Oct 07
Oct 06
Wreckage of McCain plane, Hanoi, October 1967.
“I crashed a plane in Corpus Christi Bay one Saturday morning. The engine quit while I was practicing landings…I took a few painkillers and hit the sack to rest my aching back for a few hours….I was out carousing, injured back and all, later that evening.
–John McCain, “Faith of My Fathers.”
Controversy has surrounded a series of crashes involving planes piloted by John McCain while serving in the U.S. Navy. In his autobiography, the Republican presidential candidate maintained that a couple of the accidents were caused by engine failure. But an official investigation by the Naval Aviation Safety Center makes clear that the first accident, in March 1960, was caused exclusively by pilot error.
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“Presidential Candidate Chris Dodd today announced that his campaign will begin running a new ad entitled “Jim’s,” highlighting his ability to achieve results as President….The 60-second spot will run in Iowa and on national cable networks and introduces John and Jesse, two barbers at Jim’s barbershop in Winterset, Iowa, where the ad was shot.”
–Dodd campaign press release, October 24, 2007.
There’s one minor problem with the Dodd ad, and we are indebted to the Des Moines Register for pointing it out. “John” and “Jesse” are not barbers. They are not Democratic voters. In fact, they are not even from Iowa. They are actors from Chicago. There is a “Jim’s barbershop” in Winterset, but it is run by a registered Republican, Jim Kinser, who let the Dodd people have the run of his store, but has no plans to vote for the silver-haired senator from Connecticut. And just for the record: Dodd never got a haircut there.
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