McCain: ‘I call people jerks all the time… it’s supposed to be fun’

[Angry Dragon]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/21/mccain-i-call-people-jerks-all-the-time-its-supposed-to-be-fun/


Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday refused to apologized for calling a constituent a jerk, saying that he used the insult “all the time” and “it’s supposed to be fun.”

At a town hall event earlier in the week, the Arizona Republican had become frustrated after the crowd heckled him for opposing the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

“Occasionally, I get a jerk like you,” McCain told one constituent who argued that money spent on border security wasn’t helping to build a fence to keep immigrants out.

“Oh, that’s not a fence? It’s a banana,” McCain snapped at the man. “We’re putting up a banana with about $600 million of appropriations we have.”

much, much more

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/21/mccain-i-call-people-jerks-all-the-time-its-supposed-to-be-fun/



From now he will be know by Senator Jerk ......... it will be fun

[msanthrope]

1. That man needs an evaluation. nt

[davidpdx]

11. No doubt

Give him a padded cell, or at the very least kick him out of the Senate. He seems to be getting worse and worse.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Banana? Why did THAT pop into his head?

[Angry Dragon]

4. You may have to ask him

You need to read the whole article, there is much more there

[spanone]

3. well, i don't call all senators assholes all the time, just special ones, john

[Trajan]

5. In all fairness to the old man ...

His constituents are jerks ... Perhaps for once he IS right ?

[Angry Dragon]

7. I will give you that

However he spends very little time in Arizona so he must be calling his buddies in DC jerks
Members of his circle jerk, that must be the fun part he is talking about

[madinmaryland]

6. He called someone who is even wing-nuttery than he is a jerk???

I don't see where the issue is for us here on DU.

[Trajan]

8. meaning ..

you want us to stop talking about it?

don't understand your rationale ...

[Journeyman]

9. I suspect McCain's "halfheimers" has begun to go "alz" in . . .

[condoleeza]

10. Clearly his time as a POW took a toll

and as a Viet Nam era person, who lost a fiance there, I don't say it lightly, but he is clearly not right in the head and hasn't been since then. He would never have been elected had he not been a POW and gotten the sympathy vote - and then people just forgot that he's just plain nuts and needed therapy a long time ago.

[RudynJack]

12. I think people

who want mass deportations are "jerks", too.

McCain was right on this one.