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Update: Sen. McCain Volunteers the Mrs. for a Topless Contest!
by Karen Hatter | August 6, 2008 at 01:39 pm | 1952 views | 62 comments
ESPN senior writer, Jim Caple, provides background and personal observations during his visit to the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. According to his article, there is a Miss Buffalo Chip contest every night of the rally.
ABC reporters, George Wallace and Sarah Just, reported on August 5 that Senator John McCain, "perhaps unknowingly" volunteered his wife, Cindy, to compete in a beauty contest which often features topless contestants, with the article quoting the senator as saying:
"I was looking at the Sturgis schedule, and noticed that you had a beauty pageant, so I encouraged Cindy to compete," McCain told an audience at the rally. "I told her [that] with a little luck, she could be the only woman to serve as both the First Lady and Miss Buffalo Chip."
The contest Senator McCain was referring to occurs in Sturgis, South Dakota at a motorcycle rally.
The ABC.com article says the crowd cheered and whistled at his remarks.
Among the festivities that have been offered at the rally: female oil wrestling, a wet tee shirt contest and a pickle licking contest.
The author of this article, Jane Ahlin, considers some of the 'fun' offered at the rally, making note of possible clues to the nature of the event when sharing these observations re: the pickle licking contest:
.... Then there’s the “pickle licking” contest, although a man in his 70s might be excused for thinking that contest was stolen from the South Dakota state fair. If he checked it out, however, he’d discover that this competition requires women to kneel and have their hands tied behind their backs. Then, as a pickle is dangled on a string in front of them, they try to get their tongues around it.
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August 6, 2008 at 01:39 pm by Karen Hatter, 1952 views, 62 comments
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at 14:33 on August 6th, 2008
Might help his campaign if she entered!.
at 14:35 on August 6th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff. Great a Topless Model and First Lady... just what we need. I think Senator McCain needs to check things out before he opens his mouth. He should have known that at a biker rally there may be a bit of nudity..
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A Moses (not verified)at 01:09 on August 9th, 2008
But it's mostly nudity that none of you would ever wanna see.
at 14:39 on August 6th, 2008
Obviously Mr. McCain got his public speaking training from the same guy who trained Mr. Bush ...
at 14:54 on August 6th, 2008
I'm no campaign manager, but I advise against using your wife's name in the same sentence as "buffalo chip". Too easy to decontextualize.
at 15:27 on August 6th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
This is hilarious! I hadn't heard of this - good find!
at 17:13 on August 6th, 2008
McCain is such a complete twit! Showing off the trophy wife in topless contests. Now that's the kind of bozo we want as leader of the most hair-trigger nation on earth!
at 19:28 on August 6th, 2008
But Skeeter, yew fergit, theys likely goner have 80 year old bikers, who luv to leer at Young Nublie 50 year old flesh. Betcha grandma wood give em a run fer there money, or at least naked, she would git em a running fer thar moonshine, follered by an eye scrapin!
at 22:26 on August 6th, 2008
Barry, forgive me for going on a tangent here, but the nicest thing about being 40+ is that it is possible to find anyone from the illegal to the incontinent attractive. But I digress...
at 02:00 on August 7th, 2008
HAHAHAHAHA, Now that is a great comment, mind if I use it sometime as a pick up line?
at 17:39 on August 6th, 2008
he is s twit, i think he wants more attention but this will not do if he starts making silly comments to audience, it is time to get serious JOHN!
at 18:18 on August 6th, 2008
The Twit is in a dead heat with Obama
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zichiat 21:01 on August 6th, 2008
If I had a vote, which I don't, I think I would be changing it to Paris Hilton
at 17:54 on August 17th, 2008
So, this is GOP family values?
at 18:32 on August 6th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. Oops and double Oops!
at 19:25 on August 6th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff. Karen, you absolutely made my day! Friggin Hilarious ! Of course "Momma", has a much different connotation than what perhaps the Old Fart McCain's are used to.
at 19:33 on August 6th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I've got an idea. Let's get all the ex-First Ladies and almost First Ladies together and make a calender! I'm sure that would sell big time!
Or, maybe, um, not.
at 19:35 on August 6th, 2008
Eight years ago McCain was the hope of the nation - according to adoring liberals. Now he's a "twit." What's the difference guys?
at 19:46 on August 6th, 2008
You said it in your comment Big T. Eight years. Big difference between 63 and 71.
He is also fed up with waiting in the wings and being passed over and will do anything for those who would get him into the Whitehouse.
at 18:44 on August 14th, 2008
Then again eight years ago Obama was still in kindergarten.
at 18:14 on August 17th, 2008
You mean outside of flip flopping on torture, immigration and true bipartisanship?
Once McCain said torture not only is wrong, but it is ineffective and he knew by personal experience. Did that same personal experience lead him to believe we could get results from torture?
at 19:51 on August 6th, 2008
I love this story! Just what every election needs! And even though I'm half-asleep at this late hour, this still managed to make me laugh!
at 20:43 on August 6th, 2008
This election campaign is becomming more and more like the Mad Hatter's tea party every day ... sheeeshh !
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zichiat 20:51 on August 6th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Maybe Mccain has been reading too many stories about Carla, France's First Lady?
at 20:54 on August 6th, 2008
Thanks, Everyone, for the flags and your comments. I just shook my head and chuckled when I read this!
at 02:55 on August 7th, 2008
McCain was joking! Jousting! Nobody here or in the Obamamedia seems to get it, or just wants to take it the wrong way. This was a joke. And everybody at the Sturgis meeting got it. Spin it how you like. Did any of you even bother to read the original story and the comments?
at 18:20 on August 17th, 2008
McCain, and apparently many of his supporters, want him to have it both ways. He can make crude, callous, stupid, wrong or poor taste remarks, and then gets a free walk by saying "just kidding".
His quip-flops are one of the many things that make him so much like Boy George - neither will be held accountable for running their mouths off.
at 11:47 on August 7th, 2008
If Senator McCain were unaware of the particulars of the rally, then his gaffe can be chalked up to a harmless, though ill advised, mainly, innocent blunder.
For Senator McCain to jokingly suggest his wife enter an event where it is reported that the tone of the festivities, from time to time, tend to get out of hand, with women in attendence becoming, in addition to topless, also bottomless, is a very undignified position in which to place one's wife, especially a wife, were he to win, that would be First Lady.
at 12:07 on August 7th, 2008
Karen Hatter, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Great stupidity of McCain and that is good for Barack Obama. Can't wait for the next item in his campaign.
at 12:57 on August 7th, 2008
McCain was speaking to a crowd of around 50,000 in a Tribute to Vets. He made a joke. Maybe a little in bad taste, but... show me where in the 2008 schedule for Sturgis and the Miss Buffalo Chip contest it says the contest is TOPLESS! Regardless of past events. This is where he got the idea. And he was joking around the way Vets tend to do.
Hardly anybody stuck around for Kid Rock after McCain left. They were there for him. But guess that isn't important in your eyes.