Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) last week called Code Pink protesters “low-life scum” as they were protesting a hearing with Henry Kissinger, and he doesn’t regret one bit of it.
On “State of the Union,” CNN’s Dana Bash asked McCain if he felt his outrage was appropriate.
“These people were physically threatening Henry Kissinger. I’m used to people popping up at these and yelling and then they’re escorted out. That’s at least some version of free speech,” McCain responded. “These people rushed up. They were right next to Henry Kissinger, waving handcuffs.”
McCain explained that why he feels people have a right to protest, he drew a line when they surrounded Kissinger during the hearing.
“Of course I was outraged, and I am still outraged. It’s one thing to stand up and protest. It’s something else to physically threaten an individual, particularly an individual who has served so much to his country,” he said.
When Bash asked McCain about his decision to call the protesters “low-life scum,” McCain seemed to think that was totally appropriate.
“I think they’re terrible people, okay? I think they’re terrible people that would do that to a 91-year-old man with a broken shoulder,” he said. “That is beyond any normal behavior that I have ever observed.”
Watch the video via CNN:
Wonder what McCain thought of the buffer zones in Boston (struck down by SCOTUS).
You old worthless fool.
It is embarrassing to be an Arizonan!
And NO, I did not vote for this old has-been!
It is sickening what a sore loser he continues to be!! I am so glad President Obama cleaned his clock in the 2008 presidential election! Now, if we can just get a good strong dem or indy to kick this guy to the curb, once and for all.
Not surprised. Other things McCain doesn’t regret:
Singing a rendition of that classic song, “Bomb, bomb Iran” on the campaign trail;
Saying “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” on the campaign trail as the economy began to go belly-up;
Calling Barack Obama “That one” at a campaign event;
Pronouncing Iraq safe while he walked through its streets with a heavy security detail;
Being photographed with a Syrian rebel who would later be identified as a member of ISIS;
and the ever-popular,
Selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate.
So Senator, if a group of screaming Anti-Abortion protesters - crowd & surround & terrify a woman trying to walk into a woman’s health clinic, if they get mere inches from her face and shout ‘whore - whore- whore’ ‘murderer’ and other more deranged hateful things - and make her frightened for her physical well being …are they scum? … Senator we can’t hear you … please speak up.
“I’m a grumpy old man – I just gotta be me!”