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Title: McCain’s funeral was a disgusting exercise in historical revisionism
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URL Source: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/437454-mcc ... uneral-historical-revisionism/
Published: Sep 2, 2018
Author: Danielle Ryan
Post Date: 2018-09-02 18:12:21 by Ada
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Views: 267
Comments: 8
John McCain’s death has inspired a slew of whitewashed obituaries, cringeworthy plaudits and declarations of love from both sides of the political divide — but as historical revisionism goes, his funeral was a step too far. If there is anyone who owns the right to whitewash John McCain’s legacy, it is his daughter, Meghan McCain. In her hour of grief, we can permit her to rewrite her father’s personal history, to cast him as a hero among men. That much is to be expected — and few would take much issue with it. Read more FILE PHOTO. John McCain in 2008. © Brian Snyder MSM one step away from McCain myth-making – well, you can learn from Lenin classic! But we cannot permit her to stand in front of the world, on the huge platform that she has been given, to rewrite and whitewash the Vietnam War — and that is exactly what she attempted to do at her father’s funeral. It gives me no pleasure to be writing something like this about a person who has just died, or to take aim at a grieving daughter — but this is bigger than the McCain family and their hurt feelings. This is about a historical revisionism at its most disgusting and unacceptable. As Meghan McCain spoke, even the most willing sycophants must have been discreetly raising their eyebrows and shifting uncomfortably in their pews. Standing before a cathedral packed to the rafters with politicians and high ranking military figures, she recast Vietnam, America’s most brutal and barbaric war, as a noble fight “for the life and liberty of other people’s in other lands”. In her tribute to her father’s service, McCain reminded her audience, with a noticeable hint of venom in her voice that Vietnam was a “most distant and hostile corner of the world” in which to fight. Perhaps, she too shares her father’s well-known distaste for the Vietnamese, about whom he once wrote: "I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.”
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
caught a bit on the radio said yeah right then went back to sleep They milked his demise for over a week. Seems like the only place they didn't drag his waxy corpse to was WallyWorld, and if anyone was ever more desrving of a fate worse than Aunt Edna, it was McCain.
He should have gone to WW tied to the bumper.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I like to play with the way media manipulates words and phrases. A suggestions to others who had absolutely NO respect for McCain is to use the word "Carcass" in place of Body, Remains, etc. "If we don’t adhere to the Constitution on matters as significant as presidential eligibility, then the Constitution ceases to be a meaningful document for guiding our nation."
I suppose she chooses to ignore things like Lt. Calley and the My Lai Massacre. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"Poor little guy. Probably kept up with you for the first few miles."
What a difference an apostrophe makes. “I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.” - William S Burroughs
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." If there is anyone who owns the right to whitewash John McCain’s legacy, it is his daughter, Meghan McCain. In her hour of grief, we can permit her to rewrite her father’s personal history, to cast him as a hero among men.
I used to be in a hurry, then I figured out I was just getting nowhere fast.
#2. To: Ada (#0)
#3. To: Obnoxicated (#2)
#4. To: Obnoxicated (#2)
"They milked his demise for over a week. Seems like the only place they didn't drag his waxy corpse to was WallyWorld, and if anyone was ever more desrving of a fate worse than Aunt Edna, it was McCain. "
#5. To: Ada (#0)
a noble fight “for the life and liberty of other people’s in other lands”.
#6. To: Lod (#3)
#7. To: Ada (#0)
a noble fight “for the life and liberty of other people’s in other lands”.
#8. To: Ada (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic 
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