You know, some snark just occurs in life and you just go ahead and publish it without embellishment.
Your News Center Channel 8 in Alexandria, Virginia has more:
We have the tape of a 911 call made by John McCain’s brother earlier this week.
He called the police emergency line because he was angry he was stuck in traffic.
The 911 call came into the City of Alexandria on Oct. 21st That’s creating some buzz because it appears to come from Joe McCain, John McCain’s brother.
Operator: 911 state your emergency
Caller: It’s not an emergency but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic’s coming the other way?
Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)
Caller: "(Expletive) you." (caller hangs up)
He’s like all the Bush brothers rolled into one, dipped into a bit vat of essence of Billy Carter and rolled into Roger Clinton sprinkles with just a twist of Donald Nixon.
There’s always a chance this wasn’t Joe of course. It could have been the work of the Northern Virginia Communist Party.
Oh, there’s video, thanks AmericaBlog!
(pic via WJLA/NewsChannel 8)



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elitist!
Raven…see your nieghbor let you use their yard to film your dogs. The little black gal is a bundle of joy as she entertains her buddy and any audience she can get. Hammin it up…ready for Dollywood. G)
Oops Turk forgot OT was closed so on topic.
The ruling class does not obey the rules…they are a Royal pain in the ass.
heh, Royal PITA, indeed!
He’s so busy fighting Communism in Northern Virginia and yet he still has time to participate in traffic control? What a Great Citizen.
a “very important family political project.”
attaturk, you missed the best part!
the police call back to issue the warning, joe doesn’t pick up and it goes to voice mail so the police leave a message
JOE CALLS BACK TO COMPLAING ABOUT THE MESSAGE THE POLICE LEFT!
that’s bad enough, but I am guessing he called bacl 911 to make the complaint, oterwise the officer wouldn’t have known why the message was left
so he ties up 911 AGAIN, to complaign about the warning
tool
Right. When being an asshole once just isn’t enough…
Joe the Complainer!
Yep, Marion — repetitive asshole. And an entitled repetitive asshole at that.
Yea, she’s something else.
Mornin’, gang-
Y’all may be talking about mcpalin’s brother but basically every comment made thus far could also apply to scar today. *G*
Boy howdy, does he have his nose out of joint about the “elites” who look down their noses and make fun of his poor widdle baby palin!
*click*
Good morning, pups. The NYT columnists are off today so we can focus on the paper’s endorsement of Obama. It’s 1800 words or so, indicting Bush and McCain and laying out all the reasons for supporting Obama. It’s worth reading.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got banana nut muffins this morning. Mr. Marion in Savannah and I are planning to vote this afternoon after I get off from work. I’ll report later on what I see. Have a great day.
The editorial about George Wallace is worth a read, especially by Mc Cain. If you don’t know much about him check it out.
Wan’y that just perfect? Stay classy, McInsane Bros.!
Transcript of John’s call to Joe:
John: Joe! What the beep are you doing? You beep moron! Don’t you beep realize, you beep beep beep, the beep liberal beep elite media is beep every beep beep action the beep made by the beep campaign! Like that beep trollop Palin isn’t beep enough of a beep beep beep problem. You gotta go call beep 9 beep 11. What the beep is your major malfunction!
Joe: beep you. [click]
He was a squid, whaddaya expect?
so, this is made public because Joe is not a native of this precinct and I am wondering if he’s done this in his own town it was just never made public
one would think he does this 911 thing all the time if he did it so casually here
Joe is in full on whine mode this morning.
“The elitists won’t stop making fun of Sarah Palin….waaaaaahhhhhh!!”
“Joe, “John Mc Cain is not Bob Dole.” You got that right, glam flyboy vs a grunt.
That video is actually from WJLA-TV, channel 7 in DC. WJLA is DC’s ABC affiliate. It was picked up and rebroadcast on the local cable-only news channel, ”Channel 8”.
Did McCain get his cell phone back? I remember awhile back they took his cell phone away
Actually, it’s Palin who should read, mark and inwardly digest that editorial. She’s the one who’s going to prowl around the lunatic fringe of her party going into the future while McCain fades into ignominy.
beats me. The transcript of that call would be a riot tho.
Absolutely worth reading. It was a pleasure to read a reality-based assessment of Bush/McCain after suffering through the Washington Post’s mealy-mouthed endorsement of Obama.
Mc Cain is doing exactly what Wallace did in.
Palin is who she always was.
Don’ja love it when a plan comes together? The twit’s so deep in his pity party mode I just can’t resist going back occasionally for the enjoyment factor. *G*
Worse yet, they told reporters who questioned a discrepancy between a McCain statement and what a campaign spokesman said: “He doesn’t speak for the campaign.”
Now try to imagine a commander-in-chief putting up with that. Try to imagine Obama putting up with that. How can anyone take this man seriously? (Of course, we have to take him seriously, because there some chance, however small, that he might wind up in charge of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.)
ari posts over at oxdown, palin refuses to call bombers of abortion clinics “terrorists”
gotta go viral with that
she’s a fucking box of rocks
the new York times is in financial difficulty and will probably not exist in another two years
or Murdock buys it
one or the other
I cannot say Insane McCain anymore unless I specify if it is Crazy Joe or Crazy John. Could it be insanity runs in the family or Crazy Joe must have also been a POW?
Gee, Joe and John sure do whine alot. When will Joe issue a statement saying it was all the media’s fault.
over at oxdown I posted a youtube with some incredible information about mccain
the real mccain
I don’t know if the info in the youtube is verafiable and it might be a swiftboating of mccain but man, that testimony is powerful
I’d like some of the dogs offer their opinion on if the youtube is important data or a swiftboat
Joe the Dumber
he was taken out of context
What a horrible person she is. Maybe somebody should ask her about Eric Rudolph, afterall he was said to be a religious man.
Mornin’. Love all that stuff but still hopin’, as every day, that NJP cooks up some Taylor Ham.
hey marion. I saw a poll at Kos, i think, yesterday that says GA is tight (not just the Senate race but Prez, too). Now, i fugured we ‘d do better than Kerry but actually win? No chance I figured. They haven’t really spent there. But I think you said they have a pretty good grassroots organization. Winning GA isn’t realistic, is it?
“palin appointed friends/donors to key posts in Alaska”
http://www.latimes.com/news/po…..3728.story
Incompetent appoints incompetents…..quel surprise!
Jill Biden down here Saturday morning. Would like to go. Don’t think I can. Don’t think it’ll be a very big crowd. But after Barack & Hillary got 60,000 in a parking lot on Monday, don’t think too many people will get too psyced about Jill. I thought she usually went where others didn’t go/haven’t been. then again, they need big early voting numbers desparately.
that should be an oxdown post, that is good all by itself
Good article not surprising. Makes a point i often suspected. Apponting donors and friends is nothing new and I can deal with that. But she went out of her way to appoint incomeptent/inqualified donors and friends.
Morning All’
Breaking, in what may be the largest in kind contribution ever, Joe the proctologist has offered free cranial extractions to McShame campaign.
Thanks for the link to the NYT editorial, Marion. That pretty much says it for me.
The French National audiovisual archive is showing McCain’s interview from 1968.
In it he makes comments to the French reporter, the late Francois Chalias.
In the interview, McCain said he was treated well by his Vietnamese captors. Asked about the food, he told his French interviewer,”It’s not like Paris..but I eat it”.After landing in the lake, McCain said he “was picked up and taken to the hospital, where I almost died”‘
Video at http://www.ina.fr…apparently only for one week.
The reporters widow says that the footage used by McCain’s campaign is being done without her permission.
No complaints of torture and starving and being beaten? Video is 4mins33secs…
I hate doing links…http://www.ins.fr
no.3…. http://www.ina.fr
I’ve been flipping channels this morning and this is what I discovered. Joe sounds elitist when he preaching about elitism; GMA had an interview with Barack and when he spoke about his grandmother, I got teary eyed; and Today Show had Hoover’s great granddaughter on praising McCain and explaining how Hoover didn’t cause the Great Depression.
Obama did mention that because of all the cards, emails and flowers his grandmother received that she is finally getting the recognition that she deserves.
Here’s the direct link to the McCain interview.
Morning. McC has a new attack ad. It’s Joe Biden’s quote about testing the mettle of Obama. Ends with “It doesn’t have to happen. Vote McCain”. Does nothing for me, I sort of laughed at Joe’s idiocy when I heard the quote. But I cringed too. What do you all think?
Juan Cole this morning points out that Sarah Palin’s wardrobe expenditures violate the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law.
“9-1-1, please state your emergency.”
“CNN just sent a goddamned camera crew out to interview the black side of my goddamned family!”
“Sucks to be you sir. No get off our goddamned line.”
not only do they violate campaign finance law, mccain has public money, that’s YOU paying for her rediculous wardrobe
did you see her 70’s leather disco shirt the other day?
who the HELL is dressing this women, she looks like she’s auditioning for a flashdance show
I don’t care HOW much she spent on this wardrobe, as far as I am concerned it is HIDEOUS and does NOT become a vice president
I cringed too at the time. But as i think about it I wonder. Do they feel confident enougjh to attack McCain’s alleged/purported/perceived strength? Do they think they suceeded as painting McCain as erratic because of the way he handled the economy and can extend that to a general impression of erratic, period. Other side, has Obama esatblished himself as the steadier of the two in general and therefore the guy you want to go to in a crisis-domestic or foreign? Or was Joe just saying stupid shit as he is want to do? i think the latter, but they can run with it on all of the other grounds I asked about, i.e. that Obama is just plain steadier and more reliable. Saw what i think is a follow up yesterday with Biden saying that McCain is “loose.” I’ll bet Obama was pissed when he first heard about Joe’s remarks but i think they should embrace them rather than ruun from them. Use it as an opportunity tyo paint McCain as the doddering old fart that he has so often appeared to be and to remind people that an incompetent fool would be next in line.
Bottom line? it’s not going to matter. Although it does give them something else to talk about when I was hopeful they would keep talking about Ayers and that stuff because it was going nowhere.
And that’s what I think.
Thanks for looking…Now for a long link to the Daily Mail where I first got the information…wish me luck…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..m-War.html
LOL.
Jeez. How could I have never thought of it that way? I was so struck by the ridiculousness and hypcrisy (I’m aplain ol’ hockey mom) of it that I completely forgot. We’re footing the bill. i think. Did the RNC pay for teh stuff or the McCain campaign?
Important…of course. I can’t get the video to play that I mentioned at #47. Hope about you watch it and see if you can tell from his voice if he is being forced to lie…or not?
Being called a “brilliant scholar” by KKKathleen Parker is
sort of like being called a stud by Jonah Goldberg.
Granted, the Drilla from Wasilla is political Viagara™ for the GOP.
But will they respect each other in the morning?
I don’t know if it will be effective. I agree it was dumb, using the fear card against oneself. I try to view these things without bias but that’s not easy. I personally think Biden is correct. Putin, especially, will use his new-found muscle (thanks to Bush) to test Obama. So, I think Biden was pointing out how the world works rather than thinking like a candidate. I’m just hoping that everyone realizes that the last person you want facing a crisis is John McCain.
One more thing. I think we’re so shell-shocked by the economy that it trumps all else.
yup, we bought her that red leather stripper shirt.
but here are the practical ramificaitons;
she should have spent about 10,000 dillars and that would have seemed a bit much
that leaves 140,000 dollars for some advertising
he is pulling out of states of lack of funds, 140,000 dollars can go quite a ways…these are truly morons to throw that kind of money away on red leather stripper shirts
I got it to play, I have to say, mccain had actor good looks.
anyway, it’s hard to tell if he was being coerced or not, he is incapacitated in bed, he is being questioned in a foreign tongue, he would have no idea if the journalist was friend or foe.
he could be protecting his hide for sure and that would mean he is not being candid about his captivity
I don’t think we can make any evalutation from that interview
There was an article somewhere yesterday that the stores cannot verify that the RNC actually spent that money on clothes, raising the specter of what it was actually used for. I’ll see if I can find it.
Numbers.
Orange County, Florida. Early Voting totals (through and including wednesday=3 days)
Total: 24, 185
Dem 15, 065
Repub 5,060
Other 4,060
Compare to 2004–figgers for entire early voting period
Total: 79, 202
Dem 37, 604
Repub 25, 595
Other 16, 003
You guys can do all the extrapolation stuff ’cause I suck at math. But seems to me we’re way ahead turnout wise and the ratio of us-them is way higher.
that would make sense but i do not believe sarah would allow herself to be the scapegoat
and red leather disco shirts costs oodles if I remember my disco days
Here’s the link.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.c…..015336.php
I believe you might be talking about expenditures to todds wardrobe.
ya, from what I read nobody can track down what he did with that money
I am guessing a new snowmobile
snowmobiles are very important campaign vehicles in case you did not know that
Agree with everything you said totally with one exception: “Biden is correct.” I was thinking about all the stuff i put in my previous comment and I thought my biggest problem with what Joe said is how the hell does he know? What is he? Clairvoyant? but i love Joe and think he’s been a very good addition. Maybe that isn’t hard given his counterpart. Great observation though about playing the fear card against youself. LOL.
aha, I see the article, notice that their child gets a 98 dollar item but the store can’t find the records of that either
the palins are trash and they are stealing money because they can claim it
surprise surprise
Here’s the original article. Iffy spending includes husband & kids.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes…..es-linger/
This article explains McCain…cover up of POW information etc….
And they spent more on clothes in that month than they paid their senior foreign policy advisor. Guess everybody needs priorities.
Joe’s brother is about to receive a (expletive) you! from the American people
It is just me that doesn’t know what plugins to pick…I don’t push any button that I don’t understand the use of…just in case I screw up my computer!
If he was still on the bed, I rather doubt he had been tortured. He broke both arms and a leg from the ejection force. So, I think his problem is that he told them right away who he was so that he wouldn’t be tortured. I suspect that maybe some POWs were left behind in his prison and that he knew and/or had some reason not to say anything. A reason like…they knew that he was a rat right from the start to gain favor with the Vietnamese. And he doesn’t want any records or live POWs found over there…either of which could tell the truth…records or men…
He did have the records classified..why? Obviously CYA.
The men in the video tape aren’t lying. A good article at Truthout from Sept 18/08.
http://www.truthout.org/articl…..ow-coverup
Joe has a short fuse, and when it blows, well, he goes into dumbass territory.
John has a short fuse, and when it blows, well, he makes sure Cindy “knows” it.
Their dad, the admiral left quite the legacy to the country he fought for. America got screwed.
And who wants to be ole Joe McCain when calling Johnny can’t get through because the line is busy will call operator to have them break into the line for him!
What an asshole. All Joe’s who have an “R” after their name appear to be assholes. Joe McCain, Joe Lieberman, Joe Scarborough…
McCain ignored the man who saved him from the crowd that was beating him when he first landed in the lake. I can think of only one reason why he would do that..Mai Van On was witness to the fact that he was not tortured..he was briefly beaten by the crowd.
With all of Cindy’s millions at his disposal, he did nothing for this man and his family. He met Mai Van On once in Hanoi in 1996. He gave him a small Senate memento. That is all he ever gave him. How sick is that? Again, it has to be a case of CYA. The man contradicted the torture that McCain says he suffered right from the start of his imprisonment. He did not even mention this man,that saved his life, in his autobiography!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..-life-html
nice research you butterfly you
Thanks…I can read quickly..I just can’t type worth a damn!
We must remember that John Boy is maintaining the family tradition of CYA and cover up at all costs. It was his father, Admiral John S. McCain that stonewalled the investigation of the Israel attack on the USS Liberty..a War Crime. If his father had not refused to sign the US Navy Court of Inquiry Report, the sailors would have got justice and the US would not be under the influence of Israel as it is today.
BBC did a great documentary “Dead in the Water”.
This site has audio clips of interviews that are very informative.
The McCain men have much to answer for…proud family tradition of being traitors…
http://home.cfl.rr.com/gidusko/liberty/
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