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Joking about John McCain's death is our terrible new normal
CNN ^ | May 11, 2018 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 05/11/2018 9:36:36 AM PDT by Trump20162020

On Thursday morning, a White House aide named Kelly Sadler joked about Arizona Sen. John McCain's opposition to CIA nominee Gina Haspel by noting that "he's dying anyway."

It was the latest in a series of increasingly nasty comments about McCain: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called it "ridiculous" that McCain wasn't planning to invite President Donald Trump to his funeral while a retired general on Fox News on Thursday referred to a debunked conspiracy theory that McCain had informed on his comrades while a prisoner of war during Vietnam.

There's no disputing the fact that McCain has terminal brain cancer and that he is very unlikely to be around at this time next year. It's also indisputable that McCain is a genuine American hero -- who fought and suffered for his country in the theater of war and had decided the better part of the last four decades of his life to public service as a House member, a senator and a two-time presidential candidate.

That even some part of his final days -- or weeks or months -- is consumed by this sort of garbage is maddening. And depressing. And made even more so by the fact that this is, in fact, the new normal.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cia; ginahaspel; haspel; johnmccain; kellysadler; mccain
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To: Trump20162020

I thought this was going to be a vanity about FR..........


21 posted on 05/11/2018 9:47:21 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: Trump20162020

Remember when those oh-so-trendy New Yorkers put on a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar where they murdered Trump. Your own commentators didn’t call out the production. They called out criticism of the production.

So, stuff it about the “terrible new normal”, CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/18/opinions/caesar-hypocrisy-trump-supporters-obeidallah-opinion/index.html


22 posted on 05/11/2018 9:48:46 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The FBI is the Mob)
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To: Trump20162020

No proof this was said.
No proof he has cancer.
Prove me wrong.


23 posted on 05/11/2018 9:49:03 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Raycpa

His life was political, and his death will be the removal of a political thorn in the side of conservatives. Don’t care if you don’t like it. Just the way it is.


24 posted on 05/11/2018 9:49:04 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Trump20162020

McCain needs to man up and resign with what dignity he has left, which ain’t much.


25 posted on 05/11/2018 9:50:15 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Trump20162020

Your reward is waiting for you “songbird”. This Vietnam Vet hopes you get the reward you so richly deserve.


26 posted on 05/11/2018 9:51:07 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Raycpa

Well....

Given that if I were king I would have McStain immediately hanged - my view is much harsher than yours. I hope he gets right with God. But I hope he dies this very minute.

If this was 1950 and everyone was civil I would agree with you. It isn’t.


27 posted on 05/11/2018 9:51:55 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want CNN dead.


28 posted on 05/11/2018 9:52:51 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: caver

And in Nancy Reagan’s death.


29 posted on 05/11/2018 9:54:16 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Trump20162020

For cryin’ out loud. It is something else to watch the left protect McTraitor now.


30 posted on 05/11/2018 9:55:01 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Trump20162020

If McCain hadn’t been so mean, uncooperative and vindictive we would not be seeing negative comments on his condition. Seems as though he earned many of the comments

I don’t see him as a great statesman as we have had in the past.


31 posted on 05/11/2018 9:55:56 AM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: Trump20162020
I read that John McCain felt freer to speak his mind now that he's dying

Well, if he can do that why can't anyone else?

Is freedom of speech limited to guys like him or his family?

And I haven't heard of any cure for death yet, so why does he get a pass?
32 posted on 05/11/2018 9:56:18 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Chrissie SizzleLean needs to retire to his fainting couch.

FWIW, I wouldn’t wish ill upon another human being but what he/she says & does in public is fair game with character questioning thrown in.


33 posted on 05/11/2018 9:58:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Trump20162020
We should not joke about a man's impending death. He will meet his Maker very soon, as all of us will do some day. However, it is disputed whether John McCain is a hero. In 2008, he begged to represent conservatives, but ran a terrible campaign and seemed genuinely pleased to have lost. Since 2008, he has behaved consistently like an extreme liberal, supporting open borders, Obamacare and dissing conservatives, especially the President. Decades ago, he took the military oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, the President, and all superiors. How does his role in the pee dossier fit that? John McCain should be pondering how he will be judged before the God Who commanded us to love one another, rather than fussing over how to cause trouble after he's dead.
34 posted on 05/11/2018 9:58:15 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Cilizzilla defines dirtbag.


35 posted on 05/11/2018 9:58:52 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: Trump20162020
debunked conspiracy theory that McCain had informed on his comrades while a prisoner of war during Vietnam.

Debunked by what? Thousands of hours of Vietcong surveillance video? What a joke. HIS word is all we have to go on.

36 posted on 05/11/2018 9:58:54 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Trump20162020

Oh get the heck out of here Cilizza. I sympathize with anyone dealing with dying. But McCain is demanding attention trying to control what happens after his death. For example, Hatch is cited negatively here and he’s a gentleman.


37 posted on 05/11/2018 9:59:13 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some of us view death with no fear, and even a bit of humor. I laugh and joke about death, not as avoidance, but as it is not that big of a deal.

I already physically died and came back. It is a lot better there than here. If I die again today, that is fine.


38 posted on 05/11/2018 9:59:49 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Trump20162020
last four decades of his life to public service as a House member, a senator and a two-time presidential candidate.

During which he committed crimes FAR worse than those which put James Trafficant behind bars.

39 posted on 05/11/2018 10:00:30 AM PDT by montag813
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To: 1Old Pro
Was she joking or restating known fact? And frankly, why is McCain not retiring from his seat if he cannot serve?

That's the only good thing he's doing. Arizona law states that if he resigns now, a special election will be called. If he croaks after June, the GOP Gov. appoints his successor.

40 posted on 05/11/2018 10:01:45 AM PDT by montag813
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