Monday, March 10, 2008

Pop Quiz!

Hey, there's a new Paul Slansky quiz this week's New Yorker. This one focuses on the crooked-talking, heiress-marrying, would-be-Iran-bombing presumptive Republican nominee for and loser of this fall's presidential contest, John McBush McCain. A taste:
What prompted Jon Stewart, on “The Daily Show,” to ask, “Has John McCain’s Straight Talk Express been rerouted through Bullshit Town?”?

(a) McCain decided to speak at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University six years after calling Falwell and Pat Robertson “agents of intolerance.”

(b) McCain claimed that the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina capitol symbolized “heritage,” although he was on record as having called it “a symbol of racism and slavery.”

(c) McCain said of George W. Bush, “I support him. I am grateful to him. And I am proud of him.”
Answer -- and the rest of the quiz -- here.

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