Dancing Queen Priority
Maureen Dowd mocks John McCain’s “a noun, a very, POW” approach to politics. However, she writes:
As Sam Stein notes in The Huffington Post: “The senator has even brought his military record into discussion of his music tastes. Explaining that his favorite song was ‘Dancing Queen’ by Abba, he offered that his knowledge of music ‘stopped evolving when his plane intercepted a surface-to-air missile.’ ‘Dancing Queen,’ however, was produced in 1975, eight years after McCain’s plane was shot down.”
Sam Stein did indeed note this, but I believe my man Spencer Ackerman deserves priority on this story. Meanwhile, since Frank Rich’s column also comes out on the weekend it seems like another good time to note that it sure would be nice if the online version of Dowd’s column included a link to the article she’s writing about. Just saying.
33 Responses to “Dancing Queen Priority”
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August 24th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Would be nice if you quoted something and actually fucking spelt the words correctly.
Just saying.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Would be nice if people could comment without being rude jerks, too, but it’s an imperfect world….
August 24th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Thou who spelt it, dealt it.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Would be nice if you quoted something and actually fucking spelt the words correctly.
Um, here in America, where we speak English, this is not how we spell this word.
But keep hatin’, eh guv’ner?
August 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Poor MoDo; no tire swing for her.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Err….’spelled’ is better grammar than ’spelt’
August 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Yglesias’ ‘misspellings’ are actually a security device designed to guarantee the post’s ostensive author is, in fact, Yglesias.
Bruce Schneier explains it all somewhere…
August 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
It’s about time people started picking up on this get out of jail free card that the McCain campaign uses for absolutely everything. It’s actually been getting a little funny lately. “He can’t cheat, he’s a POW,” “so, what if he can’t remember how many houses he owns, he’s a POW,” “his teeth may be a little yellow but only because of the lack of dental services he had in Vietnam.” Okay, so no one has said that last part yet. Anyway, I don’t know what it is about MoDo but when she picks a meme, for some reason, other people (unimaginative journalists) start noticing. You love her when she’s in your corner but when she’s not, watch out. How in the world did she become so influential?
August 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Don’t forget McCain proudly defending to Katie Couric how many kitchen tables he has because he was a POW. Giuliani also exhibited this problem with his noun, verb, 911 tic and rode it all the way down until he became a laughingstock. Poor McCain seems fully in the grip of Giuliani syndrome now. Will he be able to shake it or is the POW thing all he has?
August 24th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
how’s about the comix version
POW! = Prisoner of War
KAPOW! = Known as Prisoner of War
KAPOWIE! = Known as Prisoner of War In Excess
August 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Explaining that his favorite song was ‘Dancing Queen’ by Abba, he offered that his knowledge of music ‘stopped evolving when his plane intercepted a surface-to-air missile.’
“inercepted a surface-to-air missile.”? What the heck is that, doublespeak for his plane got shot out of the sky?
August 24th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
McCain / Sobchak ‘08.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
“inercepted a surface-to-air missile.”? What the heck is that, doublespeak for his plane got shot out of the sky?
It’s called humor.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
If Ackerman stopped eating Cheetos while in his underwear, he’d get more sourcing.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Two good variations seen elsewhere today:
POW – Person of Wealth
POW – Prisoner of W.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Dowd mocks a politician? Stop the presses. As a true American I hold it as a sacred duty to hold a certain amount of contempt for all politicians. From George Washington, to FDR to St. Ronnie all deserve some measure of contempt.
(Washington got quite wealthy speculating on real estate. Always the preferred method of wealth accumulation of American politicians and always a sure fire bet. Except the Clinton’s who lost ever cent of their real estate speculation. Which was their real crime. There are thousands of county drain commissioners alive today who are well off because of insider real estate dealings and Clinton couldn’t make a single dime. It’s a disgrace.)
Now making a living off of contempt for pols is all well and good. That said, Dowd is no Menken. For Menken, perhaps by historical accident, wasn’t lost in perpetual adolescence.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Great one El Cid, hilarious. I really hope that’s the direction this takes…. so perfectly sums up the hothead/irrational angle.
August 24th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Um, here in America, where we speak English, this is not how we spell this word.
Well, here in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where we fucking invented English, “spelt” is correct usage.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Iain,
Although HMUK independently invented English, John McCain did as well, and since his invention preceded yours, he gets the credit.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
He who spelt it dealt it.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Matt, how many times have you discussed some issue you just learned about from a Washington Post article – when I sent you an article from some other publication less prestigious frickin’ three weeks earlier? Like the other day, maybe?
And now I can’t even send you anything because your fucking email server rejects the emails saying you don’t exist!
Nitwit. You wouldn’t be as ignorant as you are about major issues if you’d read the articles I send you. I’m trying to help your dumb ass get a clue. Obviously not worth the effort.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I think it’s time we start pointing out the McCain is not the only person who ever sacrificed for his country. Yes, he was a POW, but he came out of it in one piece, which is more than a lot of people in Walter Reed can say.
How about GOP smear vicim Max Cleland, for instance.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
“Spelt”?
Spelt is a kind of grain. The past tense of “spell” is “spelled”.
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