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February 4, 2013 11:25 pm GMT
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John McCain Compares Ahmadinejad to a Space Monkey
Sen. John McCain found himself in some hot water Monday morning after tweeting a joke implying that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a space monkey.
"So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there last week?" tweeted McCain in reference to two recent stories: Iran's claims that it shot a monkey into space
and Ahmadinejad's desire to be the first person Iran sends to space.
So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there last week? "Iran launches monkey into space" news.yahoo.com/iran-launches-— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) February 4, 2013
The joke was seen by some to be in poor taste:
@senjohnmccain is racis…
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