Jake Tapper Rips Retired Gen. Tom McInerney For Insulting John McCain

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Jake Tapper Rips Retired Gen. Tom McInerney For Insulting John McCain
“No one calls him ‘Songbird John’ except for crazy people and jerks — and I’m using my language carefully here,” Tapper said.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tapper-rips-jerks-insulting-mccain_us_5af4c9bce4b00d7e4c18dcc0



CNN’s Jake Tapper blasted retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney on Thursday for implying that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had broken under torture while he was a prisoner of war.

During an appearance on the Fox Business Network earlier Thursday, McInerney had told host Charles Payne that torture works, then claimed it was effective on McCain while he was a POW for five years in Vietnam. “That’s why they call him ‘Songbird John,’” McInerney said.

There’s no evidence that McCain ― who is currently at his home in Arizona battling brain cancer ― ever betrayed his country in captivity.

An angry Tapper defended the veteran senator: “First of all, no one calls him ‘Songbird John’ except for crazy people and jerks — and I’m using my language carefully here.”

CNN political analyst Jeffrey Toobin called McInerney’s comments “sickening and disgusting.” .................

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[Girard442]

1. Appalling to see how gleefully they toss one of their own into the woodchipper.

[lkinwi]

2. I'm guessing that the plan was to get the name out there for the deplorables to use on social media.