More Of The Same

Leadership to commit the single greatest staging SNAFU in the History of Political conventions.

Remember the green screen debacle from the night Barry O won the nomination?

Gramps looked sick and the Colbert Nation created no end of great videos 'trying to make John McCain Exciting'.

Well, last night, as Gramps stood in front of the giant TV Screen, the same effect happened again.

You see, when the camera does a 'one shot', the viewer doesn't see a nice house, he sees a blurry LIME GREEN BACKGROUND.

But That's Not The Worst Of It.

TPM Explains:

As I noted below, the TV close-ups only showed McCain's head against the grass in the picture, which made it look like he was reprising his famed green screen performance. And when they panned out, it looked like McCain was showing off one of his mansions.

Well, several readers have written in to tell me that the building is actually the main building on the campus of the Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California. And sure enough, this page on the school's website makes it pretty clear that they're correct.

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.... But several readers have suggested that perhaps one of the tech geeks charged with setting up the audio/visual bells and whistles for the evening was tasked with getting pictures of Walter Reed Army Medical Center but goofed and got this instead. At first I thought, No, that's ridiculous. This is a major political party with big time professionals putting this together. Nothing is left to chance. I mean, is this the RNC or a scene out Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman? I still have a bit of a hard time believing they're quite that incompetent. But when you figure in what appears to be the utter lack of any logic for this school being behind McCain and the fact that it has 'Walter Reed' in its name, I'm really not sure you can discount this possibility.