Fox Tucker Carlson says Tweety can disrespect McCain because the two men hated each other, but that gives the President of the United States a pass on being the moral and character leader of America. Tucker Carlson is wrong!
The GOP hypocrites, cowards they are, fail to criticize Trump when he makes conservatism look ugly, are about to find out what "Trumpism" (Trump is NOT a Republican) will do to them (not for, "TO!", as in hurt, them) in the long run.
Trump supporters in Congress trade their souls for a tax cut, and to get even with Obama at any cost. Nunes is an example of how far and how stupid a politician will go to go against all that is just and good in America to get Trump's praise.
Fox News take -
"The Media Is Making John McCain’s Death About Trump" [ABSOLUTELY Not true - the opposite is true - Trump made McCain's death about Trump! McCain criticized Trump and Trump went to an election rally - THAT is what the media reported.]
"The media is accusing President Trump of being disrespectful of the late John McCain." [He was Tom! He was!]
They say that Trump's statement about McCain shortly after his death was not sincere enough, and also cite the decision to raise the flag flying at the White House back to full staff on Monday. It has since been lowered back to half staff.
Tom Shillue thinks that the media obsessing over this narrative is disrespectful to McCain. Tom thinks that media should be focusing on McCain's life and legacy, not on Trump."
Fox twists the facts as usual. Trump wanted to raise the flag 48 hours after a Senator's death, ignoring the fact McCain is a war hero today for all Americans and veterans. That was reported by the media Tom! Tom, did you notice?
https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/08/27/the-media-is-making-john-mccains-death-about-trump/
"Liz Peek: Mr. Trump, make a magnanimous gesture and award McCain the Medal of Honor"
by Liz Peek 27 Aug 2018
"President Trump should award John McCain, who died on Saturday, the Medal of Honor. The posthumous award would recognize the senator’s extraordinary heroism during his five years of captivity in North Vietnam, when he was tortured mercilessly, leaving him disabled for life. The compassionate and respectful gesture might also help to heal some deep wounds in the Republican Party."
That is a novel idea for Tweety, to do something to unite any group other than his White Nationalist base, like perhaps the GOP! Tucker Carlson jumps on that idea, right? Nope! Tucker says Trump can be like all the rest of us, and does not have to respect veterans or heroes or anyone if he chooses to do so, forgetting the fact he is the PRESIDENT!
Tucker, the President leads, he does not follow. President Trump IS DUTY BOUND AS THE PRESIDENT TO HONOR McCain not only as a war hero, but also as a Senator you idiot!
Presidents cannot show their child side and show how immature they can be; Presidents are supposed to rise above petty differences Tucker. Unlike YOU, in your Fox News role or personal life, the President of the United States is supposed to be on the high rode of dignity and honor by example. THAT would be how American Presidents act.
"Fox News’ Tucker Carlson: Why Would Trump Honor McCain, Someone He ‘Despised’?"
This was how Fox News chose to ‘remember’ John McCain in prime time Monday night.
Matt Wilstein 08.27.18
What mature "wisdom" does Tucker have to impart upon us?
"Fox News host Tucker Carlson spent a little less than three minutes “remembering” Sen. John McCain midway through his show Monday. But instead of focusing on McCain’s legacy, Carlson used that time primarily to attack the media for criticizing the way President Donald Trump failed to properly honor him.
Carlson described McCain as a man who “loved what he loved” and “hated what he hated,” noting that “high atop his dislike list was Donald Trump.”
“McCain despised Trump,” he continued. “Trump for his part despised McCain right back.” He said the “root of the dispute” between the two men was “murky,” without mentioned how Trump, early in his 2016 presidential campaign, attacked McCain directly, saying he was “not a war hero” because he was captured during Vietnam."
McCain did not care what Trump thought of his war record. We should note Trump has NO WAR RECORD having dodged the draft five times for bone spurs.
Just how dumb is Tuckers to say the President of the UNITED STATES can hate anyone he wants to hate?
"“John McCain was a complicated person but a great man,” the host said finally. “If you really want to honor his memory, you ought to let people make up their own minds about what they think.”"
This is how dumb Tucker is . . . how the Fox News "Trump Network" is. Fox constantly fails to recognize that when they normalize and praise Trump's bad, immature, immoral behavior, they say it is OK for every American to do the same things Trump does. That means no one will display any character or courage in the face of a challenge, or disagreement, that we divide ourselves more and more into tribes that hate each other, and it is OK to bully and hate anyone that does not agree with you.
Senator McCain did not fight Trump because of Trump's war hero comments, McCain fought Trump because everything Trump stood for was and everything he stands for is ugly and divisive.
In his death, McCain wrote a letter that made clear what he disagreed with and it was not the war hero comment.
Sadly, Fox News chooses to twist the facts and truth for Trump's favors, and few Republicans have the same courage in life that McCain had as he faced death.
"An aide for Sen. John McCain shared a farewell statement from the late Arizona Republican Monday. McCain died at his Sedona home Saturday after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. He was 81."
"My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,
Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life that service in uniform and in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them.
I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I have loved my life, all of it. I have had experiences, adventures and friendships enough for ten satisfying lives, and I am so thankful. Like most people, I have regrets. But I would not trade a day of my life, in good or bad times, for the best day of anyone else's.
I owe that satisfaction to the love of my family. No man ever had a more loving wife or children he was prouder of than I am of mine. And I owe it to America. To be connected to America's causes -- liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people -- brings happiness more sublime than life's fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.
Fellow Americans' -- that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world's greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have acquired great wealth and power in the process.
We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
Ten years ago, I had the privilege to concede defeat in the election for president. I want to end my farewell to you with the heartfelt faith in Americans that I felt so powerfully that evening.
I feel it powerfully still.
Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.
Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you, and God bless America."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/john-mccain-farewell-statement/index.html
Donald Trump held an election rally to brag about himself while McCain was honored in his flag draped coffin at the capital. DISRESPECTFUL! UGLY!
"Trump ignores lessons from John McCain's life"
Stephen Collinson Updated 2:07 AM ET, Fri August 31, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/john-mccain-donald-trump-politics/index.html
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is in no mood to take lectures from John McCain and the weeklong national civics lesson the Arizona senator sketched with his own funeral rites.
On a day of poignant juxtaposition, McCain's flag draped coffin left his beloved home soil of Arizona for the last time Thursday after his friends eulogized a life embroidered with honor, self-sacrifice, American exceptionalism and the idea of serving a cause greater than oneself.
Leaving Washington to mourners, Trump flew west and unspooled the kind of brazen campaign trail performance -- tearing at the nation's political and cultural divides and bashing institutions such as the Justice Department -- that McCain planned his final goodbye to repudiate."
I.m with McCain and I hope my veteran friends are too, otherwise we do not honor McCain as he tries, in his death, to oppose what Trump is trying to do to America. McCain says our tribalism will hurt America, and Americans know this to be true. Trump continues to divide us. We must ignore Trump's tribal mantra.
""Where the hell did she come from?" Trump asked, as his supporters booed a lone protester escorted from the arena, before bashing "dishonest, terrible" people in the media and lambasting the "old and corrupt ruling class," of which America could be "ashamed."
Chants of "lock her up, lock her up," echoed through the arena, aimed at Hillary Clinton.
The split screen moment of Trump, the showman in his element on stage, and Washington grandees gathering to mourn McCain, exemplified competing strains between traditional establishment politics and grassroots insurgencies at radical wings of each party that may define the just-stirring 2020 presidential campaign.
With that in mind, it seems fitting that in the next stage of McCain's farewell, his coffin will rest Friday in the Capitol Rotunda on the catafalque that first bore the remains of Abraham Lincoln, the President who warned his nation that "a house divided against itself cannot stand.""
Tribalism is America's worst enemy, and racism, bigotry, and hate are the roots of our tribalism.
