The Maverick Conservative

The AP/AOL headline of the day (I really can't make this stuff up):  "McCain Says It's Okay To Make People Mad."  If you can even figure out the purpose of that headline, let me know.  McCain was trying to say that people who get things done (like, supposedly, him) sometimes make people like conservatives mad, but that he does not believe in trying to be all things to all people, like Hillary Clinton.  And, by the way (McCainn says), I am the "conservative" who can beat Hillary Cliton.  Out of this, the despicable Associate Press picks the above quoted headline.  And people sometimes think I am being too harsh in my contempt of today's journalists.  I am not being harsh enough.

is one of those things where the question is:  WHY does the despicable mainstream news media consider this worth a "headline"?

More correct headline:  "McCain says Hillary Clinton tries to be all things to all people."

McCain is obviously right, so long as you are not just deliberately trying to make people mad for the heck of it.  Was it all right for civil rights acitivists in the 1950's to make people in the South (or segregationists in Congress) mad?  Of course it was.   McCain's statement (on making people mad, as distinguished from the more important parts of his speech) really does not say anything, which is why the headline is stupid.  It all depends on HOW and WHY you are making people mad.

I say this as someone who would not vote for McCain over ANYONE (see the archives of this blog), even though I adopted a blog name that has been applied by some to McCain.    He long ago made me angry--on immigration and many other things.  But it is the ISSUES that are the point, and NOT whether people get "mad".

The despicable AP seems to be deliberately trying to make sure people do not understand what this campaign is all about--focusing on attempts to generate "controversY' instead of the more important things being said (not that McCain said too much really important, but he certainly said some things more important than THIS headline suggests).

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