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When Tom Brokaw asks McCain whether he agrees with Rush Limbaugh when he says Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama was based purely on race, McCain reverts to his standard talking point that he's honored to have received the endorsement of five other Secretaries of State. Unfortunately for McCain, he completely bungles it when he cant seem to remember the name of that last guy whose endorsement he's so honored to have...

MR. RUSH LIMBAUGH: It was totally about race. The Powell nomination, or endorsement, total, totally about race.

MR. BROKAW: Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh?

SEN. McCAIN: *No...I'm disappointed in General Powell, but I'm very, very happy to know that five former secretaries of state who I admire enormously -- Henry Kissinger, Jim Baker, Larry Eagleburger, Al Haig, ummm.. [Laughs] Ummm...Jim Baker, Henry Kissinger, Al Haig, Larry Eagleburger [sigh] and one other.... and over 200 retired flag general --generals and admirals are supporting my campaign. I'm very proud of their support...

MR. BROKAW: Senator, we opened today with a--how you're doing in Iowa. The Des Moines Register has endorsed...

SEN. McCAIN: George Shultz! George Shultz is the other one.

MR. BROKAW: George Shultz, right.

I guess McCain doesn't realize that winning the endorsement of five Republican Secretaries of State isn't exactly that impressive. Especially when he can't even name them all. Chalk it up to another one of those "senior moments."

* Corrected transcript

Angry Bear: A payoff so obvious that even the cheerleaders can spot it.

The Mahatma X Files: The United States imprisons more people than any other nation in the world.

uggabugga: This is terrible news...

Left I on the News: The cost of war.

Oliver Willis: John McCain has another senior moment.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: My Damn Channel, Zippidy Doo Da, Science and Democracy, The Issue

Here's the schedule of FOX appearances. Does it look like these guys ever met up? LJ said: "Using the term Fox News with Joseph Wilson and then Paul Vallely I pulled up the attached record of appearances by both gentlemen on FOX during 2002 (March 1 thru December 31). They were never in the studio on the same day, much less the same program. Vallely is lying or maybe having a senior moment."

Digy writes General Wacko and General Crackpot: "I see that the GOP attack machine is swift-boating Joe Wilson, saying that he casually spilled his wife's CIA status in the FOX greenroom back in 2002. I kid you not. They got two wingnut ex-generals to say that Wilson told them about his wife before they were about to go on television...read on

Larry Johnson who was a FOX contributor writes: "What is so pathetic is that both Vallely and McInerney present themselves as military experts on special operations when neither has held any position of any importance with those forces. In fact, neither has ever held compartmented clearances required to know about those special programs...read on"

FireDogLake: "Without Queen Rove to spoon feed them their talking points, the wingnut borg have ceded control of the tom-toms to the tin foil hat brigade. Dig it: Joe Wilson was a French spy....read on"