the banality of evil

For my 666th post, I give you Cindy McCain. She deserves it. Read this deeply disturbing profile of her in the September 15th issue of the New Yorker. The most incriminating part, to me?

Cindy McCain regularly calls herself an only child. In fact, she has two half sisters: Kathleen Portalski and Dixie Burd...

"I feel bad about having a father that wasn’t there, and then having my face rubbed in this—having her stand up and say she’s an only child—makes it even worse," Kathleen Portalski told me.

The video played before Cindy’s speech at the Republican Convention declared that Cindy Lou Hensley "got all the attention of her father. . . . They were truly best friends."

[Meanwhile Cindy and Kathleen's father] Jim Hensley visited Kathleen on her birthday and on Christmas throughout her childhood, and took her shopping for school clothes....

Kathleen Portalski visited her father almost every day in the months before his death. When he died, Cindy McCain inherited the Hensley empire; Kathleen Portalski and her family received ten thousand dollars.....

When I asked Portalski if she had ever contacted her half sister, to discuss the situation, she began to cry and spoke angrily: "You think she’d give a flying fuck?"

Portalski said that she has not spoken to Cindy McCain since their father’s funeral [when] Portalski sat in the front row as McCain gave a eulogy from the lectern, where she spoke of her father’s generosity and kindness and referred to herself as his only child. (emphasis added)

The whole article makes her sound soulless to the point of psychopathy, but this bit was really the cherry on the sundae.