George Stephanopoulos has an upcoming interview with John McCain and there are questions about whether he’ll ask McCain any tough questions or if Stephanie’s going to pick up a pair of small kneepads before the date.
The ABC standard when questioning Democratic candidates is just random stuff they saw on the Internet, so I await the questions about John McCain’s role in the USS Forrestall fire, John McCain making enemy propaganda, or perhaps John McCain’s adultery and the use of his trophy wife’s money to finance his political life.
I’m not making these allegations. I’m just repeating stuff I found on the Internet. In fact the only one I know to honestly be true is the tale of him ditching his wife for Cindy McCain and her using her money to keep his campaigns afloat.
Can I be a “journalist” now, Mom?
Never gonna happen. I’d love someone to ask him why he was taken off of the Forestall along with the wounded.
It’s because he started the fire, that’s why. Every squid knows that.
The question on voters’ minds: There are rumors, Senator McCain, that you were one of the unnamed individuals involved in the Mickey Kaus goat=blowing scandal. Do you, Senator McCain, both reject AND denounce goat=blowing?
Oliver:
You are not going to like this:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/189807.php
It seems ABC was really trying to do a hit job. You are right though. We’ll see what questions George asks McBush. I am betting that George brings his knee pads.
That was brilliant, Oliver. It made me laugh.
I second Vanessa. Excellent.
They never ask him about the Keating 5, leaving his first wife after she was disfigured in an accident, the 8 houses and 100 million net worth, writing the letter to let Paxson own the Pittsburgh public access station
I’d love someone to ask him why he was taken off of the Forestall along with the wounded.
It’s because he started the fire, that’s why. Every squid knows that.
There you go again. I’d like to know why he was taken off the Forrsetall too, but he did not cause the disaster.
Even if McNovoCain did “wet-start” his plane, the Zuni missile that hit him came from the front, from a plane parked on the other side of the deck, as a result of an electrical short.
Am I to infer from this that pilots and/or the captain of the ship get to decide what type of ordnance is put on their planes? Or does the McCain in question refer to Adm. McCain?
But I digress..
I heard McNovoCain had a black love child too…:-O
No way is he going to be asked anything more controversial than last night’s sports scores.
“Senator McCain, One of the issues on the minds of many Americans today is, what is your position regarding chocolate sprinkles versus rainbow sprinkles?”
Take it easy on the guy. He’s 72, doesn’t know much about economics and is happy enough with the US occupying Iraq for the next hundred years. The guy is just as suited for the presidency as bush.
Oh yes. With sprinkes!!
The guy is just as suited for the presidency as bush.
Perhaps moreso. He knows he’s old and out of touch.
Hey, buma, where you been?
McSame should be asked: “Hey, Mac, why did your wife, Cindi, stole drugs from the volunteer organization she worked in, and was arrested. See CNN archives – they did a report on the Candidates’ wives…(The Repubs used this on him in 2002).
And, hey, Bombbomb, why did your wife Cindi, stole Rachael Ray’s recipies and posted them as hers on her website thisweek under the heading of “Cindi’s recepies.” After this was known the recepies were immediately yanked from her website. Campaign folks said it was done by a “low-level employee…yeah, sure… (Suppose Michelle Obama had done that…all hell would have broken loose,) and disqualify Mr. Obama from running for president….
Let’s see ABC ask him these questions – a guy who does not even know whom we are fighting against in Iraq, and a guy who is hiding the amount he made behind his wife’s millions ….on his tax returns….
Let’s see- do we really want McSame for President of the US. You’ve got to be kidding.
He isn ot to be trusted…his memoray is fading.
where you been?
I’ve been making a killing in Vegas.
OK, this is just plain disgusting.
In other words, “par for the course.”
By every single account (including the gripping book “Sailors To The End,” it is thoroughly documented and proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that faulty handling of the Zuni rocket on a plane across the flight deck from McCain’s triggered the Forrestal fire, a disaster that claimed the lives of 134 American sailors.
Short version: a combination of poor training and procedures on the handling of the Zuni rocket led to it falling off the F-4 to the deck, igniting, and flying across the deck to strike the external fuel tank of an A-4’s — probably John McCain’s, but not conclusively. The ensuing fire set off nine bombs, blew holes in the armored flight deck, and let burning jet fuel pour down into the hangar deck. The ship very easily could have been lost.
McCain survived by climbing out of his cockpit, down the nose, along the refueling tube, and jumping clear of the flames then running like hell. He was very, very, very lucky that day, as were a lot of others.
The Navy’s investigation was incredibly thorough, utterly unflinching, and glossed over no aspect. The contributing causes were defective electronics, a rush to get missions underway over safety, and use of bombs long past their expiration date and woefully unsafe.
McCain was right where he was supposed to be, doing right what he should have been doing, when a series of bad incidents unfolded at least a hundred yards away from him sent a rocket skitteringa across the flight deck and into his plane — which was utterly immobilized at the time, getting ready for launch. Absolutely nothing he could have done at that time would have made any difference whatsoever in the way things unfolded.
And Oliver’s slanderous implications shows just what a loathsome, contemptible person he can be. It makes the “Clinton Murders” and “Vince Foster” stories pale in comparison.
N.
Dammit… “J.”
Lighten up, Francis.
You are missing the whole point, as from the post:
“I’m not making these allegations. I’m just repeating stuff I found on the Internet.”
You should try reading the whole post before you spout off.
Besides, I don’t need some potential screw-up story from forty years ago, true or not, to tell me that McCain is no longer the (possibly) honorable man he once was. Now he’s an out-of-touch elitist Republican hack and cannot be trusted with MY money, MY safety and security, and MY country.
And if some press flack wants to ask him some substantial questions on policy, like why he can’t keep the Sunnis and Shiites straight (and ask him without Sen. Leiberman to lean on), instead of the craptacular BS-type questions we got from Mrs. Stephanopoulos and Gibson, I’d be more than pleased to uncover yet more substantial reasons for Americans of all parties not to vote for him.
JK
You’re conveniently forgetting the ABC standard Jaytea. I read it on the internet, ergo it’s a perfectly legitimate question no matter its inability to reconcile with the truth.
I do love the getting on a high horse and the harumphing about slander though. It’s almost credible.
Films show the missile coming from across the flight deck. McCain may have a lot of sins to answer for, but wet-starting the Forestall disaster is apparently not one of them.
Still, if Obama had the same allegations made against him, how many times would the TV opinion makers make reference to it, ask him about it, or run “specials” investigating the allegation? Everyone–and I do mean Everyone–would be aware of the allegations long before the election.
If the allegations were about Clinton they would already be accepted as facts–not only by The Base, but by a considerable percentage of Obama’s supporters.