“That is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda.”
By on Apr 5th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
“That is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda.”
CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey on McCain’s remarks about his trip to Baghdad: “It’s disgraceful for a man seeking highest office, I think, to talk utter rubbish. And that is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda. It is simply not true. No one in his right mind who has been to Baghdad believes that story.”
UPDATE: According to McCain adviser Max Boot, the U.S. embassy’s security coordinator “refused to sign off on McCain’s visit because he thought it was too risky.”
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Who assumed McCain is in his right mind?
April 5th, 2007 at 2:57 pmWhat’s not true? McCain strolled down the marketplace in broad daylight. Do you also think the moon landing(s) were staged?
April 5th, 2007 at 2:58 pmYes, well, we knew that………
April 5th, 2007 at 2:58 pmShamefully the following videos are looking more and more similar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M…h?v=M_RnKMWF- yU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4…h? v=4zbmENT4D0k
April 5th, 2007 at 2:58 pmPoor little “bothered” reporters — let Pizzey try to survive one night alone in South Central L.A. instead.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:00 pmOH SNAP!
Cue the sludge smear machine in 3…2…1…
April 5th, 2007 at 3:02 pmJake sez:
Protected by how many soldiers, Jake?
And how many Blackhawks, Jake?
And how many Apache gunships, Jake?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:02 pmOops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_RnKMWF-yU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zbmENT4D0k
April 5th, 2007 at 3:03 pmMax Boot..licker hahahahahahaahahaaa great name for a Nazi hahahahaha
April 5th, 2007 at 3:06 pmNo, the moon landings were not staged, we are selling all the equipment and debris left behind at the Far Side Flea Market, Fridays and Saturdays.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:06 pmNot this Friday however, we are all heading for the Good Friday Jake and Bake at the beach on the Sea of Disability.
Jake,
What was not true, was what McCain said last week concerning General Petraeus going out regularaly in an unarmored Humvee.
He’s trying to paint a rosy picture that doesn’t exist.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:06 pm“That is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda.â€
As is anything done by this fascist administration and their GOP henchmen in Congress and Faux News.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:07 pmWhat’s not true? McCain strolled down the marketplace in broad daylight. Do you also think the moon landing(s) were staged?
Comment by Jake
Oh Lord. Here comes Jake with his usual brand of insanity. Sir, would McCain have ‘visited’ the marketplace without any guards? Wouldn’t that have the desired effect of suggesting stability in Iraq is on the rise?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:07 pmI can’t help but feel mostly pity for this delusional old man. And I really feel badly for his fairly young wife. But if McCain were to somehow get the presidency, then all my fears of the U.S. populace would be confirmed.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pmPoor little “bothered†reporters — let Pizzey try to survive one night alone in South Central L.A. instead.
Comment by Jake in the ‘Hood
You wouldn’t last ten minutes in Southeast San Diego’s Barrio Logan, you sad, incontinent geezer.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:09 pmJake, are you joking? I’m guessing your from Nebraska or somewhere, that you have an idea of South Central LA from “Boys in the Hood”. Would find it necessary for McCain to wear a flak jacket and be accompanied by dozens of soldiers and an Apache helicopter in Los Angeles?
Just because he’s in your party doesn’t mean you need to follow blindly. Critical thought is necessary in a complex world. Nobody is “correct” as much as your people want us to believe.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:09 pmOT but another bush boot licker jumps ship:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ eandp/ news/ article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003567882
When they’ve lost joe klein you know it’s almost over for them.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:09 pmGet this people (even Jake),
The entire article can be found here…
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/326/
This is interesting when you consider this information…
That article can be found here…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ usa/ story/ 0,12271,1312540,00.html
Why is the Bush family at the center of so much death and violence?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:14 pmTrip Master Monkey sez
Protected by how many soldiers, Jake? Uh….Well over 100?
And how many Blackhawks, Jake? 3 that we could see?
And how many Apache gunships, Jake? 2 in the air and probably 1 more on standby?
How’d I do?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:16 pmCome on Jake. Tough guy. Get your sorry ass over to Baghdad already. Pass out them flowers.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:19 pmskull and bones ,a nifty little club for dracula children
April 5th, 2007 at 3:20 pmCrump’s Brother:
Perhaps, but that was NOT in this story, now was it?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:21 pmFu*k Jake. Don’t respond to his insanity anymore. His frail feeble old mind can no longer process reality.
This goes beyond 100 soldier guard, with 2 apaches and three black hawks.
250 soldiers swept the market before the 100 soldier guard, with 2 apaches and three black hawks even showed up.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:29 pmNo wonder McCain is this week’s #1 conservative miscreant on the Avenging Angel’s list.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:29 pm“What’s not true? McCain strolled down the marketplace in broad daylight. Do you also think the moon landing(s) were staged?
Comment by Jake — April 5, 2007 @ 2:58 pm”
Only with 100 US troops surrounding him.
A bullet proof vest.
4 Blackhawk hellicopters, and 2 apachie hellicopters circling…
Yeah…… That is safe!!!!
Now if he goes down there without any of these things, and survives, then I will agree that things are better…..
When is McCain going to go without all the troops and hellicopters?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:31 pmHey jake how about blackwater recieving billions , better equipted ,by all accounts, than our own army in Iraq ,represented by ken star and fred Fielding ,the presidents general counsel,operating on the streets of america ,pointing guns at citizens in New Orleans and baesd in Virginia ?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:33 pmThe Brown shirts reborn and waiting to gather intelligence ( on Americans in their own homes?) against terrorists and other undesirables .
Crump’s Brother:
Perhaps, but that was NOT in this story, now was it?
Comment by Jake — April 5, 2007 @ 3:21 pm
Jake, leave it to the libs to exaggerate. What McCain should’ve stated is that Iraq isn’t completely safe, but there is continuing progress within that country.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:35 pmBlack Water # 2 on amazon . coms best seller list ?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:38 pmHELLO ?
John mc caine is able to switch possitions from one side of the spectrumto the other,seven years ago I thought he was one of the few republicans that had any integrity ,now it’s become painfully obvious he lies for votes !
April 5th, 2007 at 3:44 pmSorry but this same charge has been made against the democrats and Hillary Clinton.Its a disease picked up in washington ,but don’t worry ,it seems as if it isn’t fatal and a politician can live an almost normal life while having it ,kind like herpes .
McCrazy!
April 5th, 2007 at 3:45 pmLook at this drivel. Nice talking point.
Yeah, I am continuing to progress towards being a billionaire. Right now I got a dollar eighty, but I am on my way.
Why even bother with these morons. They make up stupid sh!t as they go.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:46 pmLets Try That Again
FOLKS:
NEW YORK - Now that the U.S. Congress is investigating the truth of President George W. Bush’s statements about the Iraq war, they might look into one of his most startling assertions: that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Critics dismissed that as an invention. They were wrong. There was a link, but not the one Bush was selling. The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist — it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father.
Articlwe here:
April 5th, 2007 at 3:46 pmhttp://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/05/326/
It isn’t transmittable so you can go on kissing babies .
April 5th, 2007 at 3:46 pmI don’t see what the big deal is. When ever I go out for a stroll I always wear a bullet proof vest and maintain a malitia of 100+ soldiers and a couple of black hawk helicopters. What, you don’t?
April 5th, 2007 at 3:51 pmJohn “Insane” McCain is finished. I actually feel sorry for him at this point, he’s so delusional he can’t see anything beyond his self-made fantasies.
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April 5th, 2007 at 3:57 pmmeant to say militia. Sorry, us Texans spell like we talk.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:59 pmDaryll & Jake, if your leaders said eating dog turds was a great republican, and jesus like tradition, why do I get thoughts of you two at the nearest dog pound sucking ass?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:01 pmGosh! Another journalist with his head screwed on tight? Good on ya, Allen Pizzey!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pmF.YOU jake. get a real job- for the good of humanity. Politicizing a blog is god damned pathetic.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pmThis is worth exploring more deeply…a powerful angle.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pmJosh Marshall of Talking Points Memo provides this reader’s comment: TPM Reader PM on the McCain campaign event …
“I just wanted to provide a comment regarding McCain’s Iraq trip from a slightly different perspective that I don’t believe has been considered by many. U.S. government officials including elected representatives have regularly visited Iraq for a host of reasons and, of course, all have been provided with necessary protection by our servicemen. This is all completely reasonable under most circumstances and indeed part and parcel of the military’s responsibilities in Iraq. However, is it still justified to use our military, both men and machines, in such an overwhelming way to simply provide McCain with what amounts to a political ad for a presidential campaign? McCain’s intent was to demonstrate the wisdom of a surge he fully supported and provide the electorate proof of his good judgment. Unfortunately, the only way to fulfill this illusion was with the use of heavy military cover. Since all military operations involve some risk, I ask: Was it reasonable to risk the lives of our soldiers for a staged photo-opportunity?”
Wow…with words that strong you would think CBS mistook McCain for a liberal. They call that out as being Bull**** but will run the Pelosi smears, run all the Bush press conferences without pointing out the hypocrist, will call Giuliani “america’s mayor, etc, etc, etc.
While I congratulate CBS calling McCain on this point, it was so blatantly obvious that I don’t think even the media could avoid it. I will also point out that the media didn’t call McCain on this on day one…as usual they let the blogs run with it and then picked up the story afterwords.
When CBS starts callin Bush, McCain, Cheney, political “experts”, etc, on their bull**** then I will take notice.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pmI think we can call this desperation. Since McCain signed on to this Surge Stragety it, of course, has to work. There is no other way for him to think or act. He and the rest of the repugs who support this will deny it isn’t working despite all evidence to the contrary. His “stroll” through the marketplace was a disastorous act of denial.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pmThe really sad thing is that if you know any of McCain’s Family history is that he comes from a long line of proud service to our Country. His Father commanded a Aircraft Carrier group under Adms. Halsey and Spruance in WW II. His Uncle, I think served in Submarines during the same war. McCains own service during Vietnam speaks for itself. A family that has given much in service to the United States.
That makes what he’s doing now so tragic IMHO.
The Democrats provided Jake with his retirement beneifits, and his disability. Then he rants against them. What a jerk.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:07 pmThe Democrats provided Jake with his retirement beneifits, and his disability. Then he rants against them. What a jerk.
Comment by ForTruth
He’s got what he needs — f*ck those people, in fact, f*ck everybody!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:12 pmFortruth 43
My retirement beneifits and disability are a waste of money because they came from the democrats.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:14 pm“My retirement beneifits and disability are a waste of money because they came from the democrats.
Comment by Jake — April 5, 2007 @ 4:14 pm”
Fine….. Then give it ALL back!!!!
You don’t need it or want it, so stop taking it….
God forbid that the Dems look out for the Veterans…… We all see how the Repulicans treat the Vets….. Does Walter Reid ring a bell?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:18 pmMy retirement beneifits and disability are a waste of money because they came from the democrats.
Comment by Jake
But you’re taking it anyway, aren’t you Jake? It all spends the same, doesn’t it? Prick.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:20 pmHow about that private army operating within the borders of the US ,based in virginia branching out into domestic intelligence Jake ?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:21 pmWith billions of dollars for a budget and with Star power legal counsel ?
Interesting interview with Gen Petraeus, in part regarding Sen. McCain’s trip.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:24 pmHow about a little recreational water boarding for god .
April 5th, 2007 at 4:24 pmI worked with a staunch Republican, who blamed Abraham Lincoln for the creation of what he termed “the welfare state”
April 5th, 2007 at 4:31 pmHe also collected a Social Security disability for running his right hand through a table saw three weeks before he was due to retire at 65. Which he blamed on the illegal alien construction workers who worked for him. (He was angry at them for complaining about back wages owed, hence he ran his hand thru his saw…)
When I worked with him, the boss made out two checks every payday, one to him, which averaged about $140.00, and one to his wife for the balance of his wages, which averaged $350.00. Thus he could continue to collect his full disability check. Which he somehow felt society owed him.
I eventually called him on his scam, and he got all blustery and defensive.
So I told him to quit telling me I should go to church.
So just shut up Jake.
I think Jake has been a parody for the last week or so. The real one is gone.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pmJAKE IS GONE ? Replaced by a parody troll ?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:40 pmDamn I think your right .
Jake could send that cash to me if he doesn’t want it.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:41 pmI for one approve wholeheartedly of Senator Mc-Cains trip to Baghdad.
I applaud it in fact, because it showed Americans once and for all, just how stupid the right wing thinks they are.
When Americans saw Mc-Cain talking about how safe he was, while at the same time seeing the small army of choppers, tanks and troops it took for him to make the video telling everyone how safe it was, they saw that the right wing thinks they’re all idiots, and they also saw just how deluded the right wing really is.
Even the dumbest of the dirt farmers when he saw McCain surrounded by Apache attack choppers and a small army, clad in body armour telling us how “safe he was”, must’ve fallen of his tree stump stool laughing his ass off.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:00 pmI would agree that this Jake seems a little different. I think the original actually believed in what he said and wasn’t that stupid. This guy just says “Clinton, Clinton, Clinton” and other equally stupid crap.
Think about how incredible this is, someone is actually more of an asinine, ignorant jerk than our old buddy Jake.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pmWELL SAID, Pizzey—THANKS FOR GIVING McPAIN A WELL DESERVED BITCH-SLAP FOR HIS FOOLISH FATUOUS HYPOCRITICAL WORDS!!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:06 pmIt’s possible ‘patrick1′ and ‘jake’ have become interchangable screen names for the same poster………..
April 5th, 2007 at 5:14 pmWhat’s not true? McCain strolled down the marketplace in broad daylight. Do you also think the moon landing(s) were staged?
Wearing a bullet-proof jacket and surrounded by guards. But, hey, McCain’s visit should really boost tourism in Iraq, now.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:02 pm#59 bingo
April 5th, 2007 at 6:15 pmWhy has McCain done 180’s on several issues in the last few months? He has alienated his own “base”. So many contridictions…and now this transparent “photo op” snafu. I have never been a supporter of McCain, but if I had been, I would not be anymore. Does he think Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will deliver enough votes to him to mA
April 5th, 2007 at 6:25 pmWhy has McCain done 180’s on several issues in the last few months? He has alienated his own “base”. So many contridictions…and now this transparent “photo op” snafu. I have never been a supporter of McCain, but if I had been, I would not be anymore. Does he think Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will deliver enough votes to him to make up the difference?? Somebody please tell me what this guy is thinking. I’m confused.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:27 pmFlipper McInsane/McCain IS PURE RUBBISH!
April 5th, 2007 at 11:01 pmPoor dementia-ridden McCain suffers from the same ailment as some of our trolls here….fictionalized reality.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:01 pmMcBane should be his new moniker as he’s become an embarrassing “bane” to the american people. These days he appears to have one foot on a banana peel and the other one you know where.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:02 pm