Phyllis—I can’t even imagine any man saying that. If some man said that to me his key wouldn’t fit the door when he returned. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehwbvyaDpU

Diana: McSame “snapped” and called his wife a c**t in front of the press. Vile doesn’t quite cover it in my eyes. Not by a long shot.

Here’s the story: Three journalists who have written books on McCain each write at length on his anger, cataloguing instances of him popping off at fellow senators and others and holding grudges for long periods of time, and then denying flatly in on-the-record quotes that he ever loses his temper or holds a grudge. One of these writers, a Cliff Schecter, a freelance liberal commentator who contributes frequently to The Huffington Post, recounts a tale, confirmed he writes, by three Arizona reporters––that in 1992, after Cindy McCain teased her husband about his thinning hair, McCain whirled around and said,in front of the reporters and two staffers, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt!” One wonders if on such occasions she reminds her husband who it was that made his political career possible. One wonders also when she was asked whether her husband had a temper she answered, “That is a concoction.”