"John McCain Accuses Me Of "Trash Journalism" While He Engages In "Trash" Propaganda..."

[ihavenobias]

(Before I post this excerpt from Cliff's piece, let me direct you to a YouTube excerpt of his interview with The Young Turks from this afternoon, and a link to another Huffington Post piece about two interesting parts of his new book on McCain: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x116122

John McCain Accuses Me Of "Trash Journalism" While He Engages In "Trash" Propaganda During The Petraeus Hearing
By Cliff Schecter

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cliff-schecter/john-mccain-accuses-me-of_b_95613.html

Apparently some of the straight-talk released from The Real McCain yesterday got Rambo a bit peeved. So I'm glad I'm nowhere in his vicinity, because we know what happens to people when McCain gets a bit peeved at them.

He responded to the factual piece in my book about his calling his wife that four-letter c-word that wives so love to hear from their spouses, with this, according to today's New York Daily News:

McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker brands the book "trash journalism" and tells us, "The story is completely fabricated."
No surprise here. It's far from the first time the "maverick" has made himself into a liar, and today's opening statement to General Petaeus once again showed it won't be the last.

He brought out all the old favorites about those advocating for a "reckless and irresponsible withdrawal," (you know, only 70% of the country). The kind of withdrawal he advocated for in Beirut in 1983, and Somalia and Haiti in the 1990s. Hell, he must have had a lot of white flags in storage then, he was waving them so so darn often! I get into his complete foreign-policy flip-flop over his career in much greater detail in my book that he has seen fit to disparage without even reading (c'mon, it's not like he's George W., he can in fact read above a My Pet Goat reading level, I assume).

McCain then trotted out that old saw about Al Qaeda in Iraq, which is only a miniscule part of the fighting force against us there, and is only there because of people like him took us into this war using the time-tested technique of making stuff up.

He said once again he wanted to "succeed" in Iraq. Definition of success: I don't know, and neither does he, as he didn't give it yet again (once again, I discuss this in greater detail)...

For the rest of this article (which includes several hyperlinks that add to it), click here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cliff-schecter/john-mccain-accuses-me-of_b_95613.html

[jgraz]

1. I hope Cliff's book hangs McCain out to dry.

[BuyingThyme]

2. Even if nobody reads the thing,

the cover says a lot to anybody who happens to catch a glance.

[Cha]

3. My my my..john mccain..a sexist!

Who knew?

[DCKit]

4. Pssst, Sanitarium McInsane, you don't win an occupation, you end it. n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. this will increase book sales, I bet

By reacting like he has, a lot of folks will want to read the book, just to find out what has made him so upset.

[OhioChick]

6. K&R

:kick:

[navarth]

7. bump