Common Folk Using Common Sense

From The Radio Equalizer:

Quick, what’s the most disgusting potential way to attack the McCain-Palin presidential ticket? After two weeks of conspiring to destroy Sarah Palin and her family, often through dishonest means, what could be worse than what we’ve already seen, right?

Well, if you thought the left side of talk radio and the blogosphere had sunk to fresh lows with that smear strategy, it’s now clear they haven’t even scratched the surface.

Enter syndicated libtalker Randi Rhodes, known for her previous unhinged skits, public spills, obscene rants and wild accusations.

Known as a particularly strident supporter of Barack Obama, Rhodes seems to think even John McCain’s six year period of torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese is fair game.

During the first hour of Friday’s Randi Rhodes Show, she had this to say about McCain’s sacrifices during the Vietnam War:

RHODES: Of course he (McCain) became very friendly with the Vietnamese. They called him the Prince. He was well treated actually. And he was well treated because he traded these propaganda interviews for good treatment. So look, it’s a horrible story anyway you cut it, anyway you look at it, any way you you you deal with it. But, it’s not the story Fred Thompson told. Nor is it the story Rudy Giuliani told. Nor is it the story Sarah Palin told. Nor is it the story anybody. Cindy McCain knew to limit herself to ‘I think what my husband did in Vietnam was heroic’ because she knows the truth too.

Huh?

John McCain’s capture and subsequent imprisonment began on October 26, 1967. Although McCain was badly wounded, his captors refused to treat his injuries, instead beating and interrogating him to get information, and he was given medical care only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a top admiral.

McCain spent six weeks in the hospital while receiving only marginal care. He lost 50 pounds, was in a chest cast, and with his hair turned white at age 31.

In March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he would remain for two years.

In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain. He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery. His injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head. He subsequently received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal to sign propaganda statements.

Altogether, McCain was held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years.

But this, according to Obama supporter and left-wing loony Randi Rhodes, proves that “he was well treated.”

Remember, this is the same clown that, on October 14, 2007, sustained injuries that kept her off the air for several days. She reported to her boss that she had been mugged, a claim that was repeated all across the internet along with the speculation that her mugging was at the hands of conservative right wing factions. It was later revealed that Randi had, in fact, been drinking in an Irish Pub right before the “injury” and does not remember what happened to her … meaning that in a drunken stupor she simply fell flat on her face.

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