"Well, crying isn't gonna bring your dog back . . . unless your tears smell like dog food. So you can either sit there crying and eating can after can of dog food until your tears smell enough like dog food to make your dog come back or you can go out there and find your dog."
- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
From Sky News:
The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette.As a side note, I think the first sentence of the article is ridiculous: "The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette." First off, the video just portrays McCain as he was at that time, a man struggling through pain, loneliness and, I would imagine, great fear and doubt, and it doesn't appear to me to be making a statement one way or another regarding his heroism. The cigarette comment is an anachronism from our more finicky culture. The guy's a POW, for crying out loud.
In the footage an emotional and shirtless McCain passes a message to his wife saying he will get well and loves her.
He also describes being shot down over Hanoi in 1967, and parachuting into a lake.
At times, when speaking of his family, McCain's lower lip trembles and his voice breaks.
The ending of the video is heart-wrenching, especially when you realize he will be in prison for another five years. As everyone knows, McCain later divorced his wife under less than honorable circumstances, but you can tell that his love for her and longing for her at this point is genuine.
Regardless of your political persuasion, this is worth watching, especially when one realizes that along with John McCain there were many, many other men suffering similarly.
[H/T Drudge]
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Comments on "Footage of John McCain as a POW":
4. Bill
- 10/23/2008 6:39 am CDT
It's not, really, and that's why the first sentence of this article is so weird.
5. Nathan (British)
- 10/23/2008 6:50 am CDT
Not wishing to detract from the rest of the video, but that first sentence is like something out of the Simpsons! It reminds me of the episode where Marge is told a particular prisoner is in Springfield Penitentiary for "erecting a Nativity scene on public property", and she says, "It's hard to believe there's so much evil in the world."
You had to be there, perhaps. Anyway.
6. Jared
- 10/23/2008 7:52 am CDT
The media is a parody of themselves now.
I looked at a USA Today two days ago that had two small pics of the nominees next to each other on the front. The one of Obama showed his profile, looking into the sun, Hillary Clinton behind him in support. The one of McCain was some candid shot of an awkward face and his hands lifted and cocked weirdly.
The people who make these decisions and write things like the cigarette line are jerks telegraphing their bias because it doesn't matter any more. It is popular to hate McCain, and so they know they can abandon all pretense of journalistic propriety.
7. Les
- 10/23/2008 8:02 am CDT
The stupidity of these writers is beyond surreal. And good on inklingstar. You don't see ANY criticism of Obama, serious or otherwise. Smoking a cigarette apparently trumps Ayers, Wright, Rezco, and sociopathic lying.
Nathan (British): LOL. Exactly. The Simpsons. There are many days I feel like we're living in a cartoon.
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"The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette."
That is the most agonizingly idiotic thing I have ever read. If putting a person in the stocks were still a punishment, a good month there would a sufficient payment for that horrendous crime of stupidity.