John McCain Makes Another Crude Joke About Killing Iranians - AP Misses Real Story *Updated With Video
By Logan Murphy Tuesday Jul 08, 2008 12:00pm
(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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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?