Straight Talk Excess: John McCain “Jokes” About Killing Iranians With Cigarettes

No-holds-barred comedian John McCain does his Joe Lieberman impersonation

From WaPo:

Sen. John McCain hasn’t had good luck joking about Iran. But he tried it again Tuesday.

Responding to a question about a survey that shows increased exports to Iran, mainly from cigarettes, McCain said, “Maybe thats a way of killing them.”

He quickly caught himself, saying “I meant that as a joke” as his wife, Cindy, poked him in the back.

It’s funny because they’d die a slow and painful death. Get it?

[via Think Progress]

MORE: The Associated Press version of the story is titled “Wife pokes McCain in the back” (how cute!) and features a great picture of what a douchebag looks like when he forgets how to use his thumbs.

UPDATE: Here’s the video…

The Morning Joe folks thought it was a hoot. Chuck Todd even said, “I think this is what people like about John McCain.” Yeah, people love that he wants to kill Iranians, a majority of whom love Western values and are not murderous fanatics, with lung cancer. Hearts. Minds. Whatever. That logic has served us well for the last seven years or so.

Posted by Kevin K. on 07/08/08 at 10:13 PM • Permalink

Bahahahaha..

What a riot McShame is.

So funny Johnny!

Mercy.......

Oh yeah, the lede is obviously the spousal poke, not the joke about killing Iranians. Jeebus, the AP political coverage sucks. The Talking Points Memo chronicals the suckage.

Oh that Johnny Mac such a cut up… yuk yuk

I watched the clip of this on the my morning news and the
press lapped it up as usual

Good, well at least it’s getting some play.  I couldn’t find a clip last night, I’ll poke around for one now.

This is almost as funny as “Mission Accomplished” and “Axis of Evil” ...way to go McSameAssBush. Making jokes about killing a country’s people is a surefire way to inspire global respect. Idiot.

yes, but according to chuck todd, it’s all good: “The guy seems like any guy you’d want to have around the dinner table or the bar stool.”

no, i prefer not to dine or drink with assholes.

and we tried the “guy you’d want to get loaded with” thing the last 7.5 years.  what the fuck is wrong with these people?