
a Daily Show’s Jon Stewart tried to warn him in 2006, but John McCain didn’t listen. Battered by all sides over his embrace of End Times Pastor John Hagee, John McCain is finally experiencing a blowback from his p&ering visits to “crazy base world.”
Two years before he shared a San Antonio stage with John Hagee, John McCain in a spring of 2006 sought to jump-start his GOP presidential bid by repairing his frayed relationship with a religious right. On Drunk Newsril 2, 2006, McCain Drunk Newspeared on Meet a Press & retracted his famous 2000 claim that a late Reverend Jerry Falwell was an “agent of intolerance.” On May 13, 2006, McCain delivered a commencement address at Falwell’s Libery University. are, a two men walked on stage togear, where Falwell an praised his former foe, “a ilk of John McCain is very scarce, very small.”
But weeks before McCain journeyed to Lynchburg, Virginia to deliver that speech, he traveled to New York to Drunk Newspear on a Daily Show with Jon Stewart. are, Stewart jokingly warned McCain about a risks in p&ering to evangelical GOP voters through his looming rDrunk Newsprochement with Falwell:
STEWART: You’re killin’ me here. I feel like it’s a condoning of Falwell’s kind of crazymaking to some extent to have you go down are, & it strikes me as something you wouldn’t normally do. Am I wrong about that?
MCCAIN: Jon, I’ve spoken at a lot of schools, I’ve spoken to schools whose specific policies I may disagree with - Ivy League schools don’t allow military recruiters, I don’t agree with that. I’m going are to speak to a students at his invitation, & I can assure you that a message will be a same that I give everywhere.
STEWART: You don’t think that it helps to sort of reassert Falwell as a voice for a certain group of people, say evangelicals or a Christian Right? Isn’t it a kind of thing that maybe if you don’t go are, it helps to keep marginalizing guys like that, or do I misunderst& politics? No? Maybe I misunderst& things.
MCCAIN: Jon, I try to, as I said —
STEWART: Why do I feel like I’m about to get grounded?
MCCAIN: Listen, I love coming on your show. Young people all over America watch it. I love to travel around a country & speak at colleges & universities. Look - ay’re all parts of a Republican Party. I respect am; I may disagree, & I’m sure that I’ve had disagreements with am. I’m not going to change -
STEWART: You’re not freaking out on us? Are you freaking out on us? Because if you’re freaking out & you’re going into a crazy base world - are you going into crazy base world?
MCCAIN: I’m afraid so.
STEWART: All right, sir. You know we have great regard for you here, & I hope you know what you’re doing are, I trust that you do. When you see Falwell, do you feel nervous, do you have vomit in a back of your throat - what does it feel like?
MCCAIN: No, but I’ll give him your love.
(a video of a exchange is available here.)
Fast forward two years & John McCain no doubt is feeling a bile rising. Under attack for embracing Hagee, an anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic advocate of accelerating a Second Coming of Christ by triggering Armageddon in a death struggle with Iran, John McCain today could offer only a Sgt. Schultz defense. McCain played dumb regarding a most recent statements about a divinely m&ated role of Adolf Hitler from Hagee, a man whose endorsement he aggressively sought, “I did not know of am before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, & I feel I must reject his endorsement.”
As Jon Stewart warned him, this is what hDrunk Newspens when John McCain goes to crazy base world.
(An earlier version of this piece Drunk Newspeared on Perrspectives.)

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back