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WAIT, MCCAIN WAS A POW!?
Watching the Saddleback Forum, Fox's Gretchen Carlson was struck by John McCain's uncommon vulnerability. "I thought for the first time John McCain was revealing a lot of his personal side," she said. "You know, he doesn't like to talk about when he was a POW."
It's true, he really doesn't. I remember, for instance, the grueling months of investigative reporting Jonathan Chait had to undertake in order to learn that McCain had been in Vietnam, much less spent years in captivity. Months spent unearthing, and reading, books John McCain had written about himself, and 12,000 word articles he'd penned on his captivity for US News and World Report, and jokes he'd told about his time spent "tied up," and commercials he'd approved with photos of him from prison. Truly, Chait is the Woodward of our time.
COMMENTS (5)
McCain also doesn't like to talk about how he's running for president. You know, it makes him uncomfortable. And you know, he doesn't like to talk about his marriage to multi-millionaire beer heiress . . . oh, wait, he actually doesn't like to talk about that.
Posted by: Kevin S. Willis | August 20, 2008 11:21 AM
Yes, it's far better to have a candidate who's written not one, but two autobiographies while still having accomplished essentially nothing in his life.
Posted by: Scott | August 20, 2008 11:23 AM
Better to have written two autobiographies than have had ghostwritten six of them.
Posted by: David B. | August 20, 2008 4:15 PM
Chait did need to obtain internet access after all, didn't he? Let's put him on McCain's wife's income return.
Posted by: asl | August 20, 2008 5:15 PM
I can't wait for Obama to pen a book...I mean once he's actually accomplished something.
Obama book:
"There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. "A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
McCain:
When he was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, "I told you I would make you a cripple."
The break was designed to shatter Mr. Day's will. He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again. To kill that hope, the Vietnamese left part of a bone sticking out of his arm, and put him in a misshapen cast. This was done so that the arm would heal at "a goofy angle," as Mr. Day explained. Had it done so, he never would have flown again.
But it didn't heal that way because of John McCain. Risking severe punishment, Messrs. McCain and Day collected pieces of bamboo in the prison courtyard to use as a splint. Mr. McCain put Mr. Day on the floor of their cell and, using his foot, jerked the broken bone into place. Then, using strips from the bandage on his own wounded leg and the bamboo, he put Mr. Day's splint in place.
Years later, Air Force surgeons examined Mr. Day and complimented the treatment he'd gotten from his captors. Mr. Day corrected them. It was Dr. McCain who deserved the credit. Mr. Day went on to fly again.
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Ooops sorry, McCain did write that story in his 1973 article...therefore according to Andrew Sullivan, these events never happened.
I think we know now why Andrew doesn't let people respond to his ridiculous blog posts..
Posted by: Anonymous | August 20, 2008 8:11 PM