McCain Hates Gooks; Does Anybody Care?

In these times of subliminal advertising, discreet media bias and general indirectness, it’s nice to see someone just come out and blatantly drop hateful racial slurs. Oh, wait…no it’s not; it’s a horrible thing to do. So why has John McCain’s continued use of the term "gook," as well as his unmistakably clear explanation of why he uses the idiom, not received much scrutiny during the Senator’s presidential campaign? I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday…."I will hate them as long as I live." "Gook," he said, "is the kindest appellation I can give." — San Francisco Chronicle, 2000 Wow. That’s not Trent Lott tripping over his words and praising a man who had supported segregation in 1948, this is the man who is currently the second-most-likely person to become the President of the United States explicitly reducing an entire ethnic group to a pejorative locution and then clarifying his word choice so that there could be no confusion as to why he used such hateful language. It’s also not some utterance he made as he was exiting a POW camp back in his war days; the above comment was made during Miley Cyrus’ lifetime! As Raymond Leon Roker writes in the Huffington Post, there must be some reason why this story isn’t getting more coverage. Barack Obama referred to his grandmother as a "typical white person," a couple of months ago and the story made headlines in every publication in America. It’s bizarre to see a quote like McCain’s and not be able to find a single public apology. That’s how being a public figure works: You say what you really think; people get upset; you apologize and claim that you never meant it in the first place. Just ask Mel Gibson…