• February 14, 2012

Well shucks she looks perfectly pleasant hereKathleen Portalksi is no Cooter Obama, but she’ll do! This lady is 11 years older than her more famous half-sister, Cindy McCain. And when their father (Jim Hensley) died, he left just $10,000 to Kathleen and bequeathed his entire massive beer fortune to Cindy. That is pretty fucking harsh.

And now Cindy is only making things worse by telling people she was “an only child,” which is technically true, if you don’t count the kids her parents had with other people before they were married.

Oh and also Cindy and Kathleen are virtually neighbors, in that Kathleen and her impoverished retired husband live in a “modest home” in Phoenix, while Cindy and her massively wealthy Ferragamo-loving husband live in a dozen-ish baronial estates including one in Phoenix.

Cindy McCain’s half-sister: ‘I’m angry’ [The Swamp]
Cindy McCain’s Half Sister ‘Angry’ She’s Hidden [NPR]

{ 69 comments }

Cape Clod August 19, 2008 at 10:12 am

Oww. Older, homely and poor? Tough luck, alpha child.

jagorev August 19, 2008 at 10:12 am

The insinuation that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, would marry a rich trollopy cunt is outrageous.

Darehead August 19, 2008 at 10:14 am

Darn, I forget to look at the Onion half the time and I missed the Cootergate scandal. Is there any Cooter Beer left?

mothermaven August 19, 2008 at 10:17 am

OMG. Are you kidding? This may not be the most flattering pic, but she is certainly more attractive than Cindy-trollop with her hyper-tight face, makeup, scary eyes, and plastered hair. She is 11 year older than Cindy and I think she looks better without any work done.

ManchuCandidate August 19, 2008 at 10:18 am

Who the hell wouldn’t be angry? Half sis gets the ponies, the airplanes, the fame, the half witted tomcatting airdale husband and the money while she gets the fiscal equivalent of a T-shirt.

Yet shockingly, the older sis doesn’t look like the Cryptkeeper.

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 19, 2008 at 10:20 am

I wonder if Cindy is intending to invite the Portalksis to the inauguration.

Darehead August 19, 2008 at 10:21 am

[re=62809]mothermaven[/re]: Yeah, Cindy looks like a 72-year old trying to look 54, but oh wait, she is 54.

Doglessliberal August 19, 2008 at 10:22 am

[re=62802]Cape Clod[/re]: On the bright side, she has never had to sleep with John McCain.

2goats August 19, 2008 at 10:25 am

[re=62804]jagorev[/re]: FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!!! 5 1/2 YEARS!

4tehlulz August 19, 2008 at 10:26 am

The insinuation that Cindy McCain, married to a former prisoner of war, would have a half sister is outrageous.

AngryBlakGuy August 19, 2008 at 10:26 am

…who would have figured that a ice cold, home wrecking, oxycontin snorting, self absorbed, snow bitch wouldn’t care about her own sister?! Not me!

Gregory_of_Nazianzus August 19, 2008 at 10:29 am

[re=62824]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: And who would have figured that she came from such an illustrious homewrecking lineage!

confusionanddelay< August 19, 2008 at 10:29 am

[re=62817]Darehead[/re]: That’s what is so freaky looking about Cindy! She has that undernourished rich old lady look without actually being really really old.

O and I’m shocked that Cindy McCain’s dad was a coldhearted asshole. Daddy issues much?

Canuckledragger August 19, 2008 at 10:30 am

“And when their father (Jim Hensley) died, he left just $10,000 to Kathleen and bequeathed his entire massive beer fortune to Cindy.”

Well, of course. Hensley knew that Kathleen would just spend her inheritance on pills…

SuperRounder August 19, 2008 at 10:30 am

Only $10k? Damn Kathleen, what did you do? Marry a black dude?

Sussemilch August 19, 2008 at 10:31 am

It’s the old McCain family motto: First wives are just for practice.

Servo August 19, 2008 at 10:32 am

That means she is John’s half-cunt.

ProgHead777 August 19, 2008 at 10:37 am

Clearly Cindy inherited her Cruella De Vil-ness from her mother. This lady looks like my Aunt Nancy. Her smile radiates true joy while Cindy’s smile radiates… uhhh, radiation.

AngryBlakGuy August 19, 2008 at 10:37 am

…Kathleen Portalksi looks like that PTA mom that is always offering kids rides home and feeding them extremely high calorie/fatty foods. While Cindy reminds me of that self-absorbed stepmother who goes to her step kids soccer games with BAL of .22 and only really goes because the family counselor forced her to.

Cool2Snog August 19, 2008 at 10:41 am

Yeah, well, as Cindy will tell you, the trick is to be the second wife (or child thereof) and “family values” by d—-d!

itgetter August 19, 2008 at 10:44 am

[re=62833]Servo[/re]: half-cunt-in-law

/fixed

Kos August 19, 2008 at 10:50 am

Read the article. Hensley was a WWII pilot and was recovering in a hospital when he met Cindy’s mom and left his current wife and child

I think Cindy inherited a pilot/unfaithful husband fetish.

Mr Blifil August 19, 2008 at 10:50 am

I guess she’s living in a cone of silence.

Mr Blifil August 19, 2008 at 10:51 am

[re=62829]SuperRounder[/re]: Nah, prolly just smiled at one once…

freakishlystrong August 19, 2008 at 10:52 am

And agian, I point out, if this kind of revelation were to come to light with say, Michelle, it would be a 24/7 loop on the Teevee for two weeks with blaring headlines about “Family Values” and Musilim terrorists and shit.

Servo August 19, 2008 at 10:54 am

[re=62843]itgetter[/re]:
Danke.

Serolf Divad August 19, 2008 at 10:56 am

Wait… what’s this about Cindy McCain having a fortune? I thought the McCain’s were ordinary folk like you and me. Obama’s the elite one.

Doglessliberal August 19, 2008 at 10:57 am

[re=62852]freakishlystrong[/re]: but Michelle is a black Negro person, so it is more important.

Gopherit v2.0 August 19, 2008 at 11:04 am

Gotta love the way the Portalski’s found out they weren’t in the will…..the day after Gramps dies, Cindy cut their credit lines the fuck off! That’s the kind of fiscal responsibility we need in the White House.

sarcasticusername August 19, 2008 at 11:04 am

@Proghead777: what smile? she hasn’t been able to use her face muscles in years.

AngryBlakGuy August 19, 2008 at 11:06 am

[re=62852]freakishlystrong[/re]: [re=62858]Doglessliberal[/re]: …if it was Michelle, Sean Insanity would be going door to door with a monster hard-on shouting “5 and 1/2 years Alan!!!”

georgia_peach August 19, 2008 at 11:08 am

[re=62836]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: if by “because the family counselor forced her to”, you mean “because she is boning the soccer coach”, then I totally agree.

Monsieur Grumpe August 19, 2008 at 11:09 am

Kathleen Portalksi, welcome to the bitter side.

freakishlystrong August 19, 2008 at 11:10 am

[re=62864]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Sean Asshannity is a monster hard-on..[re=62858]Doglessliberal[/re]: Ahhh..racial transcendence

WadISay August 19, 2008 at 11:13 am

Daddy always said Cindy was a way better kisser.

AngryBlakGuy August 19, 2008 at 11:14 am

[re=62869]georgia_peach[/re]: …that too, thanks for the assist!

Doglessliberal August 19, 2008 at 11:21 am

[re=62874]freakishlystrong[/re]: True words, those, and he is slavering for the slightest sex-related rumor he can find about Hopey Obama because he is sure those people are all sexy sexed up and Obama must be off ravishing innocent white women somewhere.

Botswana Meat Commission FC August 19, 2008 at 11:30 am

True story: I have a wealthy aunt who one day thought she recognized her mailman. It turned out her semi-estranged brother (my Uncle) is now working the route through her neighborhood.

So I guess I can’t bust on the Cougar and her pride.

WIDTAP August 19, 2008 at 11:44 am

” Jim Hensley, who founded one of the nation’s largest beer distributorships in Phoenix, provided credit cards and college tuition to his grandchildren, and $10,000 gifts to Portalski and her husband, NPR reports. When Jim Hensley died in 2000, Portalski was named in his will, and she was left $10,000. Cindy McCain inherited his fortune and is chairman of the board of Hensley and Co.

So Cindy got the beer distributorship, and Kathleen just got food, clothes, college tuition for herself and her kids, the occasional $10k gift and a $10k inheritance.

Yep. Life is so unfair.

WhatTheHeck August 19, 2008 at 11:47 am

But she’s building, er, character.
I guess her limo turned into a pumpkin long ago.

Canuckledragger August 19, 2008 at 11:49 am

[re=62888]Doglessliberal[/re]: “Obama must be off ravishing innocent white women somewhere.”

Hey, that “ravishing innocent white women” thingie sounds way-fun. Where do I sign up?

I’ve ravished lots of white women, but I can’t find any “innocent” ones. Then again, not being a Republican, I don’t bone twelve year olds, so maybe that’s my problem?

ph7 August 19, 2008 at 11:51 am

I once dated a girl just for beer money, but McCain took it to an entirely different level.

ph7 August 19, 2008 at 11:55 am

[re=62869]georgia_peach[/re]: Stranger than fiction – my buddy’s 16-year old son moved out of his mom’s house and in with him after the son found out his alcoholic Mom was attending his football practice because she was boning the (married) coach.

Doglessliberal August 19, 2008 at 11:57 am

[re=62911]Canuckledragger[/re]: I think for them to be innocent these days, you need to go even younger, but unless you are a priest, coach, or Scout leader, that might be tough.

Cape Clod August 19, 2008 at 11:58 am

[re=62818]Doglessliberal[/re]: Good point. But not one that I care to think to deeply about at lunch time.

Perrys Mollycoddler August 19, 2008 at 12:00 pm

I love Republican family values. McCain’s first wife wasn’t good enough for him (she had been in a car wreck after all), so he marries the daughter of a guy whose first wife wasn’t good enough for him. Like Sussemilch said, first wives are just for practice….and for producing off-spring who will bitch and moan fifty years later, thus ensuring presidential victory. I mean, what presidential candidate without a screwed up sibling has ever won the White House? Barry better dig up that half-sister of his, stat.

S.Luggo August 19, 2008 at 12:07 pm

— The Portalski family is accustomed to hearing Cindy McCain described as Hensley’s only child. She’s been described that way by news organizations from The New Yorker and The New York Times to Newsweek and ABC. McCain herself routinely uses the phrase “only child,” as she did on CNN last month. “I grew up with my dad,” she said then. “I’m an only child. …” — Weep.

Oxy, it works magic on the memory. Compared to Cindy Lou, John is Marilyn Vos Savant.

Cape Clod August 19, 2008 at 12:09 pm

[re=62847]Kos[/re]: ‘Read the article. Hensley was a WWII pilot and was recovering in a hospital when he met Cindy’s mom and left his current wife and child.
I think Cindy inherited a pilot/unfaithful husband fetish.’

Or, Cindy knew the way to claim the lion’s share of the inheritance by validating her father’s behavior.

Oscar Folsom Cleveland August 19, 2008 at 12:10 pm

I did not know that Jim Hensley had spawned human children in addition to the one borne by an alien space lizardess.

There is a God after all, thank you Jeebus. Pass me a Bud, wontcha?

Not_So_Much August 19, 2008 at 12:16 pm

[re=62876]WadISay[/re]: Win.

boggart August 19, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Loved the Cooter story, as for Kathleen, she looks a bit, just a biy yoiu understand like puppy cloner Brennan McKinney who turned out to be Joyce McKinney the ex – beauty Queen who manacled a Mormon missionary to a bed and forced him to have sex with her back in 1977.

is there nothing this woman will not do to get in the papers?

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?memberId=23350&articleId=281474977416829&nav=MyGather

RuperttheBear August 19, 2008 at 12:34 pm

[re=62847]Kos[/re]: Cre e e e py. “I want to grow up to be the other woman. JUST LIKE MOMMY.”

HollowBrain August 19, 2008 at 12:35 pm

“some of the richest people I’ve known in my life are the most unhappy”-John McCain

Kingbee August 19, 2008 at 12:38 pm

[re=62843]itgetter[/re]: Half step cunt.

kudzu August 19, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Cunt.

snig August 19, 2008 at 12:52 pm

She looks like good people in the picture. I’m guessing her dad gave one sister the money, to the other he bequeathed the humanity. I doubt there was anything malicious in her stretching the truth, it’s probably just the “only child” phrase tested better than “favored sister who has 8 mansions to her name while not speaking to her half-sister Cinderella who votes Democrat and manages to make do with one house like 99% of regular Americans.” Though now that it’s out, I’m sure McCain’s people will amend the campaign websites to reflect that.

springfield_meltdown August 19, 2008 at 1:03 pm

I used to feel sort of sorry for Cindy with the husband who married her for her money and offered her up as Miss Buffalo Chip and being so lonely she had to buy an orphan for company. But going around claiming to be an only child is just cold.

georgia_peach August 19, 2008 at 1:13 pm

[re=62917]ph7[/re]: Yowza! Aren’t people wonderful? Makes me want to become a hermit/misanthrope.

CollegeStudent August 19, 2008 at 1:20 pm

[re=62806]Darehead[/re]: Well yeah, but its not beer, its malt liquor

lawrenceofthedesert August 19, 2008 at 1:21 pm

I’m so jealous of France; we get Kathleen Portalkski interviews and Saddleback, they get naked Carla Bruni photos. I’ll learn to like horsemeat, and off I’ll go. Oh, wait, maybe after the conventions there will be some real news. And the Cubs are in first place; I can’t leave now. And the dollar is worthless; I can’t afford horsemeat or a trip to Paris.

Schadenfried August 19, 2008 at 1:22 pm

[re=62817]Darehead[/re]: Wait, she’s not 46?

JSDC007 August 19, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Well, now we know what Cindy would look like without Botox and Walnut spittle.

peorgietirebiter August 19, 2008 at 2:42 pm

[re=62823]4tehlulz[/re]: 4tehlulz, yuk of the day for me… it does seem like “team johnny” is channeling lenny bruce.

peorgietirebiter August 19, 2008 at 2:51 pm

[re=62858]Doglessliberal[/re]: please be fair, she is not an “admitted negro” so as far as modern science has been able to determine, your assertion is a known unknowable.

vicuna August 19, 2008 at 3:07 pm

In a just world, SHE would be the swing vote and we can all forget about that awful Kevin Costner movie.

Wee Mousie August 19, 2008 at 3:12 pm

The Almost-Second Mrs. John-Boy “Cunt” McCain, if only Papa Hensley had believe in primogeniture.

Jingo August 20, 2008 at 12:27 am

Katheen Hensley actually got off easy. Jim Hensley’s 2nd wife, Marguerite, had a daughter from her previous marriage. So forget the half-sister who grew up with her mother. Why don’t we hear about the adopted sister who should have been growing up in the same house as Cindy? Because like hyenas in the wild, Cindy ate her rival sibling. Survival of the fittest = pure republican values… as long as it doesn’t imply that satanic concept of evolution.

trai_dep August 20, 2008 at 4:19 am

Ah, Family Values.
Can The Gays please start marrying? Because clearly The Straights have screwed it up beyond saving.

toastandlove August 20, 2008 at 9:11 am

HER HUSBAND WAS BEATEN EVERY DAY FOR FIVE AND A HALF YEARS

FIVE AND A HALF YEARS

FIVE AND A HALF YEARS

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