Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

John McCain has released a second swiftboat attack ad on the "celebrity" theme(again designed expressly for consumption by the McMedia – shouldn’t the campaign be charged with the "fair value" of all this free advertising the networks are giving him?)

Maureen Dowd – whom I cannot stand – nevertheless insightfully pointed out in her opinion Op-Ed Columnist – McCain’s Green-Eyed Monster – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com:

Some of McCain’s old pals in the Senate are cringing at what they see as his soulless transformation into what he once scorned.

“John’s eaten up with envy,” said one. “His image of himself was always the handsome, celebrity flyboy.

“Now somebody else is the celebrity,” the colleague continued, while John looks in the mirror and sees his face marred by skin cancer and looks at the TV and sees his dashing self-image replaced by visions of William Frawley, with Letterman jokes about his membership in the ham radio club and adventures with wagon trains.

John McCain parlayed his "celebrity" status as the dashing admiral’s son returning home from a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp as a "war hero" into a political career. He has carefully crafted his "war hero" status over the years. It was his entree into politics, and it has defined his sense of entitlement to high office ever since. McCain believed that he could ride his "war hero" status into the Oval Office, but now along comes this new kid on the studio lot who is younger, smarter, more handsome, and has demonstrated box office appeal.  McCain has turned into the embittered has-been actor envious of the rising young star, like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard:

Joe Gillis:   You’re Norma Desmond.  You used to be in silent pictures.  You used to be big.

Norma Desmond:  I am big.  It’s the pictures that got small.

And like the demented Norma Desmond, John McCain has been telling us for the past decade, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up."

McCain has, in fact, racked up a rather impressive list of television and movie appearances that would make any young up-and-comer actor or actress jealous. The Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) has what is purported to be a complete list of credits for McCain’s television and film appearances. John McCain (I)  Check out this list. With this number of appearances, John McCain must be a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Union.

McCain’s most notable appearances have been his guest appearances on Saturday Night Live.  Particularly in 2002 when he hosted SNL.  McCain played the creepy husband "Dave" who was freaking out his wife.  After the Sturgis Bike Rally this week, I’m sure Cindy McCain can relate to the freaked-out wife in this skit.

I searched for clips of the episode on YouTube, but oddly enough the embed codes for the posted clips have been disabled at the request of the poster.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Advertisement Mark Nicholas at politicalbase.com is one of the few reporters covering this developing news story.  Last week Andrew McCain, son of Senator John McCain, suddenly resigned from the board of directors of Silver State Bancorp and Silver State Bank.  Nicholas reports that his departure was quickly followed by the sudden resignation … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: John McCain has begun airing an ad called "the original maverick."  Talk about being presumptuous and arrogant! The "original" Maverick was James Garner (right) as Bret Maverick in the classic western-comedy TV series Maverick (1957-1961).  The other Maverick brothers on the TV series were Jack Kelly (Bart Maverick), Roger Moore (Beauregard Maverick), … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: (No, that’s not Cindy.  This is Jessica, the 2008 cover girl for the Miss Buffalo Chip beauty contest) John McCain’s "do anything, say anything" for a vote campaign took him to the anything-goes Sturgis Bike Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, where he courted the biker veteran vote amid naked beauty pageants, nude … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Paris Hilton puts the hurt on John McCain with her own attack ad – take that old man.  And Paris has a more comprehensive energy policy than McCain too! See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The McCain campaign late last week began airing an Internet ad (again specifically designed for consumption by the McMedia), in which the campaign mocked Obama as "The One."  (The over-the-top bit with Charlton Heston as Moses may actually help Obama with Jewish voters and NRA members). But the real story of the … Read more

Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In my last post, I discussed how Republicans since Lee Atwater and Ronald Reagan have fore-sworn the overt form of racism which lasted well into the 1970s in favor of a more subtle form of racism which speaks in coded language.  (This has its roots in the "Southern Strategy" first adopted by … Read more