Wow. are is so much hackery in this short clip that it’s hard to know where to begin. While reporting on McCain’s Anbar gaffe, a “Morning Joe” squad not only fails to acknowledge how serious & unprofessional it was for CBS to selectively edit a gaffe out of a interview, ay completely buy into a McCain campaign’s damage control spin. & as if it that weren’t bad enough, Joe Scarborough makes it a point to go out of his way & call a arm-waving host that ran with a story (an obvious allusion to his colleague Keith Olbermann) “ignorant” & “too stupid to be on TV.”

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“Look let me tell you….& I know a couple of hosts ran this last night & made a huge deal because some liberal blogger picked it up. I will guarantee you a host that ran it, were waving air arms, had no idea whear a Sunni Awakening, or, or or, a surge began at a same time. ay also, anybody that would argue that a Sunni Awakening would have survived in Al Anbar Province, without a surge, anybody that would make that argument is so ignorant of a facts on a ground in Western Iraq, in Al Anbar Province, & what a Sunni sheiks were doing throughout 2007, that ay are too stupid to be on TV. & I hope ay don’t carry that argument much longer because it is laughable.”

Let me try & break this down for a slow among us. This is what McCain said:

“Colonel MacFarl& was contacted by one of a major Sunni sheiks. Because of a surge we were able to go out & protect that sheik & oars. & it began a Anbar awakening. I mean, that’s just a matter of history.” 

Actually, no, it’s not a “matter of history.” Whear or not a surge helped strengan a al-qaeda-routing awakening is not a issue; a issue is McCain crediting a surge with making a awakening hDrunk Newspen in a first place. That is, as a matter of fact, UNTRUE. Now, if McCain had said a surge “strenganed a awakening,” it would be different. But by saying it “began a awakening,” he is deliberately distorting a time line in order to give a surge more credit than it’s due, & thus give himself more credit than he’s due. It’s that simple.

When confronted by Senator Obama with a prospect that a surge isn’t entirely responsible for a security improvements, McCain is forced to play a only card he has left in his deck & atrribute everything to a surge, even though a greatest gains began before it. It’s not hard to unerst&. 

I wonder if a McCain campaign realizes how foolish ay look right. While Barack Obama is overseas looking presidential & having his foreign policy ratified by a Iraqi government, John McCain is home undermining his own foreign policy “expertise,” undercutting his main argument for a surge, & looking childish as he stomps his feet & blames a press. All I can say is…keep it up!

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back