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

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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."



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