Gramps McCain loses it when asked why he missed classified briefing on Benghazi

[Vinnie From Indy]

CNN caught up with McGrumpy in the halls of the Senate and asked him why he did not attend the top level, classified briefing on the Benghazi incident today. McCain refused to answer and when pressed he damn near spit out his dentures ranting about being "badgered" by the reporter asking the question.

What a colossal douchebag!

Asked why he wouldn't comment, McCain grew agitated: "Because I have the right as a senator to have no comment and who the hell are you to tell me I can or not?”

When CNN noted that McCain had missed a key meeting on a subject the senator has been intensely upset about, McCain said, "I'm upset that you keep badgering me."

While McCain refused to shed light on why he didn't show, his spokesman Brian Rogers emailed CNN a short time later with an explanation. He blamed it on a "scheduling error" but wouldn't provide any more detail.

According to a Democratic aide on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, only three of the eight GOP members of the committee attended the two hour briefing that ran from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. By contrast, seven of the nine Democratic members were there. McCain's press conference took place at noon.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/15/mccain-skips-benghazi-briefing-gets-testy-when-questioned-by-cnn/

[nc4bo]

1. McCain is looking like a big fool.

Time for him to step aside.

[JanMichael]

6. He's reminding me of Trump lately

they should take a clue from Cheney, and go home to their mansions-

[arthritisR_US]

18. Good call. n/t

[fasttense]

100. Was Liar Lindsey Graham also absent from the briefing?..Hummm wonder why the people that do not

attend the briefings are so upset about what happened? After all they were not interested enough to be there and find out what happened now were they??? Republi-CONS, they disgust me. Never doing what they were sent there to do, but griping the entire time about what is going on.....to busy with their afternoon naps I guess

[arthritisR_US]

104. Lol, that sums it up nicely! I don't think graham

was at the briefing either but I could be mistaken. The bad taste in my mouth could be the usual from them although the hubris bitters seems so much stronger

[Walk away]

47. I like that ..."John McCain...the New Donald!" nt

[xtraxritical]

54. You mean McCain trumps Trump in stupid?

[demwing]

96. The "Johnald" /nt

?

[KansDem]

98. Perfect!

[calimary]

111. DUzy!!! EXCELLENT!!!

LOVE this, demwing!

The "Johnald"!

A keeper!!!!

[MsUnderstood]

57. saw him this morning on NBC Today show

He kept saying "4 Americans died, we need answers. . ." about bengazi. I wished Matt Lauer would say "why werent you this indignant after 9/11?".

Next they moved to Rice's confirmation hearings where Pappa McMurf said "She lied to America" and Lauer asked back "What about Condelezza Rice saying Iraq would have a mushroom cloud if we dont do something based on wrong information" and McCain said that its okay that Condie Lied because everyone in the world was spouting the same lies.

Next he went into the lie that Obama never called bengazi a terrorist attack. Like the semantics make any difference. He forgot to add that Obama said it would be investigated and the people perputrating the event would be taken care of. That whole "obama is softe cause he used the wrong words" is a ridiculous spin.

Whether the attack was spontaneous or planned, it is being investigated and it ALREADY happened. Focusing on WHY it happend doesn't change that it happened and it wont change the future cause now we are wasting money on these crazed hearings instead of budgeting more money for security at the embassies...its frutstrating.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

97. And acting like a bigger fool...

Perhaps he's "dancing with the fairies and should be relieved of his office...

[BeyondGeography]

2. Imagine this child as President with You Betcha riding in the side car

Obama has saved us from the apocalypse, I swear.

[speedoo]

11. Obama has saved us from the apocalypse twice.

Romney would be a disaster, doing the tea party's bidding.

[volstork]

50. No kidding.

I was thinking that as I read the OP. How many wars do you think we would be involved in if he had won?

[Coyotl]

65. That certainly qualifies as nightmare territory

And I was so hoping to rest peacefully tonight

[lpbk2713]

3. GTF off my lawn you little punks.

Whyyy ... I oughtta ...

[Berlum]

4. Dude needs an enema

to flush out the Republican 'values' he is infested with...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Well, Haley Barbour said the GOP needs a proctology exam

He must have had McCain in mind.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/14/barbour-gop-needs-a-proctology-exam/

Barbour: GOP needs a 'proctology exam'

CNN's Ashley Killough

(CNN) – While Republicans continue to soul search after their party's loss in the presidential election, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour injected a new term Wednesday to describe the GOP's introspection.

"The ground game is really important, and we have to be, I mean we've got to give our political organizational activity a very serious..." he said, taking a pause and looking for the right word. "Proctology exam. We need to look everywhere."

[Care Acutely]

59. That was priceless. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

68. Because that is where you can find the head of the GOP?

Makes sense to me.

[coalition_unwilling]

75. That vision thing:

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

87. Well illustrated!

[catbyte]

93. Michael Steele said the GOP needs to pull its head out first on Tweety

[kooljerk666]

95. Robo-Rooter, when u flush a towel &...........

[Dubster]

5. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Members of The Club aren't used to being challenged.

Damned shame they're not basking in the awe and reverence they'd like to think they're entitled to.

[jberryhill]

8. And yet again....

[Cirque du So-What]

35. Do not want

[sulphurdunn]

9. Right now the Republicans

are only interested in manufacturing a scandal of the Benghazi episode, and certainly not in any evidence to the contrary.

[kardonb]

15. right now...

never confuse republicons with facts ! They don,t like them because they don,t fit their meme .

[Sadiedog]

60. Yes! Ain`t it the truth!

[Roland99]

10. CNN is just a bunch of meddling kids!

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. True, Mr. Esteemed Senator ...

Asked why he wouldn't comment, McCain grew agitated: "Because I have the right as a senator to have no comment and who the hell are you to tell me I can or not?”

You do have the right to have no comment and not speak to your schedule; but you CANNOT do both, while pressing the issue that you demand more information when the very briefing you missed was on that very subject.

It's like calling a press conference decrying your unpreparedness for a test ... during the announced professor guided study session.

Oh, how you embarass me as one who lives in your district. Here's a suggestion: "Shhhhh!"

[John2]

22. This

is easy. The reporter should have went for the kill. Hey senator, because the American people have the right to know. That is my job!

[reformist2]

13. This is the phoniest 'scandal' in recent memory.

Nothing more than bloviating congressmen feigning outrage.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

16. I lost a brother in Vietnam...

He came home in a double-sealed casket which meant, according to the officer who accompanied his remains home, there was nothing in the casket except for an empty uniform or a plastic bag containing body parts. In my eyes McCain has forfeited whatever respect I owed him for his service in Vietnam...I'd spit on him now if given the opportunity. He is a disgrace.

[coalition_unwilling]

76. I am very sorry for your loss. - n/t

[cui bono]

17. He really needs to be put out to pasture.

What was that other outburst of his a week or so ago? I forget who he was yelling at but I think it was private citizens.

He just can't take anyone questioning him at all any more, not to mention he's gone wingnut on us.

[heaven05]

19. they

didn't go so that they can continue to cast dispersions on the President and Amb. Rice and still be able to say they don't have all the information to stop badgering the POTUS. They have no shame politicizing this situation. Tempest in a teapot. Snakes and evil people they are.

[RVN VET]

20. This disinterest in the classified briefing on Benghazi is all the proof I need

McCain is an old fool, dishonorable and dishonest. He and the other 4 GOP committee members who absented themselves from the meeting made a very loud statement to the effect that they don't give a damn about the facts of the case, they just want to attack the President. McCain got angry because the obvious dishonesty of his attacks on Obama was being exposed.

(I might have voted for McCain in 2000, back when he still had a semblance of honor and dignity. But he pretty much traded his principles and kissed Bush's butt -- even after the lie about him fathering a black child was concocted and spread by Bush's campaign -- for a chance to be Bush's successor.)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Kissed Bush's butt is right

[central scrutinizer]

34. wouldn't want facts clogging up a press conference

nfm

[dgibby]

63. I was stationed with him for a very brief time when he came back from 'Nam.

He was a jerk then, and he's only gotten worse with age. I gave him the benefit of the doubt when he first came back, considering he'd been a POW, but I think he's been like that all his life.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

88. None of the bad side of him that has been "revealed" during and since the 08 campaign has come as a

surprise to me. I only became at all familiar with him then, and just got a very bad vibe off him. interesting to hear from someone with direct experience that supports my impressions. And though "jerk" sounds about right, I would have said "dick".

[olegramps]

103. His Prep school mates nicknamed him Mc Nasty. Just another privileged brat.

[dmr]

21. His temper tantrum is because he knows he's wrong. He prioritized politics over National Security.

His whiny press conference was more important than the classified briefing on Benghazi.

Shame on him.

He owes the reporter an answer. The questions/answers are for the American people.

[Cha]

23. He's such a grumpy ol Liar.. McCain is the poster grump for

bitter ol Losers.

[railsback]

25. Man, the FOX bloggers are all complaining

that the MSM is picking on poor little John McCain. Its freakin' hilarious.

[John2]

26. McCain

act like he is still fighting the Viet Cong in North Vietnam and and Communism. He seems to be fighting Demons. I don't think he is fit to be a U.S. Senator because he shows signs of having lost his mind. It is time for him to retire but that is up to the people of Arizona.

[coalition_unwilling]

80. He would have been fighting the 'Viet Cong' (the slang diminutive term given to

military forces of the National Liberation Front or NLF) in South Vietnam (and, after 1965, possibly the North Vietnamese Army too).
He would have been fighting the North Vietnamese Army in North Vietnam.

He would NOT have been fighting the Viet Cong in North Vietnam.

Now back to regular programming.

[LaPera]

27. Republicans have made it perfectly clear that are trying to get a special prosecutor appointed

McCain (or Graham) don't care one bit about getting more information or he would of made it to today's two hour classified meeting & hearings. - He knew what time it started.

McCain has already made up his mind without any of the facts....He & Graham just want a "witch-hunt" they will try anything, anything to try to get a special prosecutor to harass & weaken the Obama administration for the next four years (ala Ken Starr).

McCain & Graham certainly don't care about the facts or finding the truth - They've already made up their mind that they are going to speak the same untruths over & over again to try and make it fact.

McCain & Graham believe they have finally found their vehicle for the republicans to harass & dictate policy moves on this administration via their completely bogus accusations, which don't hold any water what so ever. - There is zero none, nil, zilch no substance to what McCain & Graham are saying - and the thing is....And is why they are screaming so loudly - because they know it too.....

Republicans have made it perfectly clear that are trying to get a special prosecutor appointed on the flimsiest of evidence & untruths so they can dig into anything & everything in this administration for the next four years .

They aren't going to get away with it this time as they did with the bogus “Whitewater” scam they made up.

[justiceischeap]

28. His skipping the briefing pretty much makes anything he has to say about this moot

That's why he's pissed off. He's savvy enough to know, he kneecapped himself with a "scheduling error." Forever more, when McCain brings up Benghazi, his missing the hearing will be mentioned along side anything he says on the subject.

[wtmusic]

29. YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

[Sweet Freedom]

30. So, Yahoo has the "scheduling conflict" story on the front page,

but more interesting are the comments, which I typically avoid because they are always insane teabug rants, but look at all the sanity--

http://news.yahoo.com/mccain-misses-classified-briefing-while-blasting-white-house-170656090--abc-news-politics.html

I think my favorite is--

This is a great example of what is happening to our country. Idiots demanding answers while missing the facts right before their eyes.

[Gabi Hayes]

77. see this one?

After griping about Obama to the media McCain had to empty his colostomy bag and take a nap before he could attend breifing.

[Botany]

31. John has an onion on his belt.

McCain is awesome when he knows he is wrong and starts to wig out.

He did this about gays in the military awhile back.

[dtom67]

32. if...

If mccain were a democrat, the right would be calling him a manchurian candidate.

[Lex]

33. John McCain is losing his mind. Something is wrong with him

and the anger thing with him keeps growing. A symptom.

[Marymarg]

39. I agree

I believe there is something seriously wrong with him. Dementia?? Or has he just devolved into a mean old man. Whatever it is, he is certainly no longer the nice guy he used to be (or pretend to be).

[deutsey]

36. "only three of the eight GOP members of the committee attended"

Yes, that's certainly the way to get to the bottom of what happened...

[Old and In the Way]

61. 2 things Republicans in this Congress are not concerned about - the truth or the facts.

It's getting old....

[deutsey]

79. It certainly is, man

Most of them are totally deluded nutcases. I'm really growing tired of them screwing with our reality.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

37. McCain sure has a short memory

When Condi Rice was being subjected to questioning over whether she lied about WMD, "Mr. Lingering Bitterness" said she was merely misled about the intelligence and lamented politicization of the issue: “I can only conclude we're doing this for no other reason than because of lingering bitterness at the outcome of the elections,”

[99th_Monkey]

38. The Reptilicans are all going "butt-ugly" on us, esp. McGramps.. nt

[elleng]

40. 'only three of the eight GOP members of the committee attended

the two hour briefing that ran from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET. By contrast, seven of the nine Democratic members were there. McCain's press conference took place at noon.'

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

41. He should use his right to "not comment" more

Asshole has embarrassed himself.

[relayerbob]

42. The right answer to "who the hell are you" ...

"I'm a taxpayer and I'm your f'ing boss."

[City Lights]

43. Sounds like someone needs a time out!

Off to the corner with you, Johnny!

Republicans are such little sad sacks!

[underpants]

44. Soooo he went on the air and made statements without having all the information?

Sounds familiar.

[cyclezealot]

45. They don't want to know what really went on.

Knowing the truth makes it more difficult to turn nothing into something.

[underpants]

46. "McCain...was having a press conference lashing out at the administration for not getting enough

information"

[George II]

48. Why didn't he have a "scheduling error" when he planned on attacking Obama and Rice on this??

[L0oniX]

49. "Get off my lawn you whipper snapper!" - McInsain (real geezer quotes below...)

"I ‘Don’t See How It Matters’ That I Don’t Know The Price Of Gas" --John McCain

"I disagree with what the majority of the American people want." --John McCain

"Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war." --John McCain

[Melinda]

51. Doesn't he realize that 4 Americans died!! How dare he not take this matter seriously!!

I mean really!!!!

"McCain... argued that the Benghazi attack warrants a special committee because four Americans died." link


REALLY?!?! And YOU couldn't rearrange YOUR schedule for four dead Americans, Gramps?

Really.

[patrice]

52. Apparently the right to say things & ask questions goes only one way in McCain's universe . . .

so, shut up and listen, or else!

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

53. "Because I'm busy yelling at this empty chair!"

sore loser can't get over being whipped by a Black Man.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

55. I have been giving @SenJohnMcCain hell today on Twitter. It's fun. eom

[Gabi Hayes]

78. how bout a link? thx

[SunDrop23]

56. Someone please make the case for why McCain is seen an an expert?

Not a flame, but please make the case.

[ErikJ]

58. Sounds like McCain secretly feels Bengazi is much adoo about nothing.

[CRH]

62. The republicans didn't show up for the briefing because, ...

they knew they had politicized national security, and crow was on the menu.

[WCLinolVir]

64. Don't blame it on his age, he has always been a blow hard and had a foul temper

It just sounds ageist and discriminatory when people use his age to criticize him. And it doesn't sound very intelligent.

[kmlisle]

66. So Pelosi needs to step down because of her age?

How about that question for this incompetent old geezer? Make way for Young Blood who can walk fast enough to get to thier briefings on time Grandpa!

[Jim__]

67. There's no fool like an old fool.

[Lebam in LA]

69. I think his stint as crash test dummmy in the Navy

has finally caught up with him.

[longship]

70. Things younger than John McCain.

Younger than McCain Blog.

Lots of stuff is younger than this old coot.

Chocolate chip cookies? Younger than McCain!

Grocery cart? Younger than McCain!

You can see where this is going.

[spanone]

71. he should've quit while he was ahead.....long, long time ago

[hibbing]

72. I'm sure he will be on the Sunday "news" shows

Once again they will drag his ass on t.v., wouldn't be surprised to see a few of the war criminals from the idiot son's administration on them too, to chime in with their "expertise".

I think his hatred for President Obama is quite apparent.

Peace

[The Wizard]

74. The first minority to run for President

beat him in a landslide. He'll be modeling straightjackets soon.

[Historic NY]

73. McGrumpy is off his meds.

[lonestarnot]

81. Old fucking embarrassing lump from AZ.

[Liberalagogo]

82. The John McCain Experience:

[gulliver]

83. A bunch more good stories in NOT asking McCain what he wants to be asked.

Media take note. If you don't play ball with McCain and ask the questions he wants asked, he'll grouch at you. Then you can write about that. Loser of 2008 election's reputation goes down in flames. What's better?

[defacto7]

84. Generaly speaking...

Their ship is still sinking!

[MisterScruffles]

86. RE: Generaly speaking...

Nonsense! The GOP is still doing fine! There is no iceberg, and any reports of a hull breach are just liberal media bias!

[defacto7]

89. you forgot your sarcasm sticker...

[MisterScruffles]

90. I was going to stick it on

But I was busy repairing my irony meter after listening to the GOP accuse Obama of weakening the security at Benghazi.

[TwilightGardener]

85. GOP Senators care so much about Benghazi, that they

don't show up to a briefing about Benghazi. Anything they say on the subject can now be completely discounted as 100% political bullshit and exploitation of American deaths.

[Amonester]

91. About Republicans exploiting of American deaths.

Have they ever done anything else?

[Mc Mike]

94. That's so unfair. Sometimes

Repugs cause exploitable American deaths.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

92. Yeah, but will the "liberal media" find that news fit to print?

[Javaman]

99. Later in the day, McCain was seen screaming at kids...

to get off the lawn of his 7th floor apartment rental.

[Tigress DEM]

101. Because he ALREADY KNEW which LIES he was going to tell. nt

[still_one]

102. It was an answer he gave by not answering. That answer is that he is a fraud and a disgrace.

[Jennicut]

105. McLame has always had a bad temper.

Nothing new there.
But now he is just adding sore loseritis to his lovely personality.

[Arkana]

106. Good. I'm glad that McCain's grandstanding has been usurped

by the fact that he didn't bother to go to the intelligence briefing.

Senile old fart. His time has come and gone, and the Democrats would do well to make sure he's challenged in his next election--that is, if the teabaggers don't get him first.

[The Green Manalishi]

107. "No Comment" = "I am a guilty, incompetent, lying crook". ALWAYS

[Third Doctor]

108. Mccain is becoming

increasingly unstable.

[DinahMoeHum]

109. McCain: living proof that age does not necessarily make a sage. . .

[mwooldri]

110. If a Senator misses a classified briefing, do innocent Americans die?

I know my reply title is a little bit "out there" but I think there may be some truth to my statement. If our elected representatives can't be bothered to show up to crucial meetings, how are they supposed to give the supposed oversight that we're entrusting them with? If a pair of eyes misses a crucial detail and innocent people (not just Americans) die as a result... isn't that pair of eyes to have some blame placed upon them too? Even if the eyes are attached to Senator McCain?

[hrmjustin]

112. You think he is bitter or just a mean old SOB?

I think both.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

113. how interesting that the PUKES are unified in trying to use it to smear the Prez

(and Dems in general, as always).......yet they're the ones missing from the briefing.

guess they couldn't bear to catch up on FACTS.




fucking pukes

[davidthegnome]

114. I used to believe he had integrity

The last four years and more have proven me wrong. Maybe he's gone senile in his old age, or maybe he was an ass all along and I just gave him too much credit for the good things he did. Yeah, I'd say it's time for him to retire.

[ReasonableToo]

115. Can't stand McCain...blocks families from getting info on MIAs

He needs to go away

&feature=related

A spokeswoman for the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America's Missing Servicemen and Women tries to get a committee of Congress to approve efforts to get information about POW/MIAs. McCain disingenuously belittles the woman. He doesn't want any of the details of HIS time as a POW to come to light...