shouldn't those kids be in bed sometime soon?

(I'm glad she didn't come off as a dumbass. A wrongheaded wrongperson who is WRONG AND DELUDED, sure, but I was tiring of the airhead implications and didn't believe they were true.)

Killer Rolling Stone piece here:

I read that earlier today -- and, dang. I thought I disliked the fucker before.

(I'm glad she didn't come off as a dumbass. A wrongheaded wrongperson who is WRONG AND DELUDED, sure, but I was tiring of the airhead implications and didn't believe they were true.)

The Couric interview clips I've seen were TERRIFYING, so yeah, I do agree with you.

I yelled at my TV, why is the INFANT being carried out at 10:30 PM!?!?

Killer Rolling Stone piece here

I was just reading that. I was particularly horrified by the fact that he used family connections to fly again after the crashes he'd had would disqualify him. Then his crashing plane set the U.S.S. Forrestal on fire, killing 134 sailors. McCain, as the article snarked, had a lot of practice surviving plane crashes. He watched the fire on closed circuit TV while others died fighting it.

Then his crashing plane set the U.S.S. Forrestal on fire, killing 134 sailors.

To be fair, that wasn't his fault. Another plane fired a rocket through his own plane, which blew gas all over and then his own bombs fell into the hold of the ship. Not something that could be controlled for.

His reaction to it? Not something to be proud of. But I wouldn't blame him for the original accident, at least not based on what the RS article said.

I did find the statements by the other POWs pretty compelling: that one of the reasons McCain didn't come home with the other prisoners is that he would have had to testify against the US, and that was a court-martial offense. Also, by that point he was getting much better treatment, anyway.

To be fair, that wasn't his fault.

That's true, but I couldn't help suspecting his flying skills might have contributed, given his record.

The article does confirm my experience with serious illness; if you're a jerk and you suffer a lot, usually you're still a jerk afterwards.

Then his crashing plane set the U.S.S. Forrestal on fire

Um, no. A missile being loaded onto an aircraft accidentally went off. It struck another aircraft on deck, parked off to one side, either waiting to be towed to the catapault or being parked after coming back. That plane was, I believe, McCain's. They have pictures of him climbing out of the cockpit and scrambling over his and a couple other planes to get away from the fire. He barely missed being blown up by the bombs and ammo cooking off. He may be a rotten pilot, but he did not cause the fire on the Forrestal.

ETA: X-posty goodness.

I yelled at my TV, why is the INFANT being carried out at 10:30 PM!?!?

If they flew straight in from Alaska, it'd only be 6:30 infant-time.