(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.
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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.
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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.