The reason he doesn’t send email is that he can’t use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):….

Here’s a picture of the cockpit of an A-7 Corsair II, the aircraft that McCain flew while commanding a squadron in Florida. Goldberg is an idiot and a liar – just like his candidate.

the pantload is married?

Then again, before he was captured McCain crashed five airplanes. So it seems his arms and his brain weren’t working then either.

On the upside, if his arms aren’t functional, when the phone rings at 3 am he won’t be able to answer it. (Strangely though, he was recently filmed rubbing the entire arm of Palin’s daughter’s shot gun groom-to-be up and down like a whore giving a hand job. Which means at least one of his arms is working.)

Oh by the way, one of my colleagues who can’t use his hands to type sends emails all the time using a piece of software called Dragon. It’s designed to assist people who have physical disabilities and can only use their voice to communicate. I’m certain McCain’s well funded campaign could afford inexpensive software like this, and probably even better tools. I think I’ll let Goldberg know about this well used tool that people with disabilities have been using for YEARS. FUCKING MORON THAT HE IS.

his wife chews up his food and spits it in his mouth.

Yeah, but that’s just for the flavor…

McCain uses a blackberry. John Cole has pix to verify.

Goldberg is an ass. Hilarity expected to ensue at Sadly, No! all night long at the pantload’s expense.

Sorry TBoggs you got that wrong. It’s his MOM that chews his food and spits in his mouth, then tamps it tight with her tongue. Try to stay on top of these things in the future please.

Well, Obama’s camp deserves some kind of shit for this lame ad.

NOBODY really cares that McCain doesn’t-won’t-can’t use email.

Not to say that pantload isn’t a pantload, though.

The Viet Cong were mainly in south Vietnam, but I guess if it was anything like the Republicans there was a revolving door into the government. So I guess some Viet Cong could have gone up and taken a few whacks at McCain. I think the reason they don’t let McCain use the computer is that he keeps crashing Microsoft Flight Simulator and cruising MILF sites.

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I believe pantload’s response to why he wasn’t serving in Iraq was because he was married and had a young child.

I’ll bet Stephen Hawking can use a computer.

And Django Reinhardt played a lot of guiter with those two fingers.

Computers have helped many physically limited people connect with others without having to travel. There are any number of adaptations that make computers easy to use for people with limitations.

The reason is that he has never needed or wanted to connect that way, and the vast amount of information that we take for granted, and think that everyone has access to, is a mystery to him. McCain has always had “people for that,” stenographers and secretaries. He has never had to type a letter in his life.

I read somewhere that the McCain campaign gurus had restricted the old fool’s telephone privileges because he’s constantly calling people on his cellphone and talking to people they don’t want him to talk to, saying things they don’t want him to say.

Cellphone keypads are generally much more difficult to manipulate than computer keyboards.

It must really suck to be a Republican apologist suck-up.

I just saw a video clip of McCain that was taken when he was released…..he was able to give a pretty snappy salute to the US officer in charge of the handover. No question McCain has physical ailments, but using a computer is a pretty doubtful one. Intellectual incuriousity is probably a better bet. Besides, when you have 10 homes, you can have people fetch information for you.

You can use a computer with no arms, no legs and no eyesight. Accessibility features, people.

Pantload even uses them to read out the long words and chek hiz spelin. Cockhead.

pantload’s mad research skillz once again on display.

st john crashed in hanoi; it’s in north vietnam. the vietcong were south vietnamese communists who were the main adversaries of u.s. forces in south vietnam.

And he doesn’t even look guilty. Of course, he’s got that weird harness on him so why should he.

haha of course that was supposed to be with the dog/chewy toy post – then again, I guess it could work for this too.

You’re almost there but not quite. Mom Goldberg doesn’t need to chew Jonah’s regurgitated meal because someone chews and spits food into her mouth.

She is, after all, the quintessential welfare wingnut.

the pantload is married?

Pantload has children.

The damage done to the human genome needs a trial at the Hague.

It’s not about his ability to use a keyboard, it’s about reminding people that he was a POW. You don’t want anyone to forget.

I would love to drop Doughy, K-Lo, and Ann of the White Zinfandel into a giant rat maze and watch them walk into the same dead end corridor time and time again. I would never get tired of it.

Let me get this straight.

Obama pays out good money and airs an ad attacking McCain’s lack of computer use and doesn’t do a 5 minute google search for any prior news stories about his physical inability to type, any previous stories from 2000 about him being “tech-savvy” due to his service on the Telecom committee, nor even recognizes that the story they cite in the ad mentions that McCain reads blogs such as Drudge, Politico, etc, etc…

And Jonah Goldberg is the one who is lazy????

And how again is this Research & Destroy? It would seem that more research was performed by Jonah and the right-side of the blogosphere than by anyone in the Obama campaign.

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Yeah, it’s almost as bad as someone who ignores every post in the thread. McCain flew complex jet aircraft after returning from Vietnam. If he lacked the dexterity to type, there is voice recognition software including the aforementioned Dragon Naturally Speaking. The expression “tech savvy” is totally devoid of meaning. Just as every guy thinks that he’s a great driver, every guy considers himself tech savvy.

Just pure crap. McCain’s hands are no more crippled than my poor arthritic ones are – I know because when I shook his hand his grip was strong enough to make my ladylike fingers hurt. And I’ve seen him use a pen to write stuff and shuffle papers and manipulate files. So – either Goldberg and his fellow jackasses have mistaken McCain for that Bob Dole fellow or possibly Dan Inouye – or they simply adore lying and can’t get enough of it.

I’m so tired of the habit of mind that surrounds everything in the world with lies.

Seems to be a sore point with the wingnut illiterati. David Brooks on NPR yesterday was poo-pooing McCains chances of winning, saying that Palin was a shiny object already fading. But he obsessed on McPOW and the computer thing. Kept repeating Do you REALLY think he’s computer illiterate? Cmon. I have only the words of Krusty himself to judge ….

I see you all have the pictures of John McCain using electronics thing covered here. It’s ludicrous to suggest beatings would prevent him from using a keyboard if he still has the use of his hands and arms. Can he write with a pen? Yes he can. Can he use electronics? Yes he can. He just doesn’t like new technology.

BTW – These clowns, McCain-Palin, have pulled ahead in the polls as of right now. One poll has McCain cracking 50%. We may still lapse into dark times. I am saddened for my nation.

Seems like Republicans have found their metier: generating excuses. “No one could have anticipated,” “The intelligence was faulty,” “I hit a perfect trifecta,” “Officials are shocked at extent of the sub-prime meltdown,” “There are many Bush Doctrines,” “Obama made me go sleaze,” etc. to infinity. None of these excuses will put money in the bank, create jobs, end a war, slow inflation, lead to good governance, or change our trade account balance. They may put McCain and then Palin into the White House and that’s good enough – for Republicans. The rest of us, not so much.

I figure one of the main reasons McCain can’t email is because he didn’t take typing back in high school. Most guys didn’t back in those days.

John Cole points to a campaign quote that says, “McCain travels with a laptop, neener, neener.” Admittedly, that doesn’t mean he uses it. But, still. There’s like a bazillion HCI devices designed to help people of limited mobility and vision use a computer. Computers are one of the great breakthroughs for the disabled, in fact. A revolution. We’ve come a long way since archie the roach, Jonah. And, you know that was a REAL character, right? archie? I knew that you did.

That’s because it took to long to chisel everything in cuneiform.

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McCain can manipulate a keyboard if he can manipulate a clitoris. Or perhaps that’s one other hot button (t)issue he knows nothing about.

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Gratuitous Saturday late-morning blogwhoring:

Palin Truth Watch, a seemingly never-ending series.

Hey, I took typing in junior high and was abysmal at it—but I love to email. Part of what makes computers so fabulous is that “office stuff” that slow typists used to not be able to handle is no longer an issue.

It’s just another example of how incredibly reactionary McGrampy is. As for trailing in the polls, again, let’s stop throwing in the towel with a month and half to go. Palin has now proven that her mad political skillz consist of smirking and reading teleprompters (and that she is utterly graceless under any kind of fire), McCrabby is humiliated on talk shows and Obama isn’t being a pussy.

Instead of bemoaning the loss before it happens, go volunteer at your local campaign headquarters.

Tbogg, I think Donnie Douglas likes you:

But it’s demonstrably clear that folks from top bloggers like Markos Moulitsas and Andrew Sullivan to the nihilists at Sadly No! to TBogg’s demonic conservative ridicule-machine are on an endless quest to destroy their enemies with a venomous brew of hate and intolerance.

I just love demonic conservative ridicule machine. I’d still rather have a big bright green pleasure machine but you take what you can get. He did forget to mention that you’re somewhat popular.

Wasn’t Demonic Conservative Ridicule Machine that “experimental” album John Ashcroft did with Orrin Hatch and Pat Boone?

Let the eeeeagle soooooaaar….

More seriously, I think they’re just pissed because we’re relying on “hate” and “intolerance” instead of, you know, just making shit up about our opponents. Although I have it on reliable sourcing (Novak and Drudge, of course) that few conservatards can molest a ball-gagged farm animal like Duh Pantload. Rove taught him everything he knows.

I read somewhere that the McCain campaign gurus had restricted the old fool’s telephone privileges because he’s constantly calling people on his cellphone and talking to people they don’t want him to talk to, saying things they don’t want him to say.

This is probably a major clue why most elected officials in Washington don’t answer their own e-mail–aside from the fact that they can afford to pay peons to do it for them.

The e-mails and memory on government computers are dumped every 90 days and stored. NOT the sort of situation that campaign managers want to deal with if their candidate is one of the “brazillian” government employees who likes to download “teh pr0n,” gamble offshore while online, or spend most of his time as a civil servant exchanging barbs with other concerned citizens on sites like Powerline or Althouse’s blog when they are supposed to be working for you and me.

Of course when your candidate is known for his lack of patience and temper, this raises the additional spectre of him “giving people a piece of his mind” when he has so little to spare, by sending his most recent rant to everyone on his mailing list–which, depending on how his e-mail box is configured–could concevably include everyone who ever e-mailed him.

And the last thing the paid political “minders” from K Street want to see is an e-mail like this from someone they’ve bought and paid for:

Karl, Alberto:

I shredded that document you didn’t want them to subpoena.

John

“demonic conservative ridicule-machine”

Now I know what I’m going to name the Prius! (Yes, I name my vehicles. So sue me!) God, I hope they have a blue one!

…are on an endless quest to destroy their enemies with a venomous brew of hate and intolerance.

Is this anything like a really good cabernet? Because normally I don’t approve of blogging under the influence; but if it really pisses Donny Douglas and his wingnut friends off, I could be persuaded to change my position.