ANNOUNCING a Whiskey Fire Contest:
The setup, via MyDD.
What especially irks me about McCain's pure as the driven snow national image is how the Washington pundit elites have continued to help manufacture it. McCain is the most frequent guest on Sunday morning talk shows, whose hosts clearly have done a terrible job of exposing the truth about him. We simply can't trust the gatekeepers of our conventional wisdom to treat John McCain with any skepticism whatsoever. I am sure we will see much of the same lapdog treatment from the pundit elite when it comes to the McCain doctrine, otherwise known as escalation in Iraq. Already, pundits are bending over backward to label this idea serious, and the people who support it as principled.
Well, I say enough is enough. The line on McCain's national image will be drawn here, and drawn now. Today, I am proposing a long-term, anti-McCain googlebomb project similar to the Googlebomb the Elections campaign I founded in 2006.
Well, hokay. But I am moved by the Muse, and will Googlebomb John McCain in the verse of my People:
There was an odd pol, John McCain:
John McCain ate the Punditry's brain:
John McCain's silly "straight talk"
Made Tweety joyfully squawk --
And out of his Hardballs, he came.
I will put FIFTY BUCKS of my own dough on the line, that nobody can come up with a better or more tasteless (same difference) John McCain Googlebomb limerick by Sunday 1/21 at 8PM. If I win, the money goes to a Progressive Cause of my choice. If YOU win, it'll go to a Progressive Cause of your choice. (The winner will be determined by the, uh, community, by which I mean, um, me, with input from, uh, myself.)
Remember: John McCain! I mean, John McCain!