John Bush McCain's proclamation that "we should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies" is raising eyebrows across the country and throughout the world.
The video clip of McCain's curious remark is flooding the viral video charts, scalding everything in its path, already becoming 11th most viewed clip on the YouTube with 129,644 views -- and counting. Apparently, people everywhere, want to know: WTF, McCain? WTF?
Politico's Ben Smith calls it the "Perils of YouTube" and notes that McCain seems to have extemporaneously added the word "hot," which was not in his prepared remarks. That would tend to contradict Gawker's theory that McCain meant to say "we should be able to deliver sterilized boiled water to dehydrated babies."
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What can you do to help get to the bottom of the mystery? Well, watch the clip. Send it to a friend.
And always remember: When it comes to delivering bottled hot water to dehydrated babies, America deserves the truth.
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Update 2: Now that I've discovered that John Bush McCain has his own brand of bottled hot water, I'm starting to wonder: maybe it's all a corrupt scheme to win a big government contract for his wife's beverage distribution business?
And aside the problem of getting scalded, how the heck is an infant supposed to drink out of this thing anyway?
BTW, since I posted this diary, there's been at least another 30,000 views of the video clip.
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Also on my blog.
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Update: And there's a remix, too:
h/t: barath