Folksy wiseguy blogger Jeff Jarvis has posted a video critique of John McCain’s video performances and strategies. It’s all fair enough, until late in his video he goes over the top, as he we hear him say, before an image of McCain standing, arms and shoulders familiarly stiff: “What is it with that posture? You’re looking a little too” — and then Jarvis stiffly wiggles his shoulders as if he were a marionet — “George Bush like.”
What a fool — doesn’t Jarvis know that McCain’s arms stick out like that because of what the North Vietnamese did to him during his imprisonment? Those arms were broken and rebroken by his torturers. Sometimes, Jarvis, cleverness has a way of punching you right in the jaw.
