John McCain

The Swift – Boating of John McCain?

September 3, 2008 /

The Swift-Boating of John McCain has begun? Check out part of the e-mail Flap received in his in-box (H/T Mayor Sam):

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

We are sure this video will draw an onslaught of right-wing attacks, but we bring it to you because it is our job to continue to convey the truth together and give these issues national attention. As Dr. Butler has said, McCain does not have the temperament to have his finger near the red button. Get this video to everyone you know: friends, family members, coworkers, and especially those who don’t share your political views. The video is designed to reach them. Get it on your social networking sites like Digg. And get it to every blog, newspaper, and TV station that has ever overplayed McCain’s POW story. It is time to fight back with truth!

The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it’s cut across all political persuasions.

  • “Whether he’s deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. – Edwin Chen, Bloomberg
  • “Noun, Verb, POW” – Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly
  • “The McCain campaign’s constant invocation of the candidate’s POW past is weird bordering on irrational…” – Ana Marie Cox, TIME
  • “I think they are going to it way too many times.” – Howard Fineman, Newsweek

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as “A noun, a verb, and 9/11“? Well, let’s actually take Andrew Sullivan’s lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: “A noun, a verb, and POW.” Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn’t that what they’re already doing?

Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New team

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Flap does not think this sociologist POW”s argument will fly much but you never know. Butler argues that John McCain was a POW and might be unhealthy and die young and McCain has a temper.

Well, done of these are earth shattering “exclusive” pronouncements. Everyone knows these facts – like everyone.

But, leave it to LEFTY Robert Greenwald to try to make some coin for his PAC and his Brave New Films company.

Oh yeah. Phillip Butler is a liberal Democrat.

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