Thursday, July 17, 2008

MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE?



While he bumbles his way through a presidential campaign, flanked by his Stepford, multi-million, pro-dom wife, John McCain would be tragic in his ineptitude, except that the mainstream media seem prepared to forgive his blatant cluelessness, and to grovel and genuflect before what should laughable because McCain is a supposed war hero, and thus, they tell us, eminently qualified to command the armed forces of the nation. Counterpunch, however, presents a whole new side to the story, claiming that he was a willing collaborator with the communist North Vietnamese. This could be disinformation but I disseminate it anyway, because McCain is a fool we don’t need in power.

“Not content with divulging military information, McCain provided his voice in radio broadcasts used by the North Vietnamese to demoralize American soldiers. Vietnamese radio propagandists made good use out of McCain. On June 4, 1969, a U.S. wire service headlined a story entitled "PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral.” (7) The story reported that McCain collaborated in psywar offensives aimed at American servicemen. "The broadcast was beamed to American servicemen in South Vietnam as a part of a propaganda series attempting to counter charges by U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that American prisoners are being mistreated in North Vietnam." On one occasion, General Vo Nguyen Giap, the top Vietnamese commander and a nationalist celebrity of the time, personally interviewed McCain. His compliance during this command performance was a moment of affirmation for the Vietnamese. His Vietnamese handlers thereafter used him regularly as prop at meetings with foreign delegations. In the custody of enemy psywar specialists, McCain became what he is today: a professional psywar stooge.” (Click for the whole story)

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13 comments:

Mick said...
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Anonymous said...

This is nothing more than leftwing swiftboating, pure and simply.

Anonymous said...

But doesn't the boot feel good on the other foot.

Anonymous said...

War hero? Collaborator with the enemy?
Are you kidding??
This guy is perfect for the job!!

Anonymous said...

Dr Atticus Noyle! Dr Atticus Noyle! Dr Atticus Noyle! Dr Atticus Noyle! Dr Atticus Noyle! Dr Atticus Noyle!

Benjamin Owens said...

Jesus used marijuana.

Benjamin Owens said...

Also, yo, you talk a lot of trash about Gee Dubya, so why nothing on the sewage plant?

George W. Bush Sewage Plant = on teh ballot!

PJ said...

See the attached article in the UK Independent for some satire on the McCain as War Hero/Obama as Terror Stooge issue: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mark-steel/mark-steel-barack-obama-has-nothing-to-fear-but-himself-868650.html

Mike said...

From the above article: "Most of America will be run by the same people no matter who wins the election – the oil companies, WalMart, Murdoch etc."
In the build-up to the Iraq invasion, the most visible opponent was a Dixie Chick. All that killing, yet the price of oil still goes up.

Anonymous said...

I refuse to believe that we're inevitably doomed lemmings.

Anonymous said...

But we are Blanche, we are.

Anonymous said...

"we are the puppet people... put in our tv - it's true!"

Anonymous said...

"put IT in our TV" that is. Whatever it may be