The jargon of "Juan McCain"
A commenter on an old post of mine just referred to John McCain as "Juan McCain." The nickname, a nasty reference to his previous support for comprehensive immigration reform, turns out be all over conservative message boards. (It's the McCain equivalent of "Barack Osama/Barack Hussein Osama", which is still circulating -- it was just used on Fox News by a conservative radio host the other day and was mentioned by a Missouri voter interviewed in the New York Times today.)
Update 2/1 10:00 AM: Think Progress flags Glenn Beck and a fill-in host using "Juan McCain" on his radio show and in an email to listeners.
It's unrelated but the fine people (or person) at Adventures of the Coconut Caucus only and always refer to John McCain as "the Panamanian candidate" because of McCain's birth in the canal zone.
Similarly they only ever call Mitt Romney "the Mexican American" candidate because of Romney's grandfather living there (and his father being born there).
Posted by: JimPanzee | January 31, 2008 at 08:36 PM
The TP post contains a highly misleading statement, and PhD candidate Nyhan didn't catch it. It's also a much bigger story. Click here if you don't know what it is.
Posted by: | February 01, 2008 at 05:16 PM