McCain Demonstrates His Idiocy, CBS Tries to Cover Up

This is a big one. Once again, John McCain makes a huge gaffe where he mixes up/ignores facts while attacking Barack Obama. What is especially shocking here is that CBS News and Katie Couric tried to cover up for him, only to be exposed by the full transcript.

This video gives you an idea of what happened:



Hopefully this gets more scrutiny, because it is just as embarrassing as McCain's Sunni/Shiite mixup back in March.

The reaction so far is not nice.

Americablog:

This one is hard to even explain, it's so bizarre. McCain, looking just awful on camera, made yet another major gaffe about national security policy, on CBS. So what did Katie Couric do? She aired the interview with McCain, aired the question that led to the gaffe, and then inserted an "answer" to the question that wasn't the real gaffe-filled answer - it was something McCain said in a total other part of the interview. It's absolutely astounding how far the corporate media is willing to go in order to defend John McCain. And seriously, take a good look at McCain in this video, I was kind of shocked by his appearance - he doesn't look well at all.

AP has noticed as well:

The problem with McCain's statement — as Obama's campaign quickly noted — was that the awakening got under way before President Bush announced in January 2007 his decision to flood Iraq with tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops to help combat violence.

In March 2007, before the first of the additional troops began arriving in Iraq, Col. John W. Charlton, the American commander responsible for Ramadi, a city in Anbar province, said the newly friendly sheiks, combined with an aggressive counterinsurgency strategy and the presence of thousands of new Sunni police on the streets, had helped cut attacks in the city by half in recent months.

HuffPo slams McCain on it.

And blogger Ilan Goldenberg thinks it is bad enough to disqualify McCain:

This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for Commander in Chief must understand when there are 150,000 American troops stationed in Iraq. It is an absolutely essential element to the story of the past two years. YOU CANNOT GET THIS WRONG. Moreover, what is most disturbing is that according to McCain's inaccurate version of history, military force came first and solved all of our problems. If that is the lesson he takes from the Anbar Awakening, I am afraid it is the lesson he will apply to every other crisis he faces including, for example, Iran.

This is just incredibly disturbing. I have no choice but to conclude that John McCain has simply no idea what is actually happened and happening in Iraq.

At this point, I think John McCain is just as intellectually lazy as George W. Bush. He doesn't care about economic issues, so he is dumb as a stone in that department. And while he cares about foreign policy, his ego is so huge that he thinks he knows everything when he doesn't.

He also has a horrible temper that causes him to lash out and fudge the facts in order to win an argument. You know, the kind of guy who can't lose an argument because he will lie and raise his voice and tell you how wrong you are until finally you just give up? That's what McCain is.

As I've stated before, Obama should take about a week to study up for the debates. Learn all of McCain's votes, all of his key policy statements, and brush up on foreign policy facts. It would all be worth it when he can call McCain out on his multiple lies and inconsistencies. I'm sure McCain would blow his top if that happened.