McCain pandering to NFL fans?

[Vermouth]

John McCain’s campaign claims he had a “memory lapse,” after he incorrectly told a Pittsburgh reporter that he rattled off the lineup for the Pittsburgh Steelers when under pressure to give up names by his Vietnam captors.

McCain was being interviewed by the Pennsylvania TV station KDKA Wednesday when he started talking about how the Steelers “really made a huge impression on me, particularly in their early years.”

He recalled how, when he was being held in Vietnam as a prisoner of war, he “named … the defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates” under interrogation.

But ABC News’ Jake Tapper noted that every other recounting of the story, including that from McCain’s book “Faith of my Fathers,” involved the Green Bay Packers’ lineup — not the Steelers’.

A senior McCain adviser told FOX News it was a mistake, and that the story from over 40 years ago is a non-issue.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/11/mccain-mixes-up-packers-and-steelers-in-pa-interview/

[conley]

Pandering! 

 

[conley]

did you hear about obama sponsoring a sprint car?

[Vermouth]

did you hear about obama sponsoring a sprint car?

Nope. Guess he can afford it.

[BigLebowski]

It was not a mistake it was a lie.   

A few years ago, when McCain was against torture, he used this as a prime example on why torture was bad way of getting information from people.

 

"I was once physically coerced to provide my enemies with the names of the members of my flight squadron, information that had little if any value to my enemies as actionable intelligence. But I did not refuse, or repeat my insistence that I was required under the Geneva Conventions to provide my captors only with my name, rank and serial number. Instead, I gave them the names of the Green Bay Packers' offensive line, knowing that providing them false information was sufficient to suspend the abuse,"