That 2001 show

McCain is rolling with it!. As I noticed earlier, the quotes are truncated.

Andrew's take is here. Yes, this is really all McCain has left. He follows up.

Daniel Drezner is here, also quoting David Bernstein who listened to the whole radio program:

It’s true that most Americans, when asked by pollsters, think that it’s emphatically not the government’s job to redistribute wealth. But are people so stupid as to not recognize that when politicians talk about a “right to health care,” or “equalizing educational opportunities,” or “making the rich pay a fair share of taxes,” or “ensuring that all Americans have the means to go to college,” and so forth and so on, that they are advocating the redistribution of wealth? Is it okay for a politician to talk about the redistribution of wealth only so long as you don’t actually use phrases such as “redistribution” or “spreading the wealth,” in which case he suddenly becomes “socialist”? If so, then American political discourse, which I never thought to be especially elevated, is in even a worse state than I thought.

Ben Smith has the Obama camp's push-back.