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The Spitting Image, Captain of the Hosts Edition

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 16 years ago, in 2008, on the World Wide Web.

What is it that unnerves me so much about the media’s duly-appointed Presumptive Republican Front-Runner, Senator John McCain? Is it the rampaging militarism? The austerely fascist aesthetic of his campaign materials? The newsmedia’s idiotic enthusiasm for any politician who can, in some sense or another, be packaged as a straight talker, without consideration for what the content of the straight talk might be? (So he says, with some conviction, that we ought to bomb the world. Great.)

Well, yes, yes, and yes, but there’s something that runs deeper, too. Just something about him, a certain I-know-not-what about the way he holds himself, and the way he talks, and the way he rallies his troops, that I can’t quite put words to. Where have I seen this before? Oh, wait…

Here's a photo of John McCain. And here's a photo of Gothmog, Captain of Morgul, from the Return of the King, looking eerily similar.

Yeah, that’s it.

McCain: The age of Man is over. The age of the Orc has begun!

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· February 2008 ·

  1. Discussed at radgeek.com

    Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-02-29 – Disclaimer:

    […] you may have noticed, and, while I was at it, the appearance of one too many animated ads for the Fighting Uruk-Hai of Arizona in my sidebar finally inspired me to revise and expand my ad disclaimer. As you can see, if you […]

· August 2008 ·

  1. Discussed at radgeek.com

    Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-08-15 – International sensitivity:

    […] the Fighting Uruk-Hai of Arizona would like to inform us all that today we are all […]

  2. Discussed at radgeek.com

    Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-08-22 – No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#5):

    […] the Fighting Uruk-Hai of Arizona proposes that we ought to combat inner city crime using the strategic hamlet surge tactics that […]

— 2011 —

  1. Discussed at rafaelhotz.wordpress.com

    >7 – Murray Rothbard – Esquerda e Direita – Perspectivas Para A Liberdade « rafaelhotz:

    […] o cara era um doido de primeira, certeza que iria chamar o McCain (O Destemido Uruk-Hai do Arizona) de “socialista” se pudesse […]

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