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Other. john mccain didn t want donald trump to come to his funeral. donald trump can return the favor by being dismissive if he wants. but the press, as they cover this, it s fairly situational. they cover it depending on what situation you find yourself in. in 2000, they loved john mccain because he is running against george bush. in 2008 when john mccain ran against barack obama, they didn t really love him anymore. they loved him when he took positions against republicans after he lost the presidential race. then they didn t love him anymore when he was for the surge. now that he is in a spat with donald trump, they love him again. this is how the press covers these things and it is really just to stir a pot, not to shins an eternal light on the truth. laura: monica, i remember in 2010 when john mccain was running for reelection to the senate, he ran his campaignre commercial about how we need to repair that dang fence. remember, he got a huge amount of blowback from the media sin ....
Fleischer s point, the media took shot after shot after shot when he was mccain the mccain the conservative standing up for the pro-life movement or in this case building the fence, or the board to structure, but now that mccain is the opponent of trump, they use that as a convenient vehicle, just days before his burial. c the press has always been shameless but in situations like this, he had put in bold relief i remember in the run ups to the 2008 election, i rememberut democratic friends of mine in new york and elsewhere, saying oh, john mccain, he is a moderate, he s a centrist, he is a kind of republican that i can get with. then after the election, i said did you vote for him? of course not. when it comes to the media, this is the same media, so many of them, that profess to love the maverick until he won the republican nomination for president. then they began to smear him with all kinds of abominable lies and attacks.ar ....
President george w bush, monica crowley from the london center for policy research, andea juan williams, cohost of the five. juan, what do you see happening here? there s been a nonstop series of complaints about how president trump first tweeted about it, the statement wasn t long enough, the way the flag was lowered, it should have stayed lowered, then it was lowered again, to me it seems like a lot of this is getting away from john mccain the man and back to criticizing trump the president.hi your reaction? i agree. i think you have to honor john mccain, that man especially now as we go into the season of grieving and paying respects to him and his family he certainly was an american patriot. i think almost the definition and our generation, laura. i disagree with you about the media. i don t think the media is the one that refused to release i don t think it was the press that lowered the flag temporarily and put it up back and then changing course. i don t think it is the pr ....