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Cindy McCain Has Secret Angry Half-Sister

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]


10:08 AM on Tue August 19 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. Cape Clod says at 10:12 am, August 19th, 2008

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

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

  3. Darehead says at 10:14 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  4. mothermaven says at 10:17 am, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  5. ManchuCandidate says at 10:18 am, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  6. The Incomparable Tiny Valdez says at 10:20 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  7. Darehead says at 10:21 am, August 19th, 2008

    mothermaven: Yeah, Cindy looks like a 72-year old trying to look 54, but oh wait, she is 54.

  8. Doglessliberal says at 10:22 am, August 19th, 2008

    Cape Clod: On the bright side, she has never had to sleep with John McCain.

  9. jagorev: FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!!! 5 1/2 YEARS!

  10. 4tehlulz says at 10:26 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  11. AngryBlakGuy says at 10:26 am, August 19th, 2008

    …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!

  12. Gregory_of_Nazianzus says at 10:29 am, August 19th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: And who would have figured that she came from such an illustrious homewrecking lineage!

  13. confusionanddelay< says at 10:29 am, August 19th, 2008

    Darehead: 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?

  14. Canuckledragger says at 10:30 am, August 19th, 2008

    “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…

  15. SuperRounder says at 10:30 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  16. Sussemilch says at 10:31 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  17. That means she is John’s half-cunt.

  18. ProgHead777 says at 10:37 am, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  19. AngryBlakGuy says at 10:37 am, August 19th, 2008

    …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.

  20. Cool2Snog says at 10:41 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  21. itgetter says at 10:44 am, August 19th, 2008

    Servo: half-cunt-in-law

    /fixed

  22. 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.

  23. Mr Blifil says at 10:50 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  24. Mr Blifil says at 10:51 am, August 19th, 2008

    SuperRounder: Nah, prolly just smiled at one once…

  25. freakishlystrong says at 10:52 am, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  26. itgetter:
    Danke.

  27. Serolf Divad says at 10:56 am, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  28. Doglessliberal says at 10:57 am, August 19th, 2008

    freakishlystrong: but Michelle is a black Negro person, so it is more important.

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

    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.

  30. sarcasticusername says at 11:04 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  31. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:06 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  32. georgia_peach says at 11:08 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  33. Monsieur Grumpe says at 11:09 am, August 19th, 2008

    Kathleen Portalksi, welcome to the bitter side.

  34. freakishlystrong says at 11:10 am, August 19th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Sean Asshannity is a monster hard-on..Doglessliberal: Ahhh..racial transcendence

  35. Daddy always said Cindy was a way better kisser.

  36. AngryBlakGuy says at 11:14 am, August 19th, 2008

    georgia_peach: …that too, thanks for the assist!

  37. Doglessliberal says at 11:21 am, August 19th, 2008

    freakishlystrong: 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.

  38. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 11:30 am, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  39. ” 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.

  40. WhatTheHeck says at 11:47 am, August 19th, 2008

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

  41. Canuckledragger says at 11:49 am, August 19th, 2008

    Doglessliberal: “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?

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

  43. georgia_peach: 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.

  44. Doglessliberal says at 11:57 am, August 19th, 2008

    Canuckledragger: 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.

  45. Cape Clod says at 11:58 am, August 19th, 2008

    Doglessliberal: Good point. But not one that I care to think to deeply about at lunch time.

  46. Perrys Mollycoddler says at 12:00 pm, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  47. — 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.

  48. Cape Clod says at 12:09 pm, August 19th, 2008

    Kos: ‘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.

  49. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 12:10 pm, August 19th, 2008

    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?

  50. Not_So_Much says at 12:16 pm, August 19th, 2008

    WadISay: Win.

  51. 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

  52. RuperttheBear says at 12:34 pm, August 19th, 2008

    Kos: Cre e e e py. “I want to grow up to be the other woman. JUST LIKE MOMMY.”

  53. HollowBrain says at 12:35 pm, August 19th, 2008

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

  54. itgetter: Half step cunt.

  55. Cunt.

  56. 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.

  57. springfield_meltdown says at 1:03 pm, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  58. georgia_peach says at 1:13 pm, August 19th, 2008

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

  59. CollegeStudent says at 1:20 pm, August 19th, 2008

    Darehead: Well yeah, but its not beer, its malt liquor

  60. lawrenceofthedesert says at 1:21 pm, August 19th, 2008

    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.

  61. Schadenfried says at 1:22 pm, August 19th, 2008

    Darehead: Wait, she’s not 46?

  62. JSDC007 says at 1:42 pm, August 19th, 2008

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

  63. peorgietirebiter says at 2:42 pm, August 19th, 2008

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

  64. peorgietirebiter says at 2:51 pm, August 19th, 2008

    Doglessliberal: 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.

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

  66. Wee Mousie says at 3:12 pm, August 19th, 2008

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

  67. 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.

  68. trai_dep says at 4:19 am, August 20th, 2008

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

  69. toastandlove says at 9:11 am, August 20th, 2008

    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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