Fox News Had To Disable Comments About McCain’s Death

On Friday, we wrote about the shockingly heartless reaction of FoxNews.com readers to the news that McCain’s death was imminent. Yesterday, after McCain died, Fox felt the need to disable comments on its obituary. The network did the same with other articles honoring McCain.

But Raw Story caught some of the comments before Fox disabled comments on this article:

“McCain was a traitor!” LenardMiller205 wrote in the very first comment.

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“Thanks for dying McCain! By far the best thing you ever did for America!!!” commenter PromotesFreedom quipped.

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Several commenters accused McCain of being a “puppet” for liberal billionaire George Soros.

Fortunately, Raw Story noted that some of the comments suggested this was not the time to be attacking McCain.

But, apparently, enough of them were so embarrassingly disrespectful, that Fox could not allow any of them to remain online.

(McCain image via screen grab)

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commented 2018-08-31 03:15:32 -0400 · Flag

Fox is becoming very embarrassed by its marriage to Trump. Ah, schadenfreude…

commented 2018-08-27 09:26:23 -0400 · Flag

I find it ironic to note that many of those fine people are able, in the same breath, to express a total lack of love and tolerance while claiming to be Christians and Americans. Double-think at its best.

commented 2018-08-26 23:56:15 -0400 · Flag

We should not be surprised at this. These are the same people who gleefully celebrated when James Fields ran over a group of protestors and murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesville last year. I still remember seeing Fox News commenters chuckling about using a pickup truck with a snowplow next time. There’s a reason why these people are thought of as “deplorables”.

And we shouldn’t be surprised at the childishness and vehemence of the Pence White House’s spokesman, who is now continuing his feud with McCain beyond the grave. And he’s encouraging his followers to act out in the most offensive way possible.

I frankly wonder what the next step for the GOP will be. We thought this bunch had sunk as low as they could with W, who was and is a detestable man and an embarrassment as President. The GOP followed that with Trump and Pence, and I have to admit being impressed that they were able to dig themselves down below the cellarage. So what monster will come up from the pit for their next magic trick?

commented 2018-08-26 21:57:41 -0400 · Flag

The real “parrots” are the Trumpets. Trump declares someone an enemy of his ego… errr… I mean the state and out come their knives. Kim Jong Un? Give him a hug for Donald. An American patriot like McCain who’s not a Trump sycophant? Death to him! Because all that’s important in this world is kissing Trump’s ass. The only surprise is I didn’t see the term “deep state” show up in any of the Trumpet comments.