Spry!
Ugh. John McCain. And also ugh to the media that just can't quit him.
Like this god-awful puff piece by Scott Wong at Politico, who describes McCain as "the decorated Vietnam War hero." Because the rules of Very Serious Media require that McCain must always be recognized as a war hero. Not, say, the lousy drunken pilot who kept crashing planes. Not, say, the adulterer who ditched his first wife to marry the beer heiress. Not, say, the grossly cynical presidential candidate who wanted to put Sarah freakin' Palin one cancer-ridden 72-year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office. No, the media that hearts McCain must always remind us of his heroic imprisonment during the war—and not the millions of wretched things he's done since then.
And in case this absurd hero-worship wasn't enough, Wong refers to this rotted dark soul as "the still-spry McCain." Apparently, praise for his manly package and full head of hair didn't make the final edit.
The apparent point of this article is to praise the "spry" "hero" for jetting all over the country doing his best to help elect extremists to the Senate by, for example, lending "some of his military credentials" to jackasses like Sen. Scott Brown. And the reason McCain is so determined to take the Senate?
It’s about “the agenda, the agenda, the agenda, setting the agenda,” McCain said. “Harry Reid has obviously abused that authority of the majority leader in more ways than any of us have ever seen. Secondly, the investigative powers that are involved.”
Ah yes. Those precious investigative powers. McCain cannot
wait to start abusing his investigative powers, because he's a great decorated hero and a fine American who always puts country first. Or, alternately, because he's still really, really bitter that he lost in 2008:
McCain has used his perch on the defense committee to blast 2008 presidential rival Barack Obama’s handling of the Sept. 11 Libya assault, calling it Sunday “the worst cover-up or incompetence” he had ever observed in his life.
Right. This fevered wingnut fantasy that there's been some massive cover-up in Libya is the worst McCain has ever seen. Because apparently, he missed that whole Watergate cover-up under Richard Nixon. Or that whole leaking of the identity of a CIA operative under George W. Bush. Or that whole lying-us-into-Iraq thing. But getting a chance to investigate President Barack Obama? Oooh, boy, Sen. Spry can't wait to do that. It has nothing to do with
still being bitter about 2008 and how President Obama isn't constantly inviting him to the White House and seeking his advice. Oh no. This is for America.
And should that happen, of course the media that loves him will be right there, cheering him along and praising his decades-old "heroics" and still-spry fortitude.
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