Mark Levin: John McCain Funeral Coverage ‘Seems a Little Over the Top’

[mystery-ak]

Conservative talker Mark Levin told listeners of his nationally syndicated radio show Thursday that media coverage of the late Sen. John McCain’s memorial services “has gone on a little too long,” and “seems a little over the top.”

Transcript is as follows:

    And I say this with the deepest of sincerity – and I don’t want calls on this, by the way: Am I the only person in America who thinks the passing of McCain and the news coverage has gone on a little too long and it’s a little too much? Really, you can honor somebody, but this is going on day after day after day after day after day. And I don’t say this out of any animus whatsoever, period. Why do some public officials get this kind of treatment – Kennedy, McCain, so forth – and others get no treatment whatsoever. You’ve probably never even heard of them, probably weren’t on TV as much as say McCain or Lindsey Graham and so forth.

    To me the heroic part of John McCain has nothing to do with his service in the Senate and everything to do with his service in the United States military, and that’s why he’s a hero to the American people – what he did in the United States military and what was done to him, and his bravery. And we have a gentleman – I just told you – he’s still a member of the House of Representatives, by the name of Sam Johnson. Outside of Dallas, Texas, the vast majority of the American people have never heard of him. I have had him on the program in the past. And he won’t get a send away like this.

    So, why? And again, I don’t want calls on this. Is it because of his votes against Republicans, whether it was on immigration or Obamacare or tax cuts under Bush or things of that sort? I’m quite serious about this. In the election of 2008, most of the same voices we’re hearing today in the media and in the Democratic Party condemned McCain. Some even accused him of being racist – surprise, surprise, that’s what they do – and strongly supported Obama and pushed Obama. You had nasty editorials written about McCain. They would talk about his temper. They would talk about potential—they just went on and on and on. You and I, we’re the ones that voted for McCain, and we lost badly. The main reason is we wanted to stop Obama. But is it because McCain didn’t have fidelity to conservatism or Republicanism, or what is it? It’s incredible. We had this, for two days, these attacks on the president for being cheap, for being low, for being worse, because of the flag not being at half-mast throughout the mourning period. The mourning period, I think, goes through Sunday.

    Okay, fine. I understand that – that is, the criticism. But you don’t see the same kind of criticism applied to John McCain or the people who planned his goodbye in slighting Sarah Palin, which really is a mean thing to do. She never said a nasty word about John McCain, even when conservatives were raising questions about what he did and so forth. She never did. When I had her on a couple months ago, on Life, Liberty & Levin, wouldn’t say a negative thing about him. Never did. She was his vice presidential running mate. He picked her. That seems to be a little bit more relevant to me than the flag flying at half-mast through Sunday, and yet you’ll see almost no criticism of this by the same so-called news outlets, the same so-called voices , you know, the same crowd who can’t wait to attack Trump.

    But I’m just saying, it seems a little over the top to me, what’s going on, and they’re not done. Today is Thursday, right, Rich? So, we got Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So that’s really a full week. And I want to make abundantly clear—I want to say it again, because people like to twist my words and try to destroy our program—this has nothing to do with animus. It’s an observation. Was it because he was a presidential candidate? Is that what Mitt Romney will get? I don’t know. But I suspect the media attention is more a result of him breaking with orthodox conservatism or traditional conservatism at key points, at which he was very, very helpful to the Democrat Party and the left, which, of course, we know the media embrace. Just one man’s observation.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/31/mark-levin-john-mccain-funeral-coverage-seems-a-little-over-the-top/

[mystery-ak]

Well I am going to say it..This shows McCain's egotistical side by planning a four day funeral extravaganza invitations only event.

I sincerely feel sorry for the immediate family who has had to endure this cross country funeral procession.

To put your family through this is agonizing...I really don't know how Meghan is able to function at this point.

[Bigun]

Even in death it's all about him and to hell with everyone else!

[240B]

Well I am going to say it..This shows McCain's egotistical side by planning a four day funeral extravaganza invitations only event.

I sincerely feel sorry for the immediate family who has had to endure this cross country funeral procession.

To put your family through this is agonizing...I really don't know how Meghan is able to function at this point.

I don't think McCain cares about that. In life and in death, like some kind of ancient Pharaoh or a King, everything is all about him and to hell with anyone else, including his own family and staff.

While most people are honored that people would attend their funeral, McCain thinks so much of himself that he feels that HE is honoring THEM by 'allowing' certain handpicked people to attend. Can you imagine? His assumption is that EVERYONE is just chomping at the bit to come to him, and his job is to hold back the massive adoring crowds and to only allow the people he chooses in.

If that is not a crazy ass ego, then I don't know what is.


Well, he certainly overlooked me in his estimates. You couldn't pay me to attend his stupid funeral and I feel sorry for the people who have to endure it.

[mystery-ak]

So much for feeling sorry for Meghan..she just dissed Trump big time...

*No need to make America great again..it was always great*..received applause...

[catfish1957]

Well I am going to say it..This shows McCain's egotistical side by planning a four day funeral extravaganza invitations only event.

I sincerely feel sorry for the immediate family who has had to endure this cross country funeral procession.

To put your family through this is agonizing...I really don't know how Meghan is able to function at this point.

Well stated.  And beleive me it won't end there.  Don't be surprised if McCain prepared a weekly in advance op-ed to stretch out funeral legacy for a year.  As dislikeable as he was, he is now treading into "disgusting" territory.

[Cyber Liberty]

I don't think McCain cares about that. In life and in death, like some kind of ancient Pharaoh or a King, everything is all about him and to hell with anyone else, including his own family and staff.

Will his tomb in Annapolis look like this?



(This is Governor Hunt's tomb in Phoenix)

[dfwgator]

Gee, ya think?

[240B]

Will his tomb in Annapolis look like this?



(This is Governor Hunt's tomb in Phoenix)

McCain's tombstone:

[Sanguine]

So much for feeling sorry for Meghan..she just dissed Trump big time...

*No need to make America great again..it was always great*..received applause...

Oh, I thought that was a dig at Cuomo. 

[Frank Cannon]

A little over the top? The thing is a disgrace and it is being done at the behest of fellow Senators so that now they too can have an absurd Presidential style funeral from now on.

[Absalom]

A little over the top? The thing is a disgrace and it is being done at the behest of fellow Senators so that now they too can have an absurd Presidential style funeral from now on.

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This core purpose of this extravaganza, promoted by the Establishment,
was to urinate on Trump but you already knew that!

[Wingnut]

A little over the top? The thing is a disgrace and it is being done at the behest of fellow Senators so that now they too can have an absurd Presidential style funeral from now on.

This is why he refused to resign and die like a man. He wanted to go out with all the trappings that a dead Senator is afforded.   

What a selfish mofo.

[Frank Cannon]

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This core purpose of this extravaganza, promoted by the Establishment,
was to urinate on Trump but you already knew that!

Well from a quick look around, the only people who don't see the problem with this funeral/roast of Trump are the fake crying McBlob and her druggy mom.....



    Entire McCain memorial - from the words of Lieberman, Kissinger, Bush, Obama & others, to the applause they receive - is a giant subtweet against Trump. There has never been quite such a spectacle against a sitting president.
    — Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce) September 1, 2018

    At most funerals I’ve attended, it’s God’s love that fills the room, not hate and animus for a person who is not even in attendance.

    Disappointed. #McCainMemorial
    — CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) September 1, 2018

    #McCainMemorial was about two things: Remembering Sen. McCain and hating on Trump.

    From the reporting on it, it seems the latter was sadly more important than anything else.
    — Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 1, 2018

    A funeral is a... weird time to roast a president....
    — Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) September 1, 2018

    This new trend of using funerals and eulogies to deliver political messages is really quite disgusting.

    Sympathy from death as means to sway public opinion is next level corrupt.

    Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
    — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 1, 2018

[dfwgator]

We all called it, early this week, that this would be Wellstone Memorial II.  It was all that and more.

[Fishrrman]

I really haven't paid any attention to the McCain "funeral proceedings", not even to the threads in this forum.

He's dead and gone.
Goodbye.

Is he underground yet?
Has he been covered with dirt?

[XenaLee]

Over the top is putting it mildly.  I'm not watching Fox News again until all this McCain BS is over.  Can't stomach it (literally).

[240B]

McCain has gone well past a 'Presidential funeral'. There hasn't been a funeral like this since Leonid Brezhnev. Any foreign person with limited understanding of American culture would have to assume that McCain was the Brezhnev or the Fidel Castro of America. How else could anyone explain all of this?

[Absalom]

Over the top is putting it mildly.  I'm not watching Fox News again until all this McCain BS is over.  Can't stomach it (literally).

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Give your mind and soul a lot more distance and time from FOX.
It's nothing but a Peddlers Platform whether it be their assorted yappers
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