Sunday, March 09, 2008
The Manchurian Candidate?
From John Aravosis at AMERICAblog:0 comments
Wow.
This is extraordinarily damaging stuff, as it goes right to the heart of the myth of John McCain: Hero.
POWs, families, former members of Congress and Senate & House committee staff criticize McCain for stymieing POW/MIA investigation.
What struck me immediately about these clips was it showed both Republicans and Democrats, stalwarts like Smith and crackpots like Dorgan, all who were thwarted on the MIA issue by McCain.
And when wingnut radio guys like Harry Thomas start calling McCain a traitor and a warmonger, the circle starts to close, and left and right start saying basically the same thing. That's scary.
Here's the Thomas clip. Try to hold your lunch down as you wade through the wingnut tripe, but it's worth it to hear some of the claims.
This may partially explain the bizarre relationship of McCain and Bush 19: two privileged sons who know where bodies are buried, leading them to share a sharp affinity for—and clear need for—extreme secrecy on the part of the apparatus of the U.S. government.
However...
It's just waaaaaay too impossible today to lead a hidden life in a Time of YouTube. If the crap you don't want known is out there—anywhere—there will be someone, somewhere, who has a copy and can put it up for grabs. It's herding cats.
Over time, this may lead to greater transparency and all public candidates will adapt to it. But for this generation, they're having a very hard time letting go of the concept that they can cover stuff up fairly easily if they're powerful enough.
They're getting the bends from all this "progress" stuff.
But the rest of us? We're doing just fine.
We need this tool. Otherwise, they'll just continue lying to us with a straight face.
posted by Gotham 5:44 PM
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