"Songbird" - A Smear Against Senator McCain

by BigT | August 22, 2008 at 07:37 pm
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Some things are pathetic and others are disgusting. This falls into the disgusting category. Recently, I've seen a couple comments that labeled John McCain as "Sydney 'Songbird' McCain." Having no idea what it meant other than it being obviously an insult I did a Google search for Sydney "Songbird" McCain. Here's the first result I found.

"graduated fifth from the bottom of his class" of almost 900 graduates

"Things are taking place in a favorable opinion. The United States at present seems to be standing alone.  So much is its isolation"

How did a PRISONER OF WAR know this?  Did they have a pool, a jacuzzi, and a tv for him?

Why the jewish mafia wants McCain

TRY, don't ELECT, this Manchurian Candidate whose support comes from the CRIMINAL jew mafia

NOT a natural born citizen

RIGHTEOUSLY labled a TRAITOR!!

Son of the admiral who dishonored the USS Liberty!!

Almost sank the USS Forrestal

This is just sick, a racially tinted smear on a man who served honorably in the military, refused to go home when offered the chance, and is being insulted now only because he isn't on the right side of the aisle for some.

I think everyone would agree that anyone who uses the term "Songbird" to smear Senator McCain is beneath contempt.

But, you know what, maybe this group using "Songbird" is just a bunch of kooks. So I looked at another result from the Google Search. Up came a long story about some guys hatred for McCain.

Within this article this guy, Doug Valentine, retells a story about his father (an American soldier) raising his rifle and shooting at American planes and standing watch while two other POWs killed another POW who gave information to their guards.

Even though he admits this:

It is impossible to prove exactly what happened to McCain short of traveling to Vietnam and tracking down his captors, and picking up thee trail where it begins.
He has no problem calling McCain a "collaborator" with the North Vietnamese. This guy even questions whether McCain was tortured or not and uses a nickname, "McNasty", out of context (McCain got the nickname as a highschool wrestler, not a bad nickname considering the sport).

Again, this is beneath contempt. This is disgusting. But it gets worse.

“I only recently learned that the tape I dreamed I heard playing over the loudspeaker in my cell had been real; it had been broadcast outside the prison and had come to the attention of my father,” McCain said.  “If I had known at the time my father had heard about my confession, I would have been distressed beyond imagination, and might not have recovered from the experience as quickly as I did.”

But wait!  McCain did not commit suicide.  In fact, he’s alive, running for President on the “war hero” ticket, and promoting more war everywhere.  The new McCain feels no distress at having been a collaborator or a war criminal – if he ever did.  

Sick. Plain old sick. There's no way to win with someone who disagrees with you but, my God, this goes well beyond that.

I tried looking a little more and only found defamatory comments about McCain. I stopped looking after I got to the end of the first page becuase this just makes me sick.

You can disagree with McCain (I sure as Hell do on a number of issues), you can disagree with Obama. But if you are just going to throw ridiculous insults like "Songbird" at McCain or "Muslim" at Obama you need to get a life.

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PEP
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at 19:41 on August 22nd, 2008

BigT, I like this story. It's good stuff. Nothing enrages the weak like the strong, the dishonest like the honest, the unsuccessful like the successful.

Albert Milliron
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at 19:58 on August 22nd, 2008

BigT, I like this story. It's good stuff. 

World_Groove
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at 03:51 on August 23rd, 2008

Even though I on occasion take a swim in the murky waters of politics, I must say that most people more than waist deep in the pool "Need to get a Life".

be knowledgeable, be learned, but don't get crazy !

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