My Fallow Hamericans!

Due to Republican John S. McCain's recent troubles mastering the teleprompter, the Senator's campaign has organized a crack team of linguists, copy-editors, and speechwriters to publish "corrections" on the internet and in emails to press following all of his appearances. The first of these speech rectifications was issued this morning...

1:00:02 -- "My Fallow Hamericans" should have been:
                   My fellow Americans".

1:01:35 -- "Iraq" should have been: "Iran".

                 "Iran" should have been: "North Korea".

                 "North Korea" should have been: "Shia".

                 "Shia" should have been: "Sunni".

                 "Sunni" should have been: "Terrorist".

                 "Was responsible for 9-11" should have been: "was
                  NOT responsible for 9-11, but it would be SO much
                  better for my campaign if they were".

1:02:26 -- "Senator Barack Obama" should have been:
                   "Ayatollah Barack The Black Furor Osama".

1:05:47 -- Please ignore the 53 references to "my friends". We don't
                  write those in, my friends, and, believe us, my friends, we
                  find them JUST as annoying, disingenuous, and gag-inducing
                  as you do, my friends.

1:12:26 -- "Morse code" should have been: "Cell phone".

                 "Mimeograph machine" should have been: "scanner".

                 "Butter churner" should be deleted completely.

                  The Senator's suggestion that, "Computers may be the devil's
                   work, created to read our dirty thoughts and send them
                   straight to hell. I wouldn't know I've never used one."
                   should be forgotten and ignored completely.

1:12:38 -- "Deputy Droop-A-Long" should have been:
                   "Senator Joe Lieberman".

1:17:59 -- Please ignore "Senior Mixmaster", which should have been:
                  "Sir Mix-A-Lot" and was an attempt to make Senator McCain
                  feel more culturally relevant. We PROFUSELY apologize for
                  that attempt and promise not to do it again.

1:18:22 -- "The groundhog that Americans washing machine was once
                  the kind of camel-toe we'll never be again" should have
                  been: ... we honestly... have no fucking idea what that was.

1:19:03 -- "World Boar Spew" should have been: "World War Two".

                "The Spanish-Fly War" should have been: "The Spanish-
                 American War".

                "The Revolutionary Whore" should have been: "Alaska".

1:22:55 -- "That flesh-waste who has ruined my Presidential hopes"
                   should have been: "President George W. Bush."



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C'mon if the local weather persons can do it... (2.00 / 6)

...how hard can it be?


by Lieber on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 06:26:59 PM EST

Re: My Fallow Hamericans! (2.00 / 4)

LOL, great diary!
I can't wait to see him on TV next to Obama in a debate, or even a town hall meeting (he really hates those teleprompters!).

Senior mixmaster....I'm still chuckling about that one...


by skohayes on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 06:45:44 PM EST

Re: My Fallow Hamericans! (2.00 / 4)

Yeah no kidding.  I am still reeling that he had the gall to say he has a perfect voting record with Veternas Groups, probably because he knows he wont get called out for it.  If Obama is on the stage with him, perhaps he will be able to correct McCain on his "mispeaks" (otherwise known as misrepresentation, fraud, bad-faith, in the legal world).  The contrast should be deafening.


Democrat for the democratic nominee
by KLRinLA on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 07:02:36 PM EST
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More McBush making hash (2.00 / 2)

of the English language.

Anybody need more proof that he's offering us merely more of the McSame?


by UrbanRedneck on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 07:12:26 PM EST

Re: My Fallow Hamericans! (2.00 / 3)

Yet another enjoyably pointed diary Lieber.  Nice to see this found some room amongst the multiple "tipping point" concern diaries.


January 20 & sricki join with The engels in love!
by January 20 on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 07:22:59 PM EST

Great again Lieber!! (2.00 / 3)


A useless "Community Organizer" from Pennsylvania as noted by Republicans, Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin
by hootie4170 on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 09:03:28 PM EST

Re: My Fallow Hamericans! (2.00 / 4)

My friends, I was a prisoner of war and that's all I have to say.  Got nothing else.


by calwoman on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 09:18:11 PM EST

POW (2.00 / 3)

POWPOWPOW is the new 911911911


"Is there no keeping with class in whom we mingle with anymore?"
by Brandon on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 09:21:26 PM EST

Now THAT'S a meme... (none / 0)

worthy of pushing!  The media seized on the "verb, noun, 9/11" joke because it was short, sweet, and pointed.  Now, we just need the right person to go on CNN and get the "verb, noun, Vietnam" ball rolling!


Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rhetorical questions?
by Elsinora on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 10:43:04 PM EST
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Re: My Fallow Hamericans! (2.00 / 2)

Thanks!  I needed a good laugh.  


No Way, No How, No McCain!
by GFORD on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 09:58:56 PM EST

Do Hamericans live on Trantor??? (2.00 / 1)


The guy advising John McCain on the economy thinks you are a whiner.
by Sanguine Giant on Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 10:40:31 PM EST


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