2 posts tagged “republican stupidity”

Things have gotten to a really strange place when Saturday Night Live can do skit that is hilarious using a political candidate's actual words, will only very minor modification.  The Republicans really are killing political satire.  How do you outdo people who are so over the top?  Here is a side-by-side comparison of the actual Sarah Palin interview and the Tina Fey version that appeared on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

Okay, now you and I might get confused when asked about Prime Minister Zapatero and not realize he is the Prime Minister of Spain, one of our NATO allies, but for John McCain whose strength is supposed to be foreign policy, this is just downright embarrassing (via Josh Marshall):

At first it sounds like McCain is taking a hard neocon line against Prime Minister Zapatero, but as the interviewer continues to press the point, it becomes pretty obvious that McCain has no idea who she's talking about.

 
Then there's this from blogger hilzoy:

It's not like Bush's not knowing who the head of Pakistan was in 2000. In that case, Bush was asked a surprise question. In this case, McCain was being interviewed by Spanish media. If he wasn't briefed on Spain, including the name of its Prime Minister, before he sat down for that interview, then he has completely incompetent staff, who should be fired on the spot. (Avoiding mistakes like this is part of what they're paid for.) If he was briefed on that, then it's not just that he forgot, in the sense of not being able to recall the name when asked. That happens sometimes, but it's not what happened here. Here, he didn't recognize the name when someone else said it.

And he knows more about this stuff than the economy?  Ouch.