Hey, John, stop banging on the podium!
I’ve been listening to Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Il.) speak in sound bites on NPR for months now. McCain can’t seem to stop striking the podium as he speaks, in approximate time to the stressed syllables in his speech.
Now, I understand John McCain is not a sound engineer (just for the record, neither am I [at least not professionally]) but even I know that you don’t hit the thing holding your microphone if you hope to record your voice without exraneous noise. McCain has been speaking into microphones for decades. I would have thought (and I’d be wrong, apparently) that by now, he’d have a handle on speaking into a mic.
While this is not reasonable justification for not voting for McCain, nor does it raise a “Vote for ME” flag.