soldiers, and John McCain’s first visit to a market IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE includes stuff falling off shelves while an actress, a kid and a stockboy pay no attention to him. (Did anyone catch him checking his cribsheet so he knew how much milk costs and that the red light at the counter is called a “bar code scanner?”)
God is having a pretty good time at McCain’s expense.
Good point, repack. Let’s elect McCain to keep him out of supermarkets, and let Obama have all the time he wants to shoot hoops.
Vote McCain! Save the applesauce!
J.
Actually, my issue wasn’t with the sauce spill, it was just the unnatural forced nature of the whole enterprise. Even for the usual nonsensery of campaigning, it comes across silly.
Graduated 894 out of 899 in flight school, earning over 100 demerits. Crashes 4 aircraft by accident before being shot down in fifth aircraft.
Cheats on wife then divorces.
Marries rodeo beauty queen / brewery heiress 17 years younger than him.
Yep, man of the people.
PD, if you’re going to recite the litany, GET THE DETAILS RIGHT.
One of those four planes was blown up from under him while he was strapped into the pilot’s seat, and the plane itself was tied down on deck. A rocket from another plane on the flight deck was misfired and started one of the biggest peacetime accidents in American carrier history — the USS Forrestal fire.
Look it up some time. Hell of a story. I have a book on it — “Sailors To The End.” McCain was damned lucky; a lot of other men died that day, and by all rights he should have been killed, too.
McCain’s role in that particular incident is very much parallel to saying he “totaled a car” when he was sitting in it, parked, engine off, and got hit by another car.
That’s what happens when you mindlessly mouth talking points you’ve picked up elsewhere.
J.
OW: Actually, my issue wasn’t with the sauce spill…
Oh, sorry then. I was (again) mislead by your choice of what to emphasize in your headline.
You’re right, Oliver. I don’t know how anyone could have drawn the wrong conclusion from your title calling specific attention to the applesauce and your careful enunciation of your point — “Yeah, just a regular guy. A regular, awkward, guy.”
What kind of idiots were we to see the mention of applesauce in the title, the use of the word “awkward,” and foolishly connect the two? Especially considering the care and effort you took into spelling out just what you meant?
By the way, your expression of concern for Senator McCain’s health after the announcement of the removal of the growth on his face was quite touching, and I share your wishing him nothing but good health in the future. It’s nice to see that you can, on occasion, set aside partisanship and every now and then remember that we’re all Americans, we’re all human, and politics sometimes don’t enter into the equation.
J.
That’s what happens when you mindlessly mouth talking points you’ve picked up elsewhere.
It’s not PD’s fault, Mr. Tea. It’s just that McCain has handled it all so ineptly.
It appears that there was a very plausible, very reasonable storyline that explained the matter in a satisfactory manner. But the McCain camp didn’t manage that very well. Here it is, years after the accident, and it’s taken a serious McCain
sycophantsupporter to find out these particulars and piece them together.Not a bad rebuttal, Quaker. It kind of overlooks the fact that you’re comparing current events with something that happened 40 years ago, and has been the subject of extensive analysis and review and scrutiny and study. The films of the USS Forrestal accident have been required viewing for literally generations of sailors as part of their damage control training. It led to major shakeups in the Navy on numerous fronts, from handling munitions to safety features to “every sailor is a firefighter” to just how to fight a fire on board a ship. It has been the subject of countless articles, several documentaries (I’ve seen it in about four different contexts on the History Channel alone), and at least one book. It has an extensive Wikipedia entry.
McCain gave his full account of his involvement to the Navy investigation at the time. It’s all on the record. It’s all there, and has been for literally decades.
McCain lost five planes under his command. That’s not in dispute. But to say that he “Crashes 4 aircraft by accident before being shot down in fifth aircraft” is just plain factually wrong. And for anyone — regardless of their feelings about McCain — to let those misstatements (I won’t call them lies, because I do think that PD is just ignorant and/or stupid) is to perpetuate lies, and to allow lying to become an accepted tactic.
It’s the kind of stupid response that demonstrates the laziness of the critic. It’s kind of like, in another thread here, someone said that they didn’t think that Donald Rumsfeld had enough experience to be named Secretary of Defense by Bush — ignoring the fact that Rumsfeld had ALREADY held that job, under President Ford. (Feel free to fault the man on any of a zillion other grounds, but he was the one of the most “experienced” candidates around.)
But back to that applesauce… how DARE that stockboy be so clumsy!
J.
It kind of overlooks the fact that you’re comparing current events with something that happened 40 years ago, and has been the subject of extensive analysis and review and scrutiny and study.
So? If John McCain hadn’t handled it so incompetently, no one would be saying these things about him.
It certainly doesn’t bode well that McCain’s organization can’t organize a decent press event in a mom & pop grocery store. How are they ever going to organize an entire government into dealing with all the crisis that the US is involved in?
If I walked into the kitchen and saw this team working on dinner, I’d go to another restaurant, that’s for sure.
Incompetent in one area, likely to be incompetent in many.
I especially like the part where the lady points to this small applesauce container and gets her hand about 6 inches away from it in the process, but rather than just grabbing it, she asks this guy in the suit to grab that for her, like it would be hugely helpful to do so. Awkward indeed.
Awkward indeed.
Especially since she was a hired shill. What they need to do is rehearse rehears rehearse. Come on people!
John McBush was the best aviator the NVA had, hands down.
It certainly doesn’t bode well that McCain’s organization can’t organize a decent press event in a mom & pop grocery store. How are they ever going to organize an entire government into dealing with all the crisis that the US is involved in?
Great. By this logic, any concert promoter could be President of the United States.
Where do you people come up with this nonsense?
Great. By this logic, any concert promoter could be President of the United States.
Mission accomplished!
Is that McCain’s baby mama in the clip?
Another case in point about events and the McCain symbolism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuHylcp4lY
Certainly the idea that someone who can’t organize the simplest event can’t be expected to organize a country. To try and convince me of the contrary would be a task. I’d like to know someone can organized a huge movement and give it voice rather than someone like McCain who can only manage to belittle and look pitiful to others.
Sad really.
McCain is a fighter ace. For the other side.
Politics and issues aside, this campaign is looking more and more like amateur hour. Run by poli-sci students on the lower slopes of the bell curve.
Actually, my issue wasn’t with the sauce spill, it was just the unnatural forced nature of the whole enterprise. Even for the usual nonsensery of campaigning, it comes across silly.
Was this supposed to be the flip side of Obama’s trip abroad?
Seriously?