In the Pink Panther movies, Inspector Clouseau would fall down or spill something and try to hide it by saying I meant to do that. The one I remember the most is he spilled a box of rice as he was trying to open his apartment door. As his neighbor looks at him with contempt, he starts dancing on the rice as though he spilled it deliberately so he could dance on it!! The Walter Reed Middle School flap is one of those Inspector Clouseau moments.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-walterreed6-2008sep06,0,6691654.story   Sixth-grader Joshua Popue offered the explanation most commonly being floated Friday both at the Irvine Avenue campus and in political circles: Somebody in the McCain campaign mistook Walter Reed Middle School for the military's troubled Walter Reed Army Medical Center when preparing the Republicans' high-tech video background wall.

"McCain messed up. He was talking about Walter Reed hospital, and he used our picture by mistake," said 11-year-old Joshua.   Yet that is not what the McCain campaign spokesman is claiming.
By late afternoon, McCain's campaign was characterizing the use of the picture as a way of illustrating the candidate's call "for public education reforms that empower parents and students before bureaucrats and labor unions," as spokesman Tucker Bounds put it.

But Tamar Galatzan, who represents the North Hollywood area on the Los Angeles Board of Education, was having none of that. She said she was "flattered that Sen. McCain chose to use a school from my district as backdrop to his remarks" but that more federal resources for education seems "not a priority for the McCain/Palin ticket." ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   If the Obama  campaign or the media does not rip him apart for this absurd lie, they all need to quit their jobs.  

In the Pink Panther movies, Inspector Clouseau would fall down or spill something and try to hide it by saying I meant to do that. The one I remember the most is he spilled a box of rice as he was trying to open his apartment door. As his neighbor looks at him with contempt, he starts dancing on the rice as though he spilled it deliberately so he could dance on it!! The Walter Reed Middle School flap is one of those Inspector Clouseau moments.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-walterreed6-2008sep06,0,6691654.story   Sixth-grader Joshua Popue offered the explanation most commonly being floated Friday both at the Irvine Avenue campus and in political circles: Somebody in the McCain campaign mistook Walter Reed Middle School for the military's troubled Walter Reed Army Medical Center when preparing the Republicans' high-tech video background wall.

"McCain messed up. He was talking about Walter Reed hospital, and he used our picture by mistake," said 11-year-old Joshua.   Yet that is not what the McCain campaign spokesman is claiming.
By late afternoon, McCain's campaign was characterizing the use of the picture as a way of illustrating the candidate's call "for public education reforms that empower parents and students before bureaucrats and labor unions," as spokesman Tucker Bounds put it.

But Tamar Galatzan, who represents the North Hollywood area on the Los Angeles Board of Education, was having none of that. She said she was "flattered that Sen. McCain chose to use a school from my district as backdrop to his remarks" but that more federal resources for education seems "not a priority for the McCain/Palin ticket." ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   If the Obama  campaign or the media does not rip him apart for this absurd lie, they all need to quit their jobs.