Yesterday one of the big stories was when walkie-talkie Bill Cunningham voraciously attacked Barack Obama warming up a crowd for John McCain. He was so over the top that supposedly the McMaverick campaign told John about his performance and after the crowd left—McCain apologized to Obama. Cunningham was so incensed over being repudiated by McCain that he pulled the Limbaugh trick of saying he’s now supporting Hillary Clinton.
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Cunningham: His people told me to give the faithful red meat. Give them red—raw—meat.
He’s a big favorite of Spawn Hannity and so it was not a surprise to see him on H&C last night to comment on the day’s events. (He reminds me of David Lynch’s hard of hearing character from Twin Peaks called Gordon Cole.) If he’s to be believed then McCain has more more splainin’ to do because he said that McMaverick’s people told him to throw out the red meat for his opening.
Even if McCain wasn’t familiar with his act—his camp knows it and to tell Cunningham to go all out only means one thing—the apology was a fraud. The straight talk express is being as disingenuous here as it has been with regards to his own finance law that he’s failed to comply with. And that’s really the story here. Who cares if a wingnut walkie-talkie is upset about being dissed.
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Awesome. Can’t wait to hear the explanation on this one. Oh wait, those guys never explain anything.
Good cop / Bad cop? Plausible deniability? end result: lots of air time showing this loony spewing his crap. Typical and a little too smart for their own good.
“HE TOLD ME TO DO IT”…sackless piece of shit you are bill cunningham.
There’s an old saying which is apropos here. You judge a person by the friends he/she keeps. Oops for McCain.
When I see two assholes ready to fight, I’ll offer to hold their coats.
Well it seems as though Mr. cunning-hambone is going to make a name for his self. that’s all we need is another Glen Beck. Do you think that CNN sent out a contract yet?
You mean the McCampaign isn’t all on the up & up?!?
Yea that bus was the straitjacket express, All this asshole is good for is a speed bump. If he had his way Obama would be at the back of the bus or giving his seat up to some redneck racist like himself . The pride of cincinnati no doubt . Hannity and his ilk are what is wrong with this country today ,but luckily their days are numbered we will take back this country in November…..
MY NAME IS BILL CUNNINGHAM AND I LIKE TO SPEAKING SLOWLY AND SHOUT ALOT.
of course the apology was a fraud
the entire event was all high theater
i am now of a mind to believe that the entire “the right wing hates mccain” has been a huge ruse
make the independents and conservative dems think that he is a moderate
he may have been in 2000, he aint today
I “Think” this is funny, I mean it mad me laugh. These are the same people that claim the Democrat’s are the emotionalist’s. Meanwhile they go off every day in screaming tirades.
I personally enjoyed watching the clips of these clowns going ballistic.
Yup, it was a carefully crafted political move on McCain’s part. A two for the price of one stunt. God, this is getting obvious now. Drudge and the photos blaming Clinton, Coulter and Limpballs voting for Clinton, blah, blah blah. Geez. Can’t you tell we’re being played….again.
Gary @ 9:
DONT YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU YELL, IT MEANS YOU MUST BE SPEAKING THE TRUTH????
Yech.
Some of these characters are just sooooo sleazy and demented it makes me ill.
What strong right wing convictions, Cunningham. He now supports Hillary. Wipe your lips off first, you nasty whore.
What’s wrong with McCain distancing himself from the mad vermin in his party?
In my opinion Cunningham is a complete piece of trash and isn’t even worth discussing.
What rock did this Cunningham character crawl out from under?
and when will he be going back?
Maybe McCain does have a soul after all.
McPain gets a double uptick on his popularity… he gets someone to spew the hate, to be heard (again and again) all over the
media and then he comes out as the good guy for saying that ‘it was just awful’.
They’ll do this weekly until the election.
LegallyBlonde @ 18:
These guys are the on-air representatives of the “Moron factor”, that 29% that will believe anything that FAUX broadcasts’.
What a bunch a BIGOTED DICKS! They keep repeating Mr. Obama’s name as if it means something (as if it should dissuade people from voting for him) … and of course THAT is their intent! They think everyone else is LIKE THEY ARE! They think they are being sly! But the fact is that they are just BIGOTS! They are GOP BIGOTS and yes, having a name that sounds “Arabic” WILL NI FACT dissuade many other BIGOTS out there… but face it folks, the BIGOTS are the ones who faithfully tune into FOX news anyway… it is like shooting ducks in a barrel. I swear, these right wing so-called-Americans MAKE ME SICK!
Also, when Cunningham finished yesterday he handed the mic to a guy. The guy said something like we couldn’t do it without you, Bill. I cannot remember the guy’s name but according to the pundits, he was one of the ones being considered for McCain’s vice president list. Guess that guy is toast now.
We have two problems here. Either McCain is not in control of his campaign or he’s lying. Neither is good. He better jump on this problem as quickly as he did the NYT article.
Cunningham is going to be on another Fox show this afternoon. Don’t know the Fox guy’s name, but he has a large head.
I’m getting a feeling McCain is an old wolf in sheep’s clothing. He seems to be using his age and history to cover for who he really is.
What does it say about Republicans when “give them red meat”
is interpreted as “go out there and be a racist”?
Helloworld @ 16:
….AFTER he invites them to toss out the red meat to the savage audience.
Helloworld @ 16:
Because it was a farce. He wasn’t really distancing himself at all. He knew what Cunningham was going to say to get the because he told him to say it. The Hussein message got out there and McCain appears clean as a whistle.
This is GREAT!!!! The MELTDOWN will be televised.
Of course it makes “perfect sense” for this bug to use Obama’s middle name,because his parents named him that.I assume he uses ALL of the candidates full names for that very oh so obvious smugly posited reason.Hannity of course couldn’t stroke this freak enough with the “Great American” nonsense.
Bangkok Bob @ 11:
They don’t consider themselves emotional because they only display one emotion: anger.
The conservatives are Emotionotony People, GADDAMNIT!!!!
AshWilliams @ 19:
Two of them, on his feet.
McStraitBoinkExpress
LOL
What a fuckin’ loon!
…and how many Americans listen to this shit?
David Duke: “I dont think Obama will be any worse a President than Hillary Clinton or John McCain.”
If a Klansman is willing to accept the prospect of a black President; Barack Obama is virtually assured his place in the Oval Office.
You know, even if I thought McCain was a decent guy and a capable leader, I couldn’t possibly vote for him because of the company he keeps. To be associated with the Crooks & Liars (!) in his party makes him guilty by association.
Maybe what they really wanted was the meat medium rare….
not raw…. Hey, I’m not sayin, I’m jus sayin…..(Yawn)….
Whatever, this shit is sooo transparant… Tell the M.C. to lay it on thick so the star can come out and play the even tempered statesman…and look good to the masses while the clueless rube introducing said statesman wannabe gets hung out to dry by the stars hachetmen… Yea, neat trick…. Except its sooo last freakin century… I think we’re all juuust a bit too cynical to fall for that slapstick bullshit these days…. I know I fucking am….JD
McCain’s message to get the Republican Nomination was “I’m a true conservative Republican”. Now that he has the nomination wrapped up, his message has morphed into “Yes, I’m a Republican, but I’m not one of THOSE Republicans!”. It’s just part of the screeching tires U-Turn he has to do to get broad enough support in the general election to win the White House, sort of like being a “Compassionate Conservative”.
Strawberrybitch @ 26:
Wow, what the hell was that? I said this yesterday, Rove started the whisper campaign against McCain in 2000, the one about McCain having a black baby, (hinting that Mccain had an illegitimate baby with a black women, when in fact he adopted a little girl). But when McCain confronted Bush on Meet the Press, if I remember correctly, Bush feigned innocence. Same type of thing here.
I look forward to more of the comedy stylings of Cunningham in this election. You’re only helping Obama, you mope.
The repeating of Obama’s middle name was nothing compared to the rest of what the guy said. He was just mean and crude. It was ugly. The first time they showed the video they showed much more than they are showing now. I would say what they are showing now is the least objectionable of all the things he said yesterday
just like someone asks “How do we get rid of that bitch” and he just chuckles. the strategy is coming from the busch campaigns where some asshole surrogate starts flaming the opponent and he sits back and goes: “I didn’t say that!”
I wonder how it feels to be thrown under the Straight Talk Express?
pissed off patricia @ 23:
he’s a repug. that means he’s LYING.
This guy looks like SUCH a child molestor.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 10:
Hi Uncle ;-}
Intentional or not, some of the low-info/independents/moderates may be fooled by McAcheyBreakyFakey’s apparent Mcrightyuptightywhiteypariafication…
Crooks and FCC TV Broadcast Licenses Gone Wild.
They probably slipped into the new FCC bill - that crooks are imune from prosecution if they appear on Fox Network.
Is Sean Hannity still on?
..he also started broadcasting syndicated nation wide on ABC radio networks on Sept 10, 2001.
They might as well just rename Fox News to the Domestic and Global Crooks News Network
today in history..
75 years ago today Hitler and the Nazis blamed the burning of the Reichstag (parliament building in Berlin) on (communist) terrorists, despite the lack of evidence, and less than a month later the Enabling Act was passed, giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Why is it that every person Sean refers to as a “Great American” makes my skin crawl? Does that make me a bad American?
Peter G @ 41:
That’s the funny thing. If people are so evil as to pull this crap on a rival, it astounds me when doinks like Cunningham have the nerve to act hurt and surprised when they, themselves, are so callously plowed under for the good of the party.
pissedcanuck @ 32:
Surprisingly, the same number as support Bush, approximately 29 %. Which means 29 % of the population of this country are ‘fuckin’ loons’.
Seriously, there are times you wish the earth would open up and swallow all these bottom feeders like Cunningham and Hannity. Scum bags, all.
I wrote yesterday that most likely St McCain was setting himself up to be the straight shooter. What a lying pig fraud.
paddy boy @ 46:
Nope, it makes you normal and sane. If you didn’t have that reaction to him, we would worry about you.
McCain releases the flying monkeys and then is shocked…SHOCKED…when mayhem ensues.
What a leader!!
Does he know that once the nukes are launched…you can’t take them back?
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Pixie @ 43:
Can’t you just see him and Hugh Hewitt sitting in a basement eating Hot Pockets.