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McCain’s Death Illustrates the Honesty of Media Coverage
Watching the media coverage of McCain’s presidential campaign against Barack Obama, I was surprised that he didn’t personally beat up black orphans on stage during campaign stops. Watching the media coverage of McCain’s funeral, I was surprised that he didn’t rise on the third day.
Perhaps we should bear this in mind when watching media coverage of anybody else. Including, ahem, our current president. Just a thought.
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I watch it in its entirety a few times a week and laugh hysterically. Never at work though.
This is just gas-lighting from Salon:
Because you’re conceding POTUS’s unfitness if you assume that Meghan McCain was taking a shot at the President when she said the following:
She must have been talking about Obama, then, right?
None of this is about Mr McCain
This is just the MSM gleefully grabbing another opportunity to bash Mr Trump.
Gary, as you are an attorney I present to you an excerpt from the US Flag code (4 US Code 7), “Position and manner of display” regarding half-staff display (emphasis added):
“The flag shall be flown at half-staff 30 days from the death of the President or a former President; 10 days from the day of death of the Vice President, the Chief Justice or a retired Chief Justice of the United States, or the Speaker of the House of Representatives; from the day of death until interment of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a Secretary of an executive or military department, a former Vice President, or the Governor of a State, territory, or possession; and on the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress.”
Mr McCain was a member of Congress. He has already had his half-staff days.
All the rest of this smarmy cultural display, including your smart-aleck comment, is simple anti-Trumpism.
This. Both of these, actually. What a remarkably ungracious display by Meghan McCain. And, frankly, disrespectful to her father in taking the attention off a celebration of his life into speculation about what she meant by “We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness — the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly.”
The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, I guess.
That’s actually pretty cheap. McCain’s record speaks for itself (the good, and the bad). It doesn’t need political colorization from his daughter, other than it gains her political something-something.
Classy. Par for the course with her.
Was it Meghan McCain, or was she carrying out instructions from McCain? I don’t watch The View, so I don’t know what she is like.
It fits him perfectly.
From the clips I’ve seen posted, she seems to be more combative on The View than you’d expect from her comments on Saturday, as the show’s current “Flavor of the Month” conservative (where that seat changes on a regular basis, while the show’s liberal hosts have lifetime tenure if they want it). Still, when The View comes back on Tuesday, Meghan’s comments should result in a big bonding moment for her with Joy Behar and Whoopi……
I know it’s part of the pop culture, etc, and has some level of cultural impact, but who gives a crap about the parade of buffoons squawking on TV? If someone cares about it (meaning someone who watches their show regularly), they’re probably already very far gone into an unreachable place, politically. Or mathematically. Or rationally.
Take yer pick.
John McCain came from a family that has given much to the US Navy and the country, was a combat veteran, and a returned POW who survived torture. For that real, willing sacrifice, he merited and received a military funeral and burial at Annapolis. He deserves honor and respect… for that.
His long career in politics was marked by things which he was proud of to the end – such as McCain Feingold – but which harmed the Republic. His foreign policy ideas were at best mixed: right in one big thing, and wrong in many other things some of them not exactly small. His treatment of Sarah Palin was a disgrace. His service in politics deserves much less honor and respect than his military service. He used the latter as cover for the former. That’s not unknown in politics, but still.
We should make allowances for a daughter in mourning, not look upon her as an infallible oracle.
A look at the crowd at the McCain funeral – and at who was not there – should make every conservative reconsider who is the real maverick and who was just a poseur.
Similarly, McCain’s fans always lauded his “straight talk,” but those very same people continually urge another politician to stop tweeting.
TV talking-head punditry has come a long way down since “Agronsky & Company” 40 years ago (if you placed the rotating panelists from then onto today’s cable channels, they might not act any differently then today’s screamers. But the decorum of 40 years ago always kept things from getting too heated and forced the talking heads to back up their claims somewhat, while today’s TV producers and network execs want screaming and mindless hot-takes, because they think those serve to keep their core viewership watching).
It’s probably about things like this: back when Michelle Bachman was in Congress, she called for investigation of Muslim Brotherhood influence on and infiltration into the government. McCain denounced her and helped made sure the investigation didn’t happen. And he did support the Brotherhood in Egypt.
“Supreme Guide” is hyperbolic, though.
Crowley just happened to have that very transcript ready to go, didn’t even have to look for it, amazing!
The Ikhwan again, from Spengler: