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Who Knew What When?
The Caucus —
... I talked to both of them a week before the debate and told them all the themes. I talked personally to John McCain and I talked personally to Barack Obama. I said, ’We’ll talk about leadership, talk about the roles of government,’ I said I’d probably have a question about climate change, probably a question on the courts. I didn’t say, ‘I’m going to ask which Supreme Court justice would you not [nominate].’ They were clearly not prepared for that. The blogosphere is also lighting up with questions about the story Mr. McCain told at the forum — and many times previously — ...
Jeremiah Denton Must be Lying, Too
Confederate Yankee —
Jeremiah Denton Must be Lying, Too As Andrew Sullivan , Jane Hamsher , Steve Benen , and other liberal bloggers try to discredit John McCain's story of compassion shown by a North Vietnamese prison guard as being stolen from a similar experience related between Russian author Solzhenitsyn and another prisoner, I'm forced to ask: when are the going to go after Jeremiah Denton? Denton was another U.S Navy pilot shot down in Vietnam, a contemporary of McCain's in the same brutal North Vietnamese prisons ... and also the beneficiary of surprising Christian ...
Sullivan: Bush & Cheney Don’t Believe John McCain Was Tortured
Crooks and Liars —
... hits it right on the head. John McCain has gone back on his word not to play up his POW experiences during the presidential campaign, so this is absolutely fair game. He’s not just exploiting his time as a POW, he’s lifting other people’s stories to gain sympathy. Couple that with his vote in the Senate to allow Americans to use the same torture “enhanced interrogation techniques” that were used on him and he leaves himself wide open for this one. It was just a matter of time… (h/t Jamie) ...
