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The McCain campaign held a conference call this afternoon with reporters, discussing the latest example of Democrats hilariously trying to excerpt McCain in order to make him look out of the loop on Iraq.

I don't know who keeps telling the DNC this is a worthwhile effort, but it is sort of like putting David Beckham on TV to claim Carolina Panther Steve Smith doesn't know anything about football. You're not even talking the same sport Senator Obama. McCain is discussing a successful surge, you are discussing a quagmire. He's in 2008, you're in 1968. He's talking football, you mean soccer.

During the conference call, Senator Joe Lieberman said that it was particularly nasty to question whether John McCain understands the sacrifices of military families, considering his father, his own experiences, and his son's service.

Read on ...

More than most any American, Sen. McCain knows the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make and the burden that their families bear, and it really is wrong to suggest otherwise. Obviously he knows that from his own—from his father’s service and the impact it had on his family; from his own service and incarceration; from his eight visits to Iraq -- on which I’ve been with him on a lot of them -- and interacting with our troops there; and of course from the fact that his son was deployed to Iraq."

The LA Times quickly jumped on this. The "reporter" began by saying that Sen. McCain has made a point of not discussing his son and not making a political issue of his service. She then said she was surprised, therefore, to hear Lieberman mention that McCain has a son in the military, and should we expect that, from now on, McCain surrogates will be using his son's service to score political points.

So that's the strategy?

LA TIMES: "McCain doesn't understand what it's like to have family in Iraq"

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN: "Well, you know, his son ..."

LA TIMES [interrupting]: "bup bup bup, no no no, Senator McCain said he wouldn't use his son for political purposes. Why is he exploiting his son like this? Does he hate the military? Didn't he fire laser cannons from orbit during the Vietnam war anyway?"

They've posted it at their blog, under the hilarious title "Joe Lieberman makes political issue of John McCain's son" which ought to take some sort of award home, either for Teh Most Overblown Blog Title or maybe Most Pathetic Gotcha Evah!. (Blog awards should have hip spelling.)

I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise. This is the same LA Times that thought McCain's military pension made him unfit for duty. When you're being echoed by the likes of DailyKos and the internet abomination americablog, you aren't exactly topping the credibility lists.

So this is your warning from LA, Senator McCain: You have no son.