By GottaLaff
This week, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain will come to Wisconsin to push for his candidacy.
Four years ago, he made a comment to a reporter that some people might not think would be so welcoming around here.
Reporter Mark Leibovich, now of the New York Times, heard him say that, as Leibovich put it in his 2004 article in the Washington Post, "He would hate to live in Milwaukee."
Oops. That probably wasn't wise. Perhaps his brain ceased to exist that day. Perhaps he had all his synapses forwarded to someone else's brain. Perhaps he was just being a typically dismissive crank.
"We were at a Diamondbacks game (against the San Diego Padres) in 2004, in the springtime. I was writing a profile of him for the Washington Post, which is where I worked then.
"We were just talking. He was just talking about various random things that two people sitting next to each other in the course of a three-hour baseball game talk about.
"For whatever reason, he said he would hate to live in Milwaukee. I put it in my story, and lo and behold, four years later, a radio station in Milwaukee has found it.
Maybe he was just commenting about a team or something. "Boy, how 'bout them A's. I'd hate to live in Oakland." No?
"I also remember putting in the story that he was heckling the opposing pitcher (the Padres' Jason Szuminski) when he was knocked out of the game. The pitcher had gone to M.I.T. He had given up three or four runs in half an inning, and he was coming off the mound and McCain yelled, 'Next up, NASA, buddy!' or something like that."Note: Newsradio 620 WTMJ has contacted the McCain campaign for comment, and his campaign has not yet responded.
I wonder how he'll end up doing in Wisconsin when all is said and done.
Audio: Reporter Mark Leibovich's interview with Jagler and Mueller
H/t: AMERICABlog
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