McCain’s torture stories phony
Left-wing radio talk show host Randi Rhodes attacked GOP presidential nominee John McCain’s life story, claiming that during his POW captivity in North Vietnam he was “well-treated, actually” and that despite his claims of suffering brutal torture, his wife “knows the truth too.”
Rhodes’ radio program is syndicated on Nova M Radio, which also operates a radio station in McCain’s home state of Arizona and calls itself “the future of Progressive Talk.”
Her comments, made earlier this month, claim that McCain was “very friendly with the Vietnamese” and that “they called him the Prince.” She claims he was well-treated by his captors because he traded propaganda interviews for good treatment.
The only possible conclusion by her comments is that McCain was a collaborator and a traitor.
Rhodes’ version of McCain’s imprisonment and description of it as being “well-treated” seems difficult to reconcile with McCain’s version of the events.
In his autobiographical account, “Faith of My Fathers,” McCain describes having his shoulder broken with the butt of a rifle, being stabbed in the groin with a bayonet, being refused medical treatment for multiple broken bones and attempting suicide to escape the pain.
“They cracked several of my ribs and broke a couple of teeth,” wrote McCain. “Weakened by beatings and dysentery, with my right leg again almost useless, I found it impossible to stand.
“On the third night I lay in my blood and waste, so tired and hurt that I could not move. Three guards lifted me to my feet and gave me the worst beating yet. They left me lying on the floor moaning from the stabbing pain in my re-fractured arm.”
Of course, Randi Rhodes also, at one time: threatened the life of President Bush on air.
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