John McCain Clashes With Hannity: You And Fox News ‘Were Wrong About Libya’

Mediaite ^ | 9/14/12 | Andrew Kirell

[Evil Slayer]

Last night on Hannity, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) clashed with Sean Hannity over whether the host predicted the Libyan violence when he had previously said their American-supported elections would result in a quasi-terrorist state.

“How is it that Sean Hannity and a few others of us out here predicted with pinpoint accuracy that the Muslim Brotherhood would be in charge in Egypt?” Hannity asked the senator. “Their first task when they took over the Parliament was to declare Israel, our closest ally, their enemy.”

“How is it that the administration with all their intelligence and the CIA — how is it that they didn’t see this coming?” he asked McCain of both Egypt and Libya, before disputing the notion that the Libyans had a free election: “They kept telling the American people, this is democracy. I don’t view the Muslim Brotherhood as democracy. They want Sharia law implemented now.”

“That’s not clear that that’s true,” McCain responded before accusing Fox of repeating a false claim about the Libyan elections:

It was you and people on Fox that said in Libya, “We didn’t know who they were and let’s not help these people.” They had an election and they elected moderates. They rejected Islamists. And yes, there are al-Qaeda factors and there are extremists in Libya today, but the Libyan people are friends of ours, and they support us, and they support democracy. So you were wrong about Libya.

“I don’t think I was wrong about Libya at all,” Hannity shot back.

“I know you were,” McCain responded. “They had a free and fair election, and a democratic non-Islamic government was elected. So you were wrong.”

“I was not,” Hannity said. “They didn’t think the Muslim Brotherhood would take over? This is a known terror organization. We say we are fighting

[Blue Highway]

John McRINO still doesn’t get it. God help us if Romeny is as much of a RINO as MCCain is, and that’s assuming best case scenario that Romeny actually wins.

[hinckley buzzard]

McCain has always been a second rate loser. He barely escaped flunking out of Annapolis, probably only because his father was an admiral, and has been skimming the bottom of the barrel ever since. Yes, there really are different levels of intelligence, and it makes a difference.

[Gene Eric]

Congress seems to be obsequiously quiet about the embassy attacks save a random rebel here and there.

McCain’s interview abruptly ended which was fitting whether intentional or not.

[mazda77]

History also taught us that even Benedict Arnold himself was a war hero too.

[ponygirl]

When is McCain going to just come out and admit that his only enemy is a Conservative? He's currently working double-time in Arizona to lose the Senate seat that Jon Kyl is vacating. He crowned Jeff Flake as his butt boy and helped to crush the conservative tea party candidate in the primary. Now Flake is tied with the Democrat in the polls. Not ahead...TIED. In Arizona! And McCain is okay with that because if he can't have his butt boy on a leash in that Senate seat, the Democrat is the next best thing.

Anything but the Conservative in that Senate seat, because Conservatives are the enemy.

[DuncanWaring]

And McCain told us in ‘08 that we “had nothing to fear from an Obama presidency”.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I think anyone who is not a DUer or a politician saw this coming. I did.
Shoot, I said thirty five years ago after Vietnam that our next war would probably be with the moslems. I was not the only one.

[mkjessup]

If McStain had fought 0bama in ‘08 as hard as he fought a REAL conservative (J.D. Hayworth) in his Senate re-election race), Juan would be President right now.

And I have to say that visual gave me the same vomit-in-my-mouth sensation as when 0bama took the Oath of Office in January 2009.

[jpsb]

Everything McCain said was probably correct, but it really does not matter since all the good guys in Libya will not lift one finger to stop the bad guys. Ergo the bad guys are running Libya, and that is just the way it is. Massive FAIL John McCain (and Obama).

[pieceofthepuzzle]

He really does appear to be Manchurian. I won’d not trust him with anything important from a conservative perspective. If you add up those things that he's said and done that hurt conservatives, vs. those that help, it seems as though he's trying to undermine conservatism.

[rbmillerjr]

McCain is so used to going after conservatives and other Republicans, that he is forgetting where he is on arguments.

...and look how defensive he was, “I’m not supporting the Administration...”

McCain....please retire before you confuse yourself right out of office.

[Mach9]

Yes, that’s the problem, isn’t it? He really hasn’t had enough time to make up for the education he almost missed entirely at USNA. Maybe in another ten years, he’ll have caught up with the rest of his class. Funny—there’s a degree of arrogance that can only be compared to One other.

[originalbuckeye]

Flake is the candidate now. I will vote for him. Carmona has been carpet bombing the TV here with ads showing him as a doctor, a veteran and former Surgeon General ( thanks a lot GWB). Flake has yet to start his ads. All he has to say is ‘a vote for Carmona is a vote for Harry Reid as Senate majority leader again. The Senate needs to go in a different direction’.

[golf lover]

You must remember that McCain graduated 3rd in his class at the Naval Academy. That is, 3rd from the bottom!

[Iron Munro]

If McCain (and the other incompetent lifers in the seanate and congress) were such fonts of knowledge we wouldn't be on the threshold of bankruptcy, we wouldn't be crushed by a massive big government police state and we wouldn't have spent 11 years and trillions of dollars building schools and infrastructure for radical muslims who lay awake at night dreaming of ways to kill us.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

There is no fool like an old fool.

[W.Lee]

After watching and listening to McCain the last few days, it made me think of the U.S. Senator character in Godfather II.

[FlingWingFlyer]

He has been in D.C. way too long.

[mkjessup]

He really does appear to be Manchurian. I would not trust him with anything important from a conservative perspective. If you add up those things that he's said and done that hurt conservatives, vs. those that help, it seems as though he's trying to undermine conservatism.

Noooo say it ain't SO!?!? LOL

I'll tell ya what, if that little North Vietnamese peckerhead that shot down McCain in '67 had been able to launch TWO instead of just ONE missile and had better aim, America would have been spared the 30 years of treason and corruption once McCain achieved elective office. McCain would have done more good for America by checking into Arlington National Cemetery instead of the Hanoi Hilton.

[nhwingut]

Graham and McCain are getting nervous that conservatives are leaving behind the neo con nation building philosophy.