Sometimes a Tower is Just a Column

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Mon Aug 4, 2008 at 2:44 pm PDT • Views: 273

New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is seeing racist phallic symbols in John McCain’s campaign ads: Obamania Has Herbert Hallucinating. Beyond parody.

Herbert says the McCain “Celeb” ad shows two phallic pieces of architecture: the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the Washington Monument.

But he didn’t even get that right. Both of the clips in that McCain advertisement show the same building: the Victory Column in Berlin.

Oops.

UPDATE at 8/4/08 3:16:00 pm:

Also see:
Hot Air » Bob Herbert: Why is everyone missing the phallic symbols in McCain’s Britney ad?

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