Right-wing radio host rips Democrats, McCain apologizes for the spectacle

[Algorem]

Source: Plain Dealer

Posted by John Caniglia February 26, 2008 13:06PM
Categories: Breaking News, McCain, Obama, Presidential candidates, Republican Party

On the day the Democrats are set to slug it out in Cleveland, a conservative radio host fired some haymakers before an appearance by Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain.

In the GOP stronghold of Cincinnati, right-wing radio host Bill Cunningham whipped up a crowd of more than 300 supporters by using Barack Obama's middle name often, ripping Hillary Clinton as a first lady and referring to former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as an "ugly, old woman."...


When McCain took the stage, he spoke for 26 minutes to more than 300 supporters at the century-old Memorial Hall, hardly mentioning his likely opponents.

Afterward, he walked up to a crowd of reporters and apologized for Cunningham's words. He said he respects Clinton and Obama and called them "honorable Americans."..





Read more: http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/02/rightwing_radio_host_rips_demo.html

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gee,mccain didn't apologize til later,to reporters,not on stage

[DemzRock]

1. Can someone get a clip of his... let me look... n/t

[roguevalley]

32. note how he didn't tell the same thing to the idiots in the crowd.

[ElboRuum]

40. Why bother?

Those idiots wouldn't have cared one way or another had he done so.

[Deny and Shred]

39. Here's the link

http://www.wlwt.com/video/15415941/index.html

[Hepburn]

2. ........

.......:crazy: ........:wow:

[monmouth]

3. I just read that and give McCain props for his immediate response...n/t

[rodeodance]

7. yes.

[coalition_unwilling]

9. An "immediate response" would have been McCain speaking

out and condemning the remarks from the stage. Oh well, maybe it's me. Am I expecting too much from someone who holds himself up as a 'legitimiate American hero'. Based on what I've seen, he's only slightly less scummy than your average Repuke which ain't saying much.

[krkaufman]

31. exactly. It;'s like the newspaper correction on page 8...

... correcting some front page story from the previous week.

[joeybee12]

44. yeah, its called kissing up to the media, while making sure the audience

remembers what Cunningham said.

[djg21]

62. McCain wasn't there.

Maybe you should read the article before opining? McCain apparently showed up at the event only after Cunningham made his stupid remarks. According to media reports, McCain learned of the comments after he was done speaking.

I'm not a McCain fan, but fair is fair.

Cunningham is an abject moron. He spews his vitriol every Sunday night on his syndicated radio show. I thought Drudge and Rush were tools. This clown is far worse. Last week he was rambling on about the Farakhan endorsement. As if Obama has control over the public figures who state that they will be voting for him. Cunningham's comments are especially ironic, given that he is a fascist nazi f#@k, and he apparently endorses McCain. Given the choice, I'd think Farakhan's endorsement to be far less offensive than that of Cunningham.

[coalition_unwilling]

63. According to Mike Malloy on NovaM last night, it depends on

whom you ask as to whether McInsane learned before he spoke or only after.

If he learned afterword as you imply, if he's such a big hero, why didn't he get back up on the stage and denounce the remarks to those assembled? He wants to profit from RW racism while 'seeming' to repudiate it. Just like he wants to get in bed with lobbyists while 'seeming' to repudiate lobbyists.

Whatever

[TwilightGardener]

10. Is that sarcasm?

[notadmblnd]

11. immediate response?

If McCain really had been sincere, he would have called Cunningham on it as soon as he took the stage. Loudly! I understood the article to say that McCain waited till after his appearance. It gave me the impression that his statement was an after thought and that he is just covering his ass.

[Virginia Dare]

13. Right. Immediately AFTER he left the stage...

it was more of a dont. stop. don't. stop. DON'T STOP. moment. What a putz.

[StClone]

18. What response?

This is aimed at McCain not you monmouth.

McCain let Cunningham spill his reckless, baseless hypocritical bile -- why didn't McCain stop him as soon as Cunningham's spew was apparent!? Instead he whispered "sorry" to the press as an aside after the fact. He apologizes so he could say later, "I made a statement against Cunningham." Come on stop the crap before it starts and show real honesty and regard John!

[Parche]

4. we have heard it before

"(Obama) keeps talking about change, but when he's done, change is the only thing you'll have in your pocket."...

we have to fight them over there so we dont fight them here

war on terror

blah blah blah blah

we hear the same old phrases from the worn out GOP....:grr: :grr:
:hi:

[zbdent]

19. at least, with Obama, you'll have change in your pocket ...

with McCain, you're going to have to search you couch cushions to pay your electric bills ... along with recycling aluminum cans from the highway for change ...

[truthisfreedom]

5. "Portman didn't say why Republicans allowed Cunningham on stage."

Yeah, it would be a tough guess, huh? Lessee... Rove?

[peaches2003]

64. Portman is the one who invited to speak

This rw pig is in Portman's district (a former Congressman) and he of course knew exactly what he would do and say. They all are a bunch of racists.

[ReformedChris]

6. Cunningham is in the Hannity Camp of RW Talk Losers...Hannity brings up the middle name also.

Prety Disgusting tactics to bring this kind of thing up constantly. The RW talk radio hosts are going to have to work very hard to discredit and bash Obama, this is just a sneak peak. Who gives a rats ass what a man's middle name is? As log as its not Geroge Herbert Walker or George Walker it should never make a difference.

[Judi Lynn]

8. He's about what you'd expect for a hate show host!

My Space page for this genius:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=94841086

The Cincinnati Enquirer's survey concluded this mottled expanse of skin should be the first to go in Cincinnati:

http://citybeat.com/archives/1996/issue216/cover1.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. Cunningham paints his hair with Rust-Oleum BBQ black?

Nice 'do, for a hate filled scumbag.

[Pastiche423]

35. A sixty year old man has

Bad to the Bone as his myspace song?

[mwb970]

45. He looks like Jim Bakker. /nt

[WillieDee]

53. the pics don't do him justice

That little shit Cunningham is only about 5 feet tall.

[fascisthunter]

12. Typical Simpleton Meathead Rhetoric

Reading statements like this by Republicans reminds me of high school.

[TwilightGardener]

14. I said this on a related thread, but don't fall for this: This is good cop/bad cop BS, and

you'll see a lot more of it: Get surrogates to spew stupid smears against Democrats, and then McCain gets good press (and idiot DUers who applaud him) for appearing to stick up for their honor--all meant to smear Dems while burnishing his image as a nice Dem-defending maverick.

[AlinPA]

15. Give McCain a few months, he will be using Obama's middle name every day.

Fear, Fear, terra, terra. Saying 'murca is at war with Islam, etc....

[hasssan1]

34. off course , McLame put this motherfucker into it

[Vinca]

16. It might have been appropriate to tell the radio host and the 300

supporters that he won't tolerate this stuff, but of course this is the same guy who said Chelsea Clinton was ugly.

[goodgd_yall]

24. Yes, that would have been the honorable thing to do

Apologizing to a group of reporters is next to nothing.

[chknltl]

17. Dipping a toe in the waters of civility?

He'll pull it back out soon enough. That scrappy old bird will do exactly what he is told to do by bush's handlers..."nice" or even "fake-nice" is not in their playbooks.
:patriot:

[TwilightGardener]

20. No--this is a set-up. The GOP and McCain will do this again, I guarantee it.

[AlinPA]

21. It's their mode of running campaigns. Spread filth, apologize.

[TwilightGardener]

22. Right--the apology makes everyone go "Aww, he's so nice!"--meanwhile, the shit is spread.

[BadgerKid]

26. Like good cop/bad cop. n/t

[chknltl]

30. So they have adopted "fake-nice" into their playbook....

hmmm that IS bad! I predict that this will change as mCcain falls behind the Democratic nominee. We have already seen this happen between our two candidates. The strategy is "pull off the gloves" when you are behind and possibly at risk of losing the game. I predict that the mCcain handlers won't wait to get too far behind before doing just that. Americans are turning out to vote for Democrats at over 2 to 1 right now, worse yet for Senator mCcain, he hitches his wagon to bush's 19% popularity! No we won't wait long for the death spiral at all. First it will be attacks by groups "unassociated" with the mCcain campaign, when that fails it will be Senator mCcain himself up there slinging mud.

I predicted earlier that Senator Obama would continue to be blessed by a 'surge' of voters which would continue beyond the time that Senator Clinton drops out. That "populism surge" will be with him through his campaign against Senator mCcain. Senator Obama supporters, (read: We The People") are so fed up with business as usual, that every time Senator mCcain slings mud it will be perceived as MORE business as usual. That mud slinging by Senator mCcain will strengthen Senator Obama and have only the effect of widening the margin between them. I predicted that barring unforeseen tragedy, Senator Obama will gain the White House in a landslide that will shock the pundits. We The People will send this CLEAR mandate with Senator Obama: WE THE PEOPLE ARE SICK OF BUSINESS AS USUAL! GIVE US THAT PROMISED CHANGE!

This is why I fight here and elsewhere to bring civility to we forum users. The more support we can throw behind Senator Obama, (not yet but soon, Senator Clinton is still very much in it), the louder that mandate will be. I want to insure that Senator Obama hears it as well. I don't want there to be any doubts as to what We The People want...no more of this taking stuff off the table. This time it needs to be We The People who mean business! This may be our last chance to save American democracy from the emerging aristocracy. We The People have little interest in becoming peasants, we are feeling that pinch harder each day and we know who is doing the pinching. There is no getting around that factoid for Senator mCcain. He will try to blame it on everything under the sun including the Democrats but he will fail to convince anyone but the most drowned kool-aid drinkers. Mark my words: LANDSLIDE!

[LibDemAlways]

23. A decent human being would have come out and

denounced those comments from the stage and given Cunningham the verbal ass kicking he so richly deserves.

McCain wants it both ways - red meat to fire up the repuke crowd and an insincere apology afterwards directed toward the press so they'll remind the masses what a fine, upstanding guy he is.

McCain's a turd.

[goodgd_yall]

25. Exactly. n/t

[phantom power]

28. This is how the game is always played. It's what hate radio is for.

The GOP always lets the RW hate radio jocks do their dirty work for them. Then they "apologize" later, so the MSM can call them gentlemen.

It's a food-chain. An ecology. Everybody has their niche in the system.

[Mike Daniels]

29. So in the middle of a Republican stronghold McCain pulls something over just 300?

If that's the best the Rep candidate can do in a Republican stronghold I think they're in for a hell of a fight this year.

[Barrett808]

33. Word. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

36. Ahh...it's the old "Insane Cop, Liar Cop" ploy.

[against all enemies]

37. "Cheney, Bush and now McCain - All you get is more of the same."

I would like to thank that right wing asshole for mentioning Bush and Cheney at the McCain rally. Really lets people know the whole story.

[Deny and Shred]

38. Video link. This guy is...well.

http://www.wlwt.com/video/15415941/index.html

Michael Du-cockeye, really. That's the best he can do?

[still_one]

41. If it bothered him so much, why did he speak for 26 minutes?

frickn' disingenuous SOB

[hadrons]

42. 300 supporters

300 supporters
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Really drawing them in, huh Johnny

[progressoid]

46. Hey, it's Cincinnati

That's not a very big town to begin with. :eyes:

[Kukesa]

47. Big enough to have 13,000 Obama supporters

at his rally yesterday.

McCain's event drew 300.

[progressoid]

48. Yeah, I know. I have some family there.

They might have been at his rally (Obama that is).

[yellowcanine]

43. I give McCain credit for the apology. But why did his campaign give this yahoo a platform and a

mike? Surely they knew he was a loose cannon? If McCain is serious at least one head will roll.

[AngryOldDem]

51. You have to understand Bill Cunningham has a wide following in Cincinnati

He is a very right-wing midday talk show host on a very right-wing radio station in a very right-wing city. They knew what they were getting when they had him do the warm up.

He's stuck his foot in his mouth before, mainly about racial issues in city.

[TankLV]

54. At least mcinsane apologized - unlike obama on mcglurkin - we're STILL WAITING...

my my my - all the obamabots are all "too little too late", and "he let him on anyway and then he apologizes off stage", etc. etc. - JUST LIKE WE ALL ARE SAYING ABOUT OBAMA!

but you guys will NEVER recognize YOURSELVES in this - EVER - will ya?!!!

ha!...

at least mcinsane has CLASS - can't say the same about obama...

[TankLV]

55. deleted duplicate post - du is slow tonite...

[TankLV]

56. deleted duplicate post - du is slow tonite...

[jayfish]

61. No Credit What-so-ever.

If he really had a problem McCain should have repudiated Cunningham as soon as he took the mic. Instead he waited until after the event to do so. Total BS.

Jay

[depakid]

49. Good cop/bad cop

Expect to see a lot more of this in the next 7 months.

[Pogue.Mahone]

50. Just saw a clip on CNN...

i am so frigging tired of reich-wingers calling obama, "barack HUSSEIN" like he was named after saddam hussein!!! but mccain was pretty vociferous in his apology and obama was extremely classy in his comments!

[hatrack]

52. Did he apologize "if anyone was offended"?

That's pretty much the standard non-apology apology these days, isn't it?

:puke: on McSlime.

[Doctor_J]

57. Our candidate's ads should feature lots of hate radio insanity

and make sure that everyone knows "psychos like this vote republikkkon"

[Doctor_J]

58. Our candidate's ads should feature lots of hate radio insanity

and make sure that everyone knows "psychos like this vote republikkkon"

[rocktivity]

59. He apologizes to the reporters but not the audience?

BFD.

:boring:
rocknation

[Supersedeas]

60. Repigs showing the true colors of their filth