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Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Top 10 Diversions John McCain Found During Syria Hearing
     Yesterday during a three hour-long hearing about Syria, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was caught by a photographer playing Poker on his iPhone. Senator McCain was unapologetic on Twitter, sarcastically calling the disclosure a "Scandal!" (Last November, Sen. McCain had held a press conference castigating President Obama for not holding meetings with Congressional leaders about Benghazi during a classified Benghazi briefing). But Poker was not the only thing the senior Senator from Arizona was caught doing during the hearing. What were his other diversions?



  • 10) Trying to find all ten of his houses on Google maps.
  • 9)  Playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II while somehow finding a way to crash a jet.
  • 8)  On Twitter blaming Obama for the loss of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
  • 7) Anonymously posting on Ask.com, "Is there still a Czechoslovakia?"
  • 6) Playing beta version of Get Off My Lawn! on Addictinggames.com.
  • 5) Texting Lindsay Graham two seats down, "Where's Joe Lieberman and William Howard Taft been, l8ly?"
  • 4) Receiving text from Cindy: "John, don't forget to bring home living ants for my larva."
  • 3) Downloading for his new ringtone "Maple Leaf Rag."
  • 2) Another damned spam text from Forest Lawn.
  • 1) Looking for a Clay Tablet app.
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