Meghan McCain urges White House to pull credential of CNN's Kaitlan Collins

[douglas9]

Conservative pundit Meghan McCain attacked CNN anchor and reporter Kaitlan Collins, suggesting she be barred from covering the White House after she aggressively questioned press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday about President Trump’s view on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

“Kaitlan Collins is an absolute imbecile and a pure partisan hack,” McCain wrote Wednesday on the social platform X. “Have some respect for the two women standing in front of you who are exposing lies, deep corruption and keeping the country safe. The White House should pull her credentials.”

McCain was responding to Collins’s questioning of Gabbard, who during a briefing earlier in the day alleged former President Obama and his allies worked to undermine Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

“What would you say to people who believe that you’re only releasing these documents now to improve your standing with the president after he said that your intelligence assessments were wrong?” Collins asked, in reference to conflicting intelligence within the administration relating to Iran’s nuclear program.

Collins has made a name for herself in the media with direct questioning of top Republican lawmakers on her nightly prime-time show and repeated follow-ups directed at Trump during gaggles with members of the press.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5417636-meghan-mccain-kaitlan-collins-white-house-press-credentials/

[Ocelot II]

1. Who's an absolute imbecile and a pure partisan hack, Meaghan?

[emulatorloo]

2. I've always believed "Projection" is first thing taught in Republican 101.

[Aristus]

7. Yep...

Self-knowledge is not her strong suit...

[tritsofme]

3. Her father would be so ashamed.

[Big Blue Marble]

16. Shame is only the beginning.

This is deep betrayal of her father and everything he stood for and sacrificed for.

[still-prayin4rain]

5. Imagine defending Trump at all, much less after he mocked your father for being captured in war. She's heinous.

[emulatorloo]

6. And defending an obvious Putin asset like Gabbard. Her father knew exactly what Putin is.

Opinion: John McCain saw through Vladimir Putin better than anyone

By Vladimir Kara-Murza
Global Opinions contributor
August 27, 2018

https://archive.is/KzvRB

The Republican frontrunner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, was diplomatic, noting only that “the verdict on Mr. Putin is out . . . we don’t know enough about him.” (It would take another year for Bush to “get a sense of [Putin’s] soul” and forge a partnership.)
Bush’s main challenger, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, begged to differ. “We know that he was an apparatchik. We know that he was a member of the KGB. We know that he came to power because of the military brutality . . . in Chechnya,” McCain said. “I’m very concerned about Mr. Putin. I’m afraid Mr. Putin might be one of those who wants to make the trains run on time.”
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McCain’s “trains” remark was a historical reference to Benito Mussolini’s regime in Italy, and the parallel would prove frightfully close. Soon, Putin was following Mussolini’s playbook: seizing control of the media, silencing political opponents, and turning Parliament and other institutions into rubber stamps as he consolidated his authoritarian rule.

Eight years later, on Oct. 7, 2008, at another presidential debate — this time against his general election opponent, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois — McCain once again sounded a warning on Putin, this time on his aggressive designs abroad. “I looked into his eyes and saw three letters, a K, a G and a B,” McCain said, adding that Putin “has gradually repressed most of the liberties that we would expect for nations to observe, and he has exhibited most aggressive behavior . . . in Georgia. I said before, watch Ukraine. Ukraine, right now, is in the sights of Vladimir Putin.”

[still-prayin4rain]

9. Ugh, right??!! A known russian asset in charge of US intelligence. It's all so surreal and upsetting.

[Ocelot II]

11. Gabbard is Meaghan's daughter's godmother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Domenech (scroll down)

[orangecrush]

13. Thanks

Explains everything.

[still-prayin4rain]

19. How bizarre

[Omnipresent]

12. This!

[Basso8vb]

8. Every accusation is a confession.

[Ocelot II]

10. Guess who's the godmother to Meaghan's daughter Liberty?

Yes, she named her daughter Liberty. Liberty's godmother is none other than Tulsi Gabbard. How 'bout that?
And Meaghan's husband, Ben Domenech, is a real piece of work, too. He got fired from WaPo for plagiarism and once claimed Justice Elena Kagan was openly gay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Domenech. Lovely people.

[emulatorloo]

17. Oh I completely forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder.

[CTyankee]

14. Is she still a "thing"?

I thought she had her "moment" a few years ago. Is she back? Did she never go away and I didn't notice?

Somebody fill me in. I'm having a senior moment.

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Meghan, Meghan, Meghan...

Still trying so hard to be relevant?

Stop embarrassing yourself, gurlh.

[C_U_L8R]

18. Meghan McKaren wants to speak to the manager

What is she famous for and why should we give a shit what she thinks?