Claim: Photograph shows John McCain making a funny face after a presidential debate.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, October 2008]
Is the photo below real? it is said to have been taken at the end of the 3rd debate. |
Origins: It's
sometimes the
a still image can call attention to something that occurred so fleetingly as to pass unnoticed in a moving image. Such was the case with the picture of John McCain displayed above, which circulated widely in the immediate aftermath of the
At the end of the debate, as Senator McCain attempted to shake hands with moderator Bob Schieffer, McCain started to move to one side of the stage and Schieffer walked in the opposite direction. Realizing the misstep, McCain displayed a bit of humor in making an exaggerated
Last updated: 17 October 2008