Weird. I thought it was a beard. Anyway.
Our corporate media stooges commenting on Senator McCain's "joke":
NBC’s Chuck Todd: “That’s what makes him real and that’s what makes people who disagree with him say ‘ah, you know what? The guy seems like any guy you’d want to have around the dinner table or the bar stool.’”
CNN’s Jessica Yellin: “People who love him think his a maverick and think he’s a real guy who makes a joke off the cuff just like real people do [but] we’re all waiting to see if something explodes, this kind of comment doesn’t.”
Genocide jokes are cool. And I love how the Bush years have dissolved any standards we might've had for the Republican candidate. In other words: if you can sit on a stool and tell an undignified joke, then you're qualified to be the leader of the free world.