Login HereWalter Isaacson asked John McCain about McCain's inexplicable love for ABBA. McCain played the POW card:
“If there is anything I am lacking in, I’ve got to tell you, it is taste in music and art and other great things in life,” McCain joked. “I’ve got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane and never caught up again.”
What? McCain was shot down in 1967. ABBA began making music in 1972. Don't try this shit on me, McCain! Your POW experience has nothing to do with your Partridgey musical taste.
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I’ve got to say that a lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane
So, he deliberately flew his plane into a SAM? Wow. I guess he really wanted to be captured.
Don’t try this shit on me, McCain! Your POW experience has nothing to do with your Partridgey musical taste.
Dammit, Spencer, back when McCain was Richard Nixon, he was on Laugh-In and that should be enough. If it isn’t, well, back when he was JFK, he bagged Marilyn Monroe, and back when he was Ronald Reagan, he was the greatest president ever. And that ought to be good enough. So it’s fine if he likes ABBA, because soon enough he won’t be McCain anymore, but some other President who wasn’t even born when ABBA formed, and that makes it ok.
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[’Attack of the McClones.’]
In fairness to McCain, the plane that he ran into a surface-to-air missile was one of the two planes he lost (of five total) that probably wasn’t his fault.
Note, BTW, that your post got picked up by Hilzoy of Obsidian Wings.
C’mon… it’s obvious, eh? To McCain ABBA is “the first probably seriously hip international band since the end of the Cold War.”
Just wait ’til he gets the 8-track hooked up and takes Air Force One out for a joy ride… yehaah!