Posted on 11/10/2011 11:02:19 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Mark McKinnon, a regular contributor to the liberal Daily Beast website, which owns Newsweek magazine, made a morbid gaffe as he commented on Texas Governor Rick Perry's stumble during the November 9 Republican presidential debate on CNBC. The New York Times on Wednesday quoted McKinnon labeling Perry's brain freeze as the "human equivalent of shuttle Challenger."
Times writers Jeff Zeleny and Ashley Parker cited the Democrat, who once served as an aide to former President George W. Bush, as an example of how "Republican operatives almost uniformly declared it [Perry's gaffe] as a sign of great trouble for his candidacy."
McKinnon, who co-founded the so-called No Labels organization with fellow pseudo-Republican John Avlon, has actually made a name for himself in recent years as a critic of the conservatives that the liberal media love to hate. When he worked on John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008, the "Republican consultant" lectured Rush Limbaugh for daring to speak out against his candidate. In October 2009, McKinnon bashed conservative talk show host Mark Levin on MSNBC for his supposed "jaw-dropping hate language" against President Obama (Levin replied in kind by comparing the former Bush aide to a Sham-Wow salesman).
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I was thinking it was a lot like the Hindenburg.
Shameful comparisons like that minimize the value of life and make communicating difficult. Rick Perry is human, most of us can relate to his brain freeze.
Cain 2012
Agreed. But given Gov. Perry's past debate performances, that 53 second lapse likely hurts Perry more than it would hurt others.
I can relate. It's like giving a speech to a crowded room, a speech you've memorized since you've given it dozens of times before, and all of the sudden, your mind goes blank. I can laugh now, but at the time, it was bordering on terrifying.
Both your and his are typical liberal hyperbolic comparisons and diminish the tragedy of each.
Fortunately for you very few people alive remember the Hindenburg tragedy.
Perry’s done, but that happened weeks ago.
Regardless of what some think about Perry, I think this comparison is in very poor taste.
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