FOX "News" Anchor: "John McCain doesn't like to talk about when he was a POW"

[Bluebear]

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Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, in an August 18 recap of the performances of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain at the August 16 Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency in California, said she thought "McCain was revealing a lot of his personal side" and asserted that "he doesn't like to talk about when he was a POW," repeating a false claim the media have advanced despite repeated references by McCain and his campaign to his experience as a prisoner of war.

Appearing after Obama at the forum, McCain said "the most gut-wrenching decision" he ever made was refusing an offer of early release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp ahead of POWs who had been in captivity longer than he had. On the August 18 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Carlson said of McCain's forum answers: "I thought for the first time John McCain was revealing a lot of his personal side. You know, he doesn't like to talk about when he was a POW or, for that matter, his religion."



http://mediamatters.org/items/200808190006?f=h_popular

[Lasher]

1. Right.

And Ghouliani hardly ever mentions 9/11.

[Tim4319]

2. He sure don't mine bring up his service during his speeches!

[donco6]

3. And Fox news anchors are lying shills. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

4. That is Pure BullShit

McSame LOVES to talk about his experiences as a POW

He doesn't want to be ASKED QUESTIONS about what happened when he was a POW

[Bluebear]

5. 'He doesn't want to be ASKED QUESTIONS about what happened when he was a POW'

EXACTLY!

[FreakinDJ]

8. Would love to see Obama use that "Hot Button" during debates

McSame would blow up on National TV

[liberal1973]

6. lol.. Mcbush always brings it up.

The lying or stupid faux news person knows this or should considering faux news is the sore on Mcbush's butt. :crazy:

[Naturyl]

7. He doesn't?

And I suppose Steve Irwin didn't like to talk about animals, either.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

9. " Doesn't like to talk about it ." Could of fooled me, also sounds

like he's putting himself up for sticking it out, you know strong moral fiber, good American traits. Never let you down, strong resolve, it works for Republicans.

[Oldtimeralso]

10. By the current administration's standards....

NOTHING HAPPENED, just an enhanced interrogation, shut up and read your urine soaked Koran

[redistributer]

11. Puhlease

John McCain does not like to talk about anything OTHER than his POW years.

[Contrary1]

12. "the most gut-wrenching decision"

For those who have not already read this, here is what someone who was there has to say.

"...Was he tortured for 5 years? No. He was subjected to torture and maltreatment during his first 2 years, from September of 1967 to September of 1969. After September of 1969 the Vietnamese stopped the torture and gave us increased food and rudimentary health care. Several hundred of us were captured much earlier. I got there April 20, 1965 so my bad treatment period lasted 4 1/2 years. President Ho Chi Minh died on September 9, 1969, and the new regime that replaced him and his policies was more pragmatic. They realized we were worth a lot as bargaining chips if we were alive. And they were right because eventually Americans gave up on the war and agreed to trade our POW's for their country. A damn good trade in my opinion! But my point here is that John allows the media to make him out to be THE hero POW, which he knows is absolutely not true, to further his political goals.

<snip>

John was offered, and refused, "early release." Many of us were given this offer. It meant speaking out against your country and lying about your treatment to the press. You had to "admit" that the U.S. was criminal and that our treatment was "lenient and humane." So I, like numerous others, refused the offer. This was obviously something none of us could accept. Besides, we were bound by our service regulations, Geneva Conventions and loyalties to refuse early release until all the POW's were released, with the sick and wounded going first."

The rest: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,164859_1,00.html

[fishwax]

13. John McCain was a POW?

:wow:

[IndianaGreen]

14. I like McCain's tale of the cross in the sand.

Particularly when the Hanoi Hilton had cement floors in the cells.


It was in a cell just like this that American Senator John McCain was held as a POW. I thought of him as we entered this dirty, dismal space.


American POWs would have exercised outside in this courtyard during the Vietnam War.


Here Nu and I are demonstrating the toilets used in the prison. The hole in the floor is barely visible just below us. This is actually a standard toileting set-up in Vietnam and wouldn't be considered unusual.

http://www.salemstate.edu/imc/vietnam/hilton.html

[opihimoimoi]

15. The man walks around with POW stiched on his SLEEVE, Back, and Front of Shirt.

[bushisanidiot]

16. SERIOUSLY?! hahaha! That's ALL McAsshole talks about!

he can't string two sentences together without mentioning "POW"

[NightWatcher]

17. noun+verb+ POW (or military service). He should pick Noun+Verb+911

[trof]

18. He just likes to mention it every time he can.

According to reports, there are good reasons he doesn't like to talk 'about' it.
:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

19. He'd rather stick needles in his eyes than talk about religion

and he'd knock down his 93 yr old Momma to get to a microphone so he could "not talk about the time he was a POW"..and to NOT tell us about the "cross in the dirt", or the time he told the guards he wanted to extend his stay..