Last weekend at the Values Voters Summit, Republican congressman Louie Gohmert took a swipe at John McCain as someone who’s “supported al-Qaeda,” and during an appearance on NBC Nightly News Wednesday night, McCain responded to the remark by dismissing Gohmert as someone of “no intelligence.” …

“Sometimes those–comments like that are made out of malice, but if someone has no intelligence I don’t view it as being a malicious statement.”