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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said HBO's upcoming movie "Game Change" is disrespectful to his former running mate Sarah Palin and that the book that the movie script is based on is "unfair and untrue."

"I won't watch it. I know it's based on a book that's totally unfair and untrue, especially to Sarah Palin. I want to repeat if I could my admiration and appreciation for Sarah Palin, she energized our party ... she energized more people than I did. She's a good and decent person and this continuing maligning of her by the liberal left is reprehensible to me," McCain said during an appearance on the "Kilmeade and Friends" radio show.

The Arizona lawmaker went on to suggest that liberals were pouring salt in the wound of the 2008 election.

"You've gotten your revenge, you won. I say that to the liberal left. You won. Can't you at least give her some respect, a person who ran hard, who did what she believes in, who energized our Republican base,! instead of trying to continue to malign her, a good and decent family person and someone who I will always appreciate?"

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