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[Full Metal Jacket actor Matthew] Modine: McCain was a bad P.O.W.!
dcexaminer.com ^ | 28 Aug 08 | Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin

Posted on 09/03/2008 7:01:06 AM PDT by seanmerc

We ran into actor Matthew Modine (remember "Full Metal Jacket"?!?) at Denver's La Rumba restaurant and, while the Obama supporter had plenty to say about John McCain's policies, he also had plenty of critiques of McCain's military service -- a topic that almost no one dares denounce.

"I mean, he got shot down three times!" said Modine, taking on one of McCain's most lauded personal accomplishments. "That's not success!" While on a bombing mission over North Vietnam, McCain was shot down and held as a prisoner of war. When McCain's father was named commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, the future Arizona senator was offered an early release, but rejected it because his captors would not also released his fellow American P.O.W.s.

That kind of loyalty has earned McCain endless accolades, but Modine thinks that McCain's rejection of the release offer is yet another example of McCain's shortcomings. "And he wasn't even a good prisoner of war," said Modine. "He should have left as soon as he could. That's what you're supposed to do as a prisoner of war: Leave when you can. It defeats the enemy. It makes them look bad and it weakens them."


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To: seanmerc

How could anybody listen to such jack-assery without immediately slapping the offending moron upside the head?


61 posted on 09/03/2008 7:22:40 AM PDT by gridlock (John McCain wants you to know... It's OK to vote against Barack Obama!)
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To: seanmerc

This fellow is a good example of Hacklehead’s theorum: Celebrities are generally contemptible, and their contemptibility is largely proportional to their degree of celebrity.

Modine is an overachiever in contemptability.


62 posted on 09/03/2008 7:22:40 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: seanmerc
Private Joker? If he's not careful I'll Sick Animal Mother on him. (Adam Baldwin, no relation to the idiot Baldwin Family and a staunch Republican!)


63 posted on 09/03/2008 7:22:45 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: AmericaUnited

You mean you were serious?
Oops—just thought I’d join in the humour.
Sorry bout dat.


64 posted on 09/03/2008 7:22:56 AM PDT by gunnyg
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To: Iron head mike

Come on, he wore the uniform—in a movie. Doesn’t that count?


65 posted on 09/03/2008 7:23:08 AM PDT by seanmerc
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To: FormerACLUmember

“The media has apparently been rummaging through the long list of washed up brain dead actors “

Speaking of which, hasn’t Tim Robbins been uncharacteristically quiet?


66 posted on 09/03/2008 7:23:15 AM PDT by Salamander (McCain/Palin 2008....Plenty of brass to go around.)
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To: Red6

Well, it convinced me.
I’m voting for Obama.
He’s *never* been shot down.

:)


67 posted on 09/03/2008 7:24:41 AM PDT by Salamander (McCain/Palin 2008....Plenty of brass to go around.)
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To: retrokitten
B-list is generous. He’s an ass.

A Sean Penn wannabe. I used to like this actor's work. What a puppet.

68 posted on 09/03/2008 7:24:59 AM PDT by b9 ("Maybe you should revisit your assumption..." ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

it’s a good thing breathing is an involuntary reflex, or he would be dead...


69 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:12 AM PDT by joe fonebone (The Second Amendment is the Constitutions reset button)
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To: seanmerc

I wonder what his military service consisted of?


70 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:15 AM PDT by DOGEY
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To: gunnyg

No it was funny how bad the spelling was in that one. I was really steamed and so just let loose...


71 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:55 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: SteamShovel

“The same people lauded Kerry’s three (was it?) bandaid medals.”

You leave John Kerry alone!

Hangnails REALLY hurt!

[did you know he was in Viet Nam?]

;]


72 posted on 09/03/2008 7:26:25 AM PDT by Salamander (McCain/Palin 2008....Plenty of brass to go around.)
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To: evets

“”Love the beard, Matt... good look... Excelsior!”
From the ways al’s gazing at him, I think that should be
“Ekthelthior!


73 posted on 09/03/2008 7:26:48 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: seanmerc

Hollyweird is always trying to rewrite history to fit their politics.


74 posted on 09/03/2008 7:27:00 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
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To: seanmerc

"What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?"

75 posted on 09/03/2008 7:27:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Thank God Football is Back! Go Gators!)
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To: seanmerc

“Private Joker, you’re still a s**thead.”

76 posted on 09/03/2008 7:27:32 AM PDT by RichInOC (...R. Lee Ermey, a role model for us all.)
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To: Gamecock
"That’s what happens in war you idiot."

I guess he has no problem with John F'n Kerry's three Purple Hearts received for Abrasions by Rice Kernels.

77 posted on 09/03/2008 7:27:56 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: AmericaUnited

In case you haven’t noticed, I leave at least one obvious f/u
in all of my posts....just fer positive id. But there are emposters out there.


78 posted on 09/03/2008 7:28:50 AM PDT by gunnyg
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To: kabar

You would have better luck explaining radio waves to a pig than explaing a Code of Conduct to a celebu-tard.


79 posted on 09/03/2008 7:29:25 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: seanmerc

Im sure Im not alone on this...MY BLOOD IS BOILING.


80 posted on 09/03/2008 7:29:42 AM PDT by rrrod
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