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May 21, 2008
New York Times Spins McCain's Vietnam Heroism
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 21, 2008 8:36 AM
Comments
Who would have thought that POW's had it so easy?
Posted by: Kevin at May 21, 2008 8:42 AM
Attacking McCain's service and his age are a couple of losing strategies.
Posted by: forest at May 21, 2008 9:09 AM
Sounds like McCain is a chickenhawk to me. /sarc
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 21, 2008 9:45 AM
Right, Kerry's faking of wounds to get his three-purple-hearts-and-you're-out ticket home was so much more noble than anything McCain did. Not to mention the scurrilous things Kerry did after his return.
Posted by: ent at May 21, 2008 10:49 AM
Imagine Pinch Sulzberger or Bill Keller in the Hanoi Hilton. Would they have lasted 5 years? Would they have refused an offer of release to remain with their fellow prisoners? Hardship for those two includes having to reschedule a dinner reservation at Tavern on the Green because the Tony Awards are happening the same night.
Posted by: Refuter Of Liberal Vermin at May 21, 2008 10:57 AM
"...McCain did not share the disillusioning and morally jarring experiences of soldiers like Kerry, Webb and Hagel..."
Without knowing much about the personal strength of Webb and Hagel, maybe McCain's character (and mule-headedness) is the reason for his having "come through" his imprisonment with a different perspective.
Posted by: on-the-rocks at May 21, 2008 11:51 AM
Its the New York Times, what else would anyone expect.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 21, 2008 11:51 AM
Anon's right. They can just keep it up and they will have "Zero" subscriptions before it's over. What a bunch of repugnitards.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at May 21, 2008 1:30 PM
So let's see, in the NY Times' galaxy, getting tortured, starved and beaten for five years is the easy way out, whereas getting a grain of rice in your butt and then scarpering home is the tough row to hoe. Good thing the North Vietnamese didn't get really tough on McCain and played Christina Aguilera records to him, but she hadn't been born yet, so McCain got off easy.
Also, that must be the same galaxy where treason is the highest form of patriotism, and is presumably where the real men don't play football, but join the band instead.
Sheesh.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 21, 2008 1:39 PM
"... who found themselves unable to recognize their enemy in the confusion of the jungle" of ultra-liberal* politics horrifying and deeply scarring those who never dared venture even so far as the boundaries of their villages of New York, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. for fear the enemy, with its plaid shirts and blue jeans that had not come pre-stressed, would take them prisoner - or worse.
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* ultra-liberal: yes, it's hard to understand, but not all liberals are complete eedjuts.
Posted by: teqjack at May 21, 2008 3:35 PM
I originally assumed that was a parody. To quote a hackneyed phrase, "You can't make this stuff up."
Posted by: avalon at May 22, 2008 7:58 AM
