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 What’s This? Scooter McCain?Posted on Aug 5, 2007In what some political observers are calling an ominous sign for his cash-starved White House bid, Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., today posted his campaign bus, The Straight Talk Express, on the Internet auction site eBay. “The Straight Talk Express was giving headline writers too much to work with,” Sen. McCain told reporters. “They won’t be able to do that anymore, now that I’m getting around from town to town on a Segway.” Davis Logsdon, dean of the journalism school at the University of Minnesota, said that the number of sarcastic headlines riffing on the name of Mr. McCain’s campaign had swelled to as many as 7,000 in the last two weeks alone. “Every morning, newspapers were running headlines like ‘Straight Talk Express Runs into a Ditch’ or ‘Straight Talk Express Has a Flat Tire,’” Professor Logsdon said. “There was even one that said ‘Straight Talk Express Low on Windshield Wiper Fluid,’ whatever that means.” But even as Mr. McCain swapped his campaign bus for a Segway scooter, there were signs that his efforts to avoid sarcastic headlines about his mode of transportation had not been successful, as the Toledo Blade ran a story entitled, “McCain Campaign: Segway to Defeat?” Advertisement Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of “The Republican Playbook.” © 2007 Creators Syndicate Previous item: Truthdigger of the Week: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Next item: Beyond Disaster Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment
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By Skruff, August 7, 2007 at 12:00 pm #
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What amazes me is that anyone, particularly 7000 headlines, is discussing McCain at all. He was done for the Conservatives when he sidled up to Bush like a whipped puppy after the slime-fight in Carolina…. He was done with the Centrists when he smooched with Jerry Falwel, and he never had any real progressive base.
He’s done let’s get on to the next bozo!
Report thisBy nonsequitor, August 7, 2007 at 11:41 am #
...so that it would no longer provide fodder for sarcastic headlines. ...They wont be able to do that anymore, now that Im getting around from town to town on a Segway.
ok, so let’s get some sarcastic headlines about his Segway. maybe he’ll have to walk his talk then.
‘totally wireless’ just like his Segway.
Report thisBy newssophisticate, August 7, 2007 at 11:11 am #
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John McCain…shall we say more
Have you heard?
John McCain Toy ReCall
http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/08/john-mccain-toy-doll-product-recall.html
John McCain selling Straight Talk Express…any takers
http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/08/john-mccain-to-sell-straight-talk.html
Report thisBy archeon of thrace, August 6, 2007 at 10:42 pm #
Straight talk express? Doesn’t “express” imply a quick speedy trip never taking the time to see the sights along the way in a haste to get to a predetermined destination in the shortest amount of time?
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, August 6, 2007 at 12:19 pm #
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[President Bush said that his successful colonoscopy was proof that invasions work.]
Both P & VP in surgery the same week? Proof GW’s colon and Cheney’s heart are hitched!
Report thisBy farmertx, August 6, 2007 at 11:15 am #
Yes, Mr Billis, politics does make for strange bedfellow’s, but those two are beyond the Pale. Noticed that no one has suggested a link to the Manchurian Candidate movie of old.
Report thisBy SamSnedegar, August 6, 2007 at 7:50 am #
Not just any bus. This one became the “lying sack local” heading for Oblivion, AZ.
I frequently look backward just to see how stupid I was, and I note in this case that I would have voted for McCain over the slimmer but dimmer Gore.
Of course, Gore did know about the internets and global warming even then, but he couldn’t tell a real Cuban boy from a way to go for Cuban votes in South Florida.
Yes, McCain TALKED a good game back in 2000, good enough to fool New Hampshire, but the GOP Bushitters weren’t having any and got themselves a malleable puppet instead of a real candidate who could have WON the election.
Seeing his shameful behavior since, I suspect that McCain got an offer he couldn’t refuse from the Bushitter gang of thugs, and he is yet saying “yassuh boss” to them in hopes they will make him their next puppet, but it isn’t going to happen.
I don’t know how long they can keep the moronic Bush in office, but they will definitely keep him there a long time before they will let some real candidate win and take over their junta as the dictator of America. They didn’t go to all that trouble just to give it up in 8 short years. If they leave the white house, it will be as Milosevic left the state house in Serbia, being thrown out into the street by the Yugoslavs of old, except with the Bush fool, there may be an addition of some tar and feathers in an old American custom.
Report thisBy THOMAS BILLIS, August 5, 2007 at 9:08 pm #
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After you have sold your soul by getting in bed with Bush and Falwell the straight talk express is just a bus.
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