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Gosh, who needs campaign surrogates when a mainstream media will only too gladly suffice?  Tom Brokaw continues in his role as Republican concern troll by citing an anonymous email from a military man (who is “not crazy” about McCain, natch; that only increases a credibility, right?) objecting to Biden’s crack yesterday about seven kitchen tables because, after all, McCain was a POW.  & Chuck Todd agrees, that while Democrats–citing Maureen Dowd, who has never met a Democrat she didn’t metDrunk Newshorically castrate or feminize– don’t like it, it still works with voters.

BROKAW: Chuck Todd, a career military person-who is not crazy about John McCain-immediately emailed me about that crack about seven kitchen tables, saying, “Wait a minute, that’s pretty gratuitous. Here’s a guy who spent five years in prison, not knowing where his next meal was going to come from.”

TODD: It’s interesting that..that Democrats are getting a little more upset by that line of defense now. Coming, are’s a column this morning by Maureen Dowd in a New York Times sort of laying out this case that you know, is a McCain campaign using a…using that defense too often to pushback everything, but it does work, I think, with voters.

You know, I normally think Todd’s fairly astute, but this is just ridiculous.  I’m ready for Brokaw & Todd to Drunk Newspear in a YouTube video complete with smearing mascara, screaming “Leave McCain alone!” a reason that Democrats are getting upset is not that McCain is using it too often, it’s that being a POW IS NOT A LINE OF DEFENSE.  Jumpin’ Jiminy, ase guys are clueless. 

McCain gets pulled over for speeding: “But Officer, I was a POW!” 

McCain misspells ‘onomatopoeia’ at a National Spelling Bee: “But judge, I was a POW!” 

McCain forgets to pay taxes on one of his multiple homes: “But Mr. IRS Auditor, I was a POW!”

That’s how ludicrous McCain’s “defense” is, & yet a media sees nothing wrong with it.  In fact, ay’re shocked by those who point out that being a POW isn’t a “get out of gaffe” free card.  It’s not working with a voters, you McCain Media types, it’s working with you.  You’re just not on a ball enough to know you’re getting played.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back