See John McCain in POW Bros.

by Justin McElroy { Aug 27th 2008 at 4:50PM }

Right, so the Mario Bros. remake below the jump -- by former Joystiq writer Jared Rea -- might be just the slightest bit offensive (and not in a NSFW way). But, it's also very funny, which has always trumped offense in our book. He says it's the result of a Twitter joke gone too far, but in our book it's gone just far enough.

Mr. Rea does provide some additional explanation for the gag on his blog, but we hope you don't need it (you're not that removed from the outside world, are you?).

Tags: john-mccain, mario, nintendo, politics, super-mario-bros

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)

BigD145 @ Aug 27th 2008 4:58PM

Not offensive at all... except McCain's face, words, ideas, etc.

Drew @ Aug 27th 2008 7:45PM

Attention readers! Both below and above this very comment are children, fighting. They all claim stupid things. They are fools in the most true sense. They seem to blindly follow specific parties without any analysis of said party's actions. I think that we should be smarter than that. I fear that this country is in trouble. I feel as if a new Hitler came into an election, he would win, simply because of the little letter next to his name on the television screen. So, to you, dear reader, realize that no matter how you feel about the last of one's kind, no politicians are the same. There are great people, and there is, in fact, no correlation to their party to affect their greatness. This blind party favoritism has destroyed our country's morale. During WWII, parties had no influence on your opinion of your neighbor. Unfortunately, that time has long passed us. So, it is up to you to be the bigger man or woman, regardless of your choices for this fall, and let go of your senseless spite. I ask you, reader, that when you vote, don't let your vote be influenced by the little consonant by their name, but let it be about your beliefs, not the letter, or about spite of your neighbor, but your beliefs. Not patriotism, not about the color of their skin or the thing in their pants, but the way you think. And don't hate who acted in the contrary. It's time to live and let live.

Markez @ Aug 27th 2008 8:47PM

Charming of you Drew, to some extent.

Were it not for the friends I've had that have served in Iraq that now have to deal with the hideous and terrible things our US government is having them do over there, who knows, maybe I could agree.

But I can't, and being rational doesn't allow me to take lightly to someone who thinks we need to stay over there for the sake of being there. Where semantics dictate to McCain that being reasonable, and finding a way out apparently equates to failure. I will not support the war for the sake of maintaining a war without logic.

The man has zero ability to think on his feet, is clueless as to what countries border each other in the middle east, thinks Czechoslovakia is still a country, doesn't know the difference between the Sunni and the Shia, and this somehow makes sense to people? To support this idiot???

Drew @ Aug 27th 2008 8:58PM

Check it dude, thats my point. Hate him all you want and don't vote for him. But when someone does, don't insult their intelligence and try to make them feel bad, because that gets nothing done. Have a debate, not a pissing contest. Also.... want to expand us on some of those terrible things that our troops are being forced to do? Not that I question it, I'm just a sucker for gov't conspiracy plots.

Markez @ Aug 27th 2008 9:04PM

To be honest, Drew? I don't want to go into specifics. And if that invalidates my argument, so be it. You make a good point. But I simply know better, and I can't support anybody who lets that situation go on without an end in sight for the sake of a certain stand they have to take in an argument.

impy @ Aug 27th 2008 9:18PM

Right dipshit have fun paying out your ass in taxes for EVERYONE elses health care!!!! You probably see "free health care" when Obama speaks but where the F*** do you think the money comes from to pay for those sorry asses who choose not to work. Helping my family is one thing but paying for someone as idiotic as you?!? you can forget that shit.

Markez @ Aug 27th 2008 10:24PM

Swell, so I guess when McCain helps finish off throwing the economy entirely into the garbage we both can have a great laugh, er wait...

Yeah, repubs have sure been a model of fiscal responsibility since running things.

Immortal Technique PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Aug 27th 2008 11:31PM

a few billion in change and pocket lint my pay for some health care.

aristokrat @ Aug 28th 2008 4:34PM

Right, because isolationism and protectionist tariffs are definitely the way to kickstart this country's economy. Oh wait, Adam Smith proved that wrong in the 1800's. Democrats: blatantly ignoring economic theory progress for 40 years.

Anybody hear about the negotiations of our new free trade agreement with Columbia? Currently, our goods are taxed going into their country, while theirs come in tax-free here. We were trying to negotiate an agreement that would actually raise tariffs for some of their goods and lower tariffs for some of ours, yet because Free Trade was in the title, the Democrats (controlled firmly by unions) shot it down. Why? Because they couldn't risk explaining how trade and tariffs actually work, nor could they be seen supporting something with Free Trade in the title, without having to give up that particular close-minded, ignorant, short-term-benefit-only bullet point on their platform!

fatherb @ Sep 10th 2008 9:06PM

if you want to get into geographical blunders markez how about running for the office of president of a country you do not know how many states it has. Someone let obama know there are 50 states not 57+1or2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

OneTopJob6 @ Sep 12th 2008 12:08AM

aristokrat (fitting name), what decade are you living in? Recall that NAFTA was passed by a Democratic president, and both Democrats and Republicans have been pro free-trade (despite its harmful effects on our own job market) for about fifteen years now.
Unions controlling Democrats? Boy, you really ARE in the wrong decade. Just so you know, Nixon was guilty, Ford was a stooge, and Carter was... just... Carter.

Nate @ Aug 27th 2008 5:00PM

Yeah, I'd have a lot more respect for McCain if he didn't answer every question with "Well, when I was a POW...." We get it. You were a POW. It was fucking awful. No one should have to go through that. But what the hell does that have to do with being President of the United States? Not a damn thing.

Duke @ Aug 27th 2008 5:03PM

Have you seen the The Manchurian Candidate? Yeah, well...

The Doctor @ Aug 27th 2008 6:47PM

This current election is more about personalities than issues- and you have Mr. Change to thank for that.

Well, no, you have the idiots that voted for the worst two presidential candidates possible in the primaries to thank for that, if you want to look at it big picture like.

Spartacus @ Aug 27th 2008 8:29PM

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who aren't. -Plato

ill trooper @ Aug 27th 2008 8:33PM

"This current election is more about personalities than issues- and you have Mr. Change to thank for that."

...Wrong. Maybe McCain needs to stop talking about Obama's personality and focus on some issues. See you in November, neocon snitches!

"No way, No how..." You finish the rest how you like.

Zoot Suit Jedi @ Aug 27th 2008 8:48PM

I am still confused how being a POW is relevant anyway. Dude, you were CAPTURED. I'd say that shows some pretty shitty leadership skills.

glueby @ Aug 27th 2008 9:23PM

Ok and Obama made ONE speech at the dem convention in 2004 and has done NOTHING else. You want to elect HIM?!?! You and people like you must really hate working for a living wanting to vote for someone who wants to take everything from the working class and give to lazey fucks "probably like you". Asshat...

Mr Khan @ Aug 27th 2008 5:02PM

Very astute. It is for this election what "9/11" was for the last

Hashbrown Hunter @ Aug 27th 2008 5:29PM

9/11 I cared about.

POW? Pretty big difference between that and a major global attack that is now resulting in the US's severe economic woes.

Jose @ Aug 27th 2008 6:18PM

The economy isn't in the crapper because of one single event. It's cyclical, it has its ups and downs, it's natural. Clinton didn't do anything for the economy that it wouldn't have done under four more Bush Sr. years (he only got fired after raising taxes, like he said he wouldn't [so for not being a complete unyielding a-hole like his son]).

Mismanagement and deregulation are more to blame for the current economic woes we face than the NY tragedy.

4000+ dead Americans killed in Iraq, BTW.

Hashbrown Hunter @ Aug 27th 2008 8:19PM

What about Clinton who got impeached for having an affair?

WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH BEING A PRESIDENT?

If Clinton got impeached over that, Bush Jr. is LOOOONG overdue.

Moptimus Slime @ Aug 27th 2008 8:39PM

Yep, pay no attention to his lying under oath about said affair. Its all because he got a damn BJ from some slut. The people who passed those articles of impeachment sure did have a lot of nerve

yes @ Sep 2nd 2008 6:51AM

9/11? Why? What happened on the 9th of Novemeber?

Shagittarius @ Aug 27th 2008 5:05PM

I can't wait to taste all the misguided delicious dem tears when McCain becomes the next President.

That alone will make the next 4 years for me.

thesimplicity @ Aug 27th 2008 5:48PM

I'm glad that those tears will be able to sustain you, because food will be hard to come by when the entire country is nothing but ash and rubble.

gb @ Aug 27th 2008 5:57PM

I hope he wins too. The next president will fail hard trying to repair the damage done in the last eight years.

1/20/09 the end of an error

Bass Masterson @ Aug 27th 2008 5:07PM

This is what you get when liberals (read: the mentally challenged) participate in the political process: people who actually think it's perfectly fine to mock a man being imprisoned and tortured while fighting for his country.

il_duce620 @ Aug 27th 2008 5:13PM

No, we think it's perfectly fine to mock a person that thinks being a POW should make them President of the USA. Most liberals think that there are OTHER QUALIFICATIONS for running for Prez and that going to the "POW card" is kinda cheap.

Obama could have pulled the "I'm the first viable black candidate, so you should vote for me," and Hillary could have pulled the "I'm the first viable female candidate, so you should vote for me"...but they didn't...

Hopefully that explains the mocking. Otherwise, perhaps you should reverse the "mentally challenged" charge you tried, ineffectively, pulling.

Thatoneguy64 @ Aug 27th 2008 5:15PM

We're not mocking him for being a POW, but mocking him for beating that dead horse constantly.

I mean, for christ's sake, we get it. WE GET IT.

Shagittarius @ Aug 27th 2008 5:15PM

"Obama could have pulled the "I'm the first viable black candidate, so you should vote for me," and Hillary could have pulled the "I'm the first viable female candidate, so you should vote for me"...but they didn't..."

They don't have to mention it, its happening anyways.

Joe H @ Aug 27th 2008 5:16PM

He's not being mocked for fighting for his country. He's been mocked for responding "I was a POW" to every serious question he's asked. It was his response to not knowing how many houses he owns, as well as many other instances that I can't think of off the top of my head.

If someone asks you why the sky is blue, you're not going to respond "because I was a POW" just like you shouldn't answer with that to many of the questions asked of McCain.

That being said, I find the video great, but it doesn't belong on Joystiq, honestly.

Shagittarius @ Aug 27th 2008 5:16PM

Also you can tell by looking at hillary and barack that one is black and the other is a white tranny just by looking at them...

All you can tell about McCain is that hes old.

Eastman @ Aug 27th 2008 5:20PM

Its a joke, are you saying John McCain has never mocked anyone? Oh wait, he ran ads saying Obama was a celebrity unfit to be president. STFU

Bass Masterson @ Aug 27th 2008 5:20PM

Except, of course, that he's not running on "The POW card". He's mentioned it a few times because it's a defining moment in his life. If he mentions it anywhere in a conversation - even when he's directly asked about it - the media picks up on it. I'm not surprised he mentions it a lot. It's something that has happened to less than 1% of the population.

You have to ask - if a female candidate had been the victim of rape, and she brought that up, would people mock that in the same way?

And you're completely deluding yourself if you don't think Obama and Hillary have both pulled the very 'cards' you're describing. Hillary's campaign managers even went so far as to say that Hillary lost because the country is sexist.

That's the problem with buzzwords and your entire 'Olbermann told me to say this!' culture: you come to identify everything as a 'card', rather than a characteristic.

Of the candidates McCain is without a doubt the most qualified. Obama is a photogenic media star, fawned over by the liberal-biased media, with no plan, no experience, no ideas. But we'll keep ignoring that to talk about McCain being old and how funny this over-privileged generation thinks it is to have been a POW. I mean like, gosh, they didn't give you a DS or nothing? I'd like totally leave!

samfish @ Aug 27th 2008 5:21PM

I don't see why not. After all, the right wingers are the ones who started it by saying John Kerry and Max Cleland, among others, were Al Qaeda lovin' traitors.

Zertoss @ Aug 27th 2008 5:26PM

"You have to ask - if a female candidate had been the victim of rape, and she brought that up, would people mock that in the same way?"

On the internet? No, the internet is classier than that.

Joe H @ Aug 27th 2008 5:26PM

You still haven't responded to how "I was a POW" is an acceptable answer for not knowing how many houses you own.

Quite frankly, if he said "Cindy handles our investments" I'd be fine with that, but the fact of the matter is that he reverted to the POW defense.

Ins0mn1ac @ Aug 27th 2008 6:01PM

I think the mentally challenged are the ones who keep buying the POW line.
Lots of people go through tough times, that doesn't give them free reign to lie and be a dick.

"You're a firefighter and you're going to put out the flames with gasoline?"
"Trust me. I was a POW."

ChuckJ @ Aug 27th 2008 6:02PM

No, YOU should reverse your course. McCain nor anyone else has ever said, since he was a POW, he is qualified to be president. He doesnt even bring it up as much as you would like to believe. Rarely in fact. And if he mentions it, SO WHAT. That was HUGE part of his life that must have affected him greatly, as it would anyone else.
And Obama has already pulled the race card many times. So dont say he hasnt. Yes, the Obama, the one who liked to talk about "how different he looked" etc etc.
The ones who bring up POW, is the media, clownass Wesley Clark, and others. McCain has not used that to certify him as a candidate. He uses his service.

ChuckJ @ Aug 27th 2008 6:11PM

Seriously, you little kids and liberals should just go back to playing your Wii now. You have NO CLUE wtf you are even talking about.
Your overstatement of McCain using the POW line is an outrageous lie. Where did you even come up with that crap? You are the same people who will defend Obama. You know, the guy who said "Iran and Venezuela are no big threat to us because they are tiny countries" Are you kidding me? This is the guy who thinks he is qualified to lead our country?
You idiots are some dumb to really believe Obama is the right man to be our nations leader? If you truly believe that then you really really need to get help.

DiRT @ Aug 27th 2008 6:14PM

Obama's too busy trying to make sure no one Googles "Tony Rezko" or "Obama Chicago Scandal" to be able to govern effectively.

And he has used the race card several times.

STFU.

il_duce620 @ Aug 27th 2008 6:21PM

Bass Masterson, seriously... McCain was on Leno Monday night and the following exchange occurred:

LENO: “For a million dollars, how many houses do you have?”

SEN. McCAIN: “Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness. I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell,” McCain said. “I didn’t have a house. I didn’t have a kitchen table. I didn’t have a table. I didn’t have a chair. And I didn’t spend those five-and-a-half years because, not because I wanted to get a house when I got out.”

---------------------------------------------

So far as experience goes, Bass, Obama was a community organizer in the south side of Chicago for years...you know...actually working with poor people while McCain was living in one of his nice houses, not doing anything for the poor. So yeah, McCain is more experienced as a federal senator, but in politics? In actually making things happen for people that need help? You're one of those that probably believes that Obama voted to raise taxes on those people making $42,000+...when he actually voted to repeal the Bush tax cuts.

Get your story straight and stop watching O'Reilly or listening to Limbaugh...

And ChuckJ, perhaps you should tell me where Obama HIMSELF pulled the race card BEFORE it was pulled on him. I dunno...evidence is one of those things I listen to, not the ranting of people who don't know what they're talking about...

According to Bush, McCain wasn't even tortured while being a POW (as, apparently, sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating don't count...)

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html

TwEE @ Aug 27th 2008 6:28PM

Hey ChuckJ, you seem like a really really smart guy, I bet you know where the WMDs are..

The Doctor @ Aug 27th 2008 6:52PM

@Chuck J

Hey. HEY.

Conservatives play the Wii too, SIR.

Geoffrey Sperl @ Aug 27th 2008 6:58PM

Anything can be funny. Including a POW.

I think it's hilarious McCain can't comb his own hair (he can't rise his arms over his shoulders) so he relies on Cindy on it and *that* haircut is the best she can do.

I think it's hilarious that he has (literally) embraced the SOB who slandered him in South Carolina in 2000.

I think it's hilarious that you think the game is targeting McCain itself as opposed to the campaign's tactics.

And, by the way, McCain just pulled the POW card again on Leno the other night:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/26/leno-asks-mccain-how-many_n_121389.html

Educate yourself. And stop throwing around labels that you clearly don't know how to use.

DSR7997@mac.com @ Aug 27th 2008 8:13PM

Hey il_duce620, FYI he did play the race card. Ass, of course i mean that in a Democrat sense.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/Story?id=5495348&page=1

John @ Aug 28th 2008 5:14AM

Most liberals think that there are OTHER QUALIFICATIONS for running for Prez and that going to the "POW card" is kinda cheap

Yeah, like being a woman and being black.

I'm not voting for either of these idiots. I'm tired of lesser of 2 evils.

Highlar @ Aug 28th 2008 11:20AM

@Chuck J:

The most offensive thing I find here. :-) I'm republican, proud to be, AND I own and play a Wii. Stop with the stereotyping already. :-P

C. T. @ Aug 27th 2008 5:11PM

This is only related to video games by the shadow of a penumbra. It really seems gratuitous.

In response, someone could make a GTA clone where Barack Obama accepts missions from the likes of his racist pastor Jeremiah Wright, his developer buddy and convicted felon Tony Rezko, and his domestic terrorist pal Bill Ayers.

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