(video courtesy TPM)
Someone in John McCain's campaign needs to tell him that he's not funny and that making crude jokes about killing innocent people is not presidential and inappropriate.
Most of you have heard of McCain's Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran gaffe, and now the GOP presidential hopeful has made another crude joke about killing Iranians and again, its wholly inappropriate. The title of this AP story is "Wife Pokes McCain In The Back"
PITTSBURGH -- Cindy McCain's jab to her husband's back came a second too late Tuesday to keep him from making a wisecrack about the health impact of Iran's main import from the United States: cigarettes.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was asked about an Associated Press report that $158 million in cigarettes have been shipped to Iran during George W. Bush's presidency despite restrictions on U.S. exports to that country.
"Maybe that's a way of killing them," McCain told reporters, smiling as he waited for a cheesesteak sandwich at the Primanti Brothers restaurant. His wife, sitting next to him at the counter, poked his back without looking up. Read on...
How about, "McCain Makes Another Crude Joke About Killing Iranians?" Just kill 'em all, right, Senator? You can tell this guy can't wait to have his finger on the buttons, can't you? Had Barack Obama made this comment the corporate media would run with it, wall to wall for weeks.
UPDATE: (Nicole) Andy Borowitz has McCain's list of Top Ten Funniest Ways To Kill Iranians.
This clinches it for me: McCain is the candidate that Stephen King warned us about in "The Dead Zone".
Had Barack Obama made this comment the corporate media would run with it, wall to wall for weeks.
Damn right they would have. The bias in the media is so glaringly blatant that it almost seems like a parody. More glaring than the bias however is the cowardice of the MSM, unwilling to face its own reflection in the mirror and dare itself to do better, to be better. When democracy and rule of law are killed - once and for all - in this country, you can bet your ass the MSM will have its prints all over the murder weapon.
I'm just pissed that he'd visit Primanti Brothers. How dare he.
the real question is, is Obama too black enough?
i mean, how much more blacker should he get?
A: none. none more black.
I can see he will be great in diplomatic circles. Fu*k, he may even be worse than bush when it comes to saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
The guy is fixated on killing Iranians. Jesus he scares me. An elderly man with a fierce desire to kill a country of people. Not what we need anywhere near the button.
Obama would never say something like that because he's too intelligent to even think that way.
to hell with john mccain. you already know what a war-mongering asshole he is. what i want answered is why the courtiers surrounding him burst into laughter.
That poke in the back mccain got from c**t was probably the most poking they've had in years.
Of course she wanted to stop him, what goes with cigarettes than beer?
McCaint is itching to kill somebodies.
With a major Presidential candidate constantly joking about killing Iranians, is it any wonder they are conducting missile tests? What a tool.
Screw impeachment, can we bring out the guillotine yet? All these jabbering asswipes in politics, and the MSM talking (empty) heads that cover for them, prove is that we need another French Revolution already :)
Wow....he's completely insane.
That man should not have access to the nulcear arsenal...I think he'd use it first chance he got.
And this was the best the republican party could come up with for their candidate?
Oopsie
Of course she wanted to stop him, what goes better with cigarettes than beer?
Early during the Republican primaries, McCain was low in the polls, had little money and little public support compared to Romney and others. If he were a Democrat, like Kucinich, he would have gotten neglected; however, the mainstream media kept him propped up by writing positive stories about him and keeping him on Sunday morning talk shows. McCain didn't need campaign money since the Media was essentially giving him free coverage. Then when the candidates started dropping out, McCain couldn't help but pick up some momentum, again especially with the Media backing him.
ysbaddaden @ 13:
Coffee's pretty damn good with a cigarette.
Smart thinking people just don't make remarks like that. They just don't. So is he mentally unbalanced or what?
Old School Patriot @ 10:
We need to make sure Blackwater is out of the picture before we start with torches and pitchforks.
They mow us down without a second thought.
Why doesn't McCain appears with his children on television the way Obama does?
It makes one wonder what the GOP and their followers were thinking when they chose McBush as their candidate. Maybe they thought choosing Grandpa (more like Great-Grandpa) would promote an image of mature responsibility?...NOT!!!! My God, the man is a bigger psychotic warmonger than the WarPigs themselves. So far his campaign is directed at the thirty-percenters. With seventy percent of Americans not supporting the AmeriKan occupation of Iraq, how does he expect to win votes talking trash and killing innocent Iranians? I think it's not only odd, but rather suspicious. Maybe the big fix for the '08 election is already set in stone?
You're right, this doddering old fart essentially drops a "kill 'em and let God sort 'em out" wisecrack and the only thing the MSM picks up on is he got wrong the number of years he quit smoking. Priorities out of whack, much?
If this gasbag gets elected, we will be in Armageddon.
pissed off patricia @ 5:
That's what warmongers do. They love to kill.
Here come Another Free Ride for McGramps.
You won't hear any of this in the MSM. (he's a war herruh)
pissed off patricia @ 12:
No, he's where he is because of the same fucktards who twice "elected" his predecessor.
Not ok, senator.
Not ok.
As I've said before, this man is unstable.
He shall have no claim to the white house. Ever.
17 liberalNmoderation Says: Old School Patriot @ 10:
Screw impeachment, can we bring out the guillotine yet? All these jabbering asswipes in politics, and the MSM talking (empty) heads that cover for them, prove is that we need another French Revolution already :)
We need to make sure Blackwater is out of the picture before we start with torches and pitchforks.
They mow us down without a second thought.
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Wouldn't Blackwater give the job to a team of illegal alien landscapers?
Interesting the way republicans think that if you say "I'm kidding" it makes it ok to say anything you want.
John, your an old geezer who is just too unstable to be in the most powerful job. (just kidding johnny ...............NOT!)
15 liberalNmoderation
But did c**t inherit her fortune from the sale of coffee?
Can we assume that McBush is not getting a lot of cash from big tobacco this election?
Wow... there's a sense of humanity and decorum between Cindy's ears. I'm impressed.
Just off the AP wires:
"Handed a fork for his fries, McCain reportedly said: "You could really gouge out some Iranian eyes with this, and do some real damage." Mrs. McCain, the acknowledged meal ticket on this particular ride to nowhere, finally threw up her hands and waved for a cab."
Now all the dumb asses who really believe that this angry, sick old fucker and Obama are no different should just sit down and pay attention. Imagine if Obama did say some reckless, stupid shit like this.
I would be afraid to have this man in my kitchen, let alone the war room of the white house.
If his wife has to tell him what is right and wrong, what the hell does that say about him?
5 pissed off patricia Says:
The guy is fixated on killing Iranians. Jesus he scares me. An elderly man with a fierce desire to kill a country of people. Not what we need anywhere near the button.
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That's what cindy says.
It's what her pool-boy, Gerardo, is for.
ysbaddaden @ 25:
Doubtful, lol! they're too gung-ho and full of patriotic...I mean nationalistic pride to let a bunch of illegals do their jobs cheaper.
This is a good example of "time wasting outrage."
Aren't there enough things out there to focus on that are of real concern to people that McCain can be hammered on without resorting to these stupid little side comment "gotcha" moments? Maybe have a "weekly roundup" of them instead of focusing on each one?
It feels petty and...Republicanish...
What are McCain's take on Ethiopians being US surrogates killing Somalians and America's harboring of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles or other topics actually worth talking about?
This is the same sort of thing that people complain about the MSM in general - distraction over issues. Why would C&L want to be part of that?
Left&Left @ 31:
I have a amazing imagination but even I cannot imagine Senator Obama saying something like this. His mind doesn't work that way.
"Old Jerk-Off who's a Jerk-Off".
A potential President of the United States, casually joking about ways to kill Iranians. Repeatedly. Disqualifying stupidity, that will unfortunately have no effect.
Brendan @ 30:
I could totally see him making jabbing motions with a fork in his hand, with that classic grimace of his, LOL!!!!
Who smokes more American cigarettes? Iranians or Americans? Maybe it's a way of killing them.
seriously @ 3:
I agree - I have to hope Primantis was forced to do this or something...
I can now see how his constant "mishaps" (multiple plane crashes while training, the USS Forestall disaster that his plane caused, getting shot down, the POW years, etc, etc) were part of a divine intervention to save us from this fucker.
I guess the Christian god fails to pass the Epicurean test and he is not that omnipotent, or his/her aim ain't that good.
This just in:
Jesse Ventura To Run for Senate?
liberalNmoderation @ 34:
I was told that a bunch of blackwater "contractors" (fuck it MERCENARIES) are not of the American persuasion; they have tons of South African and Yugoslavian war criminals in their payroll...
Maybe he will die of skin cancer ... hehehe
--- what? ... oh just joking.
It was a terrorist back-jab!
I'm sure a comment like that will win the hearts and minds of rank and file Iranians.
And after Iran's chest-thumping today, expect Ol' Grand-Dad to ramp it up a notch
"See my friends? I told you so!... Cindy, massage my prostrate, please"
Has anyone told McCain that he's running for President, not George Carlin's replacement?
earl @ 45:
Maybe his wife will die of one too many face lifts and an excessive diet of caviar....hehehe....Just joking.
See, Bus's stupid antics along this line have expanded the envelope for McCaint to act like just as big an ass and make similar muy estupido remarks.
neverbeenfooled @ 49:
And I don't mean to imply that George Carlin can be replaced.
what does a believer in the "free" market do when the "free" market does what it does--countering US policy--and looks for markets independent of government directive, thus hampering any idea of restricting exports to iran?
ignore the action and talk about how said export might kill iranian civilians.
iranians, mind you, that most likely have NOTHING to do with the regime, that might even be 'moderate' and want reform.
ahh, diplomacy, mccain style.
Psychopath
All McInsane has to do to win the election is tell everyone if he wins that he will invade and destroy Iran. That will get all of the inbred super stupid bloodthirsty brainwashed fools to vote for him.
McCain clearly lacks the judgment and temperament to be president.
Is this repug joke ? , a going away present for mccain . Knowing he has only a ( hopefully ) very slim chance of becoming POTUS , and that maybe the old gelding will mosey on out to pasture on his own .
OSP @ 10 , a shared thought .
The Dude @ 44:
don't forget the chilean commandos!
drtoxic @ 23:
God, don't you love that word? Nothing describes the 30 percenters better.
The tabbaco companies that sell their poision kill lots of Americans too John! Nice one you nitwit!
I still think this idiot is running expressely because he supposed to lose. By fronting this cretin, corporate amerika makes their corporatist democratic candidate look downright appealing. Forget that HRC was supposed to be their candidate, Obama will do just fine for them. And they'll instruct the MSM to provide enough cover that nobody will ever notice that there's no difference between who won the election and Bush.
Rusty the Hated Blogger Shackleford @ 56:
pissed off patricia @ 5:
This is how old white men think. This is what old white men think is funny. Perhaps John McCain believes that this will win over the American Citizens. He may be right. The bigotry and ignorance of America's citizens is overwhelming.
"Had Barack Obama made this comment the corporate media would run with it, wall to wall for weeks."
That's the truth. Is it because Obama's black or because he's a Democrat why he has to walk on egg shells while Crusty White Conservative can get by with saying all kinds of bombastic crazy shit with nary a word from the lapdog corporate media. Obama buts his wife's fist and it's a "terrorist fist jab", McCrusty makes comments that could incite others to hate us and it's crickets chirping.
luckily the iranians don't take him too seriously.
otherwise they would be building long range missles and test firing them
oops
Controlling Iran can simply be done by controlling their cigarette supply. Your average smoker would eat dirt to get a smoke after being denied for several hours.
Now if we can get the Iranians hooked on Bud Lite and Big Macs they would be in our pocket.
P.S. Sadam would have done anything for a box of Cubans.
McW is simply talking to his base.
Off topic a little…..
McCain's camp highlights differences with Bush.
This McBush thing is getting to them. It is making them defensive. They want to run away from Bush but there is no way they can. Especially not while I am around. One of the Bush talkers a couple Sundays ago got very upset when the Obama talker brought up the McBush line.
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McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush/McCain/Bush
It's pretty Raygunesque, n'est-ce pas?
It reminds me of Nancy hissing into Ronnie's ear "we're doing everything we can" during a press q and a.
So I'll give AP a grade of C+ because the headline is still not very flattering. But you're right, they could have earned the A with the real story.
Don from Canada @ 66:
I heard that Saddam gave Rumsfeld head for a carton of Marlboro Red's. This was back in the 80's.
Dr. Acula @ 67:
The best way to get the villagers to the pols on election day is by talking about a bearded white man in the clouds watching over us while making "jokes" about killing brown people....and throwing in bashing an American gay person for good measure never hurts either,
Oh, and I'm sure Cindy wasn't poking him because the killing thing was so offensive. It was implying that the products of Big Tobacco are lethal. Don't diss the sponsors, hon.
This can't be true because if it were, he'd have called Cindy a c-word right out loud and the mainstream media would of course be all over it.
Right?
dosido @ 73:
That's probably more like it.
This woman looks like she would have a closet full of Dalmatian skin coats.
Folks, he's doing what he thinks is necessary to get votes. Accept the reality of this situation. Bush Republicans LIKE WAR AND WANT MORE OF IT.
This is how McCain lets them know that "behind closed doors" he's right there with them.
Ruthless People @ 75:
LOL. Puppies! I must have puppies!
why negotiate when you can just make jokes about killing them?
"World War 3 when are you coming for me
We've been kicking up dust, we set the flames free
World War 3 oh what'll it be
A house on fire? Or the rising sea?"
-The Arcade Fire "Window"
i might take a slightly dissenting view on what would have happened had obama made the same comment.
(which, credit to obama, he never would do)
i do wonder, had obama "joked" about the same "funny" thing, if the msm would have actually given him credit. not the wire services, but the cable newsertainment: the faux news, the cnns, the msnbcs, etc. i wonder if they would have given him kudos for being militant, ya know, like a real amurrikkan.
i wonder...
in the news whore sphere of supporting a 21st cen style of clausewitzian total war, i think that any mention of killing 1) iranians 2) militants 3) drug traffickers 4) brown people is a net plus for a candidate.
yes, i am jaded. and, probably wrong. the media would likely go back to ye olde double standard.
Quite frankly, I'm hoping for MANY MORE crude jokes and revealing spit-up from that cantankerous old wacko. I don't want him to act presidential in his campaign. I want him to screw up all over the place. Plenty of people will still dig him, but not enough for him to be elected.
Already working for those hearts and minds..which is the lunatic people who wish for war with Iran.
#14... Media Support for McCain Says: "
Early during the Republican primaries, McCain was low in the polls, had little money and little public support compared to Romney and others...."
You forgot one huge thing Media support, and the one thing I am most concerned about come November and that would be...voting machine fraud...how do you think McCain got ahead in the primaries. I mean he was dead last and then came out of nowhere, that wasn't the media alone. And who has had control of the voting fraud in the first place...the bush regime...they won 2 elections using this technique and it is not beyond them to continue using it WHENEVER it is to their advantage (their plan of "Global Military Dominance" as was indicated in their mission statement from PNAC is only one reason why they would want McCain in this race...he was/is the only one who would carry on most if not all of the unfinished work of this terrible administration) one more thing...how do you think Hillary won in NH...voting fraud again as the Republican party was afraid Obama would pick up too much steam and be unstoppable...as the GOP would have preferred running against Hillary....check out the (only) districts in NH where she won yet the exit polls suggested otherwise...you guessed it, they were all in districts that had electronic machines...so WE NEED TO FOCUS on the electronic voting machines if ever we want to get this corrupt party out of the white house...or Mcsame will be the next pres....I'm convinced of that...
Um... that's several degrees worse than his "bomb bomb Iran" joke, which was a tasteless joke about war.
This was a joke about genocide-- and worse, an advocation of genocide. That's sickening. This man shouldn't be anywhere near government, and his supporters should be ashamed of themselves.
Predicting zero coverage from the MSM
I see plenty of MSM coverage on Barack's children interview, but not much on McInsaine joking about killing Irainians.
Is it November yet?
AP signed on as an adjunct to Krustys campaign. So don't look for fair reporting from them. They will sort through his many gaffs and not let them hurt the angry codger.
But his commercials say he hates war!
The restaurant staff souold have thrown that asshole out and told him never to come back. I certainly would have!
I know it's a joke, but it also shows his underlying policy goals. What's the use of negotiations when all we're really after is destroying the Middle East?
The really messed up part of all this? Consider the original question. Why ARE we exporting all those cigarrettes to Iran? Why carve out an exception for that particular product? Maybe McCain was exactly right, and Bush is perfectly happy to sent them an export that will strain their health system and (consequently) their economy.
Samson- @ 58:
Chilean Commandos?!?! I read that and immediately thought of " NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!"
Seriously, they have English and Aussies too if I'm not mistook!
ThunderMonkey @ 29:
Nah. She was just poking his colostomy bag. It was getting a little full and needed some rearranging before he ate the cheesesteak.
I don't know what the answer to the MSM bias is. Maybe what we should all do is get a list of sponsors of CNN, fox noise etc and send emails to the sponsors saying we won't purchase their products as long as they continue to support biased news reporting. Just a thought. Maybe Blue State or some other organization could put together such a list and post it on here, Huffington's etc.
OM @ 90:
They're like racist jokes...just a joke, but shows underlying feelings towards those different than the joke teller.
So...didja hear hear the one about the...
you know, thats a pretty fucked up thing to say no matter where you stand on the POLITICAL aspects of iran. youre not funny mcCain. you should get your lip split for that.
I'm waitin for the day when he calls Iranians "sandn%#*ers" or towelheads...well hell...the MSM will gloss over that like every other hateful thing he says or does...why do they love that mean ol coot anyway?
Maybe Obama should make the same exact joke.
Then in the moment after that give one of his famous speeches (a short one) on how the media needs to look at itself and it's biases.
Mr McGoo thinks life is a cartoon and killing people is funny. This war hero is unfit to be president. It is fair to say that anyone who jokes about killing people is an asshole. Anyone who does it repeatedly is unstable and pathologically ill.
This guy gives vets a bad name.
Why do people cut him so much slack? He's such a shithead.
Vets with any objectivity are not cutting him slack, despite the MSM dimwits who idolize what he did four decades ago and Vets for Freedom snarky propoganda, they don't speak for millions of vets and their friends and family despite how they like to portray themselves. It used to be a no brainer after Vietnam if you were in the Military you voted Repub...days are gone. As long as he continues his senior moments and disrespects Vets who question him....that base will continue to diminish.
http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-military-voices
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2008-releases/iraq-veter...
pissed off patricia @ 12:
The answer to this one is easy......after the repigs recent rein of total domination can you blame anyone with half a brain for not wanting to represent this group of vile, sub-human pond scum? I mean really, how could anyone with a conscience possibly desire to associate themselves with these lying, cheating, stealing bastards that have done their best to destroy this country.
cant wait for 09 @ 101:
I agree, assuming their are repub leaders with brains they would wisely sit this one out. Not to mention I'm sure the repubs don't mind the idea that the person who'd have to clean up bush's mess and likely get saddled with much of the blame be a dem. And a black dem? all the better. I thought that was obvious just from seeing who they fielded in the primaries. Rudy and Mitt, both leaders from the the northeastiest northeast, had to both repudiate themselves in order to run. The rest of the pack were either outright bigots or else nutjobs. McCain is old enough to be sacrificed without having to worry about his future.
McSame strikes again. Rove prodigy Steve Schmidt carries the torch:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/09/mccain_campaign_rest...
McCain is destined for humiliation in November.
McCain is a sick fuck.
Speaking of GOPers talking of killing Iranians, it looks like they are planning to start a war with Iran as soon as possible. HCR 362 is steam-rolling its way through the House. Using as a subtrefuge the discredited claim that Iran is building nukes, it calls for a blockade of Iranian waters. That would be an act of war, one that is calculated to provoke a military response from Iran....at which point we get another round of shock and awe. The bill has 220 co-sponsors, and is - of course -receiving no attention in the MSM. There are a lot of alleged "Democrats" signing on to this resolution. They are determined that they are going to have their war with Iran.
If ever there was a time for a letter writing campaign, it is now. Member need to be warned by their constituents that it won't be tolerated and that they are expected to support HCR 321, which requires that if a problem really exists, all diplomatic means possible be used to arrive at asensible solution.
Had enough yet, America?
Seems McCain wants to be a hero for American soldiers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5_vG3cYGM&e
scaring to figure these low brows might get a president like that...
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What a dick.
Here's a better idea, Mc Lamo. Give those cigarettes to all your Republican friends and peers and hopefully you and your party will expire and clean up America. Putting up with the Iranians is small time compared to you and your gang of imbeciles.
The MSM shamelessly and relentlessly came after Obama(and some knuckle head progressives) for Rev. Wright, the ridiculously petty "bitter god and guns" comments. Now they give this mad, nasty old punk yet another free pass for what is becoming McDementia's dumbass comment of the day. The media whores are trying to select for us another simple, dangerous, bloodsipping, terrorist President.
How is it that McWarpig and Obama are in a statistical dead heat in the latest tracking poll? Can this country actually be THAT racist???
I think jokes about killing Refucklican presidential candidates would be actually funny!
Just in,
Breaking news:
The ICAHSA (Iranian Cigarette & Hasheesh Smokers Alliance) has issued this statement in response to John McCain's remark:
"When you called your wife a "trollop" & a "C*NT", what were you smoking, ......John?.............oh, never mind, just a joke".
Che Guevara IV @ 105:
Yes, being the puppet leader of the US is quite humiliating.
Underground Pirate @ 114:
A lot of people around the world talk about that, thought hey don't think about it in terms of a joke.
JudyLou @ 8:
Look at the country he comes from, it's the main ideal.
Dr. Acula @ 113:
The logical dissonance of the American public is such, that honestly we deserve to be flushed out.
This experiment is done, and the filth and fungus took over the petri dish of American democracy.
I simply can't find a reason to explain why a sitting president is at 20%+ popularity, yet its ideological successor and the one who will further the current disastrous policies gets to have 40%+ popularity. It simply makes no sense....
ever the diplomat
The MSM and their cousins, the right-wing pundits, are going everything they can do portroy St. McCain in a positive light. This includes ignoring or under-reporting gaffs and flip flips made by St. McCain and focusing on alleged gaffs and flip flops made by Obama.
It also means the MSM and right-wing pundits treat any attention on St. McCain's military record as an attack on his integrity and on all veterans everywhere.
What a funny guy. Lets keep up with the jokes about killing other people, it always makes me laugh.
It is up to the PEOPLE and blogs like this one to keep spreading the truth about this vile creature known as John McCain.
Wow. Will this get any mainstream media play? What am I saying? Of course it won't.
Granted it seems to have been an informal situation and McCain probably wasn't paying too much attention, but come on... It's such an easy question to diffuse. All he had to say was something like, "Well, I respect the right of the tobacco industry to do business as they wish within the scope of applicable laws, and I hope that nations such as Iran will step up their efforts to educate their people about the effects of tobacco consumption and the adverse effects involved." What's so hard about that? Instead of going with a relatively reasonable response like that, he instead makes another off the cuff reference to killing people. It's getting rather disturbing.
I'm no McCain fan but I'll give him a pass on this one - it was a joke! Perhaps in slightly bad taste - but is was off the cuff - get over this one.
haymaker @ 4:
he's still halk-white. you cannot see that?
wow. every day he further reinforces his image of "very creepy old man"
p.s. did you all hear that pelosi is working to have the judiciary committee NOT go forward with contempt against karl rove?
go read about it at www.afterdowningstreet.org
and make a donation to cindy sheehan's campaign to replace pelosi at www.cindyforcongress.org
and while you've got the checkbook out, send the ACLU a five or ten-spot, or more if you can, to support their work in the area of illegal government activities.
I'm trying to remember when America crossed this threshhold. When it became okay for presidential candidates in a "civilized" democracy to joke about killing an entire nation.
Before george w, I don't think any president ever did, not publicly for sure. The class and sophistication of public office is gone; the stature of Kennedy and, yes, even Reagan torn away to reveal a crude, barbaric, ball scratching ape.
WTF happened?
Holy crap!
This guy has no filter at all....
Maybe we should start calling him "Lucky Strike"
ONCE AGAIN: VIDEO PULLED.
Funny how videos catching McCain saying or doing something stupid always get pulled within hours of posting, huh?
Pity the country that even would consider him for top job....
Less than the greatest that's for sure.
This recurring theme of denigration of people who are not white or uber-christian is "sooooooooooooo republican". mccain is such an asshole!
Very funny John. Boy! You sure do have a great sense of humor. YOU SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF ME JOHN!
If anything, McShame is more of a blind bull in a China shop than G.W.B. His surrogates on the pundit programs talk about Obama's rashness in suggesting we have one-on-one talks with Iran, while Flyboy cracks jokes about giving Iranians lung cancer -- with one of the few products international sanctions permit. At a time when the rhetoric is so ratcheted up in the White House and Ahmadinejad's army is firing off missiles said to be capable of hitting Israel, we get a two-faced phoney war hero insulting the Iranian people, who basically like the West and are embarrassed by their leadership.
Was ANYONE my age -- other than Vietnam veterans, who have their own agenda -- as insulted as I was when McShame released that creepy commercial starting off with a few stock shots of hippies and war protesters and talking about the "war at home," then cutting to Flyboy in Vietnam and saying some Americans fought another war? Well, guess what, you crypto-fascist war mongering twit, some of the ones who stayed home did so on principle, and history has borne us out, that the Vietnam War was as tragic a mistake as Iraq, the only difference being that in the former conflict most troops had been drafted. Not me. I stayed home, protested Dow Chemical, manufacturer of napalm, and would have gone to Canada had it not been for a kindly orthodontist.
The new commercial is an insult to all patriots who refused to serve. Not only was Wes Clarke right on target when he said McShame's war experience did not qualify him to be president, McShame himself said he was embarrassed at having given a statement to his captors at Hanoi Hilton. The Wikipedia entry on Flyboy notes that other captive servicemen endured greater tortures before breaking. And here, this guy was against waterboarding before he moved right by supporting it! Talk about flip flops!
McShame will stoop to any lowness, and if we're getting crap like this on the air this far out, imagine what we'll be subjected to in August...September...October. And we haven't even had the Rovian Swiftboaters yet!
If being tortured for 5+ years by the North Vietnamese qualifies McCain to be the president then there are more then 250 current and former Gitmo detainees from Afganistan who are qualified to be the next Afgan president. MZ
I don't think that the joke was a big deal.
The big deal in this story should be that McCain doesn't know squat about Iran and its economic relations with us.
That was funny. Iranians suck ass.
Obama is a communist. I hope McCain rigs the diebold voting machines again.
I still can't believe people aren't pissed at his comments on the Daily Show, about bringing Jon Stewart an IED & then wanting to kick his bomb sniffing dog,... the guy is a real gem,...
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