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ANNALS OF HEALTH

  • A PIMPLE?: Regular cancer-getter John McCain “had a spot removed from his face on Monday during a routine checkup by a doctor in Phoenix, an aide said.” McCain’s team has called it a “precautionary removal.” And was the “precaution” that he would die of vicious cancer if they didn’t remove it? [Reuters]

2:31 PM on Mon July 28 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. superfecta says at 2:33 pm, July 28th, 2008

    He’d better avoid Novak and co., then; I hear you can catch a brain tumor ever faster than teh gay.

  2. mookworthjwilson says at 2:35 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Who would win in a fight? McCain’s cancer vs. Barry’s hip?

  3. freakishlystrong says at 2:36 pm, July 28th, 2008

    It was what was left of his dignity…

  4. Serolf Divad says at 2:36 pm, July 28th, 2008

    $10.00 to the first reporter who asks McCain about his “preemptive” surgery.

  5. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:37 pm, July 28th, 2008

    …can this guy have anymore of his face removed?!

  6. AfghanVet says at 2:38 pm, July 28th, 2008

    It was a hickey left on his face from W’s puckered asshole.

  7. BadNewsJack says at 2:39 pm, July 28th, 2008

    As long as they’re operating on his face, can they fix that smile, or is that something even modern medicine cant fix?

  8. Squiggyfm says at 2:40 pm, July 28th, 2008

    At this rate, there wouldn’t be any McCain left to take office if he were to win.

  9. columnv says at 2:42 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Wouldn’t you hate to go in the doctor to have shit just randomly removed???

  10. Anita Cocktail says at 2:43 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Geez, it must be that gold standard health insurance that our tax dollars pay for. The rest of us have to pop our zits in the bathroom mirror by ourselves.

  11. tsunami says at 2:43 pm, July 28th, 2008

    i just want to remind y’all that no decent human being would make
    light of this serious medical problem or hope that it freakin’
    kills him before the election so sen. obama can win in a landslide
    and save the country and we’ll all live happily ever after.

    so, please, don’t let that notion cross your mind.

  12. SayItWithWookies says at 2:44 pm, July 28th, 2008

    How can a guy who spent five-and-a-half years in the shade get so much melanoma?

  13. tsunami: What kind of people do you think we are?
    OK, don’t answer that.

  14. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 2:46 pm, July 28th, 2008

    From the Reuters story: “The fourth melanoma was invasive and was removed from his left temple ….”

    Would that be the “melanoma” left on his face from from a certain melanin-rich candidate?

  15. Canuckledragger says at 2:46 pm, July 28th, 2008

    When he came to address the Canuckistani Economic Club, you’ll recall that bullshit about him having hit his head trying to get into a car, leading to the bandaid on the head. At the time, I TOLD YOU PEOPLE he had some free Canuckistani health care, where the procedure could be done without prying media eyeballs and subsequent press accounts of his unwellness.

    THIS IS THE SAME PUSTULE HE HAD LANCED IN OTTAWA CITY! REUTERS KNOWS, BECAUSE REUTERS IS CANUCKISTANI, TOO!

    WAKE UP PEOPLE!

    HEAD-ON. APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

  16. tsunami:

    Not kill, just make part of his face fall off and necessitate his wearing a partial white mask like the Phantom of the Opera during all public appearances.

    That would be way cool.

  17. V572625694 says at 2:48 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Anita Cocktail: Exactamundo. He’s never paid a dime for health care in his life. Not saying veterans who went through what he did don’t have something coming (something better than a lockdown seance w/Dick Cheney), but he has no knowledge of what it’s like to be a health care consumer. And therefore no credibility on this issue.

    Oh, sorry. Forgot to be snarky. Will try to do better.

  18. Cubilista says at 2:49 pm, July 28th, 2008

    while he’s at it, how about removing that giant gouter he calls a left cheek.

  19. Godless Liberal * says at 2:52 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Cubilista: No can do, that’s where he stores his emergency supply of Geritol.

  20. weirdiowasculpture says at 2:54 pm, July 28th, 2008

    He should have had his jowls drained while he was there.

  21. Buffy and Hildegard says at 2:55 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Soon he’ll just have a little band-aid where his nose used to be and we’ll find him and some pre-teen kid in their pajamas watching the Silver Spoons box set in his ranch bunk house.

  22. Serolf Divad says at 2:59 pm, July 28th, 2008

    This is what McCain will look like when he’s sworn in, after his 60th procedure: ivory soft skin.

  23. 4tehlulz says at 3:01 pm, July 28th, 2008

    ABC described it as “mole-like skin”.

    This means that WALNUTS had Karl Rove removed from his head, who was spawning, Athena-like, from that great god McCain’s mavericky brain.

  24. Another couple of those removals before the debates, and he’ll be on stage looking like a mummy.

  25. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 3:14 pm, July 28th, 2008

    You have to admit that the McCain camp is brilliant. Obama comes out with “Oh, my hip hurts” to capture the over 70 crowd, and, bam!, McCain comes back with “Yeah, but I have face cancer.” I would expect McCain to spend his next two days making speeches about how the government must get the hell off his lawn.

  26. weirdiowasculpture says at 3:15 pm, July 28th, 2008

    If this poor old incontinent doddering threat to applesauce is still alive by the election, he’ll look like Harvey Dent after Batman saved him from the Joker’s gasoline bomb.

  27. Larry Fine says at 3:20 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Looks like AIDS to me.

  28. Pimplegate!

  29. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 3:30 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Little known fact:

    If you map out all of the moles that McCain has had removed, they form the numbers “666.”

  30. ReelectTilden says at 3:35 pm, July 28th, 2008

    72 years old and he still has the complexion of a teenager! WALNUTS will live for A THOUSAND YEARS!

  31. Sussemilch says at 4:03 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Remember, they only explain the ones that are visible. Underneath that suit he’s half bandaids.

  32. ReelectTilden says at 4:14 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Damn, Star Trek: Nemesis would be the perfect movie reference now. If only anyone had seen it…

  33. wallythepug says at 6:11 pm, July 28th, 2008

    V572625694: Not only the great free medical care, but I’m pretty sure every paycheck WALNUTS! earned in his entire lifetime was from our tax dollars, including the social security checks he now receives.

    “WALNUTS!, sucking on the government teat since high school graduation.” I’m Wallythepug and I approve this message.

  34. Anita Cocktail says at 6:50 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Buffy and Hildegard: ReelectTilden: I think that’s from the Botox. I mean, my God, the man’s in his seventies and you could bounce quarters off his forehead. That’s just not natural.

    Especially when you consider how much he scowls and shakes his fist at those hippie kids.

  35. Anita Cocktail says at 6:50 pm, July 28th, 2008

    V572625694: You wouldn’t by any chance be The Fonz, would you?

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