Report: McCain Stands By As His Supporter Calls Hillary A "Bitch"

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Report: McCain Stands By As His Supporter Calls Hillary A "Bitch"
By Greg Sargent - November 13, 2007, 12:10PM

We've just obtained some video of a Fox local affiliate reporting on a McCain campaign appearance in South Carolina. In it, one of McCain's supporters emphatically calls Hillary Clinton, McCain's fellow United States Senator, a "bitch."

McCain's response? According to the Fox affiliate's reporter, McCain "laughed off" the comment.

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We contacted the McCain campaign about this to ask whether McCain should have condemned the remark, whether he wanted to condemn it now, and whether the Fox affiliate's report had represented what happened accurately.

His camp declined to comment.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/11/report_mccain_stands_by_as_his_supporter_calls_hillary_bitch.php

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1. Sadly, that's all but been said right here on DU. n/t

[msongs]

4. that and things FAR worse nt

[Hekate]

5. Yep. You'd think a US Senator would have more courtesy toward one of his own, but DU can't complain

Pot -- meet kettle. :blush:

Hekate

[onehandle]

11. We can be quite the freeps. nt

[Bumblebee]

12. Yes, and I am sure some here will now say that it only proves that she is

a polarizing figure and should not be nominated. Edwards, I am sure, is in sympathy too. (So is Edwards saying that, if she is nominated, he will either not vote or vote for Rudy or Romney?? That only proves that it has become a huge ego trip for him -- and sadly, it's not about all of us anymore...)

[spanone]

2. and the elections are a year away....boy oh boy

and who was the bitch calling hillary a bitch?

[Alter Ego]

3. Classy to the end, those Republicans, aren't they?

[emilyg]

18. Bastards.

[still_one]

6. What do you expect from someone, who voted against making Martin Luther King

day a holiday, who was up to his neck in the S&L crisis, and who wouldn't defend his wife and family when they were slammed by bushco during the south carolina primary in 2000

What a guy...

[AlCzervik]

7. whats his screen name here?

[Blaze Diem]

8. Still the same 'Good Ol' Boys Club', another Christian repub, I assume?

Christians like McCain & Cheney (F you Leahey), are the REAL gods of the good ol christian conservatives.

[Basileus Basileon]

9. I didn't know McCain was a DUer.

[Alter Ego]

15. Is it wrong that I laughed at this?

[TwilightGardener]

10. Awful. He should have pounced on that and emphatically chided that supporter.

[TwilightZone]

13. Compared to "traitorous, cackling witch", that doesn't seem that bad.

He'd fit right in around here.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. plenty of du'ers call her a bitch.

which doesnt excuse them but it in no ways excuses us.

[LiberalFighter]

16. Doesn't say much about McCain's mother

[terisan]

17. McCain made a disgusting joke about Chelsea Clinton when she was a teenager.

He is a dirty old man with a filthy mind and foul mouth, who likes to pander to his misogynist fans to solicit money to carry on his train wreck of a campaign.

Most pathetic is his sucking up to Bush whose smeared his own wife and daughter in 2000.

[Cha]

19. I'm a Kucinich/Edwards supporter and

I say mccain is bushit's bitch.