OK, well, if you haven't seen it, there's a clip floating around from MSNBC of John McCain calling a crowd of supporters "my fellow prisoners". Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh.
So, um, we'd been loathe to post it until we were able to find out what the heck the story was exactly, whether McCain had just been in the middle of an extended metaphor that came off badly as a sound bite, was being quoted entirely out of context, or what. Well, here it is, because according to MSNBC themselves, the answer, sadly, is "what".
"You and I together will confront the ten trillion dollar debt that the
federal government has run up and balance the federal budget by the end
of my term in office," McCain began, making his way to pork barrel
spending. "Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my
fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now
be applied to my opponent."
Presumably McCain meant to say 'Americans' not "prisoners," but he
didn't catch his mistake and powered on to criticize Obama for avoiding
the tough questions in this campaign.
Oh, man... Can't even begin to get into this right now...
Hey, and while we're on the subject of awful screwups: Matt Lauer asked about the wellbeing of RFK Jr.'s assassinated father. Not that he's trying to rule the world or anything.
