Past McCain Rape Joke Comes To Light!

[slinkerwink]

There's a report that's all over Crooks and Liars, Jed Report, Wonkette, Think Progress, America Blog, and Feministe, about a past rape joke that McCain made that's come to light. You can read the newspaper where it quotes Senator John McCain making a heinous rape joke below:

Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’

This disgusting rape joke made it to the pages of the Tucson Citizen on October 27, 1986.

Let me repeat it here---rape isn't funny.

[slinkerwink]

1. and women still vote for this creep?

[Danger Mouse]

2. So let's see where we stand with John McCain's attitude towards women.

His wife is injured in a car wreck, puts on weight, but waits for him faithfully for years while he is a POW. Soon after he returns, he drops her like yesterday's garbage for a younger, richer woman.
He calls his current wife a 'cunt' for making a playful comment about his hair thinning.
He's against choice and has a terrible voting record on women's issues.
And now this.
How could ANY woman justify voting for this sexist sack of shit?

[snowbear]

3. I say that the New Yorker immediately draw up their next cover!

...

[NC_Nurse]

4. WOW. That is really horrible. It's hard to believe any politician would tell it...

so blatantly misogynistic and vile.

[ErinBerin84]

5. but this is why people LOVE John McCain, right Chuck Todd?

[slinkerwink]

11. John McCain is the asshole quarterback of this campaign

the one everyone wants to like, but just can't.

[ErinBerin84]

12. there's a reason why his highschool nick name was McNasty

[Alexander]

6. How do the PUMA freaks support this guy?

I mean, I know they are liars, idiots and secretly Republicans, but still....

[snowbear]

7. You just answered your own question. They are liars, idiots, & Republicans.

And everyone is on to the bogus group.

[glitch]

8. Ew. God what a loathsome creep. Out of curiousity, are there ANY Republicans that aren't?

Current ones, no fair citing dead ones. Or ex-republicans.

[Olney Blue]

9. Not funny.

[Raster]

10. The only fucking idiot that would find a rape joke funny is someone that has not been raped.

Rape is an act of violent control. There is nothing sexual about rape, except for utilizing the sexual organs to perpetuate it. Irregardless of man on woman or man on man, rape is a vicious, sadistic act. And frankly, I like the idea of castration with a rusty knife as punishment.

[Muttocracy]

13. I'm glad I don't even get that as a joke. nt

[Political Heretic]

15. Well... you have to really "want it" ..to get it.

Squint and ignore your inner "no...surely not" voice and then you'll get it. :(

[Muttocracy]

14. on Huff Post too - they have multiple links with him with head to forehead

and other examples of his poor sense of humor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/15/sources-recall-mccains-jo_n_112955.html

[Political Heretic]

16. I wish this was one of those things that would instantly END a persons political career.

It's that bad. But no of course not.

The media Mc-suck-a-thon will continue

[slinkerwink]

17. they just absolutely love him.

[Youphemism]

18. I didn't realize McCain beat The Fugitive (Richard Kimball) in '86...

I mean, it's one thing to tell a joke about a woman being beaten and raped by a gorilla -- it's another to do that and win against a guy who's been wrongly accused of killing his wife.

Wow.

Oh, and as long as McCain is trying to win Florida, someone should also highlight the last part of that article that quotes him referring to the Leisure World Retirement Community as "Seizure World."

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Well, here's an old joke he can dust off for the Republican National Convention

He'll have the psychopaths rolling in the aisles at this true comedic gem. Maybe Bush can stand next to him and make monkey sounds while he tells it.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

20. He is one nasty piece of work.

[Duder]

21. McCain's like from planet of the apes

Sick joke.