I've always been taught that when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging! I guess McInsane never learned that lesson...

In an interview with Katie Couric on Tuesday night McInsane had made numerous gaffes. Interestingly, one of the more notable gaffes was conveniently left on the floor of CBS's editing room. However, McInsane and his response team just kept digging the hole deeper over the next couple of days in woeful attempts to correct the record.

Let's take a look at some of them...

Katie Couric: Senator McCain, Senator Obama says, while the increased number of US troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What's your response to that?

McCain: I don't know how you respond to something that is as-- such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel MacFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that's just a matter of history.

Now, first the Anbar Awakening started a full year before the Surge began, then, that Sheik (Sattar)he refers to was assassinated by... Al Qaeda... During the Surge...! Here's a article about it...

When U.S. Army Col. Sean MacFarland, working in his Pentagon office last Thursday, heard that a tribal leader had been killed in Iraq's Anbar province, his first reaction was: "Please don't let it be Sattar."

His fears proved well-founded. A bomb had killed Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the founder of a movement of Sunni leaders who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq, who are also Sunnis, and transformed Anbar from one of Iraq's deadliest areas into one of its safest[...]

An al Qaeda-led group said on Friday it had killed Abu Risha, according to an Internet posting. The group also vowed to assassinate more tribal leaders who cooperate with U.S. and government forces.

Btw, we still can't protect them...

From today's Aswat Aliraq...

Seven individuals were killed and 24 others wounded by a suicide bombing targeting a commander for anti-Qaeda group in Diala on Thursday, a security source said.

“A woman rigged with an explosive belts blew herself up targetting a commander of popular committees in Baquba al-Jadida, killing him and six individuals including bodyguards and wounded 24 others”, a Diala security source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).
The source identified the anti-U.S(sic) group commander as Naeem al-Dulaimi.
Earlier, the source noted “the explosion took place when a roadside bomb placed inside a popular committees commander’s car blew up”.
The popular committee or Sahwa councils are anti-Qaeda fighters groups working in coordination with the Multi-National Force (MNF) and the Iraqi government.

Ironically, CBS had to do it again...

CBS scrubs a second McCain flub from interview broadcast

Keeping up with John McCain's foreign policy gaffes is becoming a cottage industry these days, and a progressive radio host has caught another slip-up from the Republican presidential nominee talking about the war on terror.[...]

Young Turks host Cenk Uygur noticed that his confusion about the timeline of the "surge" in Iraq wasn't McCain's only gaffe in his interview with CBS news this week. McCain seemed to forget the war in Afghanistan preceded the invasion of Iraq; either that or he didn't think it was a major conflict.

"The fact is we had four years of failed policy. ... We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of failure. The defeat of the United States of America in the first major conflict since 9/11 would have had devastating impacts throughout the region and the world," McCain told CBS anchor Katie Couric.

"Was Afghanistan not major enough for him?" Uygur asks.

Like his previous flub, CBS edited this misstatement from its broadcast. The full version of the interview, which only aired online, also saw McCain wrongly crediting the surge with sparking the "Anbar Awakening," in which tribal leaders began to turn against al Qaeda in Iraq.

The Anbar Awakening gaffe was edited out and replaced with McCain's scurrilous attack accusing Democratic nominee Barack Obama of caring more about winning the election than winning a war. Crooks & Liars notes that bit of editing violated CBS's own Standards & Practices because they edited in an answer from an earlier question and changed the meaning of McCain's statement.

I find it highly amusing that McCain's camp is accusing the Media of a distinct bias towards Obama... Do you think CBS would've scrubbed an interview with Obama of any gaffes...? Twice even...? Only 104 more days folks...!