aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Monday, June 23, 2008

He called her a what???

Tape of the actual incident is included in this discussion of a presidential debates:

ALAN SCHROEDER: This year on the campaign trail...John McCain was asked by someone in the audience about an ugly name that he had allegedly called his wife in public.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: Yes, she was making a joke about his thinning hair?

[OVERTALK]

ALAN SCHROEDER: Yeah.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: And he used a four-letter word in reference to her that begins with “c”.

ALAN SCHROEDER: That’s exactly right. And someone in a town hall audience stood up and asked him about that.

MARTY PARRISH: Is it true that you called your wife a [BLEEPING SOUND]?

[CROWD HUBBUB]

JOHN MCCAIN: Now, now, you don’t want to go there—You know, that’s the great thing about town hall meetings, sir, but we really don’t—there’s, there’s people here who don’t respect that kind of language, so onto the next questioner in the back.