McCain: Slithery or Dithery?

I have difficulty deciding if Senator McCain is simply out to lunch much of the time (dithery) or if the "Slightly Fuzzy Gramps McCain" persona is part of a super-subtle Jedi mind-trick designed to get your defenses down so you believe he's really a space-case BUT he's instead crazy like a fox (slithery).

Evidence for dithery:

Hmmm. Can't keep Sunni and Shia straight. A wee tiny bit confustabulated, Senator McCain? Straight-to-Hell Talk Express went off the rails?

It's one thing for the American people to be confused. Another for the people who are supposed to be paying attention and deciding policy to be confused. I think I've had enough of the current commander-in-chief's inattention to detail and denial, how about you?

Evidence for slithery:

In this case, McCain's deception about the timeline (the "Anbar Awakening" came before Bush's so-called "surge") of events in Iraq was aided and abetted by shady editing at CBS.

I'd call this covering up of McCain's flat-out wrongness Man-Crushing on McCain, but what's Katie Couric's excuse? She's a woman--so hardly man-crushing on McCain-- and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, the report that disseminated McCain's falsehoods. WTF? Since when does a major mainstream media news organization OPENLY cover for a candidate's errors? ([email protected]) At least Keith Olbermann's paying attention and taking names.

Most people don't care or don't know what distinguishes Sunni from Shia or what the "Anbar Awakening" is or when it happened--September 2006, according to President Bush himself. But can we afford that indifference when it matters every bit to the Americans serving overseas?

H/T to RogerEaton's DailyKos diary.

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Comments

[Julie Pippert]

I vote for slithery inattention to detail. On the part of McCain and MSM.

At some point, MSM began relying on campaigns for information, and form that came an assumption that the information they received was accurate. Sloppy.

I think both groups need to up their standards and become better informed before speaking.

Period.

[cynematic]

Interesting how suddenly the minds sharpen and focus if Obama makes a gaffe, wouldn't you say?

Oh but I forgot. McCain's singing the "MSM doesn't love me, they love Obama" song. Riiiiiiight.