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1 posted on 07/19/2015 1:09:03 PM PDT by jimbo123
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WaPo lies!

Sharyl Attkisson: Washington Post Smeared Donald Trump; Misrepresented His Comments on John McCain

2 posted on 07/19/2015 1:11:18 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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Trump’s on dangerous ground here. Better to say McCain is respected for coming through detention and torture. However, McCain didn’t exactly have a great record in action. And, his involvement with the Keating Five was truly pathetic. There’s also the way he dumped the first wife who waited for him thru the war for a younger, richer one whose family wealth could support his political ambitions.


3 posted on 07/19/2015 1:11:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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The reporters need to ask Sen. McCain what he had done for veterans lately.


4 posted on 07/19/2015 1:12:25 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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is he running against the Dems - or the Repubs? it is getting to be quite unclear.


5 posted on 07/19/2015 1:15:20 PM PDT by avital2
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TRUMPs right
The True Military Record of John McCain Written by an Active Marine
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THE TRUE MILITARY RECORD OF JOHN MCCAIN WRITTEN BY AN ACTIVE MARINE.
9/03/08

McCain has never really earned anything. He is from a wealth pampered background and not fit to lead this nation.

A “war hero” doesn’t finished 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates.

A “war hero” doesn’t crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions.

A “war hero” doesn’t get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years.
A “war hero” doesn’t get promoted to squadron commander of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane. A “war hero” doesn’t have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed “as a matte r of national security.” A “war hero” doesn’t get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact “for bravery” for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because he’s the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals. A “war hero” doesn’t repeatedly cheat on the wife who’s back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her.
A “war hero” doesn’t systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career, all the while claiming to be “the soldier’s Congressman,” and then take credit for the passage of a G.I. benefits bill he that voted AGAINST. A “war hero” McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom. McCain’s second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. “Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula,” Timberg wrote, “he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.”
McCain’s third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg reported that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” and went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees. McCain’s fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms an d a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi. For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals. “McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,” explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. “Since McCain got 28 medals,” Bell continues, “that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys — grunts on the ground — who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison
The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down.” For years, McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an overly friendly and biased news media. The former POW turned Congressman, turned U.S. Senator, has managed to gloss over his failures as a pilot by exaggerating his military service and lying about his feats of heroism. McCain has sprouted a halo and wings to become America’s POW-hero presidential candidate.
This article was written by an active, unnamed Marine. It was published by Gale Toensing founder of the Corner Report.com and she sent it to me. It is a true account of McCain’s real war record and evidence of his lack of fitness for the office of President.


6 posted on 07/19/2015 1:17:14 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obam5a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?;)
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My pet conspiracy theory - Trump is in it to dilute the anti-Bush vote. Trump wants Hillary or Jeb to be president. They’re peas out of the same pod, so it doesn’t matter which one wins.

I like what Trump is saying, but I don’t trust him.


7 posted on 07/19/2015 1:19:33 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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‘’Really offensive.” Bush tweeted, “Enough with the slanderous attacks.”

He must be referring to McCain calling the thousands of people at Trump’s Phoenix rally “Crazies”.


9 posted on 07/19/2015 1:20:37 PM PDT by aquila48
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The others are not saying anything about the opposition, you know the democrats. They need to ignore Donald Trump and start explaining how the democrat party is tearing apart the country. Point out how the corrupt news media is helping.


14 posted on 07/19/2015 1:23:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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This isn't as cut and dried as the GOPe would like it to be.

Trump isn't going to just fold up from the standard "shame on you" that terrifies most of the Ruling RINOs in D.C. land.

I don't think all of the media is following the playbook either.

This morning on Fox & Friends Frank Luntz was doing his best to appear "troubled" over not only the disparaging remarks about a "true hero" (McCain), but also the open hostilities among the (R) candidates. He was droaning on about this and Tucker Carlson listened a bit and then just took him apart. Carlson really worked him over. Anna and Clayton mostly just listened but Luntz was reduced to sitting there shaking his head.

I'm starting to like Carlson more every time I see him.

17 posted on 07/19/2015 1:25:46 PM PDT by skimbell
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McCain started this himself. He thinks it’s ok for him to disparage other repubs and he should be untouched. Now he will let the media cry tears to everyone on his behalf. How I hope AZ picks another for Senator.


30 posted on 07/19/2015 1:45:23 PM PDT by Hattie
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Trump should immediately issue the following apology:

"I apologize for using an old joke that liberal Democrats used against McCain when he was running for president in 2000 and 2008. I realize now that Democrats intended the line as a mean spirited attack on veterans, something that I never intended.

I promise never again to act like a Democrat."

37 posted on 07/19/2015 1:51:59 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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“It’s all Trump, all the time,” said Matt Strawn, the former Iowa GOP chairman. For candidates still introducing themselves to voters... Strawn said, “it is all but impossible for them to cut through the Trump noise.”

We know who the professional political candidates. No need for them to, "Introduce themselves"

51 posted on 07/19/2015 2:19:25 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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McCain and the POW Cover-Up: The 'war hero' candidate buried information about POWs left behind...
The American Conservative ^ | July 1, 2010 | Sydney Schanberg
55 posted on 07/19/2015 2:34:00 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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I have had it with this ogre face loser refer to me as “crazies” and “hobbits” I will post and tell all this stuff I’m finding out about this loser today to all who will read and listen. Scott walker may not know if gay is choice but I know I have a choice to help unelect the insane


56 posted on 07/19/2015 2:34:35 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Romans 1:18-32 ..............God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things.....)
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TRUMP=TRUTH


58 posted on 07/19/2015 2:51:04 PM PDT by maddogtiger
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No hard to figure out.

With progressives driving hard left, left of center to right of center is all wide open for GOP candidates. There aren’t very many moderate Democrats.

That leaves a whole lot of GOP running from left of Center (Rino), with the bulk of the party’s power drifting leftward, and they’re falling all over themselves to be Conservative and Politically correct — which doesn’t work well.

So as far as I see it, Cruz is anchoring the right of Center with everybody else trending towards the left. Trump is a blank card. I think he’s shooting for Time’s man of the year.

As for Trump running a 3rd party? Doesn’t guarantee a win for Clinton. John Anderson tried the 3rd party run vs Reagan and Carter matchup and Reagan still managed to win a definitive landslide.

Cruz is the most Reagan like at this point, but he needs to raise his ‘likability’ factor, he seems to have the personality for it.


65 posted on 07/19/2015 3:02:56 PM PDT by Fhios (I hope Trump can keep us entertained for the next 6 months.)
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Hmm. So now it’s TRUMP who has “taken down” McCain.


66 posted on 07/19/2015 3:15:13 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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