Big Sky Cairn

I was checking Drudge today when I saw something so ludicrous that it could only be considered laugh out loud funny.

An article on SkyNews was describing how footage of John McCain as a POW is being released from the French archive, and they decided to use this gem in the second paragraph:

The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette.

Seriously? The man was shot down, bayonetted and tortured but the story of his patriotism might be tainted because he smoked a cigarette!  Un-be-lievable.

First off, who wasn’t smoking in the 70s?  Second, if I got stabbed in the chest and was being held in a Vietnamese hospital by people who just 24 hours before had been trying to kill me, I’d probably want a little nicotine too.  M

My gosh, how politically correct are we expected to be?  Will someone now demand that we CGI the footage to replace the cigarette with a delicious lollipop.  Oh wait, suckers are made with high fructose corn syrup can’t have that.

Maybe we can have him sucking on a straw.  Oh but aren’t straws made of petroleum based plastics, nope that won’t work.  Wait we can make it a biodegradable straw made of compressed corn!  After all, McCain is a maverick. He should be leading the green energy movement three decades in advance.

Out with the unhealthy cigarette and in with the eco-friendly compostable straws.

Way to embrace the mavericky maverickness.

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Oddly, before they were trying to kill McCain, McCain was trying to kill them with his large toy.

Where’s Wiley?

Smoking a cigarette, what’s the big deal?

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And Mark, Wiley is out back, smoking a cigarette.

Like I said, Wiley is off with his lovely wife. He doesn’t write, he doesn’t call, he barely even answers my G-Chat.