Posted on 07/13/2008 12:17:15 AM PDT by Plutarch
Will this non-story lower my taxes or possibly lower the price of fuel and oil that everyone who drives a vehicle has to pay?
It is never a non-story if it involves the Black and Gold.
The point isn’t the importance of the story, it is that a MSM source is using material from FR without attribution.
Ping to Berlin_Freeper, who first posted the thread.
Anybody ever heard a preacher tell an anecdote from one congregation to another? And the story changes just a little? Politicians do it, too. I’ve even heard preachers pick up stories from other preachers and then they repeat the story as if they were telling their own first hand account. The point is often not the facts of the story but something else entirely. Ronald Reagan did it more than once.
Well, this is a non-story.
So in other words, a FReeper wants credit for putting Obama in the White House?
This rationalization does not apply here. And despite BigSky telling everyone it is a non-story, it is in fact a news story. It is a story because the whole point of mentioning his inspiration of the Pittsburgh Steelers was to endear himself to Western Pennsylvania. He has now managed to blow that up in his own face, and it didn't need to happen. It is one more stumble by a bumbling, unfocused campaign. That is a story, like it or not. McCain's minions, flunkies, and stooges will be out on the day after the election blaming everybody but themselves for losing an election they should be able to win with one hand tied behind their backs. If a FReeper hadn't pointed it out, someone else would have.
It’s only a news story for you and those who don’t have bigger things in their lives to worry about, like rising gas prices and the fact that the. Endearing oneself to Steelers fans is NOT what I would call headline news.
I remember watching the first Super Bowl. I don’t remember who was on the team but I know that the Diamondbacks won.
He would make a great Secretary of Veteran Affairs in Washington, D.C.
Does he like fried chicken?
I do.
Just my little contribution:
In the book “Honor Bound,” which covers all American POWs in Vietnam, in which McCain plays a rather small role and which was published in 1998; the authors claim it was the Green Bay Packers (pg 363).
In the other thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043062/posts) poster Plutarch points out that in his own book “Faith of My Fathers” (1999) McCain states:
“Eventually, I gave them my ship’s name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant. Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers’ offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron. When asked to identify future targets, I simply recited the names of a number of North Vietnamese cities that had already been bombed.” [Page 194*]
So it would appear that Green Bay was the original story.
dementia
“dementia”
There really are a lot of things in his behavior that suggest to me that he is having problems in this area.
Ah, but they take us dwellers of the “fever swamps” and subhuman. Why anything they take from us, it is like taking a banana from a monkey’s hand. The “human” can claim ownership. We are just swamp dwelling primates.
Why would he need a new version? I do not understand.
“So in other words, a FReeper wants credit for putting Obama in the White House?”
Wouldn’t that actually be the fault of those in the primaries that voted for Juan?
If McCain is re-writing his history for political effect, it’s a
sad thing, IMHO.
Because the real truth of what McCain and his colleagues (e.g.,
Col. Bud Day) endured at The Hanoi Hilton is a narrative that the
best screenwriter in Hollywood couldn’t conceive.
Stick to the simple truth, Senator McCain.
It will serve you better than any “story”.
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