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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:39 PM
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Tucker Carlson slams John McCain for sleeping tonight
Imagine that you’re John McCain. You’re running for president for the second time, and this time you’re widely considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Knowing that, you’ve got to expect that whomever is directing the television coverage of tonight’s speech is going to point the camera your way. You’re going to be on primetime TV, no doubt. With that in mind, you’re going to want to stay awake. If you’re McCain, who will be over 70 by 2008, you’ll want to make doubly sure to demonstrate your alertness and vigor. You definitely won’t want to slump in your seat, out cold, when Bush starts talking about Iraq. And yet that’s exactly what McCain did tonight, napping on camera for ten agonizing seconds. Lack of self-control? An expression of contempt? Embarrassing in any case.

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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:42 PM
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1. Love it. Just love it.
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citygal Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:43 PM
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2. I guess he is following Reagan's lead.
Except his missed the fact that he must be ELECTED before he can fall asleep at meetings. Oops!
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Bjornsdotter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:43 PM
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3. Hey, give the guy a break


...after all it was nappy time. Maybe he's following in Reagan's footsteps.

Cheers
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:43 PM
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4. He must be on some medication
Seriously.
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elcondor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:44 PM
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5. Was McCain really sleeping?
I'm asking seriously ... I saw him looking down certainly but could've sworn I saw his eyelids moving (like blinking? or was I seeing REM?)
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:50 PM
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6. I saw it.
What's that long scar in front of McCain's left ear? From the war?

He was reapplying his brown lipstick.

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democrat_06 Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:55 PM
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7. The scar
is from surgery he had for melanoma. I saw him and thought at first he was sleeping, actually you can kind of understand why, but I think he was reading his copy of the speech.
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bbinacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:55 PM
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8. I think you're wrong
It looked me that he was reading the speech. They showed a similar shot of Kennedy doing the same.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:59 PM
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10. I'm not wrong. I was quoting Tucker
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bbinacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:11 PM
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12. Who the hell is Tucker? n/t
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:15 PM
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14. Tucker Carlson - conservative commentator and host on MSNBC
Thinks he's real cute
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bbinacan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:18 PM
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15. Thanks for the info. n/t
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:57 PM
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9. Look what (F)Tucker said about Nancy Pelosi: (UFB!)
"What’s Nancy Pelosi so mad about? You think she’d be in a pretty good mood, sitting in the speaker’s chair, listening as the president sucks up to her. But for much of the night, she’s looked grouchy, like she’d just informed a class full of kindergartners that, no, they may not be excused to use the bathroom. Maybe grumpiness is just her default emotion. Maybe that’s how she got to be speaker in the first place. Memo to the Democratic caucus: Find someone else to do PR."

at your link
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:03 PM
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11. Was he sleeping or reading?
Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 11:03 PM by deadparrot
At first, I thought lost of people were sleeping, but they all had copies of the speech and on closer inspection, I saw that their eyes were cast down reading along.
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Casablanca Donating Member (549 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:14 PM
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13. Neither. He was dreaming about his newfound political cachet. nt
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