The Swiftboating of John McCain
Next up from the New York Times: As a POW, was John McCain really tortured as severely as he claims? Did he truly resist to the best of his ability as required by UCMJ. Anonymous former fellow prisoners claim he occasionally gave them the impression he was colluding with the enemy and even signed a "confession". After talking to one disgruntled POW, who was at the Hanoi Hilton for a short time with McCain, the NYT launched an exhaustive investigation of these claims including sending four of their top journalists to Viet Nam. Their report concludes that McCain may have gotten "too close" with his captors, possibly resulting in less frequent beatings and likely allowing him to survive and fight another day. Despite concerns by their NYT editor, the now famous journalists involved in this investigation believe they really nailed this one. In fact, a copy of the"confession" addressed to the government of the United States and clearly signed by POW McCain will soon be posted on the NYT web site.
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TLM
My first instinct was that you were making the whole thing up and then I noticed your "satire" tag. I was thinking no one could be dumb enough to write such a story about John McCain (again). I wish they would. He would(and probably will) win the election in a landslide.
Welcome to BFJM TLM.
Just to make things clear, here are some of the facts about John's POW years.
In August of 1968, a program of vigorous torture methods began on McCain, using rope bindings into painful positions, and beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[52][47] Teeth and bones were broken again, as was McCain's spirit; the beginning of a suicide attempt was stopped by guards.[47] After four days of this, McCain signed and taped[62] an anti-American propaganda "confession" that said he was a "black criminal" and an "air pirate",[47] although he used stilted Communist jargon and ungrammatical language to signal that the statement was forced.[57] He felt then and always that he had dishonored his country, his family, his comrades and himself by his statement,[63] but as he would later write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."[
Swiftboating
As a McCain supporter and subscriber to the NYT I was very disappointed in their article. Truly shoddy investigative journalism, confusingly written and seems more a vehicle to rehash Keating Five than to prove a new case (and one now eight years old). There must be some other (political) reason for publishing that article. Sorry about the poor attempt at satire, but nothing in journalism would surprise me anymore. JM may yet be Swiftboated. Glad to see that readers like you are watching.
P.S. John McCain has never dishonored his country.
TLM
Welcome TLM
TLM,
Welcome to Blogs for John McCain! I did not catch the satire tag, and was just beside myself reading your post. I'm so glad it was satire!
What is sad is that I am confident such a pathetic attack will come. The opposition will literally stop at nothing to try and win. That's why sites like this are so needed to keep pumping out the truth about McCain and the opposition.
Swiftboating redux
The NYT has been duly castigated by members of their own profession for this shoddy article on McCain. I am perplexed as to why they chose to publish it, especially as the story was being "investigated" while they endorsed McCain as the Republican nominee. Speculating is allowed in this situation, and therefore I propose it was designed to help Hillary Clinton. Unlike Obama, she trails McCain in head to head polls, a fact not lost on Democratic voters who may lean toward Clinton, but more than anything else want to win in November. The NYT, I believe, clearly favors Clinton for president and their article on McCain may have been an attempt to revive her chances for the Democratic nomination. Her campaign is desperate and may itself try to make McCain appear more vulnerable to a Clinton candidacy, including Swiftboating by proxy (there is a group of anti-McCain VietNam vets who support her). We must be vigilant.
TLM