Oh, dear, here's a confused chap -- later identified as "John McCain" -- grabbing hold of a podium in western Pennsylvania yesterday and speaking a whole bunch of words that he doesn't seem to have planned in advance, by the end of which he has accidentally agreed with Democratic congressman John Murtha's portrayal of western Pennsylvania as a "racist area". Note the expert way he attempts to rescue himself from the error by repeating some of the same words in a different combination in the hope that something will stick -- a rhetorical technique plainly borrowed from Sarah Palin. Nevertheless, by the time the debacle is over he has managed to describe the region as "the most patriotic part" of America, so the basic divisive mission of the speech is still achieved. [via Fox News]
UPDATE: via Wonkette, for your juvenile amusement, here's McCain inadvertently using the very bad word that he allegedly (according to this book) once used deliberately towards his wife.
