MCCain has planted riled-up folks and given them a microphone at his rallies...just so he can look

[Beausoir]

human again.

Wow...I am really slow. I've seen alot of cynical ploys in my life, but this one really takes the cake.

He plants these nutjobs, handpicks them to "ask" a question...they go off like sweaty dynamite and McCain grabs the mic back and attempts to chastise the questioner in order to look like he is an honorable politican.

The spin. The Spin.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

1. These nut jobs are the only ones who are going to vote for Mccain. ...n/t

[grasswire]

2. yep

If you watch the Friday video, you can see him position himself for the best camera angle and arrange his face.

And it worked to some degree. Pundits were thrilled to see the "old John McCain" they had always loved before.

[Beausoir]

5. YEP! That's my point! He handpicks the loons and doesn't show their face...then grabs back the mic

just so he can show how "decent" he is.

Wow.

In all my years, I have never seen a sleazier tactic. Really.

[cui bono]

3. Don't be so hard on yourself.

First he planted them to actually get the crowd riled up and send the "Obama is dangerous and un-american" message. Then polls showed it was not working in his favor. Only then did he changed his tune.

edit to fix grammar, twice!

[TheDonkey]

4. I also think the nutjobs are plants just to get those smears "out there" sort of like

push polling meets town hall propaganda.

[Beausoir]

6. "push-polling meets Town-Hall" is dead on.

[bowens43]

7. I don't think so. They're really his base. nt