John McCain & "The C-Word"

[funnygurusdca.livejournal.com]

Dedicated to those too squeamish to discuss an incident related to the temperament and character of a guy who'd like to be President.

McCain's freaky-mean '92 outburst is a well-sourced story found in Cliff Schecter's book "The Real McCain." Due to the particularly profane nature of the offense it would probably be useless to wait for the press to give it the full-on, endlessly repeating, 24-7 Reverend Wright treatment. So the Public Service Administration is here to help.

Comments

[glenniebun.livejournal.com]

I see, another addition to "political stories I don't know how to tell my parents."

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

"John McCain has a terrible temper, and he exercised it using the word largely considered to be the worst derogatory term for a woman -- on his wife."

I reflexively translate stuff to and from corpspeak.

[glenniebun.livejournal.com]

I thought of that, but I'm pretty sure the response would be "What, he called her a whore?" and "No, worse!" wouldn't get the job done.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

"Four letter word. Rhymes with "punt." Which is what you'll want to do to him when you realize what word that is."

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who finds his statement to be absolutely hilarious?

I'm sorry, but if getting mad at your trophy wife and calling her a c-word is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I think that the question is more how some folk will overlook this, when they wouldn't (and didn't) overlook the private life of William Jefferson Clinton.
In general, the liberals are less hypocritical than the folk screaming about the private lives of people. Liberals are less likely to be outraged by such lapses: after all, they're Liberal, and have a live and let live mentality.
For example: people who agree with gay rights are less likely to have to resign for gay trysts in lavatories than Conservatives who preach against such things, but who nevertheless engage in such practices.

I fear you may have it backwards.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The Conservatives who have a live and let live morality, and (for example) who accept a women's right to choose; and who believe in a private life separate from a public life; and who don't tell other folk how to behave or condemn folk for minor personal faults, are evidently such a majority I must have been dreaming about the opprobrium heaped on Clinton's head for his wandering libido.

The Liberals are, however, all laughing their asses off about this. The sense of humour failure seems to be remarkably one-sided.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Hang on a minute....policies about how laws are enacted or enforced are all about a live and let live mentality. If I claim to have a live and let live mentality but I enact or agree with laws that limit other folks options in their private lives I'm being hypocritical, surely?
Perhaps we have a different definition of what constitutes 'live and let live'.
As for idiots on the left, they are plentiful, no doubt: but the calculated witch-hunt is rather different (IMHO) to the search for a good laugh at the opposition's hypocrisy.
And for the record, I feel bad language, even if disrespectful, is a lot less wrong than adultery: though both show levels of disrespect to the partners in question.
Adultery is almost never funny (excepting perhaps in Boccaccio or Chaucer)....calling your missus something unrepeatable in public is a different sort of lapse.

[j0kerr.livejournal.com]

I love it when people make themselves victims by jumping up and down and screaming how they are hurt by name calling.