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8/18: Back In The Saddle
Blogometer — ... . The story is also hauntingly like that recounted by Solzhenitsen, as told in Luke Veronis, 'The Sign of the Cross'. [...] I have one simple question: when was the first time that McCain told this story?" MCCAIN III: Another Foreign Policy Gaffe? Liberal bloggers are accusing McCain of making a major gaffe when he ...

Former prisoner of war plagiarizes again
WTF Is It Now?!? — John "Wikipedia" McCain stole his "cross in the dirt" POW story from Russian Gulag author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. But don't you DARE call him out on this, media -- after all, he is a former prisoner of war. 9/11.

Swindle backs McCain cross story
Ben Smith's Blog — Responding to DailyKos diarists and to Andrew Sullivan, the McCain campaign has a statement from fellow prisoner of war Orson Swindle, who says he first heard a story of a sympathetic guard's drawing  a cross in the dirt from McCain himself in 1971. Skeptics noted that the earliest easily found version of that story comes in McCain's co-written 1999 memoir, and that it echoes a story attributed to the Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It's also a very old Christian theme, going back to the earliest Christians making an outline of a fish in the ...

Daily Kos and McCain’s Cheating Cross
Patterico's Pontifications — ... at Daily Kos) claimed McCain cheated and heard the questions beforehand. Others like rickrocket at Daily Kos claimed McCain’s story about the Vietnamese guard who drew a cross in the ground was ripped off from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. ...

Camp McCain: The Left Lose Those Smears They Throw
Pirate's Cove — ... In the least credible and most viciouscorner of the internet, liberal bloggers at the Daily Kos are accusing John McCain of plagiarizing from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story Solzhenitsyn told was of a prisoner who drew a cross in the dirt in a Soviet Gulag. McCain’s story is of a guard who drew a cross in the dirt in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. ...

Camp McCain: The Left Lose Those Smears They Throw
Stop The ACLU — ... In the least credible and most vicious corner of the internet, liberal bloggers at the Daily Kos are accusing John McCain of plagiarizing from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story Solzhenitsyn told was of a prisoner who drew a cross in the dirt in a Soviet Gulag. McCain’s story is of a guard who drew a cross in the dirt in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. The only similarity between the two stories is a cross in the dirt, but it is hardly an unlikely coincidence that there were practicing Christians in both Russia and Vietnam, or that in the prisons of those two Communist ...

SICK-- Liberals Attack McCain's Prisoner of War Experiences
Gateway Pundit — ... bloggers accused John McCain of making up stories about his experiences as a prisoner of war. Progressives said McCain made up his cross in the sand story- a story he has told several times and included in his Christmas ad this past year: ...

Andrew Sullivan then versus now
Sister Toldjah — ... . The story is also hauntingly like that recounted by Solzhenitsen, as told in Luke Veronis, “The Sign of the Cross”: ...