McCain Panders To Bloggers After Previously Calling Them ‘Infatuated With Self-Expression’
McCain Panders To Bloggers After Previously Calling Them ‘Infatuated With Self-Expression’
Yesterday in a conference call with conservative bloggers, McCain attempted to pander to the blogosphere by ensuring them that they would be tapped in to his administration, if he becomes president. From the call:
DAVID ALL: If you become America’s next president, what role would bloggers, left and right, play in your communications strategy?
McCAIN: I feel strongly that bloggers now are a vital part of the information technology in America and the world, and it’s an unusual and incredible development. …
And, the second: [As President, I would] be on with the bloggers every two weeks. … Maybe there’s too many bloggers and maybe we wouldn’t get all the questions in, and maybe my answers would be too long as they are now…But maybe by lottery. Anyone who wants to ask a question, we’ll throw your name in a hat and pick the top 15, so eventually all the bloggers get a chance.
But as a senator, McCain has hardly been a friend to bloggers. In May 2006, he said bloggers are “infatuated with self-expression” who believe themselves to be “so much more eloquent, well-informed, and wiser than anyone else.” In December, he introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles, subjecting them to “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.
Despite his friendly rhetoric yesterday, McCain’s true colors began to show through. “Bloggers have a lot of maturing to do in a lot of areas,” he said.
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McCain thought the questioner said, “Are you a friend to boogers?”
And McCain says, “Oh yeah, I’m a friend to boogers, this one’s my favorite.”
April 12th, 2007 at 6:05 pmFlip-flop McCain was against bloggers before he was for them.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:06 pmCaption:
See this? There’s a pony in there. Seriously.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:06 pmCaption: “What’s this behind my ear? It’s a shiny new quarter!”
April 12th, 2007 at 6:10 pmCaption: If you don’t vote for me I”ll shoot myself.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:15 pmCaption: peter pointer peter pointer where are you here I am here I am how do you do
April 12th, 2007 at 6:20 pmCaption: “…and then I said to Cheney, why don’t you just shoot him right in the face…”
April 12th, 2007 at 6:30 pmDon’t worry, McCain. You don’t have to worry about being President.
You’re not gonna get there. You’re toast.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:39 pmTom3,
Try to stay on-topic. Do you have a caption? :-D
April 12th, 2007 at 6:42 pmhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2007/ 04/ 12/ AR2007041200947.html
April 12th, 2007 at 6:45 pmMcCain said the bombing [of the Iraqi Parliament deep within the Green Zone] could not take away from the initial, small successes of the surge. “It makes all of us sad for these public servants who have been injured or killed, but I don’t think you can change the larger picture (that) we are achieving some small successes,” said McCain, a presidential candidate who has been a vocal supporter of the war effort.
#7, thanks for the laugh, great caption.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:46 pmAnd what if we cut and run?
April 12th, 2007 at 6:48 pmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/ commentisfree/ story/ 0,,2055132,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
The Iraqi resistance only exists to end the occupation
That came after the trip to buy a $1.00 rug in Iraqi market was fruitless and backfired big time.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:51 pmSo McCain now is attempting to be the friend of bloggers…..
“Ehh? ehhh? what’s that you say?
April 12th, 2007 at 6:54 pmNo, no, how many times do I have to tell you, it’s not McCain, it’s Magooo“
“Bloggers have a lot of maturing to do in a lot of areas,†[McCain] said.
He might have a point there. :-D
I hope I’m never as “mature” as McCain.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:02 pm“I was told that the cranium held the brain but, I think I was lied to.”
April 12th, 2007 at 7:06 pmFlipper McJowels is “infatuated with lying”, that’s what he’s infatuated with! He’s a liar and a fraud and the more he talks, the deeper he gets himself dug in. He’ll soon find out that his campaign is over. Adios, McInsane - another Good Riddance, just like the one we waved to Imus!
April 12th, 2007 at 7:08 pmDoes senile demention (slow brain drain) do this to an individual? Was McCain, at one time, not considered with respect and lauded for his honesty? Or am I in some sort of sick fantasy? How could one man become so twisted, so evil and so wrong about all things in so short a period of time?
April 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pmsorry….meant senile dementia! But I guess it could be said that McCain lives in another “senile demention”….hahah!
April 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pmHow could one man become so twisted, so evil and so wrong about all things in so short a period of time?
Comment by veritas
I used to admire McCain so much, I thought he was a real straight shooter.
But McCain wants to be president so badly that he’s sold his soul to the devil. One should never want something that much. It has totally corrupted the man he used to be, in my opinion.
I think he’s having problems with dementia, as well.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:17 pmpure flop!
April 12th, 2007 at 7:49 pmMcCain has a few loose screws. He should be written off by the media as incompetant.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:56 pmFunny how he would use a term like mature ….He think’s we need to mature, like a flower or piece of fruit reaching maturity and beyond…Then it spoils and rot’s, which is where his evil mind is now..Sad to see a once respected man turn into this but it happen’s…Time to dead head the dead flower or throw out the rotten fruit……Blessings
April 12th, 2007 at 9:29 pmMcCain is a senile old fool who must retire or resign from the Senate in disgrace.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:32 amI LOVE THIS!!!!!
April 13th, 2007 at 1:02 am“Bloggers have a lot of maturing to do in a lot of areas”—SO DO YOU, YOU PASTY-FACED, FLIP-FLOPPING SCHIZOID MADMAN AND LYING Bush-ANUS-KISSING HYPOCRITE AND CREEP!!!!!
Bloggers are “infatuated with self-expression” and believe themselves to be “so much more eloquent, well-informed and wiser than anyone else.”—SOUNDS A HELL OF A LOT LIKE John McPAIN, NICHT WAHR?
If I become president, bloggers will be tapped-in to my administration–YEAH, SO McPAIN CAN KEEP AN EYE ON THOSE LIKE MOI WHO ASSAIL THIS HYPOCRITE CREEP AT EVERY TURN, EH? WHAT A LOAD OF HORSE-SHIT!!!! FOESAD, McPAIN, F.O.E.S.A.D.!!!! F*CK OFF EAT S*IT AND DIE!!!!! HAH!!!!!
I think the two words in the headline of this post explain McCain’s dismal 12% support in the Presidential race: “McCain panders…”
April 13th, 2007 at 1:33 amMcCAIN: “I feel strongly that bloggers now are a vital part of the information technology in America and the world, and it’s an unusual and incredible development…”
said with all the enthusiasm and voice inflection of the boy coys in the CA Milk commercial, who are forced to say girl cows are pretty until they get their ball back…
April 13th, 2007 at 9:58 amwhat a douchebag.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:37 pmCaption: “See, no helmet….Oh, you mean we are in Indiana now?”
or “If the rugs are only a buck, could I get a diamond stud for $10?”
April 19th, 2007 at 7:19 amI think McCain is beginning to get his momentum once again and he’s building on it. It’s kind of like music:
You Never Know (When a Song is Gonna Come)
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:24 pmDr BLT
Words and music by Dr BLT © 2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/YouNeverKnow2.mp3