Tucker Carlson slams John McCain for sleeping tonight

[Poiuyt]

Imagine that you’re John McCain. You’re running for president for the second time, and this time you’re widely considered the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Knowing that, you’ve got to expect that whomever is directing the television coverage of tonight’s speech is going to point the camera your way. You’re going to be on primetime TV, no doubt. With that in mind, you’re going to want to stay awake. If you’re McCain, who will be over 70 by 2008, you’ll want to make doubly sure to demonstrate your alertness and vigor. You definitely won’t want to slump in your seat, out cold, when Bush starts talking about Iraq. And yet that’s exactly what McCain did tonight, napping on camera for ten agonizing seconds. Lack of self-control? An expression of contempt? Embarrassing in any case.

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[halobeam]

1. Love it. Just love it.

[citygal]

2. I guess he is following Reagan's lead.

Except his missed the fact that he must be ELECTED before he can fall asleep at meetings. Oops!

[Bjornsdotter]

3. Hey, give the guy a break

...after all it was nappy time. Maybe he's following in Reagan's footsteps.

Cheers

[lancdem]

4. He must be on some medication

Seriously.

[elcondor]

5. Was McCain really sleeping?

I'm asking seriously ... I saw him looking down certainly but could've sworn I saw his eyelids moving (like blinking? or was I seeing REM?)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. I saw it.

What's that long scar in front of McCain's left ear? From the war?

He was reapplying his brown lipstick.

[democrat_06]

7. The scar

is from surgery he had for melanoma. I saw him and thought at first he was sleeping, actually you can kind of understand why, but I think he was reading his copy of the speech.

[bbinacan]

8. I think you're wrong

It looked me that he was reading the speech. They showed a similar shot of Kennedy doing the same.

[Poiuyt]

10. I'm not wrong. I was quoting Tucker

[bbinacan]

12. Who the hell is Tucker? n/t

[Poiuyt]

14. Tucker Carlson - conservative commentator and host on MSNBC

Thinks he's real cute

[bbinacan]

15. Thanks for the info. n/t

[mod mom]

9. Look what (F)Tucker said about Nancy Pelosi: (UFB!)

"What’s Nancy Pelosi so mad about? You think she’d be in a pretty good mood, sitting in the speaker’s chair, listening as the president sucks up to her. But for much of the night, she’s looked grouchy, like she’d just informed a class full of kindergartners that, no, they may not be excused to use the bathroom. Maybe grumpiness is just her default emotion. Maybe that’s how she got to be speaker in the first place. Memo to the Democratic caucus: Find someone else to do PR."

at your link

[deadparrot]

11. Was he sleeping or reading?

At first, I thought lost of people were sleeping, but they all had copies of the speech and on closer inspection, I saw that their eyes were cast down reading along.

[Casablanca]

13. Neither. He was dreaming about his newfound political cachet. nt