The WaComPo's incompetent pantload Michael Gershom blasts comedian/candidate Al Franken's "offensive vulgarity" and "viciousness," yet totally ignores the times Saint McCain called his wife a cunt and a trollop, the countless times he's snarled at colleagues to fuck off, his disgusting joke about Chelsea Clinton, and his mutual blowjobs with Joe Lieberman.
In a June 18 Washington Post column, citing writings and jokes that are years and even decades old, Michael Gerson criticized comedian and Minnesota Democratic senatorial candidate Al Franken for what he called Franken's "offensive vulgarity."
Gerson wrote: "The objects of Franken's humor are not merely mocked but dehumanized. His trashiness is also nastiness," adding, "At its best, politics can offer examples of civility and generosity that challenge selfishness and prejudice -- the tradition so far embraced by both John McCain {????? Touchhole. - Ed.} and Barack Obama. At the very least, politics should not actively push our culture toward vulgarity and viciousness. This is not prudery; it is a practical concern for the cooperation and mutual respect necessary in a functioning democracy. And it is hard to believe those causes would be served by a Sen. Franken."
However, in citing McCain as an "example of civility and generosity that challenge selfishness and prejudice," Gerson ignored McCain's previous personal attacks on Sen. Hillary Clinton, including an appearance at a 1998 Republican fundraiser where McCain asked "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
McCain also tolerated an attack on Hillary Clinton as well as took a swipe at her during the presidential campaign. During a November 2007 campaign event in South Carolina, when a questioner asked McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?" -- referring to Hillary Clinton -- McCain responded that it was an "excellent question"
Gerson wrote: "The objects of Franken's humor are not merely mocked but dehumanized. His trashiness is also nastiness," adding, "At its best, politics can offer examples of civility and generosity that challenge selfishness and prejudice -- the tradition so far embraced by both John McCain {????? Touchhole. - Ed.} and Barack Obama. At the very least, politics should not actively push our culture toward vulgarity and viciousness. This is not prudery; it is a practical concern for the cooperation and mutual respect necessary in a functioning democracy. And it is hard to believe those causes would be served by a Sen. Franken."
However, in citing McCain as an "example of civility and generosity that challenge selfishness and prejudice," Gerson ignored McCain's previous personal attacks on Sen. Hillary Clinton, including an appearance at a 1998 Republican fundraiser where McCain asked "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
McCain also tolerated an attack on Hillary Clinton as well as took a swipe at her during the presidential campaign. During a November 2007 campaign event in South Carolina, when a questioner asked McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?" -- referring to Hillary Clinton -- McCain responded that it was an "excellent question"
A brief look back at the courtly, civil and generous Saint McCain:
"Fuck you! This is chickenshit!" McCain to fellow republican Sen. John Cornyn.
"Only an asshole would put together a budget like this... I wouldn't call you an asshole unless you really were an a asshole." -- to Sen. Pete Domenici (causing Domenici --a republican -- to say, "I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger.").
"Are you calling me stupid?" Sen. Chuck Grassley to McCain. "No," replied McCain, "I’m calling you a fucking jerk!"
Takes one to know one, I guess.
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And there's the second level of hypocrisy of the conservative 'outrage' at the 'liberal left's language' -- the con's are (supposedly) just shocked!shocked!shocked! by vulgar language or (horrors of horrors) nudity/sexuality, but killing innocent people in foreign lands is...well, it's something you just skip over and don't talk about in con-circles. Unless it's an evil foreign government that's doing the killing, then the outrage is resurrected anew (even though it'd be a LOT easier for US to stop killing innocents [a simple order from the President stops it immediately] than it is for us to stop THEM from killing innocents!)
In the conservatives' perversely proportioned values, the BIGGEST crimes (judged by the attention they've accorded it) are non-marital blowjobs on Democratic presidents, same sex-marriages, 'high' wages of blue-collar workers (gotta ship those jobs overseas via NAFTA), and unfriendly leaders of oil-rich nations (Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, etc).
do you think the vaunted pat buchanan and joe scarborough would say anything against their beloved john mccain
he is a war hero and a true american original
if i here this fucking war hero thing ONE more time
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