Mary Katharine Ham: Some pols just can’t take a joke

Published July 17, 2008 4:00am ET



Two weeks ago, a disturbing headline showed up on a prominent feminist blog about John McCain: “Will someone tell John McCain that the wife-beating jokes just aren’t funny?”

In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, McCain had been asked why he had appointed the lieutenant governor of the state to chair his Nevada campaign over Gov. Jim Gibbons:

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