Jon Stewart went to the root of John McCain’s opposition to Susan Rice, and concluded that McCain a crotchety old f**k who is completely unable to get over his loss to Obama in 2008.
Here is the video from The Daily Show:
Jon Stewart took apart Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham’s statements after their meeting with Susan Rice and said, “Here’s the deal. They may be right, but on the scale on public misstatements Rice’s comments seem to fall more towards the embarrassing evidence of institutional disorganization at the end of the scale. But here’s the thing, these two don’t get to be the ones to self righteously get angry about this. They’re upset that she might have passed bad intel willingly or un to the American people. Remember these two from a decade ago?”
(Clips of McCain and Graham touting the Iraq WMD intel).
Stewart continued, “I remember all that from their hit blog, Sh*t Old Guys Who Unnecessarily Get Us Into Wars Say. Of course, that’s not a one to one comparison. It’s not really a fair comparison. Because while Susan Rice admitted to the error within weeks, these two still refuse to acknowledge that invading a country based on information from a source named Curveball was actually considered a pretty sh*t idea by many at the time. If only we had a more direct comparison to make here. Sort of a one to one. Like another high ranking government official passing what they knew at the time was misleading intelligence to the American public. On a Sunday news show. Also in line to become Secretary of State, and was African American, and woman, and let’s say her name was also Rice. That’d be something.
(Video of Condi Rice’s infamous Iraq nuclear program statements.) Stewart continued, “She know that was bullsh*t at the time. What would a John McCain or a Lindsey Graham say about a woman like that’s qualifications for Secretary of State? (Video of Graham and McCain defending Rice’s character and qualifications.)
Stewart played a clip of McCain blaming lingering bitterness from the 2000 campaign for the criticism of Rice, and then asked, “Oh, I’m sure it will. What kind of crotchety, Gran Torinoish old f**k would be completely unable to get over a simple election loss?”
There have been a lot theories floated as to why Republicans are going after Susan Rice so hard. Everything from they are looking for a scandal to derail Obama’s second term with to they want John Kerry to be Secretary of State so that Scott Brown can run in, and most likely win, another Senate race in Massachusetts has been suggested as a possible reason why the GOP is working so hard to make something out of nothing.
But when it comes to Graham and McCain, I think Jon Stewart nailed it. McCain has never been able to get over losing the 2008 election to Obama. He is carrying a grudge, and in the process making a total ass of himself in order to prove to the country that they should have elected him in 2008. Sarah Palin has caught a lot of flak for this same type of behavior, while the mainstream media has let their darling McCain off the hook.
John McCain is trying to sabotage a qualified potential nominee for Secretary of State, because he is still pissed that enough of you didn’t vote for him in 2008.
Mitt Romney’s loss appears to have sent John McCain into fit of Obama hate PTSD, and people are starting to catch on.
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j
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Sometimes the comedy shows speak more truth than our news outlets!
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Nefer
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
“…people are starting to catch on.”
I so hope you are right.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 4:06 pm
John has went past his prime. His born on date is way past expired. His barcode has faded.
There has to be a way to render him useless other than letting him do it himself
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labrat
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
HRYK! A bitter old man that will not be remembered as a war hero, nor a statesman, but for unleashing the worst candidate imaginable as a viable running mate. I hope he lies awake at night with regret for the rest of his life.
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DobieTracker
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
McCain is trying to make Rice look like his Palin.
McCain is vainly trying to say, “Hey, my choice of Palin wasn’t so bad ! Look at Obama’s choice of Rice.”
McCain KNOWS this is not true but he also KNOWS that Sarah Palin will be ALL people will remember about him and he KNOWS how humilating that is for his legacy after all he THINKS he has done.
Knowing McCain to be the “cowboy” pilot, plane crasher and POW tattle tale that he is, I think having Palin as his true legacy is fate’s way of not letting McCain get away with fooling us or himself about the loser he really is.
He needs to go home and retire on his wife’s money.
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bailei
Nov. 29th, 2012 at 9:16 pm
That’s exactly what John McCain is an old f**k who just can not over the fact that the American people soundly rejected his old out of touch, hateful, warmonger views in 2008.
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JPS
Nov. 30th, 2012 at 1:33 am
The “self professed “Maverick” has had a long career using his war hero status he “earned” for spending the Viet Nam war in a POW camp. His phoniness hasn’t contibuted to this countries well being ever since. Where was his self-righteous indignation when George Bush was forewarned of an eminent terrorist attack on U.S soil and chose to ignor it, did nothing. Presidential Daily Briefing, and other’s before: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” 3,497 American mostly civilians died a horrible death in the attack on the Twin Towers and pentagon. Americans killed on American soil, not thousands of miles away in a heavy war zone. Then Bush/Cheney/Rice/Powell/Rumsfield lied to Congress and the American people about WMD’s that never existed in order to start a preemptive war against another sovereign country (Iraq) to get control of their oil wells, and declared “Mission Accomplished” nine years too early to the cost of over 4500 American servicemens lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and the loss of bin Laden in Tora Bora. And then he had the unprecedented audacity to cut taxes for the rich rather than pay for his wars, instead passing the cost on to future generations. Bush Jr had TWELVE foreign embassy attacks that led to at least 50 deaths in his presidency. Ron Reagan presided over an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983 that left 17 dead, no mention of the word terrorist. McCain held a press conference complaining that he can’t get info on Benghazi, at the same time his own commitee is holding a 3 hr closed door intelligence meeting on Benghazi. This guy is pathetic. What a trumped up issue.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 30th, 2012 at 9:00 am
You can never take away what a man has been through. But he can use up all the capitol he earned going through it by making a complete fool of himself.
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sandppppr
Nov. 30th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Beware of the old white curmudgeons in politics, especially John McCain and Ron Paul, who had their presidential aspirations dashed.
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Anne
Dec. 1st, 2012 at 9:15 am
John McCain is way past his expiration date, because he is stuck in the 2008 time warp when he received the most stinging defeat of his political life at the hands of a much younger black man. Just like milk curdles when it sours, his corrosive bitterness has soured and curdled him to the point where he is trying to take satisfaction in helping to thwart the president’s agenda. At this point, he has outlived his usefulness in the Senate and has exposed himself as actually far from being the war hero that the media has made him out to be. I would take great satisfaction in his being subjected to an equally stinging defeat in the next senatorial election of Arizona at the hands of a moderate or liberal.
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