btw: this is just "one" of hundreds of media slurs being hurled at McCain/Palin. In this latest scurillous story Palin is supposed to be predatory upon teenage boys and McCain is supposed to have been treated very gently by his Viet Cong captors. And it is only the tip of the proverbial iceburg. The media lies and slander are actually beginning to turn people away from Obama and his message which is somewhat sad since I initially agreed with much of his platform. Anyway... if you're interested take a look at the following story that appeared online yesterday.
MEDIA MATTERS
Ex-Air America host: Palin can't be trusted with teen boys
Randi Rhodes follows up claim McCain was treated well by Vietnamese captors
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Posted: September 13, 2008
11:50 pm Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON - Former Air America host Randi Rhodes followed up her claim that
presidential candidate John McCain was actually well-treated as a prisoner
of war in North Vietnam with an insinuation that his running mate, Sarah
Palin, can't be trusted around teen-age boys.
Explaining to her listeners on Friday who Alaska Gov. Palin is, she said:
"She's the woman who shows up at the kid's birthday party and starts opining
about everything from politics to lawn care. This is the woman that knows it
all. Will shout you down, will get revenge on you. That's who she is. She's
friends with all the teenage boys. You have to say no when your kids say,
'Can we sleep over at the Palins'? No! No!"
Earlier in the week, Rhodes attacked McCain's life story, claiming that
during his POW captivity in North Vietnam he was "well-treated, actually"
and that despite his claims of suffering brutal torture, his wife "knows the
truth too."
Rhodes' radio program is syndicated on Nova M Radio, which also operates a
radio station in McCain's home state of Arizona and calls itself "the future
of Progressive Talk."
She said McCain was "very friendly with the Vietnamese" and that "they
called him the Prince." She claims he was well-treated by his captors
because he traded propaganda interviews for good treatment.
Rhodes concluded those remarks by claiming that national Republican figures
continue to tell a story contrary to her version of the events and that
McCain's wife limits herself to saying only "I think what my husband did in
Vietnam was heroic" because, according to Rhodes, Cindy McCain knows that
her husband's story is exaggerated.
Rhodes' version of McCain's imprisonment and description of it as being
"well-treated" seems difficult to reconcile with McCain's version of the
events.
In his autobiographical account, "Faith of My Fathers," McCain describes
having his shoulder broken with the butt of a rifle, being stabbed in the
groin with a bayonet, being refused medical treatment for multiple broken
bones and attempting suicide to escape the pain.
"They cracked several of my ribs and broke a couple of teeth," wrote McCain.
"Weakened by beatings and dysentery, with my right leg again almost useless,
I found it impossible to stand.
"On the third night I lay in my blood and waste, so tired and hurt that I
could not move. Three guards lifted me to my feet and gave me the worst
beating yet. They left me lying on the floor moaning from the stabbing pain
in my re-fractured arm."
Rhodes' Nova M Radio website describes her as "the #1 Progressive Talk host
in the nation" and claims, "Randi is impeccably researched and infectiously
funny; she pulls no punches and never fails to both enlighten and
entertain."
A former host on the nationwide counter to conservative talk radio known as
Air America, Rhodes lost her position in April after an expletive-filled
rant against Democratic politicians Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton.
Rhodes also stirred controversy when she urged looting in the
hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast and threatened the life of President Bush on
air.
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