Is that Cindy McCain? Conforming, vapid, and codependent -- check, check check.

In all serious though, sexism is one thing, but the true sin of the 50s is that people thought Folgers tasted good.

John called Cindy a trollup and a cunt, but it wasn't because she stole drugs from her charity to support her addiction.

>> ^oohahh:
Is there any truth to this? I want a place and date.


Apparently it happened during McCain's Senate bid in 1992. Cliff Schecter wrote about this in his book "The Real McCain" where he talks about how McCain is known for being nasty.

An excerpt from The Real McCain taken from The Raw Story:

"Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."

McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days."

Maybe they just like to talk dirty to each other...

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Are you trolling?

The partially transparent fox news graphic was obviously in the foreground, not the background. The graphic peels away to reveal the entire background video, except for the fox logo in the middle. So yes, McCain's face wasn't quite in the direct middle of the frame so it wasn't occluded. (when the cut is made, the overlay has only peeled away from the right half of the video, but it's on its way out).

The images of John and Cindy McCain were not unrelated, they were standing next to each other on stage in that footage.

The weird thing is not the fancy, peel-away intro graphic before a McCain story, but why there's a quick cut to the anchors instead of continuing that story. My guess is, once again, that they just recycled footage from earlier/later in the broadcast. Or this clip is just a mash up between two unrelated segments.

>> ^honkeytonk73:
LOL... they 'crossed feeds'. WTF does that -mean-? Please explain further.


I don't know who you're addressing, since nobody in this discussion except you has used the term 'crossed feeds' even though you've quoted it.

The intro graphic is a transparent overlay. Maybe they didn't realize they were feeding one of that night's stories into the background channel. Maybe they did and didn't care because nobody would notice it.

Did that clip of John and Cindy appear as one of their news stories that night?

If this were Obama's face on a CBS affiliate, would you be as certain that it was an intentional conspiracy to help elect Obama?

I posted this link in the comments section over at another McCain tidbit: http://www.videosift.com/video/Cindy-McCain-Refuses-to-Release-Her-Tax-Returns-Ever

From Crooks & Liars: I’ll tell you a little secret: at first blush, I’m not inclined to care. The McCains have more money than some countries, they haven’t been accused of any financial improprieties, and while it’s interesting when a guy like McCain opposes minimum-wage increases while flying around on his wife’s private jet, I’m not exactly itching to go through Cindy McCain’s tax returns. In fact, I’m not surprised that someone of her wealth would want to keep her returns free of scrutiny.

But this is absolutely relevant in this presidential campaign for a few reasons.

First, John McCain, for all of his talk about the importance of transparency and disclosure, has gone out of his way to ensure that all of his assets are in his wife’s name. And as Kevin recently noted, “There’s only one reason for a politician to make sure that all his assets are in his wife’s name: it’s to make sure that no one knows anything about his assets. It’s not as if McCain is the first pol to try this, after all. Is the press really going to let him get away with this?”

Which leads us to the second reason this matters: McCain has always relied on his wife’s wealth, and has always “mixed business and politics.” If the point of releasing tax returns is to offer voters a chance to get a better sense of the candidate, then it’s incumbent on the McCains to stop acting like they have something to hide.

And third, there’s just the shameless hypocrisy of it all. In 2004, the Republican National Committee spent quite a bit of time and energy demanding that the Kerry campaign release Teresa Heinz Kerry’s tax returns. The candidate’s wife resisted, but after pressure from the GOP and the media, she eventually gave in and made the materials publicly available.

The situation is exactly the same. John Kerry made less money than his wife, who inherited most of her fortune. McCain is practically broke, and relies on his wife’s millions, which were also inherited.

In other words, if we hold the McCains to the standards set by the Republican Party, they owe the public some additional information. The press hounded the Kerrys on this; we’ll see if the media chooses to give the McCains equal treatment. I’m not optimistic.

Crooks & Liars has started a McCain Tax Return Watch

And CNN has started to cover it

Yup. Most Dems are more "liberal" than the Republicans on "values", but after that all bets are off. But hey, even Cindy Sheehan is a right-winger on economic issues. There's hope, though, for a resurgent progressive movement in the US. The recent WSF in Atlanta was a remarkable event.

You kidding? CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, et. al have done little but slam Bush since he was elected - before and after 9/11. They've given screen time to Cindy Sheehan, the Jersey Girls, Michael Moore, anyone they can find who will say the words that their 'reporters' are too gutless to say - 'Bush is Hitler', 'worst economy since the great depression', 'Bush lied, people died', 'no evidence of nukes', 'Karl Rove should be imprisoned w/out trial', 'our soliers are like nazis in their death camps', the list goes on and on. Lapdogs to Bush? I guess that's why Olbermann is demanding their impeachment, and why Dan Rather pushed forged documents to try and destroy Bush during the 04 elections, and how come every time liberals lose, they cry 'voter fraud', but every time they win it's 'the voice of the people'.

What it must be like - to be so blinded by hatred to the exclusion of logic and reason. We all saw what happened when Moore ran into an opposing point of view - he started gnashing his teeth and stamping his feet in rage. Because he THOUGHT these reporters were supposed to be on 'his' side and say nothing against him.

Fact is, this movie Moore made is so wrong in so many instances, that even the 'news' network that wrote glowing reviews for it couldn't believe all his distortions and inaccuracies. I guess Moore is still miffed that his movie is getting the tar beat out of it at the box office. 11th place and going down, down, down....
I'm sure he agrees with free speech - but only the free speech that agrees with his point of view. CNN has just seen an example of how 'free' Moore would like speech to be by trying to stomp on them. Facts and stats that refute Moore need not apply in his brave new world...

I prefer Cindy and Bert - Der Hund Der Baskerville (Paranoid).

CP,

I agree, both parties are corrupt. That moron Cindy Sheehan has finally realized that the dems have no balls, but lots of promises. That's why there needs to be at least a *real* third party. I finally had to join one of the two parties in order to be able to vote in state primaries. Prior to that my convictions were with the Libertarians. I just see too much bias here, clearly an "Us vs. Them" mentality. I can't wait to see some William Jefferon videos on here...but guess what? It's not gonna happen. But, there'll be plenty of "Scooter" Libby stories.

So the left will support organizations to produce anti-right propaganda and the right will steal election...guess who's winning? You and I lose. So they'll both try to find a way to allow illegal immigration to continue to get the "latino" vote. We lose again.

With the advantage of the current mess in the middle east, if the dems cannot present a clear agenda other than "pull the troops out" than they are in trouble. The cannot win by just saying about how bad the current administration is. It's just not good enough. We'll see...

How sad is it that I watched this and was only thinking about how bad that would really be for the presenter and the delectable Cindy's eyes? It's all true though. The world would be a much more honest place if we could tell where people are looking.

No, no, no gorgon, CINDY was the tattle-tale!