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McCain’s “$400 Haircut”

by Michael D.|  September 25, 200811:25 am| 48 Comments

This post is in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?

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If John Edwards can be ridiculed for spending $400 to look pretty, can we make fun of John McCain for his $5000 worth of pretty make-up?

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Dreggas

    September 25, 2008 at 11:50 am

    It takes a lot to not look like a corpse.

  2. 2.

    cleter

    September 25, 2008 at 11:52 am

    No, because for 5 1/2 years John McCain had no make-up at all. Jeez.

  3. 3.

    eric

    September 25, 2008 at 11:52 am

    I saw that stupid c#nt getting that makeup slathered on him like some high priced trollop.

  4. 4.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    September 25, 2008 at 11:54 am

    Jesus! Not only is that a lot of money for make up but $5000 to look like the Cryptkeeper? This whole nonsense of postponing the debate boils down to former POW McCain not wanting to stand next to Obama on a stage. I’ve been licking my chops waiting for those photos.

  5. 5.

    nicethugbert

    September 25, 2008 at 11:57 am

    MakeUpGate

  6. 6.

    ray

    September 25, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Embalmers are costly. 5k? Really? Every day?

  7. 7.

    kth

    September 25, 2008 at 11:57 am

    For Edwards to spend $400 on a haircut proves his personal vanity. For McCain to spend $5000 on make-up is an indictment of our society’s emphasis on image and youth (and a tragic indignity for McCain, who no doubt considers paint to be beneath him).

  8. 8.

    zmulls

    September 25, 2008 at 11:57 am

    No, you may not. The difference is that John McCain has cancer, and John Edwards’ *wife* had cancer.

    IOKIYAR

  9. 9.

    gopher2b

    September 25, 2008 at 11:58 am

    I was speaking with someone this morning who works in the service industry (not a hooker..pervs). She was complaining that her investment banking clients haven’t gotten back to her in awhile. I told her to wait until the bailout passes and then contact them. My advice was followed by a blank stare and this: “What bailout?”

    Emmppfff….the American electorate.

  10. 10.

    Rex

    September 25, 2008 at 11:59 am

    CNBC has been reporting that the stagecraft is underway to try to make McCain look like the broker of the ultimate bailout deal. Country First and all that.

  11. 11.

    JL

    September 25, 2008 at 11:59 am

    The liberal media spent 24 hrs. discussing whether or not Kerry had botox treatments. McCain’s left eye seems droopy and half shut and not a mention. Because of his skin cancer on the left side of his face, it seems to me worthy of a mention by reporters. $5000 for make-up, that’s nothing. Does he drink green tea?

  12. 12.

    nicethugbert

    September 25, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    I feeeeeel prettyyyyyyyyyyy, oh so prettyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ………….

  13. 13.

    libarbarian

    September 25, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    When he was a POW he spend 5 years in a cell without lipstick or eyeliner.

    Shame on you.

    :).

  14. 14.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    September 25, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    I saw that stupid c#nt getting that makeup slathered on him like some high priced trollop.

    Got Necrophilia?

  15. 15.

    PeakVT

    September 25, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    Don’t you know that the terraists will run for the hills if McCain looks pretty on teevee?

  16. 16.

    r€nato

    September 25, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    heh.

    I came across some POS virtually unread blog the other day which was making a great deal out of Obama being an elitist. I had already found the story about McCain’s $5500 make-up job at that point, so I posted a link to it in the comments and some snarky comment like, ‘Thank goodness McCain isn’t an elitist like that Barack Saddam Hussein Osama Bin Laden!’

    I wish I had bookmarked the blog so I could go back and see if the proprietor deleted it. You’ve really got to be intentionally ignorant to keep pounding that elitist accusation against Obama.

  17. 17.

    Dave

    September 25, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    McCain is just trying to keep the makeup artists employed. Why do you hate America?

  18. 18.

    nicethugbert

    September 25, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    I wonder if it’s possible he could drop his face during the debates? Is that why he moves with so much … determination, and uh, … serenity, composure?

  19. 19.

    Sirkowski

    September 25, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    When most of your base is made of homosexuals, you must look ABSOLUTLY FABULOUS!

  20. 20.

    SGEW

    September 25, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Fer th’ love o’ Pete. Please let John McCain continue to get his movie-star magazine* make up. For the sake of the children whose parents have HD.

    As much as I would love to have John McCain lose the election, I cannot help but shudder to think what would happen if he came to a debate without his five hour latex special-effects H&MU session and the American people see the hideous lich-like visage on their teevees.

    Why won’t you think of the children?!

    *I’m thinking it’s more “Fangoria” then “Star,” actually.

  21. 21.

    Bob In Pacifica

    September 25, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    What’s with McCain’s left eye? Did he have a stroke? And is that why he’s cancelling/slowing down his campaign.

  22. 22.

    JL

    September 25, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    I’m on my wait out so don’t have to time to link to it but go watch the Sarah Silverman video that The Page has up at the Time Magazine web site.

  23. 23.

    lilly Von Schtupp

    September 25, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    As someone who suffers from psoriasis, I kinda feel for the guy.

    That being said, have you seen the door knob on his cheek? Yikes!

  24. 24.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    September 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    Bob In Pacifica Says:

    What’s with McCain’s left eye? Did he have a stroke? And is that why he’s cancelling/slowing down his campaign.

    Looks like a nasty case of Bell’s Palsy, which to a casual observer can look like the effects of a stroke. Droopy eye and facial paralysis. However, McCain can still talk as well as ever, and in my experience with stroke victims (which is thankfully limited) that would not be the case if he had any kind of significant stroke.

    It also looks as though his face is growing an orange, and that’s of more concern to me than the droopiness.

  25. 25.

    Joshau Norton

    September 25, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    but $5000 to look like the Cryptkeeper?

    I’ve always assumed that that was the look he was going for.

  26. 26.

    syl

    September 25, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    My wife just informed me that, at this very moment, the McCain motorcade is circling Bloomindales in NYC. He must be running low on foundation.

  27. 27.

    Tsulagi

    September 25, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    John McCain has reportedly paid more than $5,500 to Tifanie White, the makeup artist who works on “American Idol”

    So his campaign paid Tifanie more than 5k in an attempt to make him pretty in front of green screens. Or maybe so he’d feel confident while riding in his limo motorcade to get a cappuccino before calling Obama an elitist.

    5k+ buys a whole lotta lipstick for the straight talker GOP standard bearer. Maybe even outspending hockey mom on makeup. Look forward to our citizen journos to uncover whether she does or doesn’t spend that much.

    The farce is strong in this election cycle.

  28. 28.

    Noah

    September 25, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    Mitt Romney also loved to bath in makeup.

  29. 29.

    r€nato

    September 25, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    My wife just informed me that, at this very moment, the McCain motorcade is circling Bloomindales in NYC. He must be running low on foundation.

    If McCain knew how to use the intertubez he could fucking use Google Maps to figure out which way Washington, DC is.

    I thought he just had to run right back there to work on the Wall Street giveaway bill.

  30. 30.

    Rick Taylor

    September 25, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Via Atrios, Palin talks about foreign policy

    Reality is beginning to resemble a Saturday Night Live sketch.

    I’d thought my cynicism and disgust for Republicans couldn’t possibly go any lower, but his has done it. McCain chose complete incompetent for his VP, and with very few exceptions the Republican punditocracy pretended the emperor had such beautiful clothes. They don’t have a shred of integrity left.

  31. 31.

    mynameishusseintoo

    September 25, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    BTW: What’s wrong with his eyes?

  32. 32.

    Liz

    September 25, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Pretty pretty Princess!!! TeeHee!

    Ok, with that out of my system, I seem to recall that the embalming and makeup for my deceased parent ran about that much, so I’m not surprised.

  33. 33.

    r€nato

    September 25, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    W.Virginia man charged after allegedly passing gas toward cop

    SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrolman has been charged with battery on a police officer.

    Jose A. Cruz, 34, of Clarksburg, was pulled over early Tuesday for driving without headlights, police said. According to the criminal complaint, Cruz smelled of alcohol, had slurred speech and failed three field sobriety tests before he was handcuffed and taken to a police station for a breathalyzer test.

    As Patrolman T.E. Parsons prepared the machine, Cruz scooted his chair toward Parsons, lifted his leg and “passed gas loudly,” the complaint said.

    Cruz, according to complaint, then fanned the gas toward the officer.

    “The gas was very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature with Patrolman Parsons,” the complaint alleged.

  34. 34.

    Rick Taylor

    September 25, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    If John Edwards can be ridiculed for spending $400 to look pretty, can we make fun of John McCain for his $5000 worth of pretty make-up?

    I wrote this earlier and I guess Word Press ate it, but I’d much rather make fun of McCain for not having read Paulson’s 3 page bail out proposal as late as last Tuesday, even as he suspended his campaign to address the crises.

  35. 35.

    Punchy

    September 25, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    Andrew Sullivan is HIV-positive? Did everyone know this except me?

  36. 36.

    Jim

    September 25, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    All I can say is OMG. Palin on Russia via Andrew Sullivan:

    Palin the World Leader

  37. 37.

    Dennis - SGMM

    September 25, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    W.Virginia man charged after allegedly passing gas toward cop

    “I fart in your general direction!”

  38. 38.

    Jim

    September 25, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Er, sorry about that that bad link.

    Palin the World Leader

  39. 39.

    Comrade Napoleon

    September 25, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Andrew Sullivan is HIV-positive? Did everyone know this except me?

    That is fairly well known. He doesn’t hide it. In fact a few weeks ago when he quit blogging for a few days I am sure I was not the only one to hope it wasn’t because he took a turn for the worse.

  40. 40.

    Belae

    September 25, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Yes Andrew Sullivan has AIDS and have been fighting it and keeping it down for quite a few years. He posts about it once awhile about the drugs and effects etc. One of reason he is very very pro-drug company.

  41. 41.

    bvac

    September 25, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    The difference between McCain and a pitbull? $5000 worth of pretty makeup.

  42. 42.

    nicethugbert

    September 25, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    All you fukers are anti-Halloween. How can you do that to Amerika?!?! Fuking Amerika Haters! Let go of the Candy! It’s for the children! Next thing you know, you’ll want to deny Sesame Street it’s right to a Merry Christmas! FUKERS!

    mynameishusseintoo Says:

    BTW: What’s wrong with his eyes?

    Such sensitive, caring, puppy dog eyes. AMERIKA HATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  43. 43.

    gopher2b

    September 25, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    Andrew Sullivan is HIV-positive? Did everyone know this except me?

    Yes, pretty much.

    And to the dude above…he is HIV positive, he doesn’t have AIDS. Big difference.

  44. 44.

    99 Percent Pure

    September 25, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    can we make fun of John McCain for his $5000 worth of pretty make-up?

    As opposed to making fun of him, we should be pissed that, after spending so much dough at one whop to ‘do pretty,’ he still looks like McClown the Debate Canceling Warthog.

  45. 45.

    tigrismus

    September 25, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Boy howdy did he get ripped off. Do we want such an easy mark in charge of the national purse strings?

  46. 46.

    kidkawartha

    September 25, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Personally, I think he looks FAAABULOUUUUUUUUUUS!
    At least, almost as good as ol’ Bible Spice. (God I love that nickname)
    McCain/Palin- Unable and Unstable.

  47. 47.

    KRK

    September 25, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    Looks like a nasty case of Bell’s Palsy, which to a casual observer can look like the effects of a stroke. Droopy eye and facial paralysis. However, McCain can still talk as well as ever, and in my experience with stroke victims (which is thankfully limited) that would not be the case if he had any kind of significant stroke.

    Having had Bell’s Palsy a few years ago, that was my first thought when people started commenting on the droopy eye, but it can’t be BP if McCain can (and he can) still raise his eyebrow and move that side of his mouth. BP affects the entire half of the face. BP is actually a good diagnosis when you have facial paralysis. Mysterious but relatively benign. The neurologist I saw said that when only part of the face is affected (e.g., just the eye) that’s when you have to worry about things like a tumor pressing on a nerve.

  48. 48.

    Ernest Tee

    September 25, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Have you seen him with out it?

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