This author's readable style provides more heat than light, as he preaches to his choir. I credit him with providing a link to the Globe, which said, in full, after the introduction about McCain’s banter, the reaction and his response: "The moment encapsulated McCain's day on the campaign trail, during which he attended several town hall-style meetings attended by overflowing audiences of several hundred people. He reveled in the large crowds, which he said reminded him of his surge before his 2000 primary win, while also wrestling with an array of charges against him arriving over the television airwaves and via email messages. He was caustic and confident, cracking jokes in his trademark style as traveled from Dover to Merrimack to Manchester while Romney and other Republican rivals were campaigning in Iowa." The pig comment does appear to be caustic and confident (note the Globe did not shade here by using a pejorative like arrogant) and jokey in the same way as the "Bomb,bomb, bomb Iran" lyric sung by McCain to the tune of the Beach Boy's Barbara Ann. The latter may reflect less gravitas. I just can't see the Globe’s entry as the MSM being dumb or even playing gotcha. Rather, it seems the blogger did so. Or as they say, "You can put lipstick on a pig..." Oh, and I can't be sure, without knowing the search terms, but a search on "some of the words" often yields up an elevated count including a lot of dross.