2 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/710/thumb/mctongue-pic.jpg?1250828056 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/710/square/mctongue-pic.jpg?1250828056 2009-08-21T04:14:18Z 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= active Image macro, mccain, funny, obama, exploitation 55 <div align="center"> <p><img src="http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/D/O/2/mctongue-pic.jpg" alt="" /></p> </div> <h2>About</h2> <p>One of many political gaffes to emerge from the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, <strong>Zombie McCain</strong> is a photoshop meme that spawned from a puzzling photo of four-time Arizona Senator John McCain (shown above) taken shortly after the third and final presidential debate with Barack Obama in October 2008. The photograph captured the Republican nominee for President in an awkward stance with his tongue hanging out and it quickly became fodder for photoshop exploitables.</p> <h2>Popularity</h2> <p>Buzz around Zombie McCain peaked in late 2008 after it was first released but interest in it has died down since:</p> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fig%2Fmodules%2Fgoogle_insightsforsearch_interestovertime_searchterms.xml&amp;up__property=empty&amp;up__search_terms=zombie+mccain&amp;up__location=empty&amp;up__category=0&amp;up__time_range=empty&amp;up__compare_to_category=false&amp;synd=ig&amp;w=600&amp;h=350&amp;lang=en-US&amp;title=Google+Insights+for+Search&amp;border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&amp;output=js"></script><h2>Links</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/mccain-as-zombie">Buzzfeed Collection of Zombie McCain</a></li> <li><a href="http://fffff.at/fuckflickr/zombie-nation/">fffff.at Collection of Zombie McCain impersonations</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=zombie%20mccain">Flickr search results of Zombie McCain</a></li> </ul> 2009-10-31T06:31:47Z 710 7 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/710/original/mctongue-pic.jpg?1250828056