"My Fellow Prisoners" examined through the tiny microscope...

[Barrymores Ghost]

...of a Psychology 203 washout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYFm5kK4f1k

The bottom line on this gaffe: McCain was suffering from a sort of psycho-visceral Tourette's Syndrome, triggered by the trauma of having been denied the opportunity to say "POW, POW, POW" during the Tuesday debate.

Yup.

His handlers told him that the once tried-and-true "I-was-a-prisoner-of-war" shtick was becoming a threadbare cliche. He was told to lay off the Hanoi Hilton bullshit, and the withdrawal symptoms -- the psychosomatic DT's that it caused -- were plainly eating a hole through his withered, 72-year-old stomach, throughout the entire debate. You could see it in McCain's face. You could detect it in the timbre of his voice.

This day-later mental burp was simply a muscle-memory reflex, manifesting itself on-camera.

[Barrymores Ghost]

1. Or not.

What the fuck do I know? I have a theatre degree.

[dgibby]

2. That's as good an explanation as any!

[BlooInBloo]

3. I think he was so broken over there, that he'll ALWAYS be a prisoner in his own mind.

[Barrymores Ghost]

4. Well, if there's one small consolation to living in one's own little world...

...at least everyone there knows you.