McCain jokes that West Point grads are bastards

Sick Bastard, you let everyone down who trusted you. darn politics, certainly show the character of a man. and you got non dude.

RAW STORYPublished: Tuesday May 16, 2006

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) took a joking swipe at Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), by effectively calling his colleague and all other West Point graduates bastards, according to today's Roll Call.
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That decades-old rivalry between West Point and the Naval Academy gets more intense every day and the barbs get ever-more colorful, thanks to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a proud Naval Academy grad.

At the eighth annual Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund Congressional reception in the Capitol last Thursday night, McCain took a friendly, if rather shocking, swipe at Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a West Point grad who hosts the Hoop Dreams reception each year.

Showing that typical blend of wit, toughness and restraint — and an officer’s art of offending without actually uttering an offensive word — McCain said he chose the Naval Academy because “my parents were actually married.”
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So was McCain calling his colleague from Rhode Island a love child? More to the point, is Reed a bastard? We called his office to find out and heard laughter on the other end of the phone. “I can confirm that Sen. Reed’s parents were married,” a senior aide assured us.
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