The host later apologized for the oversight, saying on Twitter that he "had the control room in my ear telling me to wrap the segment, and did not hear the comment. Beleaguered by accusations that he had been shielding a top-rung corporate criminal, McCain appears to have blamed his wife for the political millstone Keating had become. The comment by McInerney - who has been a proponent of the debunked claim that President Obama was born in Kenya and once suggested that Islamist sleeper agents might be embedded in the Obama White House - went unchallenged on-air by Payne. interviews with other POWs, an author who has written a McCain biography and the senator's own accounts." PolitiFact, in a report from 2008, said there was "scant evidence to back up the claim and it is strongly contradicted by many other accounts.
The claim that McCain - who was imprisoned in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" after his Navy A-4 was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 - had collaborated with his captors has received a "pants on fire" rating from PolitiFact. "That's why they call him 'Songbird John,' " he said. Tom McInerney told Charles Payne of Fox Business Network on Thursday. " worked on John ," retired Air Force Lt. The reported remark by Sadler, a former opinion writer for the conservative Washington Times, came on the same day that a retired three-star general told Fox Business Network that the torture McCain endured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam "worked." On Thursday, Cindy McCain tweeted at Sadler: "May I remind you my husband has a family, 7 children and 5 grandchildren."īook Reviews Exclusive Audio: In New Memoir, Sen. McCain, 81, who has incurable brain cancer, issued a statement on Wednesday calling Haspel's role in torture "disturbing" and "disqualifying" for the top CIA job.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders declined to say Friday whether Sadler made the statement: "I'm not going to comment on an internal staff meeting." She confirmed that Sadler still works at the White House. Senator John McCain was nicknamed 'Songbird John' while he was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. Both cited unnamed individuals in the room when the disparaging remark was made by Kelly Sadler, a special assistant to the president. A former Fox News military analyst falsely claimed Thursday that U.S. The Hill first reported the comment later confirmed by The Associated Press. And remember this doesnt even mention his traitorous acts while he was a POW. John McCain urged his Senate colleagues to reject Gina Haspel as CIA director because she had overseen torture of detainees, a White House official reportedly mocked the ailing Arizona Republican, saying his opinion "doesn't matter" because "he's dying anyway." John McCain 8-10-2017 This article was written by JJ Paul McCartney who says: For anyone who doesnt know the real John McCain let me help you get to know him. John McCain, R-Ariz., pauses before speaking to reporters during a meeting of the National Defense Authorization Act conferees in Washington.Ī day after Sen.