MCCAIN'S COMB-OVER: TAB SCOOPS VANITY FAIR BY MORE THAN 7 MONTHS!

TODAY, 8/20/08 - VANITY FAIR VIA HOT AIR:

Here’s yet another issue in John McCain’s personal life that the supposedly left-leaning mainstream media have been too timid to explore: does he have comb-over? The visual evidence is suggestive but, at least to a layperson’s eye, inconclusive. Take a look at these photos.

The candidate’s snow-white hair, visibly thinning, is parted high on the right side of his head, sweeping in a uniform sheet over his crown and all the way down to his left ear. From certain angles, it looks like a frozen waterfall, or maybe a clamp designed to keep his big angry head from bursting. Clearly there is a strategic deployment of finite resources here—as, to be fair, is the case with many hair styles—but is it a comb-over in the classic, Giulianian sense?

... Will the candidate’s hair, or his lack of it, combed-over or not, matter to voters?

... the U.S. has only elected five bald presidents. Four of them were in the White House before TV’s were around.” The fifth was Dwight Eisenhower, who, it’s worth noting, became president went television was still a relative novelty and also had the luck to run for president—twice—against the equally bald Adlai Stevenson. In 1960, John F. Kennedy set a standard for hirsuteness that candidates have been grappling with ever since.

... the hairier or as hairy candidate has won every time, with the arguable exception in 1988 of the luxuriantly-tressed Michael Dukakis vs. the elder, slightly receded George Bush. (Perhaps Al Gore’s Achilles heel was not Florida but his bald spot.) “Hair has always been a sign of strength—historically and presently,” Scrivo says.

TAB:

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

CAN AMERICA ELECT A MAN WITH A COMB-OVER? (bumped)


JUST ASKING.

BECAUSE THE CANDIDATE WITH THE BEST HAIR WINS.

WE HAVEN'T HAD A HAIR CHALLENGED PREZ SINCE IKE.

ANOTHER WAR HERO.

REGULAR READERS KNOW THAT WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES BOYS ALL THE TIME.

SPREAD THE WORD. BLOGROLL US!