This was a classic example of belligerent conservative ignorance   Radio moron couldn't just say, I don't know, but Bush was trying to say...  No.  He had to come of yelling and screaming and ranting and souding like a complete moron.  This is a true heir of a generation of Limbaugh/O'Reilly/Coulter-culture.  This guy was bred in a sterile environment of talking points where no knowledge beyond the party line and Fox propaganda can filter through.

The sickest part of this is that this has been the dominating media reality for a generation and there is no systemic change on the horizon.  This guy is not an aberration, he is the future of American media.  In McCain's delusional fantasy speech from yesterday he neglected to mention that his fawning press base has deteriorated to this level.

There is no shame in saying "I don't know".  I don't know what Chamberlain did in 1938.  If I were to be doing a live national interview on the topic, I'd probably find out though.

It's all about rhetoric with them.  They lack substance - and this is a great example of just how much substance they lack.

what Chamberlain did on March 2, 1962.

"His most famous record is the 100 points he scored in the Philadelphia Warriors' 169-147 defeat of the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pa. "

Man, I didn't realize Wilt Chamberlain helped the nazis in 1938 ;-)

Shamefully, I had to look this one up: http://espn.go.com/nba/news/19...

One of my favorites:

"We'd be speaking German right now if not for strong, patriotic, freedom-loving Republicans."

Fact:  Hitler's vast war machine couldn't even cross a few hundred miles of the English Channel and conquer an already vulnerable England.  At the same time, the bulk of American Republicans were fierce isolationists.

I think the Republicans were the isolationists and the Democrats were the hawks.  I'm no history expert, but the two parties did a 180 it seems in the 60s.  I have (elderly) Democrats in my family who are really Dixiecrats.  Goes back to George Wallace and segregation.

We continue to see "revisionist" history where Democrats are blamed for anything that suggests "weakness" and Republicans save the nation through toughness and "strength."

Quick and repeated demands for accurate historical facts leave the revisionists defenseless.      

and this is the message that the media is only now waking up to.

On issue after issue, the war, global warming, healthcare, the economy, terrorism, choice, opportunity, trade, immigration, equality, the American public has now firmly embraced what was once derrided as merely-left wing.  But because of the abject failures and broken promises of Bush/McCain republicans America is now a firmly progressive nation.

But the media remains cowed and dominated by the most extreme right-wing factions to whom John McCain now perennially bends his knee.  They still portray this weak-kneed toady of the right as some sort of independent voice.  

McCain's flip-flopping hypocrisy is endless.  He will be anything that political expediency demands and that means he stands for nothing.

It says it all: McCain equals Bush's third term. Great symbolism!