‘Get Out of Here, You Low Life Scum’: John McCain Yells at Protesters to Get Off His Lawn
  • January 29, 2015

‘Get Out of Here, You Low Life Scum’: John McCain Yells at Protesters to Get Off His Lawn

‘Get Out of Here, You Low Life Scum’: John McCain Yells at Protesters to Get Off His Lawn

Activists disrupt Henry Kissinger’s testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Greg Grandin
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What looks like Code Pink getting pretty close to Kissinger in Chairman McCain’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on “global threats and national security strategy.” But they shouldn’t have let George Schultz and Madeline Albright off the hook. Schultz for bombing Libya, Albright for Iraq, Kissinger for, well, everything. The Three Bombardiers. Everybody is tripping over themselves claiming Kissinger as a “dear friend.” Albright in particular sounds like a parady of herself. H/T Paula Chakravartty.

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Greg Grandin Greg Grandin, a Nation editorial board member, is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. His book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. His latest book is America, América: A New History of the New World.


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