Here comes the MSM spin on 'fellow prisoners': 'McCain, Obama flub lines'

[Newsjock]

Un-freakin-believable. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/earlyreturns/archive/2008/10/08/mccain-obama-flub-lines.aspx

Obama supporters are noting McCain's malaprop when he said "my fellow prisoners" instead of "my fellow Americans" at the rally in Bethlehem today. But is it really any worse than Obama saying he was "green behind the ears" last night in Nashville? Seems to be confirmation that he's some kind of alien, as McCain has more or less said.

[KansDem]

1. Maybe he had just looked at Sarah and was thinking, "I'm a prisoner of love"

I thought I heard him sigh a little just before he said it.

[McCCain4retirment]

2. I think they were messing around

[tblue]

3. You do have to wonder WTH Freudian thought was in the back of his mind.

[WCGreen]

4. green behind the ears is a saying, ass hat...

It's another way of saying lacking experience...

[Lex]

7. it's either "green horn" or "wet behind the ears"

I think he mixed his metaphors.

[Duer 157099]

10. I think he was mixing "green around the gills" with something

y'know, gills on fish sort of look like ears.

Plus I think it was freudian, him being nauseated having to spend so much time on that stage with McCain.

[Lex]

16. that means nauseated

which I don't think he was going for

[global1]

12. Now Come On Here - Green Behind The Ears Is In No Way Equivalent To

"My Fellow Prisoners".

Obama just mixed metaphors. McCain's was a Freudian Slip or worse yet a Senior Moment.

[Lex]

15. Didn't say it was equivalent.

Don't think it is.

[stopbush]

5. ??? Obama's statement was a combination of being wet behind the ears

and being green. It's a malaprop that I've made myself on occasion.

How does McCain's gaffe qualify as a malaprop? It's a combination of "my fellow Americans" and...what?

[VWolf]

6. .... and I WAS A POW!!!!

[ailsagirl]

13. I found it rather endearing-- now they're saying he's an alien???

:wtf:

They're REALLY scraping for things now...

[central scrutinizer]

8. at least he's not putting food on his family

or making the pie higher

[liberal N proud]

9. If McCain is having flashbacks it would be dangerous to have him

in the White House.
He could think he was back in Hanoi and set off a nuke.

[Winterblues]

11. America held captive by Republican ideology for over a Decade now.

We are prisoners but on the verge of making a great escape..

[Bluebear]

14. Just a blog from Pittsburgh, hardly "MSM" :)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

17. I Kind Of Agree With Them. Petty 'Gotchas' Over Obvious Mispeaks Is Worthless And Dumb IMHO.

Far more important things to be criticizing.