McCain Ambushed With Obscene Question at Town Hall Event
An audience member ambushed John McCain on Thursday at an otherwise placid town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, with a surprise question about whether he had ever called his wife by an obscene term.
The man stood up and first said he wanted to ask the Arizona senator about a “mental health and mental health care” concern.
“Previously I had been married to a woman who was very verbally abusive to me,” the man said. He paused and asked, “Is it true that you called your wife a c***?”
The crowd booed, and McCain responded:
“No, no — you don’t wanna, you don’t wanna. You know, it’s a great thing about town hall meetings, sir,” he said. “But we really don’t — there’s people here who don’t respect that kind of language. So I’ll move onto the next questioner in the back.”
Secret Service agents escorted the man out of the building.
The question came out of a new book called “The Real McCain,” by Cliff Schecter, that alleges McCain publicly called his wife Cindy that word in 1992. The McCain campaign has called the book “trash journalism” and called the alleged incident a “complete fabrication.”
FOX News’ Mosheh Oinounou contributed to this report.
Let me guess everyone thinks the man was planted by the Clinton campaign. No one would ever believe that it could be an Obama surrogate or better yet he was attacking on his own accord. Great job FOX! Keep everyone away from the real issues. Do you think you’re chickens will ever come home to roost?
Has anyone blamed Obama for this yet?
What a shame that the man in the audience had to disrepect Mrs. McCain like that. Sen. McCain handled the situation with class. Cindy McCain is a fine lady who will make a grand FIRST LADY.
It will be interesting to see if the three reporters from Arizona who claimed, off the record, to have heard McCain use the c-word while snapping at his wife back in ‘92 will now come forward on the record to contradict McCain’s denial.
Let everyone be forewrned! This is the kind of garbage that is being promoted against Senator McCain by the USA’s Number 1 public enemy, George Soros and Move on. org. So hold on to your hats, but open your wallets and send some backing to the Senator from AZ.
God I hate McCain. Go Hillary!
Now that’s news!
Yes he did.. I was there in 1992 when he said it
I can’t believe what some people will do…this is ridiculous! It’s also kind of ridiculous to give the man his “15 seconds” of fame by writing about it.
If he said it was trash journalism before, why didn’t he answer the guy’s question today with an emphatic NO.? No man should ever call his wife that word. McCain is so lucky to have Cindy McCain. He would never have gotten anywhere without her money. I hope he didn’t call her (or anyone) that.