Twitter on McCain: ‘Butt-Hurt, Russia-Obsessed’ Senator ‘Has Lost His Mind’
SputnikNews.com
22.05.2017
John McCain, the hawkish Arizona senator well-known in Russia for his Russophobic outbursts, launched another tirade against Moscow on Sunday, calling President Putin a “thug and a murderer” and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a “stooge” and “propagandist.” Russian officials responded to the offensive remarks. So did Twitter users.
Speaking to Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace, McCain lashed out against President Trump for hosting the Russian foreign minister in the White House. Lavrov, the senator said, “had no business in the Oval Office.”
McCain went on to call the foreign minister “the stooge of a thug and murderer,” his choice of words to describe the Russian president, and claimed that President Putin had “committed human rights violations all over the place.”
The senator’s comments, picked up by Russian media, went over in a big way in the comments sections of Russian news sites. Users asked why the US seems to have such a large collection of poorly educated, ill-mannered politicians, and added that they too would love to send uncensored ‘words of admiration’ of their own to the senator if it weren’t for the comments sections’ moderators.
Russian officials couldn’t leave the insults without a response. For her part, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that McCain’s comments showed that there didn’t seem to be enough politicians inside the US itself for the senator to insult with his “poison.”
“Apart from pity, McCain has not brought forth any emotions [among Russians] for a long time now,” she added.
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