Rockefeller apologizes to McCain
“McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit,” Rockefeller told the newspaper, which published the article on the interview Tuesday. “What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues,” he is quoted saying.
On Tuesday, Rockefeller issued a statement, saying, “I have deep respect for John McCain’s honorable and noble service to our country. I made an inaccurate and wrong analogy and I have extended my sincere apology to him.
“While we differ a great deal on policy issues, I profoundly respect and appreciate his dedication to our country, and I regret my very poor choice of words,” he said.
Rockefeller also asked McCain to “pass on my heartfelt apology to your wife, Cunt McCain.”
April 8th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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April 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
He shouldn’t have apologized. I’m sick to death of hearing John McCain lauded as a hero. He was no hero. He was a bomber pilot in the Navy (and thus no draftee) in an illegal, immoral war and his job was to bomb a nation that had done us no harm and was no threat. And he got caught at it by the people he was bombing.
No, he should not have been tortured. Torture is wrong, period. And I do mean period. But if surviving torture is what it takes to be a hero, then there are a bunch of people who have emerged from the legal and moral hole of Gitmo, who, unlike John McCain, had committed no act that would justify imprisonment, who therefore are at least as - and I would say by their innocence, more - heroic than he is.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
You know, I didn’t like it when Roger Stone formed C.U.N.T. to harass Hillary Clinton and I don’t like it when you use the same term to demean McCain through his wife.
Here’s an impolite aphorism I wrote that may be appropriate in this circumstance:
Half of us are cunts, half of us are pricks, but all of us are assholes.
From one asshole to another.
April 9th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I appreciate your comment Gmoke. It’s not a word I use. But when intended as satire, I cross lines occasionally, even if that causes discomfoort. However, you’re right, in this case it actually does insult Mrs. McCain and it’s wrong to diminish her when targeting her husband.
My bad.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Rockefeller sounds like that old attorney apologizing to the whole Cheney family for letting Dickus shoot him in the face.