Courtesy of TPM:
Constituents at a town hall hosted by Sen. John McCain Wednesday in Phoenix cheered after the Arizona Republican told the mother of an Aurora, Colo. shooting victim that an assault weapons ban could not get through Congress.
"My 24-year-old son, Alex, was murdered in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.," Caren Teves said. "These assault rifles allow the shooter to fire many rounds without having to reload. These weapons to do not belong on our streets."
"I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States," McCain responded. The video, posted Thursday by Phoenix's KTVK, showed the line drawing applause and cheers from the crowd.
"Now I have to -- I owe it to to you, I owe it to give you my opinion. Because a majority of members of Congress don't support it," McCain added.
How does ANYBODY treat the mother of shooting victim so callously?
And McCain is wrong, the assault weapon ban might very well pass.
Of course Teabagger ass kissers like John McCain will never support it, but it might still get through. And if it fails then we know the gun control advocates need to target in upcoming elections don't we?
John "Maverick" McCain is afraid to support something that he thinks others won't support? Can you say "wimp"? I knew you could.
ReplyDeleteHa! That was good.
DeleteHas anyone seen Malia's latest? She says Sarah has changed Residency to AZ?
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I hate McCain like a thousand white hot suns, and I believe he is stonewalling the Homeland Security investigation that proves Todd is a pimp.
Can anyone find out if she has changed residency?
He's an asshole and always has been.
ReplyDeleteHe has an asshole at both ends. It's what is known as being bi-assed.
DeleteAfter he gave the woman some "straight talk", telling her an assault weapons ban would not pass the Congress of the United States (applause), she asked why, and he told her a majority of members of Congress would never support it.
ReplyDeleteI think another woman in the audience was about to argue with him, that the majority of AMERICANS would support it, and that part of the video clip ended there with an obvious edit.
Exhibit #1 of how little real representation we have in Congress.
Cranky McShame is a disgrace to this country in so many ways, the least of which is his endless pandering to the teabaggers. After picking Palin, he should have put on the "cone of shame" and gone quietly into the good night.
ReplyDeleteWhen he was in that prison camp, did they cut his heart out?
ReplyDeleteI wish they had...
DeleteMcCain is a POS. His sarcastic shit is never funny and he is a gigantic asshole. I can't wait for him to drop DEAD.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to all-caps this, because I really need to get my point across:
ReplyDeleteJOHN MCCAIN IS THE BIGGEST FUCKING PHONY IN AMERICAN HISTORY -- AND THAT INCLUDES THE SNOWDRIFT HILLBILLY, BTW.
HE IS NOT A FUCKING HERO, HE'S NOT A FUCKING MAVERICK, HE'S A FUCKING DOUCHEBAG OPPORTUNIST WHO BLOWS WHATEVER WAY THE WIND IS BLOWING.
THE ONLY REASON WHY HE'S IN FAVOR OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE IS BECAUSE HE BROKE THE LAW AND GOT CAUGHT AND PRETENDED HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING -- AND THEN HE BLAMED HIS WIFE.
HE HATED GEORGE BUSH -- BEFORE 9/11. AFTER 9/11, HE SAW THAT BUSH WAS POPULAR AND HE SIDED WITH HIM.
THIS IS A GUY WHO BUILT HIS ENTIRE CAREER ON THE FACT THAT HE WAS A VIETNAM WAR VETERAN AND HE SAT THERE AND LET HIS FRIEND AND FELLOW VETERAN JOHN KERRY BE TRASHED BY SOME PUSSY WHO USED DADDY'S CONNECTIONS TO GET OUT OF SERVING -- AND THIS ALLEGED MAVERICK ENDORSED THE ASSHOLE.
HERE'S AN ALLEGED VICTIM OF TORTURE WHO ESSENTIALLY SAT BACK AND ALLOWED HIS GOVERNMENT TO TORTURE OTHERS.
MCCAIN IS A PIG AND EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR HIM SHOULD BE ASHAMED.
HE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE FOOLED, A LOT OF PEOPLE.
IN 2000, A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE ME SUPPORTED HIM.
HE HAD US ALLLLLLL FOOLED.
HE FUCKING DISGUSTS ME.
WELL SAID...I CONCUR
DeleteMcCain was 894th out of a class of 899 at the Naval Academy. He got in there because his father and grandfather were admirals in the navy. They covered up for him when he wrecked 5 jet planes. One in Italy, when he flew too low in a valley, severing the electical wires for two villages. He was shot down in Viet Nam because he ignored the warning beeper in his plane, telling him to return to base. He was hurt because when he ejected, he did not follow procedure and tuck his legs and arms in. He is a fraud. His father and grandfather must have been humiliated by this little creep. Too bad they did not cut him loose, make him face the consequences of his stupid actions. Just like W, maybe he would have actually grown up and become a MAN. W had the same family cover ups.
DeleteBRAVO! He is a stinking piece of shit! Someone who picked Sarah Palin as his VP didn't put "Country First."
DeleteMcAsshole is too chickenshit to say that to Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly's face.
ReplyDeleteMr Self-Styled Straight-Talk is currently lying about basic facts on how the Iraq War started, and he's lying via avoidance after perping the huge election hoax on us -- the Palin Fake Preg Hoax.
ReplyDeleteBoooooooooo.
McCain never once told the lady he was sorry for her loss. He was callous and disgraceful toward the lady. McCain use to be a Senator who was respectful, and at times was even left of his own party on issues, thus the Maverick. It seems as though his loss in 2008 has changed him and made him a bitter man because of it. He probably curses to himself every night for choosing Palin as his VP and not doing a better job vetting her. I believe he knew his mistake within a couple of weeks, but knew it would hurt him politically if he tried to change his pick for VP. He counted too much that Lieberman would accept his offer, and didn't look seriously at any other candidate if Lieberman refused him. He knows his reputation has forever been tarnished because of his decision in choosing Palin.
ReplyDeleteThey covered this on Rachel Maddow's show: the woman who helped to disarm the shooter who got Gabby and the others was there too and she didn't appreciate his response to that grieving mother. This video needs to go viral and he needs to really feel the scorn from the public for his callousness.
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Whenever he gets his words fed back to him, he always retorts with "They called me a jerk, I called them a jerk back, that's the way it is, people gotta lighten up!"
ReplyDeleteI wonder if one of his kids got slaughtered, would he need a dose of his own "straight talk"? He's seriously mentally ill, animals show more compassion that this piece of shit.
Lack of empathy is a mental illness. So is bitter retribution. He's beyond help at this point. I say it's time for him to go.
DeleteWow, my already negative option of Grampy McCain sank even lower.
ReplyDeleteMcCain has gone from being a callous, lying, racist, misogynistic ass to being downright cruel.
ReplyDeleteI hope he has dementia because I'd hate to think that someone of sound mind in his position of authority could speak to and about people the way he has over the past few years.
These days I find him simply repugnant.
It's all been said already, so I'll just reiterate that, in my opinion, McCain is almost as big an asshole as he is a coward.
ReplyDeleteMcCain is a senile, pathetic dick. The original "Maveridick." What a tool.
ReplyDeleteDisgusting bitter old man. He's getting worse. He should watch Game Change and repent.
ReplyDeleteHow can Cindy and Meghan stand to be around him? Oh. They have lots of houses....
ReplyDeleteIt's Cindy's money though. All McCain brought into the marriage was his baggage.
DeleteHe's never around Cindy. He lives in DC and and she lives in AZ. He says that he goes home on the weekend, but how often does he appear on Meet the Press and those other Sunday morning shows -- BASED IN DC, live from DC?
DeleteHe only goes to AZ when he's campaigning. That's why I KNOW it's true that he had that affair with that lobbyist.
The Path to Violence
ReplyDeletehttp://video.pbs.org/video/2336803730
After Newtown: Guns in America
http://video.pbs.org/video/2336640229
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/social-issues/raising-adam-lanza/nancy-lanza-in-her-own-words/
Raising Adam Lanza
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I wasn't offended by what John McCain said...............while I disagree totally with his stance on gun control, I don't think that he meant to be offensive to the mother who lost her son. And I hope that he is wrong................that congress WILL ban assault weapons.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the reaction of the crowd was truly sickening. They had no compassion or respect for a woman who lost her child? How anyone can remain in the Republican Party when it is full of these kinds of people is truly a mystery to me.
Anyone hat expects empathy from McCain should look at old video of how he treated the families of Nam POWs.
ReplyDeleteThis is the man who was asking David Gregory if he cared that 4 Americans died in Benghazi. My response would have been, do you Senator care about the thousands of Americans dying on our streets in America. More Americans have died by gun violence since 1968, then all of the deaths combined from all American wars since the Revolutionary War.
ReplyDeleteMcShame would fuckin tell the mother of a kid with cancer that it was somehow her fault.
ReplyDeleteHe needs to retire.
Straight talk for John McCain: "You should never have been elected to the Senate. You lack both the intelligence and the capacity for empathy that being a member of the US Congress should demand. You are now beyond senile and you should retire - immediately. You are a disgrace not only for your behavior on the Floor and in committee but among your own constituents. You did this country a great disservice by inflicting Sarah Palin on us. Go back and sit under a cactus in your desert."
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Great job! Well said.
DeleteTo John McCain:
ReplyDelete12 people were KILLED in the Aurora, Co. theater shooting...
Don't you care about 12 dead Americans?
TWELVE AMERICANS ARE DEAD --
DON'T YOU CARE?
Well and truly said! I think that every member of Congress should have to ponder the morgue photos of the children and adults killed in Newtown and those killed in similar shootings across the country in the last few years. They should also have to hear from Connecticut's chief pathologist who was in charge of the postmortem examinations in Newtown. John McCain and his ilk only care about victims of any violence when they think they can make political hay.
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John McCain is a coward. He hides behind his vile persona because is terrified of reality. He clutches his staff and "friends" around him so never has to face the truth, that his is a whimpering, mewling, insignificant, worthless, waste of air.
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain can not comprehend what it is to be the parent of a young person killed in mindless hail gunfire at a movie. Well, neither can I. But, never, ever, would I think to inform that parent they need "straight talk".
So, John McCain, what's your plan for keeping citizens out of the path of mindless gunfire? Snipers in every public place?
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain Response To Gun Control Pressure 'Appalling,' Says Mother Of Mass Shooting Victim
ReplyDeleteCaren Teves, mother of a victim of the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting in July, said Thursday that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had responded reprehensibly to her gun control question earlier in the day, when he told her that she needed some "straight talk."
Teves' son, Alex, was 24 years old when he was gunned down alongside 11 others inside a movie theater. On Thursday, Teves, of Phoenix, attended a town hall held by McCain with hopes of encouraging the senator to support an assault weapons ban, which would restrict the sale of weapons such as the semi-automatic rifle used by the Aurora shooter.
McCain responded sharply to Teves' attempt to push the legislation.
"I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States," McCain said, drawing cheers from the crowd.
In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Teves expressed disappointment in the way McCain handled her question.
“I was very surprised that a senator, who has been in office for over 30 years, would address a grieving mother, who just lost her son exactly seven months prior -- yesterday was the 20th, I lost my son on 7-20-2012 -- to tell me that I needed ‘some straight talk,’” Teves told TPM.
Teves also said she was "surprised" at the continued indifference McCain and his staff had shown her, both at the town hall event and in response to a previous attempt she had made to reach out to the senator.
“It takes a lot for me to just get out of bed every morning," Teves said. "I mean, this is still so new and so fresh, that my son was murdered. And I just expected a little more respect from someone who’s been in office over 30 years, and his staff. Between that and the form letter that we received, it’s just, it’s appalling.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/john-mccain-gun-control_n_2741173.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Aurora Victim’s Mom Calls McCain Town Hall ‘Appalling’
ReplyDeleteThe mother of a young man killed in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater massacre told TPM on Thursday she was appalled at the way Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) handled her question about an assault weapons ban at a town hall event in Phoenix.
“I was very surprised that a senator, who has been in office for over 30 years, would address a grieving mother, who just lost her son exactly seven months prior — yesterday was the 20th, I lost my son on 7-20-2012 — to tell me that I needed ‘some straight talk,’” Caren Teves said by phone.
At Wednesday’s town hall, Teves told McCain that her son, Alex, was killed in the massacre, and she urged the senator to support a ban on assault weapons. McCain responded: “I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States.”
The crowd, many of whom appeared to be pro-gun, burst into cheers and applause at McCain’s comments. But Teves said she wasn’t fazed by that, and those cheers, as captured by a local TV news crew, were only part of the story.
“I wasn’t surprised,” Teves said. “It’s a large, divided issue. I did start my sentence with — and I believe this — ‘I am a supporter of the Second Amendment.’ What they did not show you in that clip was after I did say that the military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines don’t belong on our streets, there was also some huge support and applause that unfortunately was cut out of that clip.”
Teves was accompanied at the town hall event by Patricia Maisch, the woman who helped stop shooter Jared Lee Loughner in the Tucson, Ariz., massacre in January 2011. Maisch also recorded McCain’s comments on video, and later told TPM she was disappointed by the senator’s response. “I always wish there was a more positive outcome after those events,” Maisch said.
Teves said her husband recently wrote McCain a letter addressing the Aurora shooting, which took the lives of their son and 11 other people. But she said McCain’s office responded with a impersonal form letter that focused on an an entirely different massacre: the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Neither McCain nor his staff approached her after the town hall event, she added.
“I was surprised at that,” Teves said. “It takes a lot for me to just get out of bed every morning. I mean, this is still so new and so fresh, that my son was murdered. And I just expected a little more respect from someone who’s been in office over 30 years, and his staff. Between that and the form letter that we received, it’s just, it’s appalling.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/mccain-gun-control-aurora-mother.php?ref=fpa
John McCain shows himself everyday to be sliding into a dark and cruel place in his behavior and actions. He's so bitter and nasty that he will never be president and can't let go of his rancor for much of anything. He's always been a soulless creature, only now he's having a harder and harder time masking it.
Sen. John McCain's spokesman on Friday pushed back against what he called the "selective editing" of a news report that showed the Arizona Republican telling the mother of a young man killed in the Aurora, Colo. shooting that she needed some "straight talk" on guns.
ReplyDeleteThe report from Phoenix's KTVK, posted Thursday, showed Caren Teves telling McCain about her murdered son Wednesday at a town hall in Phoenix. She urged McCain to support a ban on assault weapons. The video then cut to McCain's response: “I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States.”
But as McCain spokesman Brian Rogers contended, that was only part of the senator's response. Rogers sent along the raw video showing the senator's full response.
"Well first of all could I say thank you, and God bless, and thank you for your service and sacrifice you've made. Our hearts and our prayers go out to you and your family," McCain said in raw video from the event. "And I just had a town hall meeting yesterday in Tucson, and there were people there who were affected by this terrible tragedy of the shooting there. I met with Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords in my office last week on this issue. As you know, they are becoming, understandably, great advocates on this issue. And I will continue that conversation. I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States. it won't."
Rogers said in a statement to TPM Friday that the news report distorted how McCain responded to Teves.
"This is an obvious case of selective editing to distort what Senator McCain actually said at Wednesday's town hall meeting," Rogers said. "As Senator McCain clearly said, his heart goes out to Mrs. Teves and her family and he is committed to working with members of both parties to try and prevent another senseless tragedy. And as he also said, Arizonans who come to his town hall meetings deserve to hear Senator McCain's honest opinion about this or any other issue, and the truth is that an assault weapons ban won't pass this Congress because of opposition from both political parties."
Watch the video:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mccain-aide-pushes-back-on-selective-editing-of
A few weeks ago, Tom Teves, of Phoenix, sent his senators a letter. His 24-year-old son, Alex, was killed last year in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater massacre, and he wanted to tell them Alex’s story and encourage them to take action on guns.
ReplyDeleteWhat he got in response, he said, were cold, impersonal form letters from Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, both Republicans. Neither of the letters even addressed the Colorado massacre. In fact, they brought up an entirely different shooting, the schoolhouse killings in Newtown, Conn., and mentioned each senator’s ongoing support of the Second Amendment. It was like Alex Teves’ death hadn’t gotten through to the senators or their staffs.
Now, Tom Teves has shared the letters he received with TPM. He did so after his wife confronted McCain in-person Wednesday with her son’s story and a question about guns at a town hall event in Phoenix. McCain’s response included the remark that Caren Teves needed “some straight talk” on the issue of assault weapons.
“The Senator owes my wife an apology - he is lucky I wasn’t there,” Tom Teves wrote in an email to TPM late Thursday. “He was a ‘tough guy’ with a grieving Mom - that is not who I want leading my country! The sad fact is I used to have a great deal of respect for the Senator McCain, not anymore.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/arizona-senators-aurora-shooting-letters.php?ref=fpa