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Post-Modern Election Talk: When Does a Campaign Go Beyond a Joke?
Sunday, November 2, 2008 at 14:16
Seventy-two hours after Barack McCain dropped a 30-minute political "info-merical" on the US public, John McCain responded in the fashion appropriate to this 2008 Presidential election: he appeared on Saturday Night Live, the comedy programme that converted his campaign into a running joke.
Gotta hand it to Big John, who never winced as he appeared along the comic masterpiece Fey-Palin, the one that he inadvertently created with his Hockey Mom gamble in August. But, as a reader notes, "OK, this is just surreal... Lucky this campaign is over in three days or I seriously struggle to imagine what comes next."
Gotta hand it to Big John, who never winced as he appeared along the comic masterpiece Fey-Palin, the one that he inadvertently created with his Hockey Mom gamble in August. But, as a reader notes, "OK, this is just surreal... Lucky this campaign is over in three days or I seriously struggle to imagine what comes next."
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