Colbert gets this wrong, but still funny. (He says McCain said "one of the world's first country's to make Christianity an official religion" and the wikipedia entry is "one of the world's first nation's to make Christianity an official religion" but it's actually the other way around. McCain says "nation", Wikipedia says "country").Colbert:A few months back, John McCain was asked whether he was a PC or a Mac and he said something shocking. Which confirms a long standing rumor that Cindy McCain is half computer. A lot of people have said a guy who can't use a computer is the wrong person for the White House. Well, last time I checked the President only needs to know how to press one button. And now comes proof that McCain has learned how to use a computer because evidently he has plagiarized from the internets. Congressional Quarterly reported this week that John McCain may have copied some facts in a recent speech on the Georgian crisis from Wikipedia. I think it should've been obvious when he referred to the country's leader as President 404 error, file not found. Here's just one of the examples listed in the article. Listen to what John McCain said about Georgia. Now here's what Wikipedia's entry says on Georgia: "One of the world's first nation's to adopt Christianity as an official religion." Of course, McCain said "country" Wikipedia said "nation." Those words are interchangeable. Just like Sunnis and Shiites. Now I think McCain getting his facts from Wikipedia is great news. Wikipedia gets its facts from the American people which means McCain is now using the people's voice. Or at least lipsyncing to it. Plus, the Internet can be a creepy place, but it's a lot less creepy than McCain's previous source of foreign policy information, Joe Lieberman. Ironically, Lierberman often needs si...
Colbert gets this wrong, but still funny. (He says McCain said "one of the world's first country's to make Christianity an official religion" and the wikipedia entry is "one of the world's first nation's to make Christianity an official religion" but it's actually the other way around. McCain says "nation", Wikipedia says "country").Colbert:A few months back, John McCain was asked whether he was a PC or a Mac and he said something shocking. [McCain says neither, he's a computer illiterate that has to rely on his wife for everything technological] Which confirms a long standing rumor that Cindy McCain is half computer. A lot of people have said a guy who can't use a computer is the wrong person for the White House. Well, last time I checked the President only needs to know how to press one button. And now comes proof that McCain has learned how to use a computer because evidently he has plagiarized from the internets. Congressional Quarterly reported this week that John McCain may have copied some facts in a recent speech on the Georgian crisis from Wikipedia. I think it should've been obvious when he referred to the country's leader as President 404 error, file not found. Here's just one of the examples listed in the article. Listen to what John McCain said about Georgia.[McCain: One of the world's first nation's to adopt Christianity as an official religion] Now here's what Wikipedia's entry says on Georgia: "One of the world's first nation's to adopt Christianity as an official religion." Of course, McCain said "country" Wikipedia said "nation." Those words are interchangeable. Just like Sunnis and Shiites. Now I think McCain getting his facts from Wikipedia is great news. Wikipedia gets its facts from the American people which means McCain is now using the people's voice. Or at least lipsyncing to it. Plus, the Internet can be a creepy place, but it's a lot less creepy than McCain's previous source of foreign policy information, Joe Lieberman.