'NYT' Sunday Preview: Gore Vidal Questions McCain's Time in Prison Camp

By Greg Mitchell

Published: June 12, 2008 10:40 AM ET
NEW YORK In an interview for this Sunday's edition of The New York Times Magazine, famed novelist/essayist Gore Vidal appears to question Sen. John McCain's account of being imprisoned by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war.

Asked what he thinks of McCain, Vidal calls him a "disaster," then tells Deborah Solomon, "Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?"

Solomon replies: "Everyone knows he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam." To which Vidal responds: "That’s what he tells us."...[Open in new window]
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Everything that was done to Kerry in '06 should be done to McCain. 'Swiftboating' to the max.

All the gibbering old weasel McCain did in Viet Nam was bomb innocents from 35,000 feet & collaborate with the enemy.