Tuesday, September 30, 2008

A seriously wacked Reg article about John McCain's daughter

McCain's daughter visits Irvine:

The OC Register reports that, in Irvine today, people lined up at A Whale of a Tale Children’s Bookshoppe to meet John McCain’s daughter, 23-year-old Meghan McCain, who has written an illustrated biography of the GOP Presidential candidate entitled “My Dad, John McCain.”

The OC Register story quotes someone named Irine Barbashova. "I'm just fed up with the socialists," declares Ms. Barbashova.

OK. So I guess that means she likes McCain. Or does it mean she doesn't like 'im? (He's supporting the bailout.)

The Reg reporter explains that Barbashova arrived at the bookstore with her three daughters, who “seemed preconscious.”

They seemed preconscious? What does that mean? 

Ms. B, we’re told, has a 16-year-old who “wore a psyched smile….”

A psyched smile?

Meghan explains that her first draft of the book was too “ominous” and “intense.” Hence, “A monkey fist that John McCain may have been served as a prisoner of war was softened to a slightly less-gross chicken foot.”

OK, the Reg writer is saying that those nasty North Vietnamese jailers (a) softened prisoners’ meat and also (b) turned this monkey meat into chicken meat. Or maybe John softened and transformed the meat himself. Could be.

Evidently, Meghan was asked whether Sarah Palin would make a good subject for a bio:

"I straight up can't say I know what it's like to be a moose hunter," she said, likening Palin to ye-olde American sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

Ye-olde?

Is it just me, or is this writing seriously wacked?

THE PALIN-MCCAIN FOLLIES CONTINUE:

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ye Olde OC Register death watch has been going on for awhile over at the OC Weekly's blog.

Pretty awful, ain't it?

Anonymous said...

^
this guy's losing hope.

Anonymous said...

Yeah! McCain's kid is a babe and writes children's books about her dad! Then she shows up in the OC! It's just killing you folks ain't it? McCain/Palin have so much more going for them than the inferior ticket. Middle America in in love with them and you can't deal with it!

Anonymous said...

Hey I bet Roy showed up at the book singing and gave her his famous stink eye. Either that or he looked over the wall at her like a killroy.

Anonymous said...

The Reg corrected "preconscious." It changed to "precocious."

Anonymous said...

Campaigns seem to now require books not only for solid chapter-book readers, but also for even younger kids. Simon & Schuster (Megan McCain's publisher), not knowing at deadline who'd be the Democratic nominee, published an Obama and a Hillary too. Here's a Boston Globe article covering this new "smackdown" venue. And S&S isn't alone: My kid's reading the "Yes We Can" Obama book from a different publisher.

PS: I like "preconscious" better. I think we have a new word here. I think it might identify the state of mind of those of us who don't do mornings well. I'm sure "postconscious" could grow some legs, too.

Anonymous said...

McCain's daughter should run for VP she is hotter than Palin,
lol

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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