Damn, this is rough. Kind of like a scarlet letter except funnier. Anjeannette certainly seems to have taken it well, and I guess it could've been worse. The local press might've been forced to wear the Reno 911 badges.

One commenter made an astute observation:

This would be like putting a picture on the Mississippi press credentials tag of a trailer park, pregnant woman with a cigarette in her hand, and a man holding a bottle of JD and a pit bull. Sure people will laugh, but only at the expense of the locals. And if it was so clever and funny, why not give the same press tag to ALL members of the media, including local media?

But what this really made me think about is how mean McCain's humor is in general as Ben Smith from Politico among other recently documented. There's the joke he told in front of a reporter from the Tucson Citizen during his 1986 Senate campaign about the women raped repeatedly by a gorilla:

"Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'"

Or how about this one about a teenage Chelsea Clinton:

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" "Because her father is Janet Reno."

And of course there was the bomb Iran joke that some people besides nazi-feminists like me didn't take to well.

As the campaign goes on, I find it harder and harder to believe that John McCain is a nice man. He and his campaign (which arguably takes on the personality of it's candidate) grow more petulant, grumpy, and just plain mean seemingly by the day. And when I remember that McCain called his wife a cunt in front of members of the press because she made a comment about his balding head, well, it's impossible. I don't want a man who treats his wife that way in public to be president because I can only imagine that he treats her even worse in private.