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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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

It’s also indisputable that McCain is a genuine American hero.


Raising hand. Nope, I can dispute it.


81 posted on 05/11/2018 10:15:29 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: caver

and making fun of Ann Romneys’ MS was okay.


82 posted on 05/12/2018 10:46:16 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Trump20162020
Neither the CNN nor VOX articles mention this little factoid:

Sadler's comments were first reported by The Hill, which said she made them during a closed-door meeting of about two dozen White House communications staffers on Thursday morning.

And it wasn't made in the context of "a joke" either.

Mountain Out Of A Molehill!

Speaking of which, the White House sure seems to be a Mountain Of Moles, doesn't it? Anti-Trump leaker everywhere.

83 posted on 05/13/2018 4:31:58 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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