Experienced Military Pilot on McCain

If there is one thing I know about America's right wing, they claim to hold what experienced military people have to say as word. Here is a man who fought in Vietnam, who was shot down in Vietnam, who was a POW in Vietnam longer than McCain. He was awarded:

(2) Silver Stars
(2) Bronze Stars
(2) Legions of Merit &
(2) Purple Hearts

Listen to what he has to say about John Sidney McCain III:





The mainstream press has already begun to call out McCain for overusing his POW story. And it's cut across all political persuasions.

* "Whether he's deflecting criticism over his health-care plan or mocking a tribute to the Woodstock music festival, Senator John McCain has a trump card: the Hanoi Hilton. - Edwin Chen, Bloomberg
* "Noun, Verb, POW" - Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly
* "The McCain campaign's constant invocation of the candidate's POW past is weird bordering on irrational..." - Ana Marie Cox, TIME
* "I think they are going to it way too many times." - Howard Fineman, Newsweek

This from Robert Greenwald and the Brave New team who produced this video:

Remember how Joe Biden got the press to refer to Rudy Giuliani as "A noun, a verb, and 9/11"? Well, let's actually take Andrew Sullivan's lead here and get the media to boil McCain down to a similar phrase: "A noun, a verb, and POW." Considering how often the McCain campaign invokes his POW story, isn't that what they're already doing?