Hume dimisses McCain gaffe as ‘a blip’ and ‘a senior moment.’
By on Mar 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 am
Hume dimisses McCain gaffe as ‘a blip’ and ‘a senior moment.’
This week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) repeatedly and falsely claimed that Iran was training al Qaeda in Iraq. Ignoring the fact that McCain made the error at least three separate times, Fox News’s Brit Hume dismissed the mistake today as simply “a blip” and “a senior moment.” Hume insisted that “we all” agree that McCain has understanding and knowledge of world affairs. Watch it:
Hume’s dismissal of McCain’s gaffe as “a senior moment” ignores the fact that McCain’s campaign is stubboronly defending his misleading oversimplification of the facts on the ground.
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Whoa….A “senior moment” pretty much means that your ability to remember things and comprehend is slipping. Is that what we want in our POTUS? He didn’t do McCain any favors with that statement. Besides, if he had the same “senior moment” four times, that’s scary.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 amHume insisted that “we all” agree that McCain has understanding and knowledge of world affairs.
Who is this “we” he is talking about. It’s certainly not me and most thinking Americans.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 amWait a minute!
This is a good defense??? He had a “senior moment.”
Oh, please Brit, keep saying that over and over and over, reminding people how old and battered McCain is!
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 amWe sure don’t need a president who has “senior moments”.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 amIt would be going from one extreme to the other, after 7 years of “junior moments”…
That was more than a blip . lieberman had to explain in detail to McThicko
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:57 amIt wasn’t ‘a blip’ or ‘a senior moment’ – it was a LIE designed to conflate Iran with Al Qaeda and confuse the easily confusable …the easily confusable being a large portion of the American sheeple.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 amThis is the Republicans perpetrating a lie, to try to get support for invading Iran. Just like what happened with Iraq.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 amThis is not a senior moment, blip, gaff or mis-speak. It is the deliberate effort of the Republican Party to mislead the American Voters, once again. Or I should say continuously.
Great!
vote Republican so we can go from sociopathic Idiot to psychotic and Senile
God Bless America
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 amJust what we need – a warmonger with “senior moments”. Sign us up. /snark
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 amThis is a diverse race.
How good? A woman and a black man, for the first time, are running for office.
How bad? Their candidate’s “running mate” is Mr. Adult D. Iapers.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:20 amWhoops, switch ‘candidate’s’ for ‘opponent’s’
Sorry about that.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 amImagine the senior moments he’ll have after the first year of the presidency working 18 hour days !!!!!!!11
He’ll be a zombie !!!
eh eh … zombie
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 amHe won’t work any harder than bush. Republicans are lazy socialistic welfare recipients, thinking theya re entitled to rip the USA apart so they can die with more toys.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:31 amRe Senior Moments: Look at it this way – on day one McCain will hit the ground running like Reagan managed only in his last two years.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 amA “Senior Moment”? Geese…..My senior moment’s don’t include the presence of the red phone in the oval office or a huge car mowing down shopper’s in a street market….Both the above are killing senarios that would accompany Mckiller in the white house…Add 100 year’s of baby bull shit bush’s war…
Senior moment’s include loosing your car in a Safeway parking lot not distroying the world…..Blessings
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 amHume:” We all, at Fox network agree about McCain super knowledge” !!
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 amjust what we need.. i guy who has his finger on the button who has “senior moments”….we’re in the land of confusion…
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 am“A senior moment”? Wow, even though I adamantly oppose McCain, I never considered age a worthy argument in the debates. However, if he’s having senior moments now, watch out for later. We all know that once these Republicans get something in their heads, it’s stay the course regardless of how asinine it is or how wrong they’re proven. Also, we all know how the lapdog Rep House and Senate will back them no matter what. Pretty scary.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am‘Senior Moment’…That’s when he thinks he is senior to Iranians and starts his bombing campaign..
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:40 amSenior moments day after day….or just more of the same ol’
shrub like lies from the office of disinformation.
Neither offer very encouraging signs. (dry understatement)
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 amHume is a mutt. He thinks he’s speaking for all of us. “We all understand McCain has an understanding of foreign affairs” etc. Why would we understand that. He certainly has missed the boat on domestic affairs running around the world like he’s a king and I would guess trifling with the business of his home state. Who is paying for all of this image making. By the way “Britt” we don’t need a president that has senior moments. What is wrong with you? McCain has been a senator not a diplomat. None of the candidates have held a diplomatic chair that I know of. The secret is in hiring the right people. The president is a manager. We all know, we all know, that’s what’s wrong with Bush’s imperialistas. No one expects a technical degree of expertise on the part of the president but we do expect that the president is articulate (that would be something new after the last 8 years give or take), knowledgeable, is a good generalist and knows how to get the best out of his people. The president as coach. That’s the formula. Britt dear, the coach has to remember the plays do you see. Otherwise his senior moment will blow it. Britt, get another life.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 amJohn McCain wont even need to be caricuturized to make the sequel this video.. hes a his own muppet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MzShg7yXik
remember DC follies anyway?
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 amA ’senior moment’ today . .
A bout with ‘old-timers’ tomorrow . .
It is surprising in a way that such an old coot would have a chance of securing anyone’s vote that is under 60 years old.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 amDo years of experience do any good if you can’t remember them? Senility is the same as incompetence in the end. Someone could tell him that we’re under attack and he’d give them a quarter to buy ice cream with.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 amHello, I’m Brit Hume. Today, in another one of his funny “senior moments,” President McCain launched 200 cruise missiles with nuclear warheads against targets in Iran. A spokesman for AARP denied any responsibility for the initiation of war. After the break, an update on Operation Oops-I-Did-It-Again and reports of Iranian retaliation against Israel.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:53 amThe sad fact is that brit “snaggle tooth” hume said this and other media lemmings will repeat it until it insinutates itself into the uncritical public’s consciousness.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 amAnd Lieberman standing next to McCain provides the ‘Anti- gaffe resistance of a ’senior moment’.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 amHume is a blip on the a$$ end of propaganda channel trying to pass itself off as legitimate news. He is filled with rancid puss.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 amSo he’s not stupid he’s just senile? Wow. As they say, with friends like that . . .
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 amIn 2000, George W. Bush was asked to name a number of worldleaders, and couldn’t do it.
Innocent as I then was, I was astonished at the eruption of furious defense from the media. Gotcha journalism,so unfair, scurrilous trick, etc.
I had heard very little about this guy Bush, but that ended it for me. He wants a job, and if he can’t be bothered being prepared for it, why on earth should he get it.
2008, and I’ve been thoroughly radicalized, but the argument’s the same.
John McCain is applying for this job.If he’s fuzzy on facts,has ’senior moments’, believes things that ain’t so, or LIES in public–why on EARTH should we hire him?
Hillary and Baraack on one side–smart as tacks, knowledgeable, articulate, agile and clever–and fumbling, dozing, ignorant, mistaken John?
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 amIf, as the Republicans say, the government should be run like a business, who would you hire?
Keith H. Says:
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
A ’senior moment’ today . .
A bout with ‘old-timers’ tomorrow . .
It is surprising in a way that such an old coot would have a chance of securing anyone’s vote that is under 60 years old.
Unless those persons under 60 happen to have occupations in the defense, oil, weapons and banking industries.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 amGood point Nevar . . hadn’t thought of that.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pmHume and McCain both seem to be incontinent. GOP the party of Depends.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pmjb #33 ,LOL……The party of slow leaker’s….Blessings
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 pmWhere are the trolls defending his “senior moment”?
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:15 pmI’m amazed at the evreyday people I meet who are very uncomfortable with the corruption and immoral practices of the companies they work for, yet they are so vulnerable economically they have to support the corporate machinery.
McCain has been bought out by the same folks who brought us Cheney/Bush and Co.
McCain is actually a better investment than George, not quite so (obviously) incompetent, and if he kicks off during his term, they will be able to move the number two man into position, no muss, no fuss.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:15 pmThe corporo-militarist establishment took a real chance, putting Cheney in, given his health issues.
If it was a “senior moment”, we could expect a lot more from a President McCain.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pmWe don’t need another impaired president. 8 years was too much already.
We may be “dumbed down” by our media, but the people aren’t so stupid as to buy this crap…..are we?
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:23 pmWow, calling it a “senior moment” is about the worst possible interpretation for McCain. We already had one President with Alzheimers. We don’t need a man who is teetering on the verge of senility in the Oval Office.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 pmAnd to continue from #25, McNasty’s wacko fundie supporter Hagee gets his hoped-for Mideast conflagration. The reality: no rapture, no Jesus returning for 1000 years of peace and love. Just a bunch of smoking, glowing holes in what’s left of Israel and Iran. And some other countries, too.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 pmWitch1 Says:
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
jb #33 ,LOL……The party of slow leaker’s….Blessings
What’s that dripping sound I hear?
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 pmIt’s not “A senior moment” it’s THREE of them, within 2 days.
Arguably then he’s senile.
AND/OR
If After 9(?)trips to Iraq he’s learned nothing, he’s a fool.
AND/OR
After repeating his claims after having been corrected by Liebermann, he’s an idiot.
AND/OR
If he KNOWS his claims of Iran training AQ are false but repeats them anyway, he’s a liar.
AND/OR
If he thinks everyone will believe what he says just because he repeats it and that no-one will challenge him with already established facts that wholly refute his claims, then he’s an arrogant idiot.
McCain is an arrogant fool, idiot and liar, who may well be going senile. Meet John ReaganBush, another quality candidate of the GOP.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:34 pmDid someone say McCain is a senile old man?
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:35 pmAnd Hume supposes that the American public would be OK with someone having senior moments in the White House?
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 pmWe already endured that with Reagan – we don’t need that repeated.
However, Hume, who obviously adores Reagan doesn’t see the potential harm and danger in that.
jb, time to throw the depend’s users out…..Blessings
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:41 pmHis misconceptions are not senior moments. Hes just a clueless old fool looking to start more wars.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 pm“Senior moment” indicates mental impairment.
They will happen more frequently, with the greater stress of a general election campaign, so a compendium of “McCainisms” will be generated by his inevitable media appearances. At that point, the democratic strategy should shift, from branding McCain as McSame, to highlighting his mental impairment, as demonstrated by his loose lip.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:10 pmThe problem with taking McCain on about his advanced age, is that if a candidate brought it up in debate, he’d fall back on Reagan’s smarmy, paternalistic “well, there you go again” line – although it could be countered by the democratic candidate noting Reagan sold weapons to terrorists and then seemingly forgot about it, implying that McCain might also think up some hairbrained, illegal scheme, to further his own political interests, and then conveniently “forget” about it, if discovered.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:24 pmLet’s hope old McMaverick’s senior moments wouldn’t accompany those 3am phone calls, huh?
“Well, we know he’s marginal at best, but he’s not black or a woman, so he must be best for the country”??
Righties’ “Krazy Logik” is as incoherent as their “Idiot Mathematics”.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pmOver the past two days, the fawning American media has provided rave reviews of John McCain’s visit to France. While the New York Times lauded “McCain’s soothing tones,” Time gushed about “McCain’s Paris romance” and the transformation of Franco-American relations made possible by his warm embrace of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But lost in these accounts is John McCain’s vitriolic France-bashing in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Back in 2003, John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with the Paris-hating purveyors of “freedom fries” and “old Europe.”
For the details, see:
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm“Fawning Media Ignores McCain’s Past France-Bashing.”
It was a geriatric MacCaine moment! And more of this administration tatic of Lies…
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmSo what happens if President McCain has a “senior moment” when he receives one of these 3 a.m. calls?
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 pmSo what happens if President McCain has a “senior moment” when he receives one of these 3 a.m. calls?
If the bed doesn’t have rubberized sheets, the custodial staff will have a big mess to clean up.
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:17 pmBritney Hume did say it was a “senior moment” right?
Could there be a “senior moment” in a McCain presidency in regards to the Nuclear weapons connected with a senior moment?
Yet, Britney Hume would be on this for a month if it were Obama or something Obama’s pastor says about race?
Thats what I like about FOX, “Fair and Balanced”. Right?
You tell me, Was this clip put on as “news/reporting” or as “opinion”? ?????
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:52 pmOne other thing,
Hume did claim that world leader are comfortable with McCain if President?
Does that mean Putin, Ah-mad-in-the-head, Osama want McCain to be president? Or does Hume imply that our ally countries think they can take advantage of a senile old US President?
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 pmA “senior moment?” Who, in their right mind, would support a candidate who experiences such senior moments? I’m 60 years old myself, so only 11-12 years younger than McCain. But if I was having “senior moments,” I sure as hell wouldn’t be running for any position of major responsiblity. Just what we need is some “senior moment” guy or woman with the ability to order a nuclear strike. How truly crazy is this? The term itself indicates some decline in cognitive ability!!
March 23rd, 2008 at 6:00 pmShould McCain have to pass a mental physical to be a republican nominee??
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pmWhat a great excuse: McCain is not incompetent, he’s just senile.
With friends like that, who needs enemies…
March 24th, 2008 at 12:06 amSenator McCain is making errors because he is too old (72 years old) to tolerate the amount of campaigning required for the job.
Everything slows down for us seniors, including Mr. McCain; however, he refuses to admit that his body and mind are not up to such strenuous activity. I hope that his wife and/or his doctor will clue him in before he implodes.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:49 amCould McCain be suffering from early stage dementia?
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1906
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March 24th, 2008 at 9:35 amWe have already had a president who had old-timers. Shouldn’t WE expect a president who has all hios working brain cells in order???? I don’t endorse Bush-Lite!
March 24th, 2008 at 12:24 pm