Welcome to A Cytations Needed News Brief. I'm Neem Ashrazi. I'm Adam Johnson. So, uh, John

Kane is died after his struggle with brain cancer. He is no longer with us. And we're not

going to do that juvenile thing where we like dancing his grave or like our glib about

his death. It sucks that he died for some people. For some people, I mean whatever. I'm

not going to make a moral judgment. It's one of the bad things that I'm going to go down

that path. But it's important to understand that his life was very bad. I'm drawing a moral

dimension here. I'm saying that John McCain was a fraud. He was a moral grifter. He was a

Huckster. He was a war monger, a carnival barker, a consistent liar. He led us to, I think, the

worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century, which is the war in Iraq, and one of the top five,

which was defending and supporting Saudi Arabia in their bombing of Yemen. And he was the

biggest hypocrite. And he consistently supported Israel in its apartheid regime over Palestine,

and its consistent bombing of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank. But he somehow managed to always

trick some meaningful contingent of the media into thinking he was something he wasn't. Now,

the McCain is not who you think your articles have been written before. Rowling Stone,

Vanity Fair, other people throughout the year said, done the he's a fraud article. So we're not

the first people to sort of make this claim, right? It's been done many, many times. And you have

written about a number of times. I remember one of those times. Article writes itself. Some dumbass

from Washington Post or The New York Times comes out and says, Gigali, he was a real maverick. And I'm

like, well, okay, well, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, he's not, you know. And so upon his death,

invariably, and we tried to get this out as quick as we can, because we're trying to do the

pre-spin here. And veribly, the maverick image will win the day. There'll be some token line about

how we voted against the hero who we supported a tax bill or how you supported the warning rack.

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