SubscribeRockefeller Smears McCain, Feigns Apology
First the smear, from West Virginia’s Charleston Gazette:
Jay defends endorsement of Sen. Obama
April 8, 2008
By Paul J. Nyden
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., defended his decision to make an endorsement in the race for president during an interview with Gazette editors on Monday…
Rockefeller criticized Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for president. “Senator McCain does have a temper. But today, he speaks in a monotone on the campaign trail.”
Rockefeller believes McCain has become insensitive to many human issues. “McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit.
“What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.” …
Then Mr. Rockefeller’s faux apology, via Fox News:
Rockefeller Apologizes to McCain for Calling Him Hit-and-Run Aviator
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Barack Obama supporter, apologized to John McCain Tuesday for suggesting to a West Virginia newspaper that the Arizona senator does not care about “the lives of people” caught in the wars he champions, dating back to his Navy service in Vietnam…
On Tuesday, Rockefeller issued a statement, saying, “I have deep respect for John McCain’s honorable and noble service to our country. I made an inaccurate and wrong analogy and I have extended my sincere apology to him.
“While we differ a great deal on policy issues, I profoundly respect and appreciate his dedication to our country, and I regret my very poor choice of words,” he said…
No matter what he says as an “apology” there just are things you would never say unless you somehow, somewhere believed them.
Which tells us more about Mr. Rockefeller than it does about Mr. McCain.
Indeed, we ever needed to know about Mr. Rockefeller’s concern for lives was revealed when he warned the Syrians (and thereby the rest of the Middle East) about the US invasion of Iraq.
But maybe American lives don’t count.
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April 8th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
“What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know.”
Um, as a trained fighter pilot and someone with an IQ higher than his shoe size, I think that McCain knew exactly what happened when those missiles hit the ground. They blew up, along with anything in the immediate vicinity. That’s why he “dropped” them in the first place. Duh.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
This seems like as good a place as any to say this:
Ann Coulter makes an excellent point in one of her books, I can’t remember which one. Every consequential Republican has been deemed in the objective, middle of the road MSM as either comically stupid (George W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan) or, if that charge didn’t fit, creepily weird (Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon, Bob Dole).
PREDICTION: Once the liberal attack machine hits full stride, they’re going to go with the WEIRD charge for Sen. McCain; featuring endless editorials about how people felt uneasy around him, he creeped them out, they got the ’sense’ that he wanted to bring back slavery/ the holocaust/ Battle of the Network Stars, etc.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
……”I regret my very poor choice of words…..”
In other words, this worthless piece of skin doesn’t regret what he said, he only regrets the choice of the words he used to say it. Typical non-apology. I remember an old incident attributed to Bob Hope who was a master of cracking wise. He said the room he was staying in while in Japan was so small that “the mice had round shoulders”. His Japanese hosts were incensed and insisted on an apology. Mr. Hope duly obliged with this gem, saying, “I apologize for my comment, the mice didn’t have round shoulders”.
Rockefeller shows monumental good judgement, however, by not alluding to McCain’s temper while standing within arm’s reach. How do such idiots continue to get re-elected?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Jay Rockefeller, isn’t he a big oil guy.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Ok, I can’t let this go. First off does he know the left’s anti-war presidential nominee hero George McGovern was a WWII Bomber Pilot?
Second….what he said slammed every military pilot who has ever seen combat. That’s lots of good solid patriotic Americans to piss off. Probably a good number of them Democrats too.
Third…McCain wasn’t a fighter pilot. He was an attack pilot. There’s a world of difference between the two. And during VN, we didn’t have laser guided missles that dropped on the ground, we had “dumb” bombs mounted on the underside of the A-4’s that McCain flew. And this nitwit is Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Rockefeller is an ignoramus.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Yeah WI, the “laser guided missles” got me too. “Rocketfailure” is the dumbmest of the dumbasses on the IC and West Va. voters prove what brainiacs they are every 6 years when they continue to elect him and Byrd.
My sis lived in WV for a while and I encourage everyone to take a ride through there sometime. Every bridge, post office, highway and dog turd is named after Byrd or Rocketfailure courtesy of your tax dollars.
What an idiot. I hope every former, reserve or active armed forces pilot that sees that bastard get on their aircraft refuses to fly him anyplace.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
“And during VN, we didn’t have laser guided missles that dropped on the ground, we had “dumb” bombs mounted on the underside of the A-4’s that McCain flew.”
I believe (and Wikipedia contends) that the US tested laser-guided bombs (the Paveway) in VN as early as 1968.
But they don’t seem to have gotten widespread use until around 1972-73. That is to say, in the last years of the war.
Laser-guided bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-guided_bomb
Paveway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paveway
Needless to say Mr. McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton at the time.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
How low can you go Sen. Rockefeller? You picked out one genuinely heroic time in McCain’s life and spit on it like some mentally diseased Vietnam era hippie. Then you go from calling him an uncaring killer to an honorable soldier. Like Hillary’s sniper lie, it’s just too extremely opposite of reality for honest people to buy. Liberal media and leftist drones maybe, but I did say honest people.
This is an example of the boundless extremism we are getting from the left today. I completely disagree with McCain’s politics but that doesn’t allow me to rewrite his history. He was dragged from a crash site nearly dead, only to be tortured. He was then sadistically kept alive only so he could be tortured some more. It would be real justice to see that kind of reality inflicted on such a shameless and inadequate man as Rockefeller. I would call him a disgrace to the Senate but these days they set the bar so low that he fits right in.
What I wouldn’t do to be alone with Sen. Rockefeller for just a few minutes.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Air Force only SG….not on USN planes and not on A-4’s ever.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
“Air Force only SG….not on USN planes and not on A-4’s ever.”
Ah so.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Yeah, the first one was called the “walleye”, and rather crude by today’s standards. The big test was the Paul Doumer bridge, which had survived hundreds of dumb bombs…..and a flight of F-4s, the one plane that could use the system, busted the bridge on the first try.
somebody look it up, I am just shooting from the hip here….but none the less….Jayboy Rockefeller is a gigantic sloth urethra with ears.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
This Senator is one ugly fool.
But then most Senators seem quite regretful.
The problem remains, as McCain has become basically the same as Sen. Jay Rockefeller over the years, being in the Beltway, placating lobbyists in pampered isolation.
Of course on the subject of McCain’s pilot experience in the past?
The problem sits with McCain as well, running on his past Vietnam heroism as a POW victim of the Communists.
Sure Kerrry’s deceitful renditions of the past made him easy game, but McCain’s reliance upon “VIETNAM” is not very encouraging either.
If he were the leading General, who managed to overwhelmingly destroy the Communists in that Battle long ago, it would be well worth the mention.
But lacking a serious reference in management, a bit of evidence for some potential future LEADER, leaves the references to this past rather weak.
If McCain continues to sidestep queries about serious challenges, such as economic issues, with “I fought in Vietnam” or “I have Senate Associates”, it will be an even uglier General Election than I expect.
McCain, like Kerry, has placed his Vietnam past blatantly on the table for all to dissect.
Even his last Christmas offering, was (although moving…) a vivid reminder of his victimization at the hands of his captors so many years ago.
Great Leaders, like the Gipper, run on the future, and what they plan to do…
April 8th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
While many in the media have noted McCain’s momentary gaffe of implying that al Qaeda is a Shiite sect, Bayh’s implication that Pakistan is an Arab country is being ignored.
BAYH: The Afghanistan and Pakistan are subjects for another day but since this is all tied up in the global effort against extremism and terror, as you know, things have not been going as well as we would hope in Afghanistan. And it is true we’re not going to have troops in Pakistan. Still, our resources are finite and they do have an impact. Some might look at this and say why are we devoting five times the amount of resources to a place that at this time is not the principal threat?
CROCKER: In part, Senator, to be sure that it doesn’t become that. I noted in my testimony that Osama bin Laden fairly recently referred to Iraq as the perfect base for al Qaeda and it is a reminder that for al Qaeda, having a safe base on Arab soil is extremely important today. They got close to that in ‘06.
BAYH: They apparently have one now in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
If given the chance, Rockefeller would likely explain that he values all life, whether it be Syrian, Iranian or al Qaeda.
As long as it’s not those warmongers in the US Military.
Followed by “Oops, did I say that out loud?”
April 8th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
SJ: Walleyes were used by the Navy, and (I believe) primarily on A-4’s and F-8’s. The Doumer Bridge was indeed dropped by F-4’s carrying Paveway bombs…after God only knows how many Thuds and Double Uglies had gone down there during Rolling Thunder (not to mention Huns and probably a Herk or two…I know C-130’s were used to drop BLU-82’s on some targets up North, not just to clear LZ’s in the South…)
I’m not sure if it was my Air Force or if it was the Navy who took down the Dragon’s Jaw Bridge, but I know someone nailed that sucker in ‘72.
As much as I dislike McCain, he had some big clanging brass ones to fly a Scooter against those targets…and Jay Rockefeller is both an ignoramous and beneath contempt for what he’s done and what he’s said.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:10 am
‘after God only knows how many Thuds and Double Uglies had gone down there’
And thus, Code Pink was born.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:15 am
That’s bad NCJ, just plain bad……LOL!!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:28 am
hmmm, a daisycutter in jay’s back yard would be kinda fun Sharps……thanks for the info though, I actually couldnt remember until your post…..ahhh, the Hun.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Mr. Limbaugh is talking about this article (and thread) as we speak.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
“If given the chance, Rockefeller would likely explain that he values all life, whether it be Syrian, Iranian or al Qaeda.” or aborted.
April 9th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Just as long as they are not US military.
““If given the chance, Rockefeller would likely explain that he values all life, whether it be Syrian, Iranian or al Qaeda.” or aborted.”