McCain Speechwriter Trying To Write Lines That Don't Lead To Creepy Smile

[NNadir]

PHOENIX, AZ—According to campaign sources, Joseph Chappel, a 38-year-old speechwriter for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), has spent the last two weeks attempting to combine words and phrases in such a way as to not provoke a tight-jawed, dead-eyed smile from the presidential hopeful. Dreading a repeat of last month's speech to a group of businesswomen in Ohio, during which McCain followed a mention of his wife with an awkward and eerie smirk, Chappel has avoided personal anecdotes for the new speech, omitted any mention of "God" or "this great nation," and cut several phrases that had the potential to draw the 72-year-old candidate's mouth open in a horrifying display of teeth and gums.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/mccain_speechwriter_trying">McCain Speechwriter.

[dkf]

1. Is it the hypocrisy that causes it?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. LOL! The Onion nails it again.

[annabanana]

3. Well.. there goes all HIS "folksieness"

And apparently some of his scripted "applause" lines..Maybe they were also looking to fire some of their greek chorus to save money.

on edit: The Onion?.. It sounded perfectly plausible to me. Satire is dead.

[malaise]

4. I have a better solution

Tell McPOW to STFU and write his concession speech.

[glowing]

5. I hope they are trying to avoid that awful, heh, heh, ha, heh thing he did after the debate.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Makes me feel cold inside too.

:rofl:

This is great satire. Love this headline: Scandal: McCain Won Miss Congeniality Of U.S. Senate In 2000, 2003

[DS1]

7. hah, I believed it!

was surprised it was actually reported :rofl:

[NNadir]

8. Me too. It was on the Washington Post website as a link.