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Mainstream Scream: Brian Williams hails GOP ‘courage’ to keep Obamacare

By Paul Bedard

Published August 1, 2017 11:11am ET

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Mainstream Scream: Brian Williams hails GOP ‘courage’ to keep Obamacare — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who returned to Capitol Hill after being diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain cancer, smiles as he arrives to vote as the Republican-run Senate rejected a GOP proposal to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Washington. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have been stymied by opposition from within the Republican ranks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC host Brian Williams as the example of the media cooing over Sen. John McCain and the other GOP senators who killed the party’s promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.

After the defeat early Friday morning of the final opportunity in the Senate to move toward repealing Obamacare, Williams hailed McCain as a “profile in courage” for voting no, despite the fact the Arizona senator campaigned on a promise to repeal the law.

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