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May 21, 2008
New York Times Spins McCain's Vietnam Heroism
Posted by Dave Blount at May 21, 2008 8:36 AM
Despite John McCain's many serious flaws on issues like border defense, free speech, and the potentially disastrous global warming hoax, there is one thing no one can fail to admire: the awe-inspiring heroism he demonstrated in Vietnam, where he essentially volunteered for years of torture at the hands of communist goons.
Did I say no one? I forgot about the New York Times, which tries to spin McCain's service against him:
McCain's comrades in the Senate will not talk about this publicly. They are wary of seeming to denigrate McCain's service, marked by his legendary endurance in a Hanoi prison camp, when in fact they remain, to this day, in awe of it. And yet in private discussions with friends and colleagues, some of them have pointed out that McCain, who was shot down and captured in 1967, spent the worst and most costly years of the war sealed away, both from the rice paddies of Indochina and from the outside world. During those years, McCain did not share the disillusioning and morally jarring experiences of soldiers [and moonbats] like Kerry, Webb and Hagel, who found themselves unable to recognize their enemy in the confusion of the jungle; he never underwent the conversion that caused Kerry, for one, to toss away some of his war decorations during a protest at the Capitol. Whatever anger McCain felt remained focused on his captors, not on his own superiors back in Washington.
In other words, McCain was so distracted by the communists breaking off his teeth at the gumline that he didn't notice that America is the bad guy. Those communists' ally John Kerry, who piddled around in Vietnam for a few months, then went home to denounce American soldiers as war criminals, suffered no such distractions.
Liberals are right that no one should question their patriotism. Their lack of it is beyond question.
Hat tip: NewsBusters; on a tip from Cheetah.
