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(Wonkette) Asinine John McCain: "I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago"   (wonkette.com) divider line 66
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baorao 2008-06-26 04:00:57 PM  
what a flip-flopper.

 
This 2008-06-26 04:30:56 PM  
Wow, that was a joke soaring above your head, smitty and original-article-guy.

*headslap*

McCain is a horrible candidate, but if I keep hearing crap like this from the liberal blogosphere I'm gonna lose it.

Whatever, gobama.

 
absoluteparanoia 2008-06-26 05:04:01 PM  
He stopped as soon as she stopped plastering makeup on like a trollop, you coont.

 
RobertBruce [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 05:12:10 PM  
Way to miss the joke, subby. (and whoever greened this)

 
BobtheFascist 2008-06-26 05:23:54 PM  
And they say right wingers can't take a joke.

 
FlashHarry [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 05:27:21 PM  
answer yes or no, submittard: have you stopped molesting poodles?

 
Churchill2004 [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 05:35:10 PM  
icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com


For Wonkette and smitty.

 
MaxxLarge [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 05:56:24 PM  
It's called a "loaded question," Subtard. Kind of like, "When's the last time your mom caught you masturbatng?" Or, "Do your friends know you hate them?"

 
doctorzorro 2008-06-26 06:01:21 PM  
www.clicktoremove.net

 
Churchill2004 [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 06:45:22 PM  
Besides, has any one ever watched McCain move his arms? Any one who couldn't escape his robotic flailing deserves to be beaten.

 
Obdicut [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 07:10:37 PM  
MaxxLarge: It's called a "loaded question," Subtard. Kind of like, "When's the last time your mom caught you masturbatng?" Or, "Do your friends know you hate them?"

Churchill2004: For Wonkette and smitty.

FlashHarry: answer yes or no, submittard: have you stopped molesting poodles?

RobertBruce: Way to miss the joke, subby. (and whoever greened this)

BobtheFascist: And they say right wingers can't take a joke.

This: Wow, that was a joke soaring above your head, smitty and original-article-guy.

You didn't read the article, did you?

 
Churchill2004 [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 07:41:20 PM  
Obdicut: You didn't read the article, did you?

Yes, I did. TFA still fails for getting outraged about this.

 
Cagey B [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 07:51:05 PM  
Churchill2004: Besides, has any one ever watched McCain move his arms? Any one who couldn't escape his robotic flailing deserves to be beaten.

"Danger Cindi McCain! Danger!"

 
bulldg4life [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 08:05:41 PM  
I'm so very confused

 
Funk Brothers 2008-06-26 08:20:35 PM  
Guidos beat their wives daily. What's the problem?

 
magores 2008-06-26 08:23:34 PM  
Subby: John McCain: "I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago"

It's a misquote. If you listen closely, you can hear him say "I stopped beating off on my wife just a couple of weeks ago"

 
RemyDuron 2008-06-26 08:25:11 PM  
Wow, what a stupid thing to get outraged about. It makes perfect sense in context and is actually rather clever. I hate McCain but come on, it was a good line.

 
d'art 2008-06-26 08:27:53 PM  
Obama supporter. I got the joke. I thought it was a clever retort.

Granted, if this is the type of extemporaneous "straight talk" you can expect from John McCain, I'd hate to be his press secretary.

 
kirby528 2008-06-26 08:28:03 PM  
Cagey B: Churchill2004: Besides, has any one ever watched McCain move his arms? Any one who couldn't escape his robotic flailing deserves to be beaten.

"Danger Cindi McCain! Danger!"


Hahahaha thread over

 
Psychohazard 2008-06-26 08:30:10 PM  
Meh. A campaign gearing up for the general election has to pander somewhat to the centrist wife-beating Republicans. Way I see it, he just clinched Tennessee.

 
Raskolnikov's Angst 2008-06-26 08:31:19 PM  
Whoops!

Question I want to know is did the staffers at Wonkette know it was referring to a loaded question originally, or did they modify the article after it was made clear in the comments section below?

 
Seabon 2008-06-26 08:33:14 PM  
That's about when she started attacking Obama...

 
Opiate of the Lasses 2008-06-26 08:33:29 PM  
d'art: Obama supporter. I got the joke. I thought it was a clever retort.

Pretty much this. Move along, folks.

 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 08:36:04 PM  
Wow. This article was a giant pot of crap.

They note it's "riffing off an old joke," and still write that piece of crap anyway? Good grief.

Sorry, I won't be holding this against McCain.

 
NewsFlash 2008-06-26 08:37:02 PM  
But...but...he's OLD!!!1!!

 
Choo-Choo Bear 2008-06-26 08:38:24 PM  
Raskolnikov's Angst: Whoops!

Question I want to know is did the staffers at Wonkette know it was referring to a loaded question originally, or did they modify the article after it was made clear in the comments section below?


FTA: "What does that Joke even mean?"

Yeah, they pretty much modified it with an addition after the fact.

 
sarcastrophe 2008-06-26 08:38:39 PM  
Relatively Obscure: Wow. This article wasWonkette is a giant pot of crap.

They note it's "riffing off an old joke," and still write that piece of crap anyway? Good grief.

Sorry, I won't be holding this against McCain.

 
i has an internet 2008-06-26 08:43:20 PM  
With all the stupid, and at a bare minimum ironically funny, crap McCain manages to say within the span of a week, why even bother with this?

/also "pancakes" is thoroughly played out at this point.

 
phygz [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 08:43:35 PM  
You'll never hear a crack like this out of Obama, his wife would smack him silly.

/Obama = Doug Christie
//I don't trust guys who are pussywhipped

 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 08:44:44 PM  
sarcastrophe: Relatively Obscure: Wow. This article wasWonkette is a giant pot of crap.

They note it's "riffing off an old joke," and still write that piece of crap anyway? Good grief.

Sorry, I won't be holding this against McCain.


Danke.

/ll.

 
Choo-Choo Bear 2008-06-26 08:46:54 PM  
Relatively Obscure: Danke.

/ll.


uh no? ll. you are wrong

 
milk_plus 2008-06-26 08:51:18 PM  
and then he added, "I'm just kidding, I'm far to feeble to beat a sick toddler never mind a grown woman."

 
timefishblue 2008-06-26 08:53:50 PM  
This is almost as pathetic as "terrorist fist-jab". There's no need to bring yourself down to the level of a talk radio show host when there are plenty of real things to attack him for.

 
Churchill2004 [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 08:54:53 PM  
Cagey B: Churchill2004: Besides, has any one ever watched McCain move his arms? Any one who couldn't escape his robotic flailing deserves to be beaten.

"Danger Cindi McCain! Danger!"


i50.photobucket.com

 
DoWhatNowToWhat 2008-06-26 08:56:03 PM  
That McCain always going for the younger vote who know old jokes.

 
SnakeLee [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 09:12:44 PM  
"When did you stop beating your wife?" is a sort of joke line that lawyers use. The idea is that you ask the defendant or plaintiff that question, then when they hem and haw over it you say "oh, sorry question withdrawn" but the jury saw the whole exchange.

Here are the origins of the expression: Link (new window)

Here is something else:
Link (new window)

Please try googling it as it is a very common thing. I can't believe this is an issue and I am 100% pro-Obama. He means that the question was loaded and the guy was an asshole for saying it.

 
Trey Le Parc 2008-06-26 09:18:39 PM  
Hey, Submittard,

-10.

 
Mangoose 2008-06-26 09:21:22 PM  
Considering that he meant it as he's not distancing himself from the Gov of NV or the POTUS, It means he hasn't stopped beating his wife.

That's how I understood it.

 
GoodyearPimp 2008-06-26 09:21:29 PM  
It's manufactured outrage like this that keeps candidates from saying anything at all (most of the time) outside of structured, staged settings. So when they say "no comment", it's really just them thumbing their nose at the voracious media that will seize any soundbite and spin it into something worse than the devil incarnate.

Thanks idiotic press whores.

 
Obdicut [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 09:22:02 PM  
SnakeLee: Please try googling it as it is a very common thing. I can't believe this is an issue and I am 100% pro-Obama. He means that the question was loaded and the guy was an asshole for saying it.

The question was loaded, but he's not an asshole for saying it. It's not a "when did you stop beating your wife?" question because it contains no begging of the question.

It is, in fact, a rather good question.

 
thalidomide new and improved 2008-06-26 09:24:47 PM  
magores: Subby: John McCain: "I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago"

It's a misquote. If you listen closely, you can hear him say "I stopped beating off on my wife just a couple of weeks ago"


O RLY?

I'm still beating off to his wife.

a.abcnews.com

 
Falcc 2008-06-26 09:25:52 PM  
SnakeLee: "When did you stop beating your wife?" is a sort of joke line that lawyers use. The idea is that you ask the defendant or plaintiff that question, then when they hem and haw over it you say "oh, sorry question withdrawn" but the jury saw the whole exchange.

Here are the origins of the expression: Link (new window)

Here is something else:
Link (new window)

Please try googling it as it is a very common thing. I can't believe this is an issue and I am 100% pro-Obama. He means that the question was loaded and the guy was an asshole for saying it.


Thanks for clearing that up for me. It's actually rather humorous now that I understand it. I'm still pissed off for having to click a Wonkette link though. I can almost hear hens clucking in the backro- oh wait, there's actually a chicken outside my window. My point remains valid though.

/Does own chickens
//Hens clucking are nowhere near as annoying as Wonkette
///gObama!

 
wildcardjack 2008-06-26 09:41:00 PM  
Wow, isn't this right out of Heinlein's 1956 "Double Star" where the narrator delivers the bit about trick questions "I will not answer loaded questions like 'How long has it been since you last beat your wife'"

 
Bacontastesgood 2008-06-26 09:52:56 PM  
Whoever is outraged by this needs to have their humor meters fixed. Next up, McCain will make some Polack and dead baby jokes, because those are perfectly appropriate for someone running for president.

No ghey jokes, though, it is the GOP and just hits too close to home.

 
IlGreven 2008-06-26 09:58:17 PM  
Churchill2004: Obdicut: You didn't read the article, did you?

Yes, I did. TFA still fails for getting outraged about this.


...you do realize that she's getting "outraged" at the fact that he made the joke in the first place to signify he thought the question he was just asked was loaded. Which it was ("So they think you're running away from him like you're running away from Bush?"). He could've just said "That's a loaded question and you know it." At the very least, it wouldn't get the blaggers all a flutter.

 
peachpicker [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 09:58:54 PM  
"Yes, Senator McCain, just one question please: If a fag jumped on your back, would you beat him off?"

/ah, 5th grade

 
Churchill2004 [TotalFark] 2008-06-26 10:04:46 PM  
IlGreven: He could've just said "That's a loaded question and you know it." At the very least, it wouldn't get the blaggers all a flutter

If this is the sort of nonsense that sets bloggers all a flutter, I don't really see why we should care.

 
SubBass49 2008-06-26 10:06:37 PM  
img47.imageshack.us

 
Funk Brothers 2008-06-26 10:08:16 PM  
SubBass49

McCain doesn't use computers, he gets from Cindy.

 
joegekko 2008-06-26 10:19:23 PM  
I know it's an old gag, YOU know it's an old gag, but do you know who doesn't know it's a gag at all?

Most of the rest of the country, that's who. What an incredibly dense thing for a POTUS candidate to say out loud.

 
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