SOS! It’s McCain’s POW Card Waterloo
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When CNN’s Walter Isaacson confronted John McCain about his professed love of the band of ABBA, which of course was a lame attempt to cater to “disaffected Hillary supporters” as his blogger Michael Goldfarb made clear, McCain (you guessed it) whipped out the trusty ol’ POW card to explain:
“What were you thinking?,” Isaacson asked him, looking incredulous.
“If there is anything I am lacking in, I’ve got to tell you, it is taste in music and art and other great things in life,” McCain joked. “I’ve got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane and never caught up again.”
But, as Spencer Ackerman was quick to point out:
What? McCain was shot down in 1967. ABBA began making music in 1972. Don’t try this sh** on me, McCain! Your POW experience has nothing to do with your Partridgey musical taste.
August 26th, 2008 at 20:57
Eh. Sure it does, why not? Being out of the loop for six years (including time not spent as a POW, of course) definitely should change your musical preferences. And besides, those are based on a shitload of factors, like the quality of the song, whether everyone else likes it, the circumstances in which you hear it, and so on. Yes, how good the song is actually matters in whether you like it. This is a surprise to me, too — music tastes aren’t just social.
Also, ABBA is pretty cool. Those Super Trouper lights are gonna blind me.
I don’t think Eldon Smith said anything wrong there.
Oh, silly me. I meant John Sidney McCain. Eldon Smith, John McCain, whatever. Eldon Smith is just for when you want to buy a mansion outside your congressional district under an assumed name, really. What, are presidential candidates not allowed to have pseudonyms sometimes for when they want to buy things in secret?