John McCain Gives 18 Minute Phone Speech - To Dead Air
By Logan Murphy Friday Jun 27, 2008 6:00pm
Although John McCain was stumping in Ohio on Friday, his campaign arranged for him to talk by phone to leaders of B'nai B'rith International, a major Jewish group, who were meeting in Ottawa. Reporters were invited to dial in to the conference call at 3 p.m. to listen.
McCain soon came on the line and launched into his spiel. "Thank you for all the good you do," he began. Then silence.
Finally, the voice announced that McCain was on the road and had lost his cellphone signal. "We'll just have to wait," the voice counseled.
Someone hummed a ditty into the phone. More minutes passed. Finally, at 3:18, McCain came back on the line."Where did you lose me?" he asked.
"We lost you at the very beginning," he was told. "You gave your whole speech and you didn't know you weren't connected to us."
"I'm so sorry," McCain replied. "I'm very sorry. I'll do it again." Read on...
That must have been one awkward moment. Not to promote the company, but THIS automatically came to mind. Senator McCain isn't real hip to modern technology, but he is aware of the internet and how much the young kids love it. Wow.
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Bwahahahahahaha!
I love it. It's like that time the Tsars tried to hang rebels, and it took three tries to do it. Man, the stupid goes ever on and on.
Primus!? So what's new. John McSame speechified and nobody was listening...
Only John McCain could give a speech to dead air and not realize he did it.
Gee, I'll really feel safe if he gets the White House (rolls eyes/snark)
I am for Obama, but will not make fun of anyone putting themselves through a presidential election. Giving speeches non-stop is hard. Giving a speech and technology not working, and having to give it again - just sucks.
Give the guy a break, you losers. Obama is going to beat his ass without this kind of petty, going nowhere B.S.
The Political Junkie @ 3:
Puts on wingnut cap/
What? Not trust the Holy McPapen to keep us safe from the Scary Brown Folk? How dare you?
/takes off wingnut cap.
Compassionate @ 4:
McPapen hasn't a snowball's chance in Hell. Mocking The Unwinnable CandidateTM is perfectly acceptable.
Compassionate @ 4:
Nooo... this was pretty stupid of Grandpa. If he can't make a cell phone work properly, do you really want to trust him with any red buttons in the Oval Office?
It's kind of like V-P Nelson Rockefeller at the 1976 GOP Convention. He picked up a phone at the New York delegation that wasn't connected to anything and held up the handset looking pitiful. It was all captured on camera.
People immediately said that Rocky had been talking into a dead phone for years.
Not a word over @ freep.con. I'm not surprised. but man, would I have LOVED to have read the comments....
Compassionate @ 4:
Your concern has been duly noted.
no more cakewalk for mcain now. things are going to get so rough for him i almost feel for the guy
Compassionate @ 4:
I've put up with too much of my own mocking over lies about wars, deaths of Iraqi children, invasion of privacy, the constitution, torture, etc from apathetic, uninformed, self absorbed so-called americans like yourself over the last 8 years to give one damn millimeter to McCain. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. He's another idiot puppet of the elite super rich war mongers. Kick them when they're down. Then kick the shit out of them again.
John Madden told this story of one of his first broadcasts: Having been advised he needed to elaborate on what was happening on the field, he launched into an long explanation of a play in which a team had been denied a first down. Upon summing up, a voice from the control booth crackled in his earpiece and said, "That was great, John, but we broke for commercial 90 seconds ago".
McCainYaHearMeNow?
"No Bars For Old Men"
John McCain - bring Alzheimer's back to the White House.
McCain is so used to giving speeches to mostly dead air, anyway, he probably never noticed the difference...
...a (Blue)toothless senile combovered Luddite...just what the world needs with his finger on the
leverbutton...Che's Lounge @ 12:
I'd piss on him...just not the fire parts...all I ask is a few hours notice, so I can beer up real good.
Compassionate @ 4:
Having had my Police and Firefighter Pension torpedoed by a Republican corporation via Republican policies, I have no pity for these indecent bastards. Glad to hear that you have remained unaffected.
Yes, and internet-savvy Obama still doesn’t get YouTube, does he?
In days gone by, politicians could issue mutually-contradictory messages with near impunity as the mainstream media rarely would double-check the historical record. Now, with video on line and millions of fact-checkers scrutinizing every statement, any obviously false statement will get exposed in short order. Yesterday’s assertion by Barack Obama that he never said the DC gun ban overturned by the Supreme Court was constitutional or that he supported it became the latest in his flip-flops to be exposed by a simple review of the videotape record:
Obama is right to the extent that his statement didn’t come in November 2007 but more recently in February 2008, as he tried to sweep the primaries by running to Hillary Clinton’s left. He nods when asked about the constitutionality of the DC gun ban, and expresses his support for it by saying “Right” when the interviewer asks about it. Obama then goes into an extended explanation of how he sees the DC ban as part of a Constitutional effort at gun control.
Now the Constitutional law scholar wants us to believe that he always thought the DC ban was unconstitutional, and that his earlier comments were “inartful”. This video shows very clearly that the only artifice involved is in his new position. Obama has done a complete 180 on gun bans, attempting to paint himself as a moderate when the paltry record of Obama’s political stands shows just the opposite.
---Ed Morrissey
When will C&L post about the FISA squabble btw Olberman and Glenn Greenwald?
Proud2bHumble @ 19:
I'll buy.
The issue is not how bad McCain is.
But how good Obama is.
For if we avoid McCain and get Obama, we may say, "That's good."
And it may turn out good.
But who pulls Obama's strings?
American power players?
Ordinary Americans?
So many questions.
Say, here's a Canadian beer for ya, 2b, and another for Che's Lounge, too.
I would have loved to see that phone after he got done having a hissy fit and smashing it all to smithereens. Is there a video of that?
Che's Lounge @ 23:
No need, Cindy'll give me all the freebies we need ;-}
every speach mcfrickhead gives is to dead air in his head.
Proud2bHumble @ 27:
In that case I'll join you. I'm a good tipper.
calgarylady @ 25:
Why thanx, Clady...the party could use a lady's touch, and McGimp's kinda used ta Cindy showering him with gold...
calgarylady @ 25:
You're makin' me thirsty.
From the same conference here is some wisdom and of Prime Minister Harper.
http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/
Problem is, McC**t doesn't rate even recycled Canadian beer.
Che's Lounge @ 29:
My complements to you then...we make a great team, as I'm a real shafter...lol
;-}
Proud2bHumble @ 30:
Ack! The image makes my brain hurt.
Che's Lounge @ 31:
Stimulating salivary salaciousnous as usual...
;-
Che's Lounge @ 34:
...a pre-party hangover...haha
Proud2bHumble @ 33:
Good cop, bad cop. Waitresses gotta eat too. That's my philosophy.
time for a break
Proud2bHumble @ 35:
Ye gods man, my keyboard. Just say it, don't spray it.
Proud2bHumble @ 38:
Yeah off to a college grad party for me also. Later.
Che's Lounge @ 37:
Sounds uniformly sapphic, in a disciplined sorta way...
Maybe McDisconnected should just hire Bruce Dern to give his phone(y) speeches...
.
QUESTION:
How do you know when a politician isn't listening...?
... They're too busy talking?
.
thank god this wasn't the 3 AM white house call
you guys ... I see that the madness has begun already ... 'tis early yet, and I must also leave for a short time ... until later.
Honestly, the story is kinda lame.
Revolutionaire @ 45:
Yep, it is. But I've seen this kind of "story" pooping up on the usually reliable C&L alot lately and its troubling. How is this relevant.?
Is it that Obama is so brilliant that he would have known that he was speaking to dead air?
Or is it that McCain is so feeble minded ...he didn't?
Lame is right.
Let's get back to the actual issues again, shall we?
Proud2bHumble @ 15:
Hee-Hee-larious!
Well he does have to learn to use a phone first before he moves up to learning how to use a computer.
Jo @ 26:
Probably not - that would require someone on his staff knowing how to operate a camera phone
Good thing it wasn't 3AM. His cell phone carrier probably dropped the call because they were worried they might be liable for criminally bad rhetoric.
HA HA! He probably uses a jitterbug cellphone too.
"Speech - To Dead Air"
Wow, metaphor for his whole campaign eh?
Carol @ 48:
"Don't encourage him." - 2b's mom
JP @ 52:
LOL
;-}
Che's Lounge @ 12:
Oh Che, since it really isn't nice to piss on people I suggest you stomp the fire out if you ever see McSame on fire.
How pathetic is that? And typical to boot.
Holy Cow! Someone told McCain to check for bars, so he looked out the window!
For Grandpa McGee to talk to dead air for 18 mins. would be about the same kind of situation if he were to use an unconnected jack to a landline. This is someone who remembers when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone when he was a kid - lol!
Saint Augustine @ 55:
make sure to wear your steel cleats
and once he's out, then piss on him
some people may think we're a bit course, but who cares, I own the rights to put an outhouse on george bush's grave. I'm gonna make a fortune
put's a whole new meaning to "can you hear me now"
Space Coyote @ 44:
that's good
karl @ 60:
tap tap tap, is this thing on?
Compassionate @ 4:
just saw this........buzzzzzzzzzzzz kill
“We lost you at the very beginning,” he was told. “You gave your whole speech and you didn’t know you weren’t connected to us.”
Having heard him speak, I am quite sure that this was a gift of fortune, which he then squandered by not quitting while he was ahead. The only consolation is that he had to hear his own tepid treacle, TWICE.
dennis @ 21:
This link come from a right wing blog...what are you doing on here? Performing troll trickery?
McClueless
Regardless of all that's wrong with John McCain the candidate, I empathize with the man, just from one human being to another - It's annoying having to repeat yourself, but it's so much worse to have to repeat eighteen minutes of yourself.
Revolutionaire @ 46:
What's really lame is the fact that after nearly 70 wise-ass comments, nobody noticed that there was really only 3 minutes and 18 SECONDS of dead air, if you read the story. The headline is misleading. Is it intentional?
Don't get me wrong, I think McCain is a total douchebag, but this headline is EXACTLY the sort of smear you'd see on FOX news or some conservative blog. Have we lowered ourselves to their standards?
McCain is an old coot digging his own grave. We can help him dig, but try to be honest about it. We don't need to lie.
I can't wait for Nov. 5 when McBush asks, "Can you hear me now?" The reply: "Not now. Not then. Not ever you sorry sack o' b.s."
"Please don't dominate the rap Jack, if you've got nothin' new to say . . . " (Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter - "New Speedway Boogie")
you know...presidents every day have to say things like..."...it is an honor to present...."or"...on behalf of the American people..." or "...thank you, thank you for inviting cindy and me to this beautiful facility..." in other words, they have to be nice-and genuine. not just during the course of a presidential campaign, but as president,for 4-8 eight years under a white hot spotlight and a national press corp (if they decide that helen thomas shouldn't be the only one doing her real job).barack obama is a natural with a smidge of showman on the side but i don't think mccain can hold up under that. he's a healthy 71 now, but....
Poor thing, he's so old he doesn't have enough oxygen getting to his brain to allow discriminationatory choices on the telephone. Has anyone else noticed how he has to have help getting down the stairs?
I almost feel bad for Senator McCain. When it's all over though he can go back to the senate and get secretly rimmed and fellated be Joe and Lindsey.
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