MN Mon...(updated)

Kinda like an empty school.

No Class.

Mitch brought it to my attention:

So anyway, here’s my question: When you copy and paste a line that 5,000 other leftybloggers write:

If bloggers are saying one thing about John McCain this week it’s that the 71-year-old has some serious grit. Of course, that grit comes in the form of McCain Mouth, a deformity that apparently causes teeth to look like a mess of yellowed and contorted Chiclets. Today, BuzzFeed.com has picked up on the mouth meme, turning McCain’s piano-key chompers into an official phenomenon.

The consensus? “They’re old.”

Well, not nearly as old as the Senator is.

Because - you do realize this, don’t you, Ms. Priesmeyer? - Senator McCain had a bunch of his teeth broken off at the gumline while he was being held as a POW. Which, of course, can set a guy up for a whole lifetime o’ dental hurt.

But you didn’t know that - right? If you’d known that, you’d never, ever have written such a deeply, disturbingly dumb piece. Right?

I was there this morning. Still no apology nor retraction. Surprising. Not.

****UPDATE****

MN Mon has issued an apology...

UPDATE: McCain's teeth -- an apology

To answer the question from GOP blogger Michael Brodkorb that kicked off the controversy about this post yesterday: No, neither Molly Priesmeyer nor I was aware that McCain had had his teeth broken as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war. No, we would not have piled on with further aspersions on the appearance of his teeth if we had known.

The item was not intended to make a serious point of any sort, as we thought the headline suggested right off the bat ("The dental gap: Does McCain have presidential teeth?"). It was a bit of web ephemera that we found funny mainly for its absurdity--sort of like the videos we've posted from Obama Girl, the McCain Girls, and La Pequena, and items we've written about phenomena such as social media sites obsessed with Barack Obama. The POW backstory turns a joke noted in passing into a lousy joke. And we're sorry for that.

We're also sorry that this dust-up has inadvertently provided yet another sideshow in which genuinely important questions about the candidate and his campaign are circumvented. There's far too much of that going around.

--Steve Perry

...that, in fact, was a good, apparently sincere apology. The only question that remains in my mind, is why was the apology issued by Steve Perry, when the offending article was written by Molly Priesmier?