{"id":195212,"date":"2008-07-22T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/22\/the-sick-old-man-cant-even-get-the-facts-right-on-his-signature-issue\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T03:59:00","slug":"the-sick-old-man-cant-even-get-the-facts-right-on-his-signature-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/22\/the-sick-old-man-cant-even-get-the-facts-right-on-his-signature-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sick Old Man Can’t Even Get the Facts Right on His Signature Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Sidney McCain III barely graduated from Annapolis, 894 of 899, and then only because because daddy was a high ranking admiral.<\/p>\n

Now, he gets the escalation in Iraq wrong, claiming that the so-called “Anbar Awakening” was the result of the “surge” even though it pre-dated<\/span> Bush’s first mention of escalation in Iraq by 6 months<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is Katie Couric’s CBS, so when the gaff was made, they edited it out<\/span>, because by the rules of the “kule kidz” in the press corps, any gaff by McCain is an honest mistake<\/span>, and the public must be shielded from seeing the “straight talker” when he shows himself to be a complete pratt.<\/p>\n

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John Sidney McCain III barely graduated from Annapolis, 894 of 899, and then only because because daddy was a high ranking admiral. Now, he gets the escalation in Iraq wrong, claiming that the so-called “Anbar Awakening” was the result of the “surge” even though it pre-dated Bush’s first mention of escalation in Iraq by 6 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1063,1064,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-iraq","category-media","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}