McCain laughs, tells Ann Currie it's fine for Palin to use gun imagery directed at Democrats

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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McCain: ‘Fine’ for Palin to use gun imagery directed at Democrats

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 -- 11:27 am

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0325/mccain-defends-palin-gun-talk/

Senator John McCain sees no problem with his former running-mate's advice that Republicans should "reload" and "aim for" Democrats in next fall's elections.

Sarah Palin's use of gun imagery in addressing her followers on Twitter and Facebook has been criticized as potentially inciting threats of violence, like those which are already being directed towards Democratic members of Congress who voted for health care reform.

"Considering these threats, these concerns that we've been hearing about regarding violence, do you now recommend that your party use less incendiary language?" NBC's Ann Curry asked McCain on Thursday.

"I have seen the rhetoric of 'targeted districts' as long as I've been in politics," McCain responded, chuckling. "To say that there's a targeted district or that we 'reload' or 'got back into the fight again.' Please."

"Those are not my words," Curry interrupted. "Those are her words."

"Those are fine," McCain reaffirmed, smiling broadly. "They're used all the time."

"With all due respect," Curry insisted, "given, however, the sensitivity regarding this particular bill, should this still be the language of this day? ... These are very dangerous times."

"The language that we should be using today is the language that we are using," McCain repeated. "We condemn violence. ... To somehow say that someone's in a battleground state is somehow offensive -- simply, I'm sorry."

[catbyte]

1. He's nothing but a creepy old man

with that rictus grin. I hope he gets creamed in the primary. He richly deserves it. :scared:

:puke:

[Gman2]

2. I hope that puny man gets his asss whipped, by the monsterhe created{palin}

[Lautremont]

7. That's probably his fondest dream.

[soleft]

3. When is the primary?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

4. "They're used all the time."...NOT IN POLITICS

maybe in a Third World Country....

[RayStar]

5. August primary

This man wanted to be president isn't that just unbelievable. Sarah needs to be charged as a terrorist. ASAP

[Mithreal]

6. Who has done more to destroy conservatism than the MAVERICKy one?

Sarah Palin is the exclamation point on everything that is wrong with their party and he just grins, good stuff.

Duh, Bush and Cheney, long list.

[LiberalFighter]

9. His campaign has been hijacked by Palin. He can't ditch her.

[Plucketeer]

10. Yeah

She was SO beneficial to McPain's cam-pain before! Let's hope she's as much of a help this time around. LOL! :rofl:

Fool, me, once - shame on me.
Fool, me, twice - ah... what was I sayin'??? :crazy:

[LiberalFighter]

8. If it is okay to use gun imagery to target Democrats

Is it okay to use gun imagery to put McCain in the crosshairs?

[Mithreal]

11. I'm sure they would like nothing better than to say Dems do it too.

Can always lie but more fun for them to rub Dems faces in any hypocrisy.

[Amonester]

12. John McCain sees no problem with Caribou bin Barbie

being the hottest Republican domestic terrorist. :puke:

[DeSwiss]

13. K&R

- War hero my ass......

[ellenfl]

14. what the heck was that? all i got was a loop of 'sir,

these are very dangerous times'.

ellen fl

[jeremyfive]

15. Of course it's fine--John McCain is a Reprehensible Bigot

America would be a nobler and brighter place, had they left him in Nam.

And his disabled wife wouldn't have had to face him leaving her for the stripper.

There is no place for the institutionalized bigotry John McCain advocates in America.

John McCain couldn't pull off being a maverick in his wildest dreams!

[Divine Discontent]

16. Smilin' Johnny - laughing as people cut gas lines where children live & ramming cars w/kids in 'em!

:puke: sick nasty f*ck

[JohnnyK]

17. why post this rightwing video?

why give this video views on YouTube? It's obviously bashing Ann Curry and not McCain.

[Capitalocracy]

18. Well, this wouldn't bother me so much if we weren't in the context that we are

I mean, yeah, a cute little gunsight icon for targeted districts, honestly I wouldn't care if we weren't in the situation we're in right now. Allegories relating to violence have been used to describe political situations for a long time by the mainstream media, using terms like politician X slammed politician Y with criticism on such and such policy or saying they're not prepared to lead or that they're an old pothead or blah blah blah, or it was a political knockout, or they lost the election now they're licking their wounds, etc. And I've never liked that stuff, but there it is, what can you do? But with so many people on the right obviously inciting violence and so many of their followers responding, this is clearly not the time to be using that kind of imagery.