CNN / YouTube 27 Aug 20181,362 Former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu triggered CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Monday by pointing out her continual attempts to steer a conversation about John McCain’s death toward attacks on President Donald Trump. Camerota, during a New Day segment led by the chyron “Remembering John McCain,” repeatedly requested Sununu’s comment on reports — based on anonymous sources from CNN and the Washington Post — that the White House had rejected a proposal to release a statement regarding “John McCain’s service and sacrifice.” Sununu charged Camerota with playing “political games” to “exploit” allegations related to McCain’s death. He chided the anchor for pushing this narrative instead of just letting him pay tribute to his dead friend. Partial transcript below [emphases added]. CAMEROTA: So governor, what do you think about President Trump rejecting the practice of putting out an official White House statement about John McCain’s service and sacrifice? SUNUNU: Look, that was printed in the Washington Post, and I have to be honest with you, I don’t put much credence to what I read in thePost. CAMEROTA: We also have that reporting. SUNUNU: Yeah, well. Same thing applies, Alisyn. CAMEROTA: Governor, you come on CNN and we appreciate you coming on CNN and we appreciate your take on it, but I don’t appreciate you denigrating our reporting. I think that you know we have excellent reporters here, but are you saying that you don’t want to believe that? You don’t want to believe that President Trump would do that about John McCain? SUNUNU: I’m saying that I don’t want to comment on a report that I haven’t satisfied myself is correct. CAMEROTA: And if that report were true? SUNUNU: I’m not going to answer the hypothetical. CAMEROTA: It’s not a hypothetical. This is our reporting. We have rock-solid sources in the White House. … SUNUNU: I think this effort to create a cleavage between the White House and those that are mourning John McCain really does disturb me. It is this effort by the press to accentuate the negative that I think have created the climate that prevents, in the long term, the bipartisanship that John McCain supported. I don’t want to be a part of rubbing whatever salt there in whatever wound there may be, because I think that just adds to the division. I’m here because I lost a good friend. I wanted to express my concern about that. … I’m not here to play the political games that some in the press want to play at this moment… of great sorrow for the country. CAMEROTA: To be clear, we don’t see it as a game. … SUNUNU: I’m here to talk about my friend, John McCain. You appear to be here to talk about something that you think you can exploit, and I find that rather unpleasant
In the end whether you like McCain, or hate him, he served the country, and he is worthy of respect. I just hate how the left wing media is "USING" him now.
Everything is about the 'left', the 'media', 'SJWs'. Whining 24x7. Why won't google show me in a better light, must be left's fault.
It would make no difference how he voted. Those circumstances DO NOT make him a hero. He would only be a hero to the extent he endured anything different as a result of not disclosing any information with which the Viets could shoot down any other pilots. We simply don't know whether he disclosed anything like that or not. If he is a hero for the reasons you mention, then every pilot in every war is a hero.
Good for Trump. Keep bashing Trump and everybody over the head with your dead hero, in hopes of getting an aircraft carrier named after him. If that doesn't work keep blowing up his fake legacy. If that doesn't work, go out to the streets with your black masks on to get justice for McCain.
Sarah Palin, his V.P. running mate, was not invited to his funeral according to People magazine and The Hill. That inaction seems to sum up the persona of this man in a nutshell. I think its perfect. Here is a little background https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/politics/sarah-palin-john-mccain-2008-running-mate/index.html Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin admitted Friday that it hurt "a bit" to hear Sen. John McCain say he wished he picked Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate in 2008. "I don't lie, so I'll tell you -- a bit. You know, I think I described it earlier as a gut punch," Palin told NBC News in an interview Friday. "But again, I'm going to choose to look back on the good times that we did have together." In his forthcoming memoir, "The Restless Wave," and in a separate documentary, the Arizona Republican said he regrets not choosing Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent senator, calling it "another mistake that I made," The New York Times reported. Palin, the former Alaska GOP governor, was ultimately on the 2008 ticket with McCain.
Sarah Palin would have been better off had she not run as VP on the John McCain team. For one, McCain campaign operatives demonized her and made her appear dumb because they cannot accept that Sarah Palin was outshining John McCain in the campaign rallies. They made her wear those designer clothes even if she did not ask for it and then, made it seem that she asked for them! If Sarah Palin was not the VP choice, a lot of conservatives would not have voted for John McCain. I did not vote for John McCain because he was a very bad candidate!
She’s trash, he was desperate, he admitted his mistake. Get over it and quit being so petty. Trump should give Pence the boot and put her on the ticket.. throw some real gasoline on this tire fire.
For sure. He picked a dummy for a running mate and got destroyed by Obama in the election. He firewalled Trumpy. Essentially, he was the Liberal Senator from Arizona.