American Thinker:
I don’t know about you, but when the video coverage of the death of Senator John McCain began a week ago Saturday, I reached satiation well before the live coverage concluded with his burial at the United States Naval Academy. Yes, he was a brave war hero that endured years of brutal captivity in North Vietnam, and all of us honor that. But as a politician, his main legislative legacy is a failed campaign finance act, one of those bipartisan feel-good efforts that backfired and made things worse.
So, how is it that his passing and a week’s worth of scheduled events merited wall-to-wall coverage? President Kennedy’s assassination required two days of live coverage for the death and funeral. I am hopeful that the Media Research Center will tabulate the total hours of coverage and compare it to the live coverage of events around the death of President Ronald Reagan. My impression is that McCain received more hours.
Or, compare the passing of Admiral James Stockdale to that of John McCain. Admiral Stockdale was a POW in Hanoi for over 7 years, a year-and-a-half longer than McCain. Like McCain, he was a very special prisoner in the eyes of the North Vietnamese, for he was the senior officer among the POWs. His prominent status was based on his achievements and consequent promotion, whereas McCain was regarded as important because of who his father and grandfather were. more here
The only funeral worse was Paul Wellstone’s. It was ugly, short and too the political point- sort of like Paul Wellstone.
The only funeral that will top McCain’s in the attempt to deify the deceased will be Obama’s. May we get that over with sooner rather than later.
@ Pelopidas, I’m assuming Meghan McCain is giving another 50 page dissertation for that one as well? I mean Michelle can’t last that long between feedings.
Personally, I will never vote for McCain again. Even though it would be a remarkable comeback story.
@Pelopidas – My fervent hope is that Barky has no funeral at all because he simply disappears. No corpse, no clues, no suspects, no sign that he is either alive or dead. It would take seven years from the initial missing person report until he could be declared legally dead. And I’d rather have a constant trickle of “Where’s Barky” in the news than what you accurately anticipate would be a longer-than-McCain canonization frenzy.
I want to see the turds headstone. 160000 pounds of granite with Senator, Almost President and war hero chipped into it. {He designed that too}.
Barky will be buried in the potters field on the outskirts of Gitmo.
It will be hard to separate the Attack Wake backlash from the Kavanaugh Circus backlash. And we still have two months for another potential backlash-inducing Dem idiocy. They’re setting quite a pace these last couple of weeks.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Smithsonian Channel is going to rebroadcast the REAL story of Admiral Stockdale and how he and his wife were able to communicate in code, the situation in the Hanoi Hilton, as well as get things smuggled in Red cross packages.
It’s an amazing story and it shows who really was the true hero amongst the POWs from Vietnam.
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/the-spy-in-the-hanoi-hilton/0/3419642
The family is now selling a set of commemorative, gold-plated CDs of the wake for John McShame er political rally with commentary by leftist, retarded attendees for 39.95 + shipping and handling! You will also get a monogrammed set of hand towels and a vial full of dirt from the grave site with each order!
Momma Mia, act now, and you can get a replica coin set of the first thirty pieces of silver McCain ever earned!
“They came, not to praise McCain, but to bury President Trump.”
(Unknown.I heard it on Mark Steyn today).
They failed.
Entirely too much taxpayer money was spent on this fraud!
CNN, has a camera crew 24/7 at Songbirds grave so that they will be the 1st, to capture his “rising on the 3rd day” live..
Did I miss something? McCain got shot down and was a prisoner of war – quite a few guys got shot down and became prisoners of war. He managed to get the hell off the Forrestal as it was burning. He spent his entire life on the public payroll, yet purported to pass laws that affected a private sector he knew nothing about. McCain lived well off off his wife. He got McCain-Feingold passed, which had about the exact opposite effect of reforming campaign finance laws. He got stomped in his campaign to become President, and was the Republican nominee only because “it was his turn.” McCain gave a famous “thumbs down” on ObamaCare reform, but I don’t recall McCain ever offering an alternative or ideas of his own. He was told he was going to die from a brain tumor, but wouldn’t give up the public life he craved. McCain expressly and personally snubbed a President from his own party, snubbed a loyal running mate from his failed run at the Presidency, and insisted the two worst Presidents from modern times speak at his funeral.
John McCain lived a life of mediacracy greased by personal connections. He lasted as a Senator for too long; so long that any term limits should be named the “Kennedy McCain term limit amendment.
Pissed Off Old Guy lol they’re going to get nothing but piss falling on the third day. And the fourth, and the fifth and….
I thought it was funny that the dems/media made such a big deal over Pres. Trump not being invited to the funeral, when I bet it was a huge relief to him that he didn’t have to go to that phony snooze fest.
@ThirdTwin:
Were those coins minted in Vietnam?
I wish John was still alive and in absolute searing, agony from now until late December only to die on Christmas Eve. and screw up the Holiday’s for that stupid family of his. The bad parts of my character come in handy once in a while.
Yes, why even bury Saint John of McShameville he will be up and about in approximately 72 hours!
Heh. I have no backlash (nor fucks) to give. I remain mercifully free of even one moment of what ever transpired on visual media relating to the extended interment of John, The Deceased, The Nothing Like He is Being Portrayed, past Senator from Arizona.
The Past Senator from Arizona.
Wasn’t repeating my self in error, I just like the way that reads on the screen.
I didn’t see one minute of the spectacle, and am better for it.
Too bad Phil Hartman isn’t around to reconsider what he did with Stockdale that was passing for comedy on SNL way back.
I shall be forever grateful to Stockdale for his advice; “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
It got me through the Obama years and is a hedge against complacency as well.
Do some reading about him. He was a warrior. McCain will be remembered for little more than his grandiosity, viciousness, pettiness, instability, and backfiring legislation. An unfortunate placement due primarily to nepotism.
Backlash? A short ton, I hope. Today’s antics at the Kavanaugh hearing provided lots of backlash materiel too.
The Forrestal Event? McCain-Feingold?
Maybe he just liked watching things go up in smoke.