McCain Blackmailed All Along

Aside from any questions about his Forrestal actions, McCain had, in his short Navy career, crashed two planes and flown a third into power lines in Spain because of, as he put it, “daredevil clowning.”8

The investigation into the Forrestal fire was in the hands of Adm. Thomas Moorer, chief of naval operations and a close friend of McCain’s father. (Their friendship was why Moorer would personally convey the news to Adm. Jack McCain three months later that his son had been shot down in Vietnam.) Moorer gave the investigation to Rear Adm. Forsyth Massey, who handed in his report on Sept. 19, 1967. McCain received orders to report to the Oriskany on Sept. 30.9

During the period when John McCain was shot down over Hanoi on Oct. 26, 1967, less than a month after being assigned to the Oriskany, recent events—the Forrestal fire and his possible role in its growth, misgivings about “dropping more of that stuff” on Vietnam, his decision to leave the stricken ship for some “R&R” in Saigon, anxiety about his naval career—were fresh in his mind. What had been going on in McCain’s life may cast light on some of the decisions he made later as a prisoner of war. While he was a POW, he famously refused to be released early, electing not to leave his comrades behind.

After McCain made his first run for the presidency, in 2000, Gregory Freeman wrote a book on the fire, “Sailors to the End.” Freeman’s 2002 book appears to be mostly reliable, but it ignores key parts of the official report and hews closely to McCain’s claim that the Zuni rocket struck his plane, not Fred White’s, causing the two thousand-pound bombs to drop into the burning fuel.


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In addition to following McCain’s misleading narrative of the Zuni rocket accident to the letter, Freeman published an uncredited hand-drawn sketch purporting to show the Forrestal deck just before the fire. In that sketch, the plane in which White died is stripped of White’s name, even though Freeman printed the names of the other pilots near McCain’s plane and told their stories. The only place that White’s name appears is at the back of the book in a list of those who died. In the narrative of “Sailors to the End,” Fred White’s name is conspicuous by its absence.

After erasing White, Freeman’s sketch presents an incorrect line between the original position of the Zuni rocket and McCain’s plane, instead of showing the actual line that the rocket took in striking White’s plane. This sketch alone will cause the unwary reader to believe there is visual evidence to support the claim that the Zuni rocket hit McCain’s plane, not that of White, the pilot lost on the Forrestal and now airbrushed out of history, at least in Freeman’s book.

McCain wrote a glowing blurb for Freeman’s book, drawing and all, calling it a “riveting account.” The presence of his enthusiastic blurb on the book cover raises another issue: Freeman relied heavily on interviews of survivors who were close to the Forrestal events but he never quotes McCain directly or mentions having requested an interview with him. Because his book pushes McCain’s misleading and unsubstantiated account, Freeman should make public whether McCain, or people around him, played a role in the genesis of “Sailors to the End.”

IMHO he is a piece of yellow shit.....even if he did not wet start that plane he abandoned his crew.....makes one go uhummm about the capture and staying to the end with his fellow sailors, yea he suddenly is doing the right thing, doubtful, once a coward .......

They, the vietkong, called him the "songbird"...

tired of these people getting away with their crimes, but oh god give me a ticket for no seat belt :/

I have thought this along that his capture might have been a false flag. They probably flew him to some secluded place to avoid what he did on the Forrestal.

you don't last that long in politics without having a walk in closet full of rattling skeletons waiting to smack you down

McCain famously killed more sailors in one day than the VC did during the entire war.

Thanks for the Daily Mail Article, Zedakah.

Wow. I always knew McCain was a dick, but I didn't know he was THAT much of a dick.

Kind of explains his daughter Meghan, too. She has an evil streak in her -- now I know where she got it. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree...

Canaan brother of Abel?!

I think it would be funny if his daughter got spit out the bottom of the porn industry.

WRONG ... !!

134 DEAD and 161 injured!!



EVERYONE in the first firefighting crew that hit the deck DIED (about 25+- ... those are the guys who saved McCain fwiw) ... and most of those in the second firefighting crew DIED.

Media and govt covers for McCain because his father headed the investigation into ISRAEL's deliberate attack on USS LIBERTY- and made sure it was covered up. what else would ensure the media keep their mouth shut on such criminality, except to benefit the TRIBE?

Well known, nothing will be done.

somebody here posted that his model of plane couldn't be wet started

read somewhere else that he hit the afterburners while still on deck and that exploded the war head

and i find it hard to believe that mccrime didn't have something to do with the forrestal fire if he was the first person to be choppered off of it, instead of the injured

Johnny songbird.

Same here! Coast Guard though.

And there ya go.

Trumps tirade wasn't only aimed @ Mexicans I see these Viet Nam immigrunts going back & forth and think of all the working class white guys who went on a 1 way trip !!! ruined many white working class families that war & black + latino as well !!! so China take the Spratly's ho chi minh city can pound sand !!

One cannot get elected is One is not able to be blackmailed. Prerequisite for our rulers.....skeletons in one's closet.

Something to think about.

McCain is a lecherous old warmonger. He will burn in hell unless he repents.

What the fuck is this about?

Sort of like Caitlyn Jenner using his/her (whatever) "coming out" moment to deemphasize and hide the car accident where he killed that old Asian lady.

Opportunity knocks......you take it.

Yep.

i've said it before and say it again
he should not have been allowed in the cockpit

This is why TRUMP is so important as he breaks this mouldy mold.

He just doesn't have the heart of a real aviator

McCain and Kerry are cut from the same cloth. Treasonous bastards who sold out their country, colleagues, and clan. Both married rich bitches to get into government. They both make me want to puke.

That Trump does not mention this is telling on HIS character. Trump cavorts with Jews and his daughter is married to one and many of his advisors are Jews.
McCain is married to a Jewess beer fortune heiress and that is his handler.
That Trump does not out Graham as a homo (note the sh-t eating smile) is telling.