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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn John McCain and the Sunday morning shows.
Here is a man who has been demonstrably wrong about EVERY Foreign Policy debate in the last 30 years. Lebanon, Iran-Contra, Bosnia, Kosovo, FUCKING IRAQ!!!, Afghanistan, Libya, Iran, Syria.......
So why is he the go to guy for the Sunday morning talking heads and treated as an elder statesman with anything worthwhile to say?
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On John McCain and the Sunday morning shows. (Original Post)
edhopper
May 2012
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spanone
(135,851 posts)1. lazy journalism.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. +63,625
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)3. Because people who were right about all those things are shrill..
And often they are dirty fucking hippies too..
Nothing the M$M hates worse than shrill DFHs..
asjr
(10,479 posts)4. Sometimes I think he has been around since
God was in short pants and has fooled everyone the media automatically think he is someone that should know what is going on. Lugar was ousted by the voters after 27 years so I do have hope McCain will follow.