{"id":362073,"date":"2018-05-20T20:42:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-mccain-cult\/"},"modified":"2018-05-20T20:42:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T19:42:13","slug":"the-mccain-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-mccain-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"The McCain Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102211\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102211\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-17-at-2.06.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Derek Bridges | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So much time spent on this trifle of a story. Someone named Kelly Sadler, a \u201cspecial assistant\u201d and \u201ccommunications aide\u201d to the president stated in a White House meeting May 10 that Sen. John McCain\u2019s opposition to the appointment of Gina Haspel as CIA director was irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter, he\u2019s dying anyway,\u201d she said, according to a leak\u2014presumably by a White House colleague wanting to embarrass her. And so the liberal media\u2014assiduously avoiding coverage of the unprecedented teachers\u2019 strikes in this country, or the Afghan situation as the U.S.-trained army deteriorates and the Taliban expands, or the situation in Iraq as the anti-U.S. Sadrists take power, or the opening of that record-breaking bridge from mainland Russia to Crimea\u2014dwells on this issue of a Trump aide making a \u201cjoke\u201d about McCain\u2019s likely immanent death.<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclosure. My father died of glioblastoma brain cancer, the same thing McCain has to deal with, within 15 months of diagnosis, which is the norm.)<\/p>\n<p>How shocking! She joked about someone who\u2019s\u00a0<em>obviously\u00a0<\/em>an American hero. A war hero. He was tortured for his country and endured, becoming a beloved wise senator for 30 years. Those are the news director\u2019s talking points. Trump and his team are disrespectful towards the war hero. (Re-air those clips of Trump saying he likes people who\u00a0<em>weren\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>taken prisoner.)<\/p>\n<p>Actually I question whether the remark was intended as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/18\/the-mccain-cult\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Derek Bridges | CC BY 2.0 So much time spent on this trifle of a story. Someone named Kelly Sadler, a \u201cspecial assistant\u201d and \u201ccommunications aide\u201d to the president stated in a White House meeting May 10 that Sen. John McCain\u2019s opposition to the appointment of Gina Haspel as CIA director was irrelevant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}