[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

He wasn't quoted, but it was clear from the story that he did. I don't know why Conservatives are trying to defend this behavior. It's inappropriate under Obama, it would have been inappropriate under Bush. It's simply inappropriate.

[Brown Deer]

Conservatives are trying to defend this behavior.

I don't know of anyone who has defended his behavior, but there are many like you, that have made up stories about what he said.

It's simply inappropriate.

and what McCain did was not? For McCain to say that he himself bad mouthed his superior officers in public, and then turn around and say that it is inexcusable for others to do the same, is inexcusable.