Did you hear the caller Lorraine X telling Rush...she was practically doing cartwheels:
Lorraine X Says Obama Crack Team Has McCain "Gook" Tape
Happy Flag Day!
Posted on 06/14/2008 8:07:05 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
John McCain has called off a fundraiser at the home of a Texas oilman who joked about rape during a 1990 gubernatorial run in the state.
The Texan, Republican Clayton Williams, made the joke during his failed campaign against Democrat Ann Richards. Williams compared rape to the weather, saying, "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
He also compared Richards to the cattle on his ranch, saying he would "head her and hoof her and drag her through the dirt."
Williams' comments made national news at the time and remain easy to find on the Internet. Even so, McCain's campaign said it hadn't known about the remarks.
"These were obviously incredibly offensive remarks that the campaign was unaware of at the time it was scheduled," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said. "It's positive that he did apologize at the time, but the comments are nonetheless offensive."
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Is uh, Howard Dean also in charge of McCain's campaign, too?
NO, NO, John McPain can forgive — Democrats! It’s his so-called “fellow” Republicans that he loathes.
Bobby Knight did that joke before this in a 1988 interview with Connie Chung...and he was forgiven...sorta.
Poor Claytie, he may be rich, but he has no where else to go but the McPain stables this year.
Sorry, but McCain was right here. Those comments are repulsive. McCain is absolutely correct in not associating himself with a piece of sh*t like that.
By the way, the size of your text in the OP is a bit overkill.
That line was old when it got Tex Antoine canned from WABC TV back in 74.
Didn’t Saint McCain use a derogatory word for Asians in the past. Based on the standards he foists on other people the guy should not run for dog catcher.
John McCain should recuse himself from the nomination for this joke that he told:
“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno.”
The guy apologized for an event that happen nearly two decades ago, how long does a person need to be shunned for an idiot statement?
Now if it was last year well then there might be an issue.
Man, I gotta’ tell ya’ . . . not being a McCain supporter myself either, do you expect him to make a stand on principle here? And what principle would that be?
If the size of your font is any indicator of your carbon footprint, Al Gore owns your soul. LOL
***Is JM a coward? ***
Try five years of torture and see if YOU’RE a coward.
I disagree that this counts as hypocrisy.
McCain had unspeakable stuff done to him over the course of many years. Worse than rape. A lot of people, myself included, think that he gets a pass on whatever he wants to call them.
Yea, he called the communists Viet Cong - gooks.
oH, Bull CRAP. You ever said something offensive? EVER in your life??? Did you apologize? Then John McCain doesn’t want your damn money.
McCain is sucking up to the pressure of the left. If he were halfway intelligent, he’d realize you NEVER EVER win by doing that. They sense they’ve won, and they continue to attack.
Soon, John McCain will only be able to get money from cloisterd nuns and monks...and maybe not even then, because the left will attack him for only accepting money from people who are “anti-choice”!
McCain is such a jerk. This is yet ANOTHER of his major faults. He has fired loyal campaign workers because they were formerly “lobbyists.”
He also disowned Pastor John Hagee AFTER Hagee had apologized to Donohue for some anti-Catholic comments that were spoken in ignorance, because he had been misled by some of those Catholic-bashing books like “Hitler’s Pope.” (It’s OK if your typical NY Times liberal continues to believe those lies about Pius X, but it’s not OK if a pastor was temporarily taken in by them until someone took the trouble to educate him on the matter.)
It was a genuine apology, Donohue accepted it, and in his most recent Catholic League newsletter describes a very pleasant and productive meeting with Pastor Hagee and his wife in his New York office. But that wasn’t good enough for McCain. McCain can reach across the aisle, and never quarrels with his Democrat partners, but he never hesitates to throw his friends and party associates under the bus.
I agree...the one about rape is over the line....
I don’t know what the statute of limitations should be for Grade A offensive remarks. I just know that it would be damn foolish to associate with such a person.
Would we be so forgiving if an Obama fundraiser had made this same comment? Hell no. And that would be the right answer. Right is right and wrong is wrong.
Oh love that standard CNN. A standard that of course doesn't apply to the left in general and to Obama in particular.
CNN and the rest of the LMSM totally accept that Obama was unaware of the attitude/remarks of his personal pastor for 20 years and yet McCain is supposed to know all from 18 years ago. Again a blatant, in-your-face example of the LMSM's hypocrisy.
I am constantly amazed at the ignorance that exists over the Obamao Double Standard, the Obamao can fundraise with Charlie Manson...that’s fine...
Mad John has no such luxury, he is under the microscope, Obamao is under the Telescope (as in celestial v terrestrial), make no mistake about it.
It would appear that the MSM has McCain afraid to blow his nose. He’s doomed.
The guy is radioactive. McCain’s staff shouldn’t have scheduled an event with him in the first place.
I had no problem with him when he said that. I actually liked his answer when confronted about this talking about what happened to him at the Hanoi Hilton. Some guy made a stupid statement 20 years ago and he apologized and now McCain throws him under the bus. Very petty in my opinion.
Personally, I’m not the kind of person who looks back 18 years to see what people have said.
However, this is a political campaign people - the Dems took out a fine conservative last year because he called an obnoxious political operative a monkey. I guarantee if McCain hadn’t cancelled, the Dems would have brought it out and made McCain look like a virulent sexist.
Politics is war, and you have to be ruthless, especially when the press is devoted to making sure your opponent wins.
Have I ever said something offensive? Sure. But not like this. This is pathologically bad. I think McCain made absolutely the right move here.
I remember that gubernatorial race between Clayton "Claytie" Williams and Ann "Mother" Richards well. For a time, Claytie was well out in front. He was tough on crime, and had made a great commercial in which he said he wanted to "introduce criminals to the joys of bustin' up rocks". I agree that Claytie's "joke" was not funny. He was a walking gaffe machine. At a later moment in the campaign, after some statement or other by Mother Richards, he quipped "has she started drinkin' agin?" (a reference to Richards being a recovering alcoholic).
I still voted for the dude. He might have been a loose-tongued doofus, but Richards was positively evil, saying that she regarded "the right to choose" as a sacred right. She pretty much had blood on her hands as far as I am concerned. Her actions (for me) spoke much louder than Claytie's words.
That said, McCain was probably right to call off the fund raiser. The MSM would have made a much bigger deal out of Claytie's remarks (yes, I know, many years a go and he apologized, etc) than anything said by Rev. Wright.
I’m glad some common sense is tuning in and replying to this thread!
Yea, the woman cracks me up. But it is old news.
Yes, the candidate who used the term “gook” in a newspaper interview certainly stands on the higher ground here...yessiree!
This from the party that still considered the wife of serial rapist Bill Clinton a viable candidate THIS YEAR.
They don’t give a Rat’s ass over the issue. It is a lot of Macaca. Phony outrage.
In McCain’s article about his captivity in Vietnam, he used the word “gook” quite a few times. Guess he’s not electable now. But really this is all just a distraction that’s not helping my kids!
I agree
Oh for crying out loud! Why don't you read up a little on BhusseinO's fundraisers?
Terrorist Supporter Hosted Obama Hollywood Fundraiser
Obama Bundler: Bin Laden had 'Valid Argument' for 9/11 Attacks, Hugo Chavez a 'Sweetheart'
Republican National Committee: Obama Fundraising Hypocrisy (Obama - Code Pink Scandal)
Ayers’ partner in the Underground though it was cool that the Manson family stabbed those “pigs” and then ate in their living room.
Ayers is one of the brains behind Obama’s political machine in Chicago.
There is a WORLD of difference.
These Stalinists suck. Big time.
What would YOU call abusive captors? "Honeycakes" or "North-Vietnamese Mean People Who Are Torturing Me" or what would you suggest considering your communications are limited? That is, assuming you have been a POW. I have not, but it sounds like you have since you know better. Right?
“Better put some ice on that” - Bill Clinton to one of his real RAPE victims.
Precisely. Just like business is business. I just got done advising a friend over the phone regarding a pending transaction of her's . . . "hey, the two of you are friends and all, but the mirror is worth $1000."
I freely admit that's the only RAT vote I've ever cast in my life. In the primary, I voted for Tom Luce.
Says who? Please post a list of the offensive things you’ve said, and let the people judge. Because I guarndamntee you that some group out there will be outraged by what you said.
And don’t bother apologizing for it....not good enough, man. Slitting your wrists and crying in repentance still won’t let you find John McCain’s forgiveness.
I think we’ll just end up disagreeing on this, and strongly. McCain’s bending over on this is outrageous.
Of course, John McCain can still call liberal hypocrites his “friend” and write legislation with them....but not for a man who made a REMARK.
The judgement upon some ill chosen words by a Republican creates unforgiveable actions...he is turned into a pariah, unable to be seen in the same room with the candidate.
But liberal hacks whose actions constantly are taken to undermine our troops, or our president, or the unborn, or the taxpayers, those liberal hacks are given wide leeway to say and do whatever they want.
Barack Obama held TWO fundraisers (for overseas Americans apparently) in Communist China.
The media is in to win for OBAMArx.
Are you kidding? The MSM would tie this joke/comment so tightly into McCain, most idiot voters won’t know that he never even said it. I can see exit polls now that would have had 25% of voters tying remark this directly to McCain.
Welcome to democracy in the Attention Deficit age.
Yes we will disagree, and I can’t join you in your frothing over McCain’s distancing himself from comments that we would RIGHTFULLY be slamming if they came from anyone associated with Obama. If ANY man stood before our daughters, our wives, our sisters, and made these comments most FReepers if they are good to their word would rearrange their faces. But carry on, with whatever it is you thought you were out to carry on with.
I lived in TX at the time, that one little 'joke' was the last straw with a lot of people. If he could have kept his mouth shut, TX probably would not have been saddled with that loud-mouth Molly Ivins best girlfriend, louder-mouth Ann Richards.
“their faces” should be “his face”
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