Reporter Explains John McCain Does Know Where Spain Is, Just Doesn’t Feel Like Telling You
18 September 2008, 2:05 PM. By Daniel Mauser
During a recent interview with a Miami-based reporter, Presidential Candidatasaurus John McCain revealed that either 1) he does not know who Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is, 2) believes Spain to be in South America or 3) needs a nap:
After the interviewer presses him a couple times on the point and tries to focus him on the fact that Prime Minister Zapatero isn’t from Mexico and isn’t a drug lord either McCain comes back at her saying, “All I can tell you is that I have a clear record of working with leaders in the Hemisphere that are friends with us and standing up to those who are not. And that’s judged on the basis of the importance of our relationship with Latin America and the entire region.”
Then there’s a moment of awkward pause before she says. “But what about Europe? I’m talking about the President of Spain.”
McCain: “What about me, what?
Bwahahahahahaheavingsobs! To be fair, he thought this was the Spanish Inquisition.
The reporter, Yoli Cuello, stuck her neck out to say she doesn’t believe McCain has been unaware of political figures post-Lincoln, frozen as he was inside a diamond-studded giant metal tube some 3,000 feet under Arizona, but was trying to deliberately avoid answering her questions:
Asked why she thought McCain would duck the question, she said: “The policies regarding Iraq. Because he’s a Republican. The [Bush] administration doesn’t have good relations with Zapatero.”
And then John McCain flew into the room, riding an eagle-shark, to bite off Yoli’s face.
Embarrassing [TPM]
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Ay dios, mio. If this schmuck McCain acts this way toward Spaniards, you can only imagine how he feels about actual Latinos…who not only have Spanish blood but (gasp) indigenous blood as well.
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New Headline: McCain’s Brain Fails Mainly On Spain.
Oh, that is just so sad, so sad! Why is being stupid becoming the norm among Americans? If the highest leaders of the land aren’t ashamed of being so dumb, what example does this set for the children of this country? OMG, I will be so glad when election day arrives…
Of course, the irony is that they did do that - the charitable thing for the McCain campaign to say would be that he didn’t understand and winged it. And it’s reasonable - if you listen to the audio the interviewer has a heavy accent and talks extremely fast; after talking about Latin America for five minutes she says “finally about Spain”, which sounds like “spin”; “Europe” is pronounced with a rolled R and no P, so it does sound like “you”. I would have been confused as well.
So that’s why I don’t get why Scheunemann just dug the hole deeper. Of course, I don’t understand anything they’re doing now…Furthermore, check this clash videos I found yesterday about the US Presidential candidates have talked taxes. Well, it’s entitled Obama v. McCain on Taxes. Watch these statements - then vote in http://clashorama.com/index.php?id=194
LOL, good one Veronica!!!
Great, now he is gonna want to bomb Spain for making him look stupid(er).
Guanabee made the same mistake awhile back in some stupid article claiming that zapatero was Spain’s president. HYPOCRITES.
i would like to ask obama right now if he knows the prince of spain’s name or the prime minister’s name, betcha he couldn’t.
@ ha, etc: I must have missed something. Is Guanabee running for President of the United States? I hardly think this is the same mistake at all.
@ piruli
not only did all the editors at guanabee miss the mistake, they have the fucking internet at their disposal to check the facts. I would really like to see obama know more foreign leaders, let alone their names, all he knows is jesse jackson, rev. wright, rezko and emil jones…such b.s and you and everybody else like you is lapping it up.
Spain is a bizarro country (what can you say about a place where the Bourbon Restoration was considered a democratic breakthough?) The Prime Minister of the Cortes is Presidente de Gobierno (head of the executive branch). Usually, I see Zapatero’s title given as “President-Minister”