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Fox Business guest says torture ‘worked’ on 'Songbird' John McCain
The Washington Post ^ | May 10, 2018 | Erik Wemple

Posted on 05/10/2018 12:52:20 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: shotgun

Thanks for the kind words...it’s been so many, many years ago but still feels like it was just yesterday.

Anyway....back to “Chuck”

“All Of ‘Chuck’ Just Surprised Dropped On Amazon Prime”

https://decider.com/2018/05/03/all-of-chuck-just-surprised-dropped-on-amazon-prime/

With a free Prime 30-day trial, I think I’ll be Chuck binging...again. HD and SD quality available.


81 posted on 05/10/2018 4:12:55 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Trump20162020

Shameless McCain...
They’ll still bury him at Arlington too.


82 posted on 05/10/2018 4:22:16 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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To: Trump20162020

WaPo discredits the ‘songbird’ scenario with this:

“As PolitiFact has noted, there’s no evidence for the claim that McCain betrayed his country in captivity.”

Which was a 2008 article.

Since then new evidence has been revealed.

https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2016/08/09/mccains-victims-may-be-vindicated-by-hanoi-hilton-songbird-audio/

By: ADI News Services August 9, 2016

“In 2008, Politifact determined that the Vietnam veterans who claimed that Sen. McCain was a traitor and a “Hanoi Hilton songbird” were “Pants on Fire wrong.” The press gave McCain a pass and attempted to destroy his critics.

“Now, a recording of McCain has been uncovered that appears to support those claims.”

“Still, the National Archives does show an entry on its website that appears to support Wiles’ and Johnson’s claims. The ADI is in the process of securing a copy of the recording from the National Archives.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqtrhoIbXIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkBiFZBix0

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3653434/posts?page=154#154


83 posted on 05/10/2018 4:45:54 PM PDT by Kent C
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To: Trump20162020
Need we detail just how depraved it is to say something of this sort about a veteran who has served his country his entire life?

Um, that statement requires a response considering it is referring to (among a number of other things) a member of the criminal Keating Five who not only walked free, but was allowed to remain as a scumbag, backstabbing member of the Senate for another 30 years while consistently and actively working against the interests of his constituents and his country.

Sorry, but a terminal disease does not absolve this man of his evil deeds. If it did we would all die saints.

84 posted on 05/10/2018 4:50:12 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: WalterSkinner

Why does Payne have a problem with the truth? McCain collaborated with the enemy. He admitted it himself. It’s about time people quit lying about him and tell the truth. He was a terrible Navy Officer and a equally terrible senator. He hated veterans and treated them with contempt. Another fact.


85 posted on 05/10/2018 5:04:39 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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To: Trump20162020
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 matter 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 and 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.

86 posted on 05/10/2018 5:21:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Trump20162020

More on McLame: http://www.vvof.org/mccain_hides.htm


87 posted on 05/10/2018 5:25:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Trump20162020
And finally:

To the Vietnamese people and the government of the DRVN: From John Sidney McCain, 624787, Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy, born 29 August, 1936, Panama, home state Oregon. Shot down 26 October, 1967, A-4E aircraft. I, as a U.S. airman, am guilty of crimes against the Vietnamese country and people. I bombed their cities, towns and villages and caused many injuries, even deaths, for the people of Vietnam. I was captured in the capital city of Hanoi, while attacking it. After I was captured, I was taken to the hospital in Hanoi, where I received very good medical treatment. I was given an operation on my leg, which allowed me to walk again, and a cast on my right arm, which was badly broken in three places. The doctors were very good and they knew a great deal about the practice of medicine. I remained in the hospital for some time and regained much of my health and strength. Since I arrived in the camp of detention, I received humane and lenient treatment. I received this kind treatment and food even though I came here as an aggressor and the people who I injured have much difficulty in their living standards. I wish to express my deep gratitude for my kind treatment and I will never forget this kindness extended to me.

88 posted on 05/10/2018 5:29:00 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: edie1960
We have gone from FDR’s internment camps to Truman’s dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Eisenhower’s mass deportations to quibbling over waterboarding.


Exactly. Posturing and quibbling over waterboarding three hardened terrorists, including one of the masterminds of 9/11.
89 posted on 05/10/2018 5:45:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
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To: bitt

Songbird John McCain was one of the few Republicans that voted for John Brennan.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/11/politics/john-brennan-defends-cia-after-torture-report/index.html


90 posted on 05/10/2018 6:43:20 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Trump20162020

Payne screwed up by apologizing!

Who you gonna believe? A retired four-star or a songbird?


91 posted on 05/10/2018 8:06:48 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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Bingo!

McCain’s arm weren’t broken by torture. Many fellow naval officers suffered far worse punishment by the VC and didn’t suffer McCain’s arm injuries. It is strongly suspected McCain broke his arms when he ditched his plane after being shot down. And then parlayed his preferential treatment at Hanoi Hilton into hero status and a career, all-talk, do-nothing, skirt-the-law bureaucrat.

Few will shed tears when your song ends, Songbird.


92 posted on 05/10/2018 10:03:32 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
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To: JME_FAN

Save your piss. McCain isn’t worth the whizz


93 posted on 05/10/2018 10:05:11 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
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To: Trump20162020

Take a dirt nap Juan, please ...you traitor ...


94 posted on 05/12/2018 10:21:57 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth
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To: Trump20162020

“Songbird” is a parrot who parrots lefty talking lines and thinks like one.


95 posted on 05/28/2018 11:10:36 AM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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