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"The news broke yesterday and hasn&amp;#39;t yet really penetrated the mainstream media, but it turns out that it&amp;#39;s not just Senators that John McCain rages at&amp;#8212;it&amp;#39;s also his wife. In Cliff Schechter&amp;#39;s new book The Real McCain, he recounts  that, at a campaign stop in 1992, McCain told his wife Cindy, &amp;quot;At least I don&amp;#39;t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***.&amp;quot; Schecter has three reporters on the record attesting to the incident, who also told Schechter that Cindy (the only woman in the room) blushed but said nothing.\nWow. Cindy&amp;#8212;even if she does occasionally go a little heavy and dark on the foundation&amp;#8212;is a beautiful woman and definitely doesn&amp;#39;t look like a prostitute from the 15th century (the last time anyone used the word &amp;quot;trollop&amp;quot; unironically). And the use of the word &amp;quot;c***&amp;quot; is just vicious and uncalled for. Never once has a man dared call me that to my face, let alone in front of witnesses. God knows I could not have played the dutiful wife/girlfriend and laughed that off in front of a dozen reporters. If he talks this way to his wife when she ribs him about his bald spot, what will he do when Ahmadinejad ribs him about his tortured comb-over?\nAnd hello, in front of a bunch of reporters? Who did not report it? Why did it take 16 years and some great investigative journalism to dig this up? Schechter told me that he thinks the story died because &amp;quot;In 1992, pre-Gennifer Flowers, most reporters didn&amp;#39;t know how to report on this stuff.&amp;quot; That may well be true, but I&amp;#39;m not buying it. What I want to know now is what else goes on inside the so-called Straight Talk Express that the boys don&amp;#39;t think we need to know?\nMcCain, naturally, is denying the reports of his behavior. And, he&amp;#39;s leading in  the most recent national polls. We&amp;#39;ll see if this affects his campaign at all. Is this worse than the Obama/Reverend Wright thing? Does it make Clinton&amp;#39;s Bosnian brouhahah seem a little silly? Because what it comes down to is&amp;#8212;is it ever OK for a man to call his wife a &amp;quot;c***&amp;quot; in public ? And is it OK to elect someone who does?\n&amp;#8212;Megan"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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