September 5, 2008


walter reed middle school

In case you were wondering what that weird building was behind John McCain.

I’m surprised this hadn’t occurred to me. But several readers have suggested that perhaps one of the tech geeks charged with setting up the audio/visual bells and whistles for the evening was tasked with getting pictures of Walter Reed Army Medical Center but goofed and got this instead. At first I thought, No, that’s ridiculous. This is a major political party with big time professionals putting this together. Nothing is left to chance. I mean, is this the RNC or a scene out Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman? I still have a bit of a hard time believing they’re quite that incompetent. But when you figure in what appears to be the utter lack of any logic for this school being behind McCain and the fact that it has ‘Walter Reed’ in its name, I’m really not sure you can discount this possibility.

posted by Deron Bauman in design, intelligence, politics 

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7 Responses to “walter reed middle school”

  1. Cindy Scroggins on September 5th, 2008 at 9:12 am

    Is there any other plausible explanation? I can’t think of one.

    They’ll spin it to say this shows that they’re just like us–you know, like the time I accidentally included porn shots in my PowerPoint presentation to the Board.

  2. Daryl Scroggins on September 5th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    It’s the collision of geriatric and generic.

  3. Roger on September 5th, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Hehe, I love that the situation is now completely figured out by the blogs. The McCain camp has no idea what even went wrong yet.

    video lampooning his VP selection process: http://tinyurl.com/5zr47h

  4. John on September 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Hehe. Seems like someone had a little trouble using “the google.” But you’d think that someone so in favor of military conquest would at least be able to recognize the more famous military hospital.

  5. Amanda Mae Meyncke on September 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Well McCain doesn’t believe in the Internet or computers, right? So maybe this is in line with his personal belief systems.

  6. Nick on September 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Or maybe there was a traitor in their midst! Either way, the err-er is on a flight to Siberia as we speak…

  7. Deron Bauman on September 5th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    this deserves a post of its own, but I don’t have the heart.

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