As a full time blogger (read: unemployed and uninsured, so going out into the real world poses a threat to my health. I could get hurt!), it is my responsibility to creep around the internet at 4 a.m. looking for inspiration.
I stumbled across a video about silly, ornery, old John McCain. Apparently, he called his wife a c-c-c-c-c-cunt. I have trouble even typing it. Did Cindy McCain do something so terrible? Nope. She jokingly told him that he was balding. Um, hello, J? When you’re 300 years old, you’re bound to bald. Here is what he said to her:
“At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.”
Wowie! So we know how he really feels. John and Cindy 4eva! I don’t particularly like Cindy McCain, but I would never call her that. I would call her a Stepford Wife, recipe-stealing, identity-stealing recovering drug addict, home-wrecking other woman, but never a cunt. That is NEVER okay. His excuse? He was tired. Um, fine. But as Wonkette pointed out, he’s going to be tired a lot if he becomes president.
The only time I have ever not been offended at all by the word was with James McAvoy and the infamous typewriter scene in Atonement. (Which incidentally, led to the infamous library scene. Rawr!) And even then, as he was typing, my mind kept wondering…Is he really going to type that? Looks like it, but they wouldn’t…oh no! OH MY GOD. HE DID! And for the record-James McAvoy, you can call me anything you’d like.
But I digress.
Barack gets called out for calling a reporter “sweetie”, which, he admits, is a bad habit. At least it’s a casual term of endearment. But nobody calls McCain out for being a complete cotton-headed-ninny-muggins (the worst insult among Santa’s elves, duh) to his wife. Why? I think this video does a really good job at explaining it:
What are your thoughts, you cunts? Did I say that? It’s late, I must be tired.
[Posted by Kathleen]
11 Comments
June 19, 2008 at 3:07 pm
[...] I told her a little about the McCunt post, and the hilarious video to go along with it, and she laughed and said she wanted to read the [...]
June 23, 2008 at 4:35 pm
[...] But come on, NYT, this is George Carlin we’re talking about. George Carlin, who is known for his completely down to earth standup about drugs and bad words. His “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” was about anything but SAT words. One of the words, by the way, is cunt–John McCain knows that one! [...]
June 23, 2008 at 4:53 pm
um Kathleen, can we get married? I didn’t laugh out loud while reading this post. No, something beyond LOLing happened. (Ew, LOLing is a dirty word.) But um, my heart is glowing and I’m perspiring at work. Sweat on nose. Ju hysterical ya big cunt!
ps: are you really unemployed? what does your mom think of blogging? my mom HATES it. you’d think i had become an indonesian sex slave or something that’s how upset she is. Perhaps this should not be a blog response, but a private email.
When does one cross the line?
pps: Elf shout-out=brilliance.
July 6, 2008 at 6:18 pm
[...] New York Times had a piece today about John McCain that I loved. In fact, the title was a six word memoir, and if I had no journalistic integrity, I [...]
July 10, 2008 at 9:47 pm
[...] violence? The McCain that is wrong about women’s health issues. And finally, the McCain that called his wife a cunt? Haha, I LOVE to bring that one up. Small differences (like in the case of jilted Hillary voters, a [...]
July 15, 2008 at 11:06 pm
[...] knew that John McCain once called his wife a cunt and likes to hang out with people who say inappropriate things about rape, but looks like our [...]
July 25, 2008 at 5:19 pm
[...] articleabout McCain’s off-color humor (which we’ve discussed a lot at SWTCTW…here and here and here). Here’s an excerpt: McCain’s humor, by contrast, makes him the [...]
August 19, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Who said I was, you nut?
August 22, 2008 at 4:34 pm
[...] was that, buddy? You don’t know how many houses you and Cindy own? Well that can’t be good. Now I’m not good at math, but I’m pretty sure I can [...]
September 4, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Well I hate to admit it but John McCain has been right about one thing. Cindy really is a cunt!
“She was raised as the only child of her parents’ second marriages and grew up in affluent circumstances. (Dixie L. Burd, who is the daughter of Marguerite Smith through a prior relationship, is her half-sister, as is Kathleen Hensely Portalski, daughter of Jim Hensley and his first wife, Mary Jeanne Parks. Cindy McCain considers herself to be an only child and does not acknowledge that she has siblings.”
Wow real family values there, lets just pretend they don’t exist!! Great idea Cindy.
October 8, 2008 at 6:03 am
[...] with “that one”? Or perhaps he’d like to use another one of his favorite words, cunt. He makes me so [...]