Oct 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Pretty Please
Could someone possibly get John McCain to stop laughing at his own jokes? It’s a really infuriating habit.
32 Responses to “Pretty Please”
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
We can’t get him to stop saying “my friends”, so what makes you think this proposal has any chance?
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I think he has to because no one knows when he’s joking. So if he laughs, it’s a cue for his audience to laugh too.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
infuriating? no.
it’s a really annoying habit that makes him look like a jackass.
please, no one get him to stop!
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Yeah, the denture-whistle is also easily corrected, but hey…
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
- Amy Poehler “The Best Satirical Rap Song Ever”
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Why shouldn’t he laugh at his own jokes? If he didn’t think they were funny, he wouldn’t have told them!
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
He was genuinely funny in the charity event in New York. One wonders what happens when he starts campaigning. He seems to transform …
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
What’s even worse is when he is so gleeful when he is stating horrible things.
McCain’s emotional intelligence is very off-kilter. If you say something awful, with an expectation that it will upset the people you are speaking with and you are attempting to relate to those people you take on the emotional expression of those people. However, McCain is so tickled that he has some “red meat” to toss out, the full-blown grin and tongue thrusting is evident as soon as he launches into his barb.
He really has become as disgusting as anyone I have seen in public office.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
That’s all the poor guy has left…
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October 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Just like anyone else who tells lame jokes, he has to laugh so there isn’t deafening silence.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
As someone who laughs at their own jokes, I take exception to this post…ha ha ha
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Something else which is either annoying or puzzling is the McCain Rally crowd reactions to his comments.
They are programmed to boo whenever they hear the words “Hillary Clinton” or “New York Times” or Obama. Now, this is okay in the abstract, but lately McCain has been using Hillary and the NYT to bash Obama. So the crowd ends up booing those who are supporting their cause.
Just today, McCain quoted a NYT editorial which slammed Obama’s economic plan, but McCain didn’t mention the NYT at first. When he said the editorial was in the NYT, they booed.
What’s up with that?
They also boo if McCain says that Obama will do something good. Are they booing the good thing, or the fact that Obama would do it? For instance, they boo “Obama says he will lower your taxes.”
Then McCain laughs like he just told a joke. Ha Ha.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
no, please! he MUST keep doing this. laughing at your own jokes and calling yourself a ‘maverick’ are really, really, really cooool things to do and McCain & Palin should not feel deterred by your elitist stance that making an ass of yourself in public is somehow ‘bad’.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
By Friday, both McCain and Palin will be referring to themselves in the third person.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
He must be hanging around Dennis Miller too much…
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
McCain, I think we can agree, has been exceptionally creepy this campaign. (My wife won’t watch him on TV because of the smile and the tongue thing.) But more than that, he seems exactly like the Ancient Relative at Thanksgiving Dinner Who Says Embarrassing Things. Everyone above the age of 8 knows not to react to the Aged One, and so the Democratic campaign hasn’t mentioned it. (Although Obama did once say that McCain has been “erratic”. I don’t know if that’s part of the stump speech.) Is it possible that Republicans inside know that McCain has shown Those Signs and so have quietly agreed to tank the election? That would explain the amazing lack of support around the country, and it would explain the willingness of McCain himself to do naughty things — he no longer knows any better.
It’s a thought.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Could someone stop Matt from using that damned Hoover picture again? It’s freakin’ me out. And “Neo-Hooverite” is not as clever as you think. It reminds me of Steve Sailer’s annoying habit of repeatedly abusing not so clever turns of phrase.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
One thing at a time. He hasn’t called us, “My fellow prisoners” in a while, so I say were ahead.
I like the way he reached across party lines to agree with John Murtha:
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Just keep in mind it will all be over in a couple of weeks. Thank Jah!
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Actually, McCain was quite the comedian at the Alfred Smith memorial dinner last week, able to very smoothly liver a clever punch-line and keep a straight face while doing it.
It’s clear that what he’s not good at is being fake and telling “jokes” that are really sleazy attack lines that he’s trying to hide under the guise of a joke. Him not being good at being fake isn’t particularly a virtue however, since he most definitely continues to try to pull it off. I think if you have the tools to be smoothly fake and vicious (eg, Palin and her “palling around with terrorists” kind of line where she levels a vicious charge in an anything-but-vicious tone of voice), then you’re more tempted to be that way so avoiding temptation is more of a challenge.
But when you’re McCain and you’re not even good at it, then you’re really even more sorry a figure for continuing to try it.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Smug is not attractive. Smugness is the motivating factor in those moments when you want to pick up the glass of water and throw it in someone’s face, but instead you sit red faced and speechless. Most often we don’t accuse culprits of smugness of being smug, we let it fester and hold a grudge.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
But, my friends, they’re hilarious…
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Remember the State of the Union where Bush said something along the lines of ‘terrorism will continue to be a serious threat’ and the Republicans all applauded?
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