by Frank James
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Sen. John McCain got a funny attack line off at the recent Republican presidential debate in which he mocked Sen. Hillary Clinton’s support of an earmark of $1.2 million in taxpayer money for an upstate New York museum to tell the story of the 1969 Woodstock concert.
But why waste a great joke when you can put together a TV ad and try to sear the anti-Clinton jibe at into voters’ minds?
What made the joke so strong was that while he swatted at Clinton, McCain also obliquely reminded the debate’s viewers of his Vietnam War sacrifice, his time as a prisoner of war. McCain did that by saying he was “tied up” during Woodstock.
That’s the name the McCain campaign gave the ad it’s produced. It even fast cuts to the famous grainy, black and white footage of an injured McCain, the downed naval aviator and POW, being interviewed by his North Vietnamese captors, in case you missed the point he was making during the debate.
