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Anyone who even paid a little attention to last year’s campaign will remember the image of John McCain, Republican candidate for President, and the fact that Lindsey Graham was always standing attentively beside him.
Lindsey Graham was always there to assist McCain in walking down the stairs, or to whisper a correction to John McCain when he was having a “senior moment”. This, as you may have guessed is because Lindsey Graham idolizes John McCain.
When Glenn Beck told Katie Couric that John McCain would have been a worse President than Barack Obama, you can imagine that Lindsey Graham’s shorts were thoroughly frosted. Lindsey would not have taken these words about McCain lightly. However, Graham did not have to wait long for his chance at revenge. When asked about Glenn Beck, Graham replied:
“Only in America can you make that much money crying,” Graham said of Beck. “Glenn Beck is not aligned with any party. He is aligned with cynicism and there has always been a market for cynics. But we became a great nation not because we are a nation of cynics. We became a great nation because we are a nation of believers.”
Appearing before a crowd of Washington’s elite power players and opinion-makers, Graham spoke largely without filter, offering acidic takes on subjects well beyond Beck. The Senator called the birther community that questions the president’s U.S. citizenship “crazy” and implored them to “knock this crap off” so the country could get on to more important matters.
“I’m here to tell you that those who think the president was not born in Hawaii are crazy,” said Graham, who went on to dispel another myth: that Obama is a closet Muslim.
Speaking before The Atlantic’s First Draft of History conference, Graham also ventured to call “crazy” a recent article on Newsmax, laying out how a military coup could overtake the Obama administration.
Reflecting comments made earlier in the day by his colleague and close friend, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Graham said he was deeply worried about “the passions of cable TV” whipping up the emotions of the public. “If you get rewarded for being a jerk you are going to keep doing it,” he said, before labeling “Talk radio, MoveOn.org, and the 24-hour news cycle” as the main culprits in polarizing the nation.
“Can you imagine doing D-Day with cable television?” he asked. “Can you imagine writing the Constitution — you know, O’Reilly says Ben Franklin’s giving in on something. Can you imagine having to do that in this environment?”
Sen. Graham Calls Beck ‘A Cynic’ And Birthers ‘Crazy’.
Ahhh… Lindsey Graham speaking the truth is, as John McCain would say, a “freath of bresh” air.
Lindsey Graham admitted on Fox News that the reason he was critical of Glenn Beck is that Beck had trashed John McCain:
You can listen to him if like,” Graham added. “I choose not to because quite frankly I don’t want to go down the road of thinking our best days are behind us. We need to act decisively. People are generally upset with how much money we are being spending up here. But at the end of the day when a person says he represents conservatism and that the country is better off with Barack Obama than John McCain, that sort of ends the debate for me as to how much more I’m going to listen. So, he has the right to say what he wants to say. In my view it is not the kind of political analysis that I buy into.”
Lindsey Graham takes another swipe at Glenn Beck
Of course, we knew that anyway, but it was good to see how predictable Graham is in working to protect the honor of his BFF, John McCain. Maybe they should get a room…
