Say What?! McCain Trying To Raise Money Over Hillary "Bitch" Flap

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain says he respects Hillary Rodham Clinton and that he said as much when a woman used the word "bitch" to describe her.

"How do we beat the bitch?" the woman asked Monday at a McCain event in South Carolina.

Watch the video here.

....On Tuesday, CNN's Rick Sanchez raised the question of whether McCain should have admonished the woman, and McCain's campaign criticized that criticism on Wednesday.

"Most people who have seen it are looking at it as a real mistake on his part in terms of the way he handled it," Sanchez said on the cable network's "Out in the Open."

McCain's South Carolina campaign manager, Buzz Jacobs, said in a statement Wednesday: "It not only reflects poorly on him, but on CNN. If Mr. Sanchez had even the faintest perspective on the race for the White House, he would know that Senator McCain has expressed his utmost respect for Senator Clinton numerous times on the campaign trail, as he did at Monday's event in Hilton Head."

Hours later, the McCain campaign was using the controversy to raise money for his candidacy.

Campaign manager Rick Davis e-mailed supporters, saying, "We are asking you to help us fight Rick Sanchez and CNN and stand with John McCain. Please make your most generous contribution from $25 up to the maximum limit of $2,300 to the only candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton."

Update: Politico's Jonathan Martin notes that McCain's fundraising email is also highly dishonest:

Irony aside, the McCain camp misrepresents the facts of the encounter with the lady in South Carolina who asked, "How do we beat the bitch?" McCain did not first respond by noting his respect for Clinton before talking up his electability, as Davis asserts in the email.

Rather, he laughed along with the rest of the crowd, cracked a joke and then laughed some more at another joke before deeming the inquiry "a good question." Then he cited favorable polling data. After all this, he noted his respect for his colleague.

McCain's campaign didn't respond when asked about the discrepancy.

Comments

[godlessclif]

Comcast is slowing down Huffpo bandwidth again.
This is what net neutrality is supposed to prevent

[LastSpartanStanding]

Perhaps I walk alone. Like John McCain, I stand on principle. Something you goofs just don't understand.

[SouthpawSass]

As usual, it's been much fun, but alas this gal's gotta hit the hay.

Night all!

[LastSpartanStanding]

JaneC,

Please take a bath at the first opportunity.

It is little wonder why you are here at this late hour. Nobody wants to be near you.

get a clue...please.

[MRb1000]

So what is she going to do now go home to Billy crying!!! People have call me names and I do not know them. So, I suppose to cry. If you answer to the name, I guest that who you are. This is silly.

[LastSpartanStanding]

I remember the day McMetal drove you away Pixie. Now you grovel. Where's the character?

[LastSpartanStanding]

John McCain is the only decent American in this race. This country can do no better than to have him serve as our president.

[SouthpawSass]

The life of a Spartan male was a life of discipline, self-denial, and simplicity.

The ideology of Sparta was oriented around the state. The individual lived (and died) for the state. Their lives were designed to serve the state from their beginning to the age of sixty.

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM


Hmmmm

[JaneC]

After seven years of being a loyal Bushbot, thelastspa­rtansquatt­ing has come to realize he needed trouble himself with hoping for someone with intelligence or competency to lead HIS country. His theory for his next man to hold the office is simple:

"If you stand to pee you're my man!"

hehe

[SouthpawSass]

You might be a Republican if...

You've tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were just allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.

You've ever referred to someone as "my (insert racial or ethnic minority
here) friend"

You've ever tried to prove Jesus was a capitalist and opposed to welfare.

You're a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty and war.

You think you might remember laughing once as a kid.

You once broke loose at a party and removed your neck tie.

You've ever referred to the moral fiber of something.

You've ever uttered the phrase, "Why don't we just bomb the sons of bitches."

You answer to "The Man."

You fax the FBI a list of "Commies in my Neighborhood."

You don't let your kids watch Sesame Street because you accuse Bert and
Ernie of "sexual deviance."

You use any of these terms to describe your wife: Old ball and chain,
little woman, old lady, tax credit...

You scream "Dit-dit-ditto" while making love.

You've argued that art has a "moral foundation set in Western values."

You've ever yelled, "Hey hippie, get a haircut."

You argue that you need 300 handguns, in case a bear ever attacks your
home.

Vietnam makes a lot of sense to you.

You point to Hootie and the Blowfish as evidence of the end of racism in
America.

You've ever said civil liberties, schmivil schmiberties.

You've ever said "Clean air? Looks clean to me."

You've ever referred to Anita Hill as a "lying bitch" while attending a
Bob Packwood fund-raiser.

You look down through a glass ceiling and chuckle.

You own a vehicle with an "Ollie North: American Hero" sticker.

You're afraid of the "liberal media."

You've ever called the National Endowment for the Arts a bunch of pornographers.

You think all artists are gay.

You ever told a child that Oscar the Grouch "lives in a trash can because
he is lazy and doesn't want to contribute to society."


http://www.cyberslayer.co.uk/jokes/joke0853.html

[darker]

Republicans SMEAR CAMPAIGNS will crash
them--sooner than later.

People are fed up with Republican publicists' FOOD FIGHT MENTALITY, the demeaning and dragging down of campaigning before an election.

It's TIME FOR A CHANGE!
Don't cast your vote for the bastards who will continue to destroy middle America so they can create a NANNY STATE FOR THE RICH--themselves, their pals, and their CORPORATE WELFARE QUEENS.

[JaneC]

There are two trolls left on the thread right now. One is obsessing over the thought of John McCain's urinal skills and the other is obsessing over Bill Clinton's sex life. Both are following each other around showering compliments back and forth.

Does anyone else find this a bit unsettling?

[Danny]

I amazes me still that politics have sunk so low that a sexist and vulgar comment will ... raise money??

[SouthpawSass]

Hey LastSpartan this ones for you:


"John McCain has a new campaign slogan, 'An Army Of One.' ... I don't want to say McCain's campaign is broke, but today he held a rally at the 99-cent store." --Jay Leno

[StillAmused]

BJ's just cranky 'cause her last 14 johns have stiffed her... $28 is a lot to a working girl.