.@adamjohnsonNYC on how @washingtonpost's hagiography of McCain reveals US media's loyalty to Nat Sec establishmenthttp://fair.org/home/wapo-worships-principled-humanitarian-mccain-thats-never-existed/ …
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@pblest: "the sum total of his career was harmful to the country and the larger world around it. ... [McCain] was a willing and active participant in the destruction of one country and helping the racist, authoritarian right rise in his own."https://splinternews.com/the-myth-of-john-mccain-1828587230 …Show this thread -
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@dougthompson, August 2008: “A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know”https://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/10086Show this thread -
War-profiteers praising a war-monger, who’d have thoughthttps://twitter.com/lockheedmartin/status/1033717876723732480?s=21 …
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“While McCain’s Senate office functioned as a clubhouse for arms industry lobbyists and neocon operatives, his fascistic allies waged a campaign of human devastation that will continue until long after the flowers dry up on his grave.”https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1034121449064345601?s=21 …
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@mehdirhasan,@medeabenjamin and@normansolomon discuss McCain’s legacy: “the actual differences there when it comes to the mass-murderous foreign policy between a Trump and a McCain, not that much”https://www.democracynow.org/2018/8/27/obit_omit_what_the_media_leaves …Show this thread -
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@patblanchfield is the definitive John McCain obituary: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-mccain-phenomenon-blanchfield …pic.twitter.com/VsEiskqMyV
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Very insightful thread on McCain’s (very bad) climate politics — and what it tells us about him and the media coverage of himhttps://twitter.com/drvox/status/1034132463289683970?s=21 …
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“For many of us ... John McCain will be remembered as a violent man who frequently ... [demanded] more war against defenseless populations”https://twitter.com/raniakhalek/status/1034488414538752005?s=21 …
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@MarkAmesExiled and@AriBerman, from October 2008: “The story of how McCain’s closest aides and employees have been undermining his vociferously expressed opposition to Putin and Russia’s oligarchs”https://www.thenation.com/article/mccains-kremlin-ties/ …Show this thread -
A very fitting tribute to McCain, courtesy of
@CHAPOTRAPHOUSEhttps://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-240-the-shittalk-express-82718 …Show this thread -
“he did have one unshakeable conviction: Wherever America had a foreign policy problem, the solution was always to bomb the fuck out of someone. ... he was the torchbearer for the purest bipartisan value that exists in Washington: military interventionism”https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1034451545763586048?s=21 …
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@BenjaminNorton: “For the header image on [an op-ed praising McCain’s supposed human rights commitment], the Washington Post used a photo of McCain speaking next to the notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok.” https://fair.org/home/john-mccain-human-rights-ukrainian-nazi-photo-washington-post/ …pic.twitter.com/2T3sFOv9r3
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