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Fox News analyst criticizes Trump over condolences tweet that avoided praising McCain
The Hill ^ | 08/26/18 | Avery Anapol

Posted on 08/26/2018 3:31:39 PM PDT by lionstar

ox News analyst Brit Hume took a swipe at President Trump over his tweet offering condolences to the family of GOP Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who died Saturday at the age of 81.

Hume pointed out that Trump’s tweet avoided praising McCain himself, setting it vastly apart from the dozens of tributes to the late senator posted by lawmakers from both parties.

“My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain,” Trump tweeted Saturday after the announcement of McCain’s death. “Our hearts and prayers are with you!”

“Still not a kind word about McCain himself,” Hume replied.

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To: originalbuckeye

You know what is happening to Fox News Channel at this very moment. They are losing thousands of viewers with every passing minute.

The American people are getting a good dose of what their lives will be if the Democrat Party ever gets full control of the U.S. Federal Government. Orwell, “1984” with Big Brother watching, spying, reporting on all Americans, that do not toe the Democrat Socialist line.

Fact is: John McCain was a very flawed human being, a hater, jealous, envious, cold hearted, no class, misfit bully.

Yes McCain had his good moments...but they were rare at best. Now if the media had presented mcCain as he really was we, would have seen and viewed the good and the bad...period. As it is what we got delivered over the TV was a cranked up Fairy tale told to us by the deep swamp establishment...SAD!!!


41 posted on 08/26/2018 3:46:17 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Let’s start the rumor. 😁
42 posted on 08/26/2018 3:46:39 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: lionstar

People aren’t used to an honest president that tells it like it is.


43 posted on 08/26/2018 3:46:58 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: euram

you are correct.

Had President Trump praised John McCain - his remarks would have been jumped on by the MSM as ‘hypocritical’.

Trump had the right approach. He did not draw attention to the bad blood with McCain or use it as an opportunity to talk about himself - unlike Hillary Clinton who mentioned her drinking buddy John McCain. I’m sure his children appreciated that/s)!!!


44 posted on 08/26/2018 3:47:02 PM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: lionstar
It's OK to not speak ill of the dead. (But I don't do it. McCain was a horse's ass).

But the fact that he is dead doesn't earn him any undeserved praise that he did not deserve in life.

45 posted on 08/26/2018 3:47:16 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: lionstar

24 hour “news” channels and the people that populate them are nauseating.


46 posted on 08/26/2018 3:47:25 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: lionstar
Also, let's not forget, McCain (or was it the family?) made the announcement he didn't want Trump at his funeral. And Trump is supposed to start praising McCain?

Britt Hume is just using McCain's death to get his name in the news and to attack Trump. And that is sick!

47 posted on 08/26/2018 3:47:30 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: lionstar

Just wait until gigolo Jon Cary croaks.


48 posted on 08/26/2018 3:48:34 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: lionstar

If Trump praised McCain, they would have criticized him for being a hypocrite.

McCain said he doesn’t want Trump at his funeral. McCain is the guy who sent his staffer to London to pick up the dossier and then McCain passed it to Comey. And McCain gave his famous thumbs-down preventing the repeal of Obamacare. This after campaigning that he would repeal it.

Trump doesn’t play swamp games.


49 posted on 08/26/2018 3:49:10 PM PDT by kabar
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To: lionstar
The rinos and NeverTrumpers are on the same page as the hollywierd 'elite'--Using mcstain's death to bash Trump

Celebs Trash Trump in Response to John McCain’s Death: ‘F*ck You’[Breitbart]


50 posted on 08/26/2018 3:49:29 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: lionstar

He could have said “the son-of-a-bitch was no good.” I commend his restraint.


51 posted on 08/26/2018 3:49:49 PM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: sodpoodle

She might have won the election....but she spent to much time drinking..


52 posted on 08/26/2018 3:52:25 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: lionstar

Brit Hume being a jerk.

If you know the history between McCain and Trump you’ll know exactly why Trump has no words of praise.

McCain was an actual Democrat in a Republican seat. He was not a peacemaker, he was not a compromiser, he was not a maverick. He was a traitor who worked for the left.

He hated people like me, and the feeling was mutual.

I hope Lyin Johnny made peace with God and found salvation through Jesus Christ.

I think President Trump was quite kind and classy in this situation.

Brit Hume can go fornicate himself.


53 posted on 08/26/2018 3:53:35 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: lionstar

McCain was a scumbag so everybody who has their lips on his deceased a** are in that bag.


54 posted on 08/26/2018 3:54:36 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: lionstar

I thought Trump’s tweet was spot on. No phony crocodile tears but stating his prayers to the family.

I think McCain, though flawed, was a good man and father. But he was not a friend to conservatives and as a politician, he stabbed conservatives in the back all the time and seemed to enjoy it.


55 posted on 08/26/2018 3:54:41 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: miss marmelstein

Songbird died yesterday, so I don’t feel the need to hold my tongue (keyboard) and be polite. McCain was a petty jerk and helped destroy this country by getting Obama elected and turning the Democrat party over to Soros thanks to McCain/Feingold. George Soros was able to buy the Democratic party relatively cheap becaue of the limitation on contributions from that bill.


56 posted on 08/26/2018 3:55:27 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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To: lionstar

Yea, well just wait and see when MSM discovers that NONAME was implicated in all of this treasonous dossier collusion. I can see the news headlines “Trump praises Traitor!”


57 posted on 08/26/2018 3:55:47 PM PDT by klimeckg
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To: lionstar

Guys. let this blow over.

Brit whined a bit. It’ll happen. McCain is the victim of the moment by the eeevil Trump.

Nobody in middle America is buying that crap, whether it is spewed by the DNC or Brit Hume or the Hill.

Water off a duck’s back.

Let’s focus on MAGA. :)


58 posted on 08/26/2018 3:55:50 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: miss marmelstein

Not to mention the reports that he didn’t want Trump there (and those are proving to be correct)

Oh yeah, and then there’s that Keating Five thingie

And his singing like a canary @ the Hilton

John McCain was a spoiled b****** who always sought refuge behind Daddy’s and Grandaddy’s reputations and behind a biased a** media.

Along with his Butt Bois like Linda and Chuckie and Bushie (all of them)

Praise? GMAFB


59 posted on 08/26/2018 3:56:03 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: miss marmelstein

I thought Pres Trump’s words were polite and proper without being dishonest-after all, he could have imitated Marc Antony instead...

“Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me your ears-I come not to praise Caesar but to bury him”...


60 posted on 08/26/2018 3:57:57 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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