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Hypocrites Always Want to Play Innocent XXXI

How I could just kill a man: Senator John McCain

John McCain must be shell-shocked.

After all, wasn't he the dude that was all gung-ho for the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) study, promising that if military leaders supported the repeal of DADT, he would, too?

Yes, he was.

But now that the results of the study are back and the findings reveal that most of the military supports the idea of gay troops serving openly, McCain is backtracking and finding excuses to now discredit the study he once championed.

In other words, he thinks that because the study doesn't support his own homophobic position, the study must be flawed. He'll deny that as his impetus, of course. We live, after all, in a time where bigots want to be bigots without being labeled. Instead, he'll blow smoke up our collective asses by saying something asinine like "A thorough and complete study of the effects, not how to implement a repeal, but the effects on morale and battle effectiveness, that's what I want." Implying that the study doesn't provide that information.

Only it does.

Sometimes I think hypocrisy is an undiagnosed form of insanity.


Thanks to Queerty.

*UPDATE* Dan Savage calls John McCain out.