As anyone who saw him on Jay Leno can attest, likable McCain is back. He deserves praise for his classy concession speech, and he seems so much more comfortable now that the election is over and no one is talking about William Ayers. But he has to stop making air quotes, (Or, as the Daily Show called them, "dick fingers") pronto. Unless you were Chris Farley playing Matt Foley, motivational speaker, air quotes are just bad. But On Leno, McCain does it again - watch the clip, it's 1:53 in, saying I think I have at least a thousand, quote, top advisors.
So in this case he's actually saying the word "quote" while doing air quotes. So redundant, not to mention uncool. At least one of those thousand, quote, top advisors, should have told him to stop it with the air quotes. And, you know, not only when he's minimizing the importance of a pregnant woman's health.
-- Jake Kalish is the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights