Maddow: McCain’s economic gaffe capped ‘a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day..."

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/17/maddow-mccain%e2%80%99s-economic-gaffe-capped-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-on-the-campaign-trail/

Maddow: McCain’s economic gaffe capped ‘a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day on the campaign trail.’»

Yesterday, TP’s Wonk Room reported that John McCain committed an economic gaffe when he referred to the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) as the S-P-I-C. Moreover, McCain called the “SPIC” a regulatory agency, which the non-profit corporation’s own website explicitly says it is not. Last night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported on the gaffe, citing it as just one example of McCain’s “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day on the campaign trail.”

Watch it at link~

The McCain campaign has since scrubbed the transcript of McCain’s gaffe. But McCain campaign spokesman, Tucker Bounds, confirmed the typo to the New York Sun. Bounds made clear that McCain’s use of “SPIC” was not meant as a derogatory insult to Hispanics. “No one, and I mean no one, should read anymore into it,” he said. “It would be absurd to suggest otherwise.” It did, however, confirm McCain doesn’t know much about the economy.

[rndmprsn]

1. ...and he was a POW goddammit!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

6. BWAAAHH How long does he get away with....

[CatBO]

2. YAAAY! Alexander's THNGVBD!

I loved that book as a kid.

[Jennicut]

3. Ha! McLame is such a major loser. He is really losing it.

[tularetom]

4. I'll read anything I damn please into it

If they can make Obama's support of an anti pervert bill into an effort to force kids to learn about sex, I can make McPOW's use of the acronym SPIC as an anti hispanic statement.

And I'd like to see "Tucker" Bounds try to stop me. I've always wanted to punch out a guy named "Tucker".

[babylonsister]

8. Bingo! And I'm with you on tucker. nt

[Democat]

5. McCain called it SPIC?

Isn't that a racist term?

This might be funny if it wasn't scary.

[Virginia Dare]

7. Uh-huh just like it was absurd to say that Obama was calling Palin a pig..

McBush chooses his words CAREFULLY friends...:evilgrin: