Print This Post Print This Post

Jun

27

Reason who knows what # for women to reject McCain: jokes about beating wives


Can’t make this up. And, just to emphasize the underlying sickness going on here and idea of jokes that are acceptable when dealing with alleged philanderers (John McCain and Nevade Governor Jim Gibbons), I wrote about Gibbons’ troubles in 2006. According to ABC reporter Jake Tapper’s blog post here, Gibbons is now divorcing his wife.

Here is the transcript of the interview during which McCain makes the joke (so you can see it in context). Here’s Tapper’s piece in entirety (sorry, Jake) because your really can’t get it any other way:

In an interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was asked by columnist Jon Ralston why he didn’t choose Gov. Jim Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign.

“I appreciate his support,” McCain said. “As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman.”

Why snub the governor? Ralston asked.

“I didn’t mean to snub him,. I’ve known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we’ve been good friends,” McCain said. “I didn’t intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman.”

Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded.

Said McCain, chuckling, “And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago.”

Some have found the subject of McCain’s joke — wife-beating — inappropriate.

To be clear, McCain was alluding to the fictitious leading question “When did you stop beating your wife, senator?” It’s a bit of distasteful DC yuckery so commonly quoted it’s hackneyed.

But considering the subject McCain was discussing at the time, to allude to that joke was, well, …..awkward!

Gov. Gibbons last month filed for divorce from his wife Dawn citing incompatiblity.

It’s pretty scandalous. The Reno Gazette-Journal recently reported
that one month Gibbons sent 860 text messages to a woman with whome Mrs. Gibbons suspects her husband of stepping out.

Gibbons you may recall started his governorship amidst accusations that he assaulted a cocktail waitress named Chrissy Mazzeo three weeks before Election Day. Mazzeo said Gibbons grabbed her in a parking garage and threatened to sexually assault her. Charges were never filed.

Hillary Supporters Count Too – you still going for McCain?

Bookmark and Share

By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:39 am June 27th, 2008 in John McCain 

Comments

Comments are closed.

"));