OMG!!!! I can't believe that in approximately 1.5 seconds I spent scanning this page, I didn't find a single diary about this staggeringly important development. I can't stop hyperventilating this is so amazing!!! Thankfully, I, your faithful diarist, am here to bring you the full story on McCain's total nervous breakdown on an obscure interview show that nobody's probably heard of and nobody on this site would have already been watching, with an even more obscure interviewer. As we in-the-know Cozaks like to say, go in pursuit of me beneath the crease and you will reach the same enlightened state as I.
The show is called This Weak, on a cable channel called ABC, and is hosted by George Stephanopolous, who, it turned out when I looked him up in wikipedia, actually once worked in the administration of Bill Clinton, who, it turned out when I looked him up in Wikipedia used to be president.
The full clip is here, but let me just run down some of the highlights.
The viewer on this link I'm using shows time remaining in the video, rather than time elapsed.
(-20:15) - McCain is already at the point of busting a vein, as you can tell by the fact that he raises his eyebrows while blandly praising the work of the people negotiating the bailout.
(-19:00) - McCain can barely contain himself, gesturing with his hands no fewer than three times in 15 seconds as he makes what is sure to be a wildly unpopular condemnation of pork barrel spending.
(-16:12) - He actually raises both hands up to the level of his chin and says "Wow" -- clearly this is an implicit threat that he's going to choke Stephanopolous at any second, while he babbles incoherently about their being economic problems beyond those being addressed in the bailout.
(-10:54) - He finally grips his water mug with both hands, in a last-ditch effort to prevent him self from punching Stephanopoulous' lights out, as he goes off on a bizarre tangent about the role of government regulation of the financial industry.
(-7:30) - Stephanopolous asks him a question that he never in a million years could have possibly anticipated, regarding the perception that his failure to make eye contact with Obama in the debate showed disdain. McCain replies with what can only be described as the most maniacal, diabolical, purely evil laugh in all of history, and goes on to talk about looking at the camera, taking notes, looking at the moderator, etc.
(-6:50) - Stephanopoplous digs up video that surely nobody else has seen and for which McCain can't possibly have prepared an answer in advance, in which Sarah Palin is quoted as saying she would attack Pakistan if that's where the terrists are. Okay, at this point I was hyperventilating so badly that passed out, but I'm pretty sure McCain picked up a chair and broke it over Stephanopolous' head, then shot up the camera crew.
Well, that's it. I'm off to start a new diary about an obscure article in a little-noticed news service called Associated Press.
UPDATE!!! First time on the Rec list!!! Woo-hoo!!! Thank you!!!