Flack for McCain.....or is it Flak?

Presidential candidate John McCain is giving spelling lessons...

Barack Obama, another presidential candidate, recently released a statement saying that the course we are on in Iraq is not working, citing John McCain's recent visit to a Baghdad market as evidence. Obama said that "the fact that Senator McCain required a flack jacket" (as well as armed soldiers and helicopters, if you remember) was a "reflection" of the wrong course in Iraq.

McCain bounced back with a statement that said, "By the way, Senator Obama, it's a 'flak' jacket, not a 'flack' jacket."

Of course, McCain's statement was supposed to be an I-wore-the-uniform-and-you-didn't kind of thing, but alas, McCain's statement has been debunked, not by Wikipedia, but by Webster's New World Dictionary, 3rd College Edition.

As MSNBC's Mike Viqueira points out, "[The Dictionary] says actually that "flack" -- F-L-C-K [sic] -- setting the record straight here -- is a noun, and it's alternative to the spelling of "flak" -- F-L-A-K."

Oh, and as Media Matters points out, the phrase "flack jacket" (with a "c") is used on multiple government web sites.

But thanks, Senator McCain, for the attempted spelling lesson.