Dick of the Day: John Aravosis of Americablog
Posted on June 30, 2008
Lefty blogger John Aravosis wins the POS award today with his post titled: Honesty, Besides Being Tortured, What Did McCain Do To Excel In The Military? Here is a sample:
Yes, we all know that John McCain was captured and tortured in Vietnam (McCain won’t let you forget). A lot of people don’t know, however, that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity. Putting that bit of disloyalty aside, what exactly is McCain’s military experience that prepares him for being commander in chief? It’s not like McCain rose to the level of general or something. He’s a vet. We get it. But simply being a vet, as laudable as it is, doesn’t really tell you much about someone’s qualifications for being commander in chief. If McCain is going to play the “I was tortured” card every five minutes as a justification for electing him president, then he shouldn’t throw a hissy fit any time any one asks to know more about his military experience. Getting shot down, tortured, and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience. Again, it’s not nice to say say, but we’re not running for class president here. We deserve real answers, not emotional outbursts designed to quell the questions.
First of all, being a tortured POW is a hell of a lot more than than John has room to talk on. Just serving his country in the military is more. Where he thinks he has any room to bring up this ridiculous and insulting question is beyond me!
This kind of thing used to be done in dark alleys stinking of urine with the delivery by some ex-con of a manila envelope containing some grainy photographs of naked men cavorting in bed, snapped by a peeping tom through the window of some no-tell motel.
Now its done by men of similar low character – people like Rodgers and Aravosis – who lack the animating spirit of human decency and prey upon vulnerable men by threatening them with exposure if they don’t change their political views or leave their job and career.
And this toad Aravosis is actually criticizing McCain for making a propaganda film? Even the meager and irrelevant point he tries to make – that McCain makes a big deal of the fact he was tortured “every five minutes” – is an out and out lie. McCain makes rare and elliptical references to that time in his life, properly allowing the listener to recall the well known details on their own.
And, of course, McCain is not touting his time in a prison camp or even his military service as proof of his experience to be Commander in Chief. Nearly a quarter of a century at the center of every major domestic debate over defense and foreign policy more than qualifies John McCain to serve as CIC. Contrast that with Obama’s laughable attempt to equate living in Indonesia as a 7 year old with McCain’s wealth and depth of experience in foreign and defense policies and you have the reason this walking chunk of undigested gristle is sliming the Arizona Senator’s service as a POW. It’s the only way to deflect attention from his candidate’s less than amateur credentials for being CIC.
McCain went through hell for this country, and that alone would qualify him over many others - including Obama. If McCain would sacrifice that much for this country and its people then he has earned the title ‘American Hero’ and he is someone we would all be proud to see in office.
But let’s turn the tables here, and realize Aravosis is part of the Ugly Liberal crowd who have whined about ‘torture’ by the Bush administration for years now. What has Aravosis done in his life that qualifies him to question John McCain? What have any of McCain’s critics done for this nation that gives them the right to demean or belittle what he went through? Clearly, these ugly, small people are not in the same league as McCain, who nearly died to allow them the right to makes asses out of themselves through the right of free speech.
These Ugly Liberals will scream and protest for the likes of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who was simply tricked into thinking he is drowning to make sure another 3,000 innocent lives were not snuffed out in a terrorist attack. They will also demean and minimize an American Hero who was injured to the point of near death, AND THEN really tortured. You really cannot get uglier than that.
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Oh, Lord, please let me take this John douchebag for one ride in a supersonic fighter…
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This John Halistosis sounds like a complete MORON. Talk about out of touch with reality!
You all never got past highschool cliques did you? You got eight years of your cheerleader, now you are pissed when someone questions your wounded jock. You are so intent on showing how loyal and indignant you are. Your blind faith is amusing, so teenager-like. Good luck with your high oil prices, surely you all will find a way to blame 7$ a gallon gas on someone else. Good luck with your dead sons and daughters in hothead McCain’s next snap decision to start a war somewhere. Two years in solitary confinement? Do you really think anyone gets out of that without damage? Sure you can feel sorry for the guy, but don’t stop asking the questions that determine the future. McCain is damaged goods. Highschool is over little blogger, grow up and be an adult, it means thinking on your own and asking questions.
You are surely blind. These people are reacting to a slime job on John McCain’s heroism during the Vietnam War. The left knows McCain has proven himself to be a strong, principled man, and they want to tear him down to their level.
You should recognize what they are doing and know that it is wrong. “Highschool is over (little Sam), grow up and be an adult, it means thinking on your own and asking questions.”
The “left” is too touchy-feely to say that McCain is in fact, a handicapped person. This is the invisible free pass hanging around his neck. Occasionally someone will over react, and call it out. The question, even if slimely worded, still needs to be answered.
Being dragged out of a lake from your crashed bomber, beaten by an angry crowd, tortured, solitary confinement, forced to make recordings and films against your country, all must leave a devastating mark.
Bluntness is not dependability. Sure, the guy is blunt, abrasive, sometimes abusive. And quick as a wink, he turns chummy again. Campaigns for his vicious political opponent, votes against his own bill, votes to allow coercive interrogation methods in 2008 by his own government. In each case the quick spurt of anger is followed by acquiesce to authority.
A politician that doesn’t watch his mouth is refreshing. Bluntness is refreshing. We are caught in that little loop. Unfortunately what comes out with that bluntness is quick anger, loss of control, and a clear indication that he is troubled. He has a lot of anger inside. This is backed up with lots of evidence, even on the “right”.
This guy wants to be our president, the leader of the free world. Think back to April 1, 2001, US spy plane collides with chinese fighter plane and crash lands on chinese island, crew held there for a 11 days before released. Calm heads avoided threats and taunts and even conflict, can you say the same thing if it were to happen in a McCain presidency?
How many historical events have benefited because the president was a statesman and not a hot head ex-warrior with clearly evidenced impulse management “issues”.
Please define the heroism, I am unaware of the contributing factors that lead to the classification. Included here, a reference from a dictionary defining hero:
1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.
2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
3. the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.”
Perhaps more proper classification is survivor. A tough survivor. McCain is a very tough survivor.
Uncle Sam - the heroism is in defying the torturers, refusing to give anything to the interrogators up to the point of almost guaranteed death, and being determined to be an example of loyalty and unity in spite of the psychological pressure and extreme pain experienced under inhumane conditions.
And to Avaross I point out that most Propaganda has been designed to be persuasive, and performed by willing participants - more like what Jane Fonda gladly did rather than the performance John McCain was forced to deliver.
Oooh, must’ve pushed that button dead center!
Good.
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After being periodically slapped around for “three or four days” by his captors who wanted military information from him, McCain called for an officer on his fourth day of captivity. He told the officer, “O.K., I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.” -U.S. News and World Report, May 14, 1973 article written by former POW John McCain
McCain was taken to Gai Lam military hospital normally unavailable to American POWS. (U.S. government documents)
“Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I [McCain] did not cooperate. Eventually, I gave them my ship’s name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant.” Page 193-194, Faith of My Fathers by John McCain.
Nov. 9, 1967 (U.S. government documents) Hanoi press began quoting him giving specific military information.
One report dated read, “To a question of the correspondent, McCain answered: ‘My assignment to the Oriskany, I told myself, was due to serious losses in pilots, which were sustained by this aircraft carrier (due to its raids on the North Vietnam territory - VNA) and which necessitated replacements. From 10 to 12 pilots were transferred like me from the Forrestal to the Oriskany. Before I was shot down, we had made several sorties. Altogether, I made about 23 flights over North Vietnam.’”
In that report, McCain was quoted describing the number of aircraft in his flight, information about rescue ships, and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place.
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Look up the real story of a human being, who was subjected to inhumane abuse and survived. He did what he needed to to survive.
Take away all of the hyperbole about heroism, what is there about the man, the human being, that qualifies him to be leader of the free world and restore our standing?