McCain Staffer Turns His Candidate Into A Joke The Whole Internet Can Enjoy

Okay. This is a little bit complicated to explain. Also: boring. So here's the short version. This week, there was this conference called the Personal Democracy Forum, or PDF, and at the PDF there was a panel discussion - on internet stuff! - like Twitter and, uhm...PDFs. And junk.

Anyway, at this panel, Mark Soohoo, who is ostensibly part of John McCain's "internet team" was explaining to the assembled that despite the outward appearance that McCain hasn't learned how to use Google - and is thus still unaware that his campaign's BFF Charlie Black has this annoying hobby of repping for bloodthirsty dictators - the candidate has plenty of what we used to call "computer literacy." But then: DAG! Here comes blogger (and former John Edwards internet director) Tracy Russo, gettin' all up in Soohoo's grill, funnin' on McCain! That led Soohoo to utter these immortal words, "John McCain is aware of the internet." As it turns out, that dovetailed a little too closely with "I am aware of all Internet traditions" - another joke that Wonkette had recently catapulted into the online political conversation. And now, a perfect storm of meme is born.

[WATCH.]

So there you have it. McCain's internet guy got PWNED at a conference, yes, but it would be unfair for this incident to come to be known as the moment where people realized that McCain didn't know how to use a computer. That moment came last week, when John McCain yelled at Barack Obama for having a powerful social network of campaign donors who used the internet to create a new and innovative method of public campaign finance, while John McCain is stuck trying to raise money with a bundle of pointed sticks and some cave paint.

RELATED: The Five Internet Jokes That Will Make Obama Win [Gawker]

Comments

[lucky54]

He is aware of internet .... and what does he think ??? is a toothpaste ???? Oh !!! NO !!!!

[gurukalehuru]

For what it's worth, I am aware of Einstein's theory of relativity.

[Oz2cash]

< giggle >

[humidhaney]

Funny.

Geauxbama!

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[digitaltruth]

When Obama debates McCain he can use this!

[jsinclair]

No wonder he has a surrogate representing him on Twitter's technology debate.

"The internets is a system of tubes...."

But I can't pick on him. First, he needs to learn what Shia and Sunni are. Then he can start trying to learn the difference between a floppy and a hard drive.

At 71 you've gotta prioritize!

[Trittydi]

"McCain Staffer Turns His Candidate Into A Joke The Whole Internet Can Enjoy"

Boy -- did he EVER!

The "Five Jokes" are awesome!
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[booksnmore4you]

Oh, sheesh, I feel so much better. McSame knows the Internet exists.

[1differentdrummer]

Right now he does, but how about after lunch?

[chrisbee]

or when the sun starts going down. lol

[Ddorsey]

He should have said "My grandma died just last week, you're a horrible person."
That would have shut her up.
On a serious note, he just jumped into an unwinnable argument with that one. Should have kept McCain out of it.

[flyrod]

Yup, pwned.

[wewillberightback]

Video no longer available?

Fail is right....

[nanoscare]

All his wars could belong to us.

[Mitchell4A]

This is too good. Obama has learned how to move supporters from virtual communities to "real" communities and back, and McCain knows that the Internet exists. On a list of a (baker's) dozen reasons why Obama will win, #2

2. The Organization Factor: Obama has built a remarkable organization, in part through using the Internet. Nothing quite like it has been seen before in its capacity to raise money, generate enthusiasm, and get out the vote. For more on the uniqueness of Obama’s organization, see Joshua Green’s piece, “The Amazing Money Machine” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/obama-finance and Marc Ambinder’s “His Space” in The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/ambinder-obama

"A Dozen Reasons Why Obama will be the Next President: Money-Back Guarantee”
http://msa4.wordpress.com/

[Crake]

The internet is to the 21st century what the printing press was to medieval Europe. Anyone agree on my hypothesis?

[BBR]

I didn't know the printing press could produce video pornography at the click of a button.