‘Dear Vlad, is it Something I Said?’: John McCain Tweets Response to Putin Tirade
- Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:19pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Vladimir Putin spoke for 4 1/2 hours on Russian TV Thursday, touching on a variety of subjects during a call-in show. (Image source: Reuters)
Sen. John McCain responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin calling him “nuts” Thursday with a simple tweet: “Dear Vlad, is it something I said?”
Putin had delivered a 4 1/2 hour rant on Russian TV, answering questions during a call-in show, and touched on a whole host of topics: Among them were McCain, the recent protests in Russia, and even the killing of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, which he accused the U.S. of having a hand in.
“He has a lot of blood of peaceful civilians on his hands. He must relish and can’t live without the disgusting, repulsive scenes of the killing of Gadhafi,” Putin said of McCain, referring to the Arizona Republican’s role as a combat pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“Mr. McCain was captured in Vietnam and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years,” Putin added. “Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.”
McCain had goaded Putin last week, declaring in another tweet: “Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you.” He followed that post up with a speech on the Senate floor in which he expressed similar sentiments. In October, he had said Gadhafi’s killing should make “dictators” like Putin “nervous.”
Putin also denounced the recent massive demonstrations that have been occurring throughout Russia, calling for an end to his rule.
According to the Telegraph, he mocked the protesters and said he thought the white ribbons they had pinned to their clothing as a sign of peace were condoms.
“I decided that it was an anti-AIDS campaign…that they pinned on contraceptives, I beg your pardon, only folding them in a strange way,” he said.
Still, Putin seemed unmoved by the criticism, and vowed he would leave office “within a day” if he ever felt the Russian people did not support him, according to the Telegraph. He is expected to be re-elected to the Russian presidency next year, though the protests indicate it might not be as easy as he anticipated.
Putin also outright suggested U.S. forces were involved in Gadhafi’s death in October.
“Who did this?” Putin said. “Drones, including American ones. They attacked his column. Then – through the special forces, who should not have been there – they brought in the so-called opposition and fighters, and killed him without court or investigation.”
The Pentagon quickly dismissed Putin’s charge as “ludicrous.”
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Comments (69)
Baikonur
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:29pmEliasim, have you ever visited the Pechorskaya Lavra in Kiev?
Report Post »scott2012
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:30pm@ Baikonur
@ BAIKONUR Please elaboate.
Report Post »CowboyExpat
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:35pmMcCain is for McCain…and easily led by subordinates. McCain is nuts….Not that I disagree with some of his sentiments…but really, he should just shut up.
Report Post »Publius Novus
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:49pmFor John McCain to taunt him in this manner with what amounts to a threat is irresponsible. Maybe he should worry too. If the arab spring comes here and Islam & sharia law ever become the way in the US, I’m sure Mr. McCain with all of his moral righteousness would find a place at the table with the ruling Imam’s or Sultans. (NOT). Grow up John what are you 80 going on 12? As for Putin, he is a corrupt man both morally as a person and as head of government. What scares me the most in all this is how close we are to this sort of benevolent (term used loosely) dictatorship here in our country. Mr. Putin and Mr. McCain share more similarities than differences.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:00pmMcCain is a nut, and Arizonians are even more nuts to keep putting him in office. It must be the whole entitlements thing.
Report Post »Recceman90
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:08pmYou do realize McCain lost the election? McCain is powerless,
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:34amMcCain is progressive nuts but he was tortured and interigated by the KGB too. He has a right to show disrespect to Putin in my mind. That is were it comes from.
Report Post »hud
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:03amPutin is the real leader of a not too stable Russia, who is a feral pychopath. Nuff said.
Report Post »supercars34
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:36pmAs my dear old grandmother used to say,“no fool like an old fool” and Mccain is the perfect poster boy for that line. Is this what we pay him for? to instigate another war. Too much time on his hands. Must have all the aliens blocked off at the arizona-mexican border; must have resolved all the inconsistencies with Fast & Furious [it happened on his turf} arizona; I guess he’s not interested in the tax debacle in the senate. In short, stay in your own backyard, shut up & stop tweeting heads of state like a dopey little adolescent. When it becomes obvious that senility has been reached, as it appears in this case,it’s time to turn in your suit. And p.s., don’t even think of handing it over to your daughter. we have enough worthless dynasties,thank you.
Report Post »Worldsapart
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:40pmEliasim
“McCain is a nut, and Arizonians are even more nuts to keep putting him in office. It must be the whole entitlements thing.”
It’s not the Arizonans, I didn’t vote for him this time around. It’s the New Yorkers, Californinans, and Chocagoans(?) that live in AZ who voted for him. I hate that my Wild Western state is getting turned into a Democrat mini-Cali.
Report Post »completehorsesense
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:20pmDoes anyone remember in 1917 the killing of the Zars, The king line,Judah? and who had a hand in killing them? Can we say RAS PUTIN? Valadimir Putin, Same pedigree.Everyone can check it out. Start with KJV Amos Chapter 2 verse 1, They found the king line buried under moscow in 1981 and did dna on prince phillip in 1990. NG channel did a special on this in 1991. Ezekiel Chapter 38 and 39 tells how edom,russia does their deeds. Our GOD in Heaven always prevails. How about so caloled justice kagan on the surpreme court? Do her pedigree and she goes all the way back to king kagan of russia. Can we say Kenites? Everyone can do the research. As it is written in Mark,Chapter 13, Jesus Christ said, I have foretold you ALL things.
Report Post »http://www.completehorsesense.com
kurwa
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:25pmif you are going to post religious dribble at least learn how to spell tsars
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:10pmHe is a good liberal, deflect, redirect, attack. Should come to the U.S. and be a dummycrat.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
tommyg524
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:19pmamen.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:28amBut like any Democrat/Liberal/Communist/Progressive(and whatever other words they use to describe themselves), he would much rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Report Post »Unfortunately for our Democraps, there aren’t enough hells for them to go rule and leave us in peace.
Fightin *******
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:40pmMcCain had goaded Putin last week, declaring in another tweet: “Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you.” He followed that post up with a speech on the Senate floor in which he expressed similar sentiments. In October, he had said Gadhafi’s killing should make “dictators” like Putin “nervous.”
Why would a sitting US Senator even say this? Where were his handlers on that one? Nothing like threatening an official from another nation.
Report Post »wraith67
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:54pmMcCain should keep taunting Putin. We’ll find him having fallen down a set of stairs soon. Actually our provocations are very dangerous, and it’s amazingly stupid to think that neither Russia nor China have any teeth. Hubris and stupidity is a very bad combination.
Report Post »BeckaBrwnEyes
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:38pmAnd you care, because? I wish more of our elected officials would taunt, ridicule and embarrass some world leaders. I wish we had a Congress full of people who would bust out laughing, in person, at the speeches of looney religious mullahs and leaders who come here and insult us. I wish we had a president who would politely tell China to suck eggs, tell North Korea’s tin pan dictator to F himself, and tell Putin to get naked with a polar bear and see if his muscular form can win in that fight. Enough of the nice. What’s the matter with you? Drinking too many lattes with cinnamon foam and chocolate drops on top? Sissy.
Report Post »republic2011
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:34pmWhere the hell is our foreign policy. Now we have senile Senator’s taunting dangerous dictators on Twitter? What do they want? War? Oh, yeah.. that seems to be where we are heading. Everytime the progressives f’up our economy, the first thing they turn to is war. Kill a few million people and all will be better. Unfortunately, while this worked in WWI and WWII, I think this time is very different and could turn out differently for the United States. These Progressives will be the end of us. Our Allies and Enemies abroad, alike, thin, these are Americans. They are an abomination and not representative of the citizens of this Republic that want nothing but peace and prosperity.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:44pmI will say amen to that brother. Progressives of a feature fornicate together. McCain, Obama, Gingrich, W, Clinton, Graham, the OTHER Clinton.
Scrape off the hollywood silly putty and you have the exact same person.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:03pmhey 10th – don’t forget Bush #1 too!
Ron Paul 2012!
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:54pm@ Ming The Merciless
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:03pm
hey 10th – don’t forget Bush #1 too!
Ron Paul 2012!
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THE BLAZE moderators are up to their pick and choose games again. I responded to you twice.
HW Bush was IMO the 3rd worst president in American history. My 10 worst.
1. Woodrow Wilson
2. FDR
3. HW Bush
4. Franklin Pierce
5. (and climbing rapidly) Barack Obama
6. Bill Clinton (for setting up the collapse of the economy, and being morally bankrupt)
7. Jimmy Carter (the freak that hated and continues to hate America)
8. Andrew Jackson (the murders along the trail of tears, and plagiarizing Manifest Destiny)
9. Harry Truman
10. W Bush (for carrying out his creep daddy’s progressive agenda through conquest and destroying American Civil Liberties with the Patriot Act)
Sad that there wasn’t quite room in the top 10 for the marxist LBJ. If I could prove he had JFK murdered he would rise higher on this list.
Report Post »Recceman90
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:12pmWell said, you hit the nail on the head!
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:24pmInteresting that the head of Russia would be responsive to a Twitter statement from a US politician. Sounds like he’s a sensitive man. Maybe he should grow a pair and focus on the hate coming from his own countrymen.
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:43pmthe thing is Putin’s party knew they were cheating and expected a 65% success. They barely got 50%, which proves to them that the people have turned. Now the US is inciting the people to stand up to him. Not a bad thing, really. We should have stood by the Iranian people when they were trying to overthrow their Islamofascist rulers.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:19pmJohn is Bipolar with a touch of senility setting in.
Report Post »GERATMO
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:16pmWhy cant we all just get along?
Report Post »BlazingPatriot
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:16pm> > > Ask the CIA about Putin. If they do not respond, asK G.B. < < <
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:05pmI agree with Putin, McCain is a complete and utter MORON…..and Putin is a KGB AGENT, first and foremost…….
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:57pmjohn, I love you as a vnv…but go home..it’s time…
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:56pmPooty has a point. There has certainly been evidence of American influence in these uprisings. FaceBook and YouTube have showed they will comply with requests from certain regimes and rebellions, but not with others. This is the problem with censorship… it reveals agendas.
Report Post »Daveed
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:55pmA U.S war with Russia — over Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia — would have been an act of national criminal insanity.
Report Post »Days later, there came another startling discovery.
McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann had been paid $290,000 by the Saakashvili regime, from January 2007 to March 2008, to get Georgia into NATO, and thus acquire a priceless U.S. war guarantee to fight on Georgia’s side in any clash with Russia.
What makes this history relevant today?
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio, rising star of the Republican right, on everyone’s short list for VP, called for a unanimous vote, without debate, on a resolution directing President Obama to accept Georgia’s plan for membership in NATO at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.
Rubio was pushing to have the U.S. Senate pressure Obama into fast-tracking Georgia into NATO, making Tbilisi an ally the United States would be obligated by treaty to go to war to defend.
Now it is impossible to believe a senator, not a year in office, dreamed this up himself. Some foreign agent of Scheunemann’s ilk had to have had a role in drafting it.
And for whose benefit is Rubio pushing to have his own countrymen committed to fight for a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked war with Russia? Who cooked up this scheme to involve Americans in future wars in the Caucasus that are none of our business?
The answer is unknown. What is known is the name of the senator who blocked it — Rand Paul, son of Ron Pa
Warrior4Zion
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:10pmPutin is no friend of the Jewish people. Russia needs to be destroyed. Ever since the 50s they have been outwardly hostile to the chosen people and only America can stop it. We need to begin with sanctions but if they don’t work we need to launch and invasion in order to protect the Jews. John McCain is right. He is a friend of the Jews and he’s right for trying to spread insurrection in Russia. I believe McCain would have took them out if he’d become President. There‘s no sacrifice to great to protect God’s chosen. This is Germany all over again. Wake up America. This is no time to be on the side line.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:08pmdude – why the ***** for Israel? There‘s nothing in our constitution that says we have annihilate countries who don’t like Israel.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:09pmdude – why the b0ner for Israel? There‘s nothing in our constitution that says we have annihilate countries who don’t like Israel.
Report Post »Tired-of-fools
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:51pmA dictator-wanna-be. Did he have his shirt off at the news conference, similar to the pics of him riding the horse?
Report Post »goldmind
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:50pmKeep taunting the bastard, Johnny! He is one of Stalin’s bowel movements, and equally as treacherous.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:14pmIn case you missed it the NDAA also includes the sale of military weapons/equipment to Georgia to defend themselves against Russian aggression. So yes, the cold war is back in full swing only this time Russia and China have advantages they did not when Regan was Commander-in-Chief.
Report Post »LastAmerican
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:37pmYeah we have Obama protecting us. Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:49pmIs Mr. Putin too stupid to recall that Gadhafi admitted to the Libyan role in blowing up the Pan Am flight over scotland. The U.S.S.R. (and maybe Mr. Putin) might well have had a hand in that murder and mayhem.
In any case, I doubt if we had a hand in Gahdafi’s death, but as payback for what he and his dirtbags did…we should have killed him ourselves – and much sooner. We allowed the piece of crap to live way too long.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:49pmOh, yah… the KGB Major so Innocent… what about those BlackMail Charges?
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:47pmTwitter is a minefield for high-profile folks. I would avoid it.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:45pmI think McCain’s nuts too. Thanks for the National Defense Authorization Act, dick!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:57pmWill the NDAA apply to Obuma?
Report Post »JustMel71
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:13pmExactly Justangry. I love it when our liberties are taken away, one line of legislation at a time. Yay! I feel much, much, much safer now. Phew, what would we be like without the govt helping us out so much? Thank goodness for the govt. /sarcasm off
Report Post »Warrior4Zion
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:14pmWe need it to protect the Homeland. Everything changed on 9-11! We can trust no one now. Every American is a potential terrorist.. You just never know. We need anti terrorist agent on every block in America in order to protect the Homeland.
No one does more to protect the Homeland then McCain, Graham, Lieberman, Boxer, Feinstein, and Carl Levin. They are the greatest American Patriots in the Senate because they will leave no stone unturned in order to root out the terrorists in America.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:20pmNice troll Warrior4zion. I‘m sure you’ll catch a big one with that.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:38pmReal mature Senator. taking tweet lessons from Magan again? BTW, We should have been the ones to kill old Fuzzhead Uncle Mo, years ago. Big deal.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:38pmWell McCain sounds like you threatened the man,so I guess it was something you said.We all know what you were inferring with the comment on “going the way of Ghadaffi.
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:35pmAgain, McBush proves how stupid he is and makes a fool of himself in front of the world. And a lot of his mistakes going back to the years since he was imprisoned and blew up the Forrestal, have cost a lot of American lives. Can you believe this jackass: “THE ARAB SPRING IS COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU.” He says that to Putin, who probably doubles McCain’s IQ SCORE. That might be AZ, not RUSSIA. The Arab Spring will bring on Sharia Law. Hopefully, if it does get here, it will shut up McCain’s fat, stupid daughter too.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:28pm“ludicrous” Redneck translation: lying like a sack of s-h_t
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:31pmBoom!
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