In this clip from last night's Daily Show, John McCain exhibits his fantastic sense of humor by saying he has selected a fictional paranoid TV dingus as his running mate. But because "Dwight Schrute" is such a difficult name to remember (particularly if you are 1,000 years old and have never stayed up past 8pm to watch a very popular television show called The Office), John McCain has to keep the name written on a piece of paper in his pocket and read it in a very slow, deliberate voice.
Running Mates
John McCain Staggers Through Another Daily Show Appearance
10:40 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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Then he asked John Stewart if Petticoat Junction was still being broadcast on the DuMont Network.
My friends, the Jewish race um...applesauce...um, bomb iran.
well to his credit, his original joke was that he was picking harold lloyd for VP but the Daily Show writers updated it for him.
@metropolitan:
I thought it was Adam.
WALNUTS! loves Dwight Shrute because he's a toadying ass-kisser who'd kill for his CinC.
Also, he mentioned Dwight because his advisers persuaded him the "youth" would be totally down with any candidate who "got" this new invention called "television."
@Canuckledragger: You mean The Picture Box?
Of all the fictional characters out there, McCrone picks an emotionally stunted, authoritarian second-rate paper salesman-slash-beet farmer? Was Dexter taken or something?
Somebody should ask McCain why he wants to kill all the Muslims.
@IrasGlasses: Democracy. He says so in his book.
I know that some of us poke fun of Senator McCain for being old and everything, but JTFC he's OLD!!!!
Poor Walnuts. Still trying to get his head around that newfangled contraption called television.
@Canuckledragger:
"a toadying ass-kisser" = "Loyal Bushie", also "war-mongering sociopath"
@SayItWithWookies: All in all, Dwight Shrute is a better choice than MITTENS.
Bless John McCain. Every new day is a gift from God.
McCain's type of people admitted that "terrorist attacks are a small price to pay for being a superpower." They have no intention of warring on terror. There intention is to war despite terror. War is their business.
I would have thrown Hopey under the bus if Walnuts had picked, Gareth Keenan.
But then I am too elite for American copies of UK Tele.
Editors deleted the introductory line, "After consulting with my longtime advisers Matthew, Mark, Luke and John..."
Christ, the longer this goes on the more uncomfortably programed all of the candidates are. He could not get off script for a sentence. (including his bullshit Hamas for Obama line)
...may I suggest he name someone with a medical background as his running mate. That way everytime he as stroke someone is there to resuscitate him!
This man will be our next president. :(
Saddest of all: I had no fucking idea who he was talking about.
A steady diet of Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs and a historical biopic will do that to you.
This interview with McCain reminds me that every good red-blooded American should wake up each morning with lust in his heart for the death of imagined enemies. What good is an American without a steady desire to kill?
@Doombilly: He would actually make more sense too. Since he is a military man, and all.
@Doombilly: Well played, sir. Well played, indeed!
@SayItWithWookies: You leave Dexter out of this!
Waltnuts! is looking more and more like Bush all the time, he totally ignored the questions and just went on with his rant. I think that his running mate should be a newborn human baby. That way he might offset his old age and he would be able to say that he has one non-undead soul on the ticket.
Did they clear out the audience for the interview or something? I can't believe no one booed McCain for sticking with that Hamas endorsement of Obama shit.
McCain reminds me of a more angry, more stupid, more squat Johnny Carson.
But then Carson has the good sense to retire.
He will bring out the McHales Navy re-run crowd in droves!
The only way to beat him is to have cable air a marathon McHales Navy showing, all day until the polls close, on election day.
To Jon Stewart's credit, he immediately called the Schrute thing "pandering". That entire interview was just uncomfortable to watch.
+ Watch video
McCain's pastor saying America was founded to destroy Islam, blah blah blah.
You see, the First Amendment doesn't actually establish religious freedom, it really means Islam must be destroyed.
McCain and his pastor should go destroy Islam by himself. Don't drag America into your psychotic crusade.
@IrasGlasses: I would say, "Jesus Christ, use this video as a Rev. Wright return volley!" ... except that I fear at least 50.1 percent of Americans actually agree with this wingnut.
@IrasGlasses: You know that's not going to play as much, or hurt him as much since there's a good chunk of his constituency that would believe in him. Who only know Islam as an evil religion bent on our destruction.
The point is that McCain is endangering our national security by turning the entire religion of Islam against America, while undermining the tradition of religious freedom and tolerance. This cannot be allowed. Even a moron like Elisabeth Hasselbeck can be made to understand this.
Baseproduct: You're drinking your bathwater again. Ain't no way he is going to be CIC!
IraGlasses: You give Elizabeth Hasselbeck too much credit--she is uneducable. Beyond all hope and any semblance of reason or sanity--much like her BBF, Sean Hannity.
@IrasGlasses: C'mon - Straw man... that guy is not a secret muslim and therefore his disasterous boomer "us-vs.-them" paranoia and divisive words are protected by the First Amendment...
@ProblemWithCaring: I don't give a shit what the pastor says, he has freedom of speech. What worries me is that McCain has given every indication that he also thinks like that (every Muslim is like any other Muslim, and they're all terrorists of "transcendent evil").
@IrasGlasses: Wow, I am seriously impressed that you believe you have some sort of handle on what McCain actually thinks...
@ProblemWithCaring: What are you saying? He's a liar? Yeah, that guy is a lizard. I agree.
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