McCain: Palin’s “reload” and her cross hairs are “the language that we should be using”

by David Safier

John McCain is proud of Sarah Palin. He thinks her statement, "Don't Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!" is fine. Likewise the cross hairs on the map to "target" Democrats.

This was on NBC. The interviewer, Ann Curry, seemed perplexed, almost angry. McCain was his genial, patronizing old self.

Here are a few excerpts.

"I have seen the rhetoric of 'targeted districts' as long as I've been in politics," McCain said. "Please! Any threat of violence is terrible, but to say that there's a 'targeted district' or that we 'reload' or 'go back into the fight again' — please."

"Those are fine," McCain said.

NBC's Ann Curry pressed him.

"Should this still be the language of this day given how much we're hearing about hundreds of calls regarding threats, about vandalism, about the gas line of a congressman's brother's home being cut. Sir, these are very dangerous times. Is this the language that we should be hearing today?"

McCain: "The language that we should be using today is the language that we are using."

Here's the clip. It's short, and worth a watch for McCain's dismissiveness of the question if nothing else.