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Spain Spain Spain Spain Spain Spain Spain Spain. . .
Lovely Spain, wonderful Spain!
This is the story that just keeps on giving.
So Josh Marshall and TPM have put together a nice little video summarizing McCain’s running of the bull on Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
The transcription is particularly useful. As a result, something new caught my eye:
REPORTER: Okay what about Europe? I’m talking about the President of Spain
McCAIN: What about me, what?
When she asked “what about Europe,” he heard “what about you.” That’s pretty clear from his response. But Scheunemann keeps insisting that McCain knew what he was talking about, that he intended to dis Zapatero, and that he was reflecting the position of the campaign.
I’ve shoveled a lot of horse dookie in my day (I worked at a summer camp for four years — you do a lot of that), so I think I recognize a load of bull manure when I see it. McCain clearly misheard or misunderstood the reporter. He thought she was asking something about him, not Europe. So there is no way in hell that his final answer was anything other than confused tap-dancing around a question he had completely misunderstood.
Just one question here: when McCain makes a mistake in office, will his White House attempt similar stonewalling and denial? Because if it does, it really will be Bush 44.