Not Ready for Prime Time Republicans
Sep. 5th, 2008 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akirluOkay, I admit I didn't watch the McCain speech last night. My craw was already full, thanks very much. But I don't think the television coverage would have shown this particular piece of McCain campaign blundering, anyway. Apparently the early part of McCain's speech was delivered in front of a giant photo of some big, stately building with a long run of lawn in front of it. Josh Marshall thought at first that it might be one of the uncountably many McCain homes.
No, Josh's readers did some digging and it turns out to have been Walter Reed. Walter Reed Middle School, in North Hollywood, that is. The McCain campaign isn't telling, but I would bet large amounts of money that this is because someone in charge of the slides did an image tags search to find a picture of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and nobody checked the info on the slide for accuracy.
This is bad enough, really. You'd think that in a group of high level politicos who aspire to get their guy to the highest office in the land, this level of sloppiness in prepping the biggest speech of their national convention just wouldn't be possible. I mean, what does it say about their attention to detail on other matters? What can we expect from a McCain White House, if this is the level of precision they settle for? "Sir, we've just bombed Savannah, Atlanta, and Athens....Oh. You meant Georgia the country? Darn."
But think about what the presence of that slide implies. It implies that nobody on McCain's staff knows what Walter Reed Hospital looks like. The main DC area hospital where heavily injured Iraq vets might go to for treatment, and nobody on the McCain staff even has enough familiarity with the place to know that the picture they have isn't the right building???
That's not support for our troops we can believe in.
No, Josh's readers did some digging and it turns out to have been Walter Reed. Walter Reed Middle School, in North Hollywood, that is. The McCain campaign isn't telling, but I would bet large amounts of money that this is because someone in charge of the slides did an image tags search to find a picture of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and nobody checked the info on the slide for accuracy.
This is bad enough, really. You'd think that in a group of high level politicos who aspire to get their guy to the highest office in the land, this level of sloppiness in prepping the biggest speech of their national convention just wouldn't be possible. I mean, what does it say about their attention to detail on other matters? What can we expect from a McCain White House, if this is the level of precision they settle for? "Sir, we've just bombed Savannah, Atlanta, and Athens....Oh. You meant Georgia the country? Darn."
But think about what the presence of that slide implies. It implies that nobody on McCain's staff knows what Walter Reed Hospital looks like. The main DC area hospital where heavily injured Iraq vets might go to for treatment, and nobody on the McCain staff even has enough familiarity with the place to know that the picture they have isn't the right building???
That's not support for our troops we can believe in.
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Date: 2008-09-05 07:06 pm (UTC)Still, while the Douglass/Douglas snafu is wildly stupid, it doesn't cut as close to the bone of the supposed core values of the Republican party as screwing up the picture of the nation's premiere military hospital.
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Date: 2008-09-05 06:38 pm (UTC)It's consistent with the way that campaign has been run.
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