New at Reason: Welch Video Chat with the Los Angeles Times

June 19, 2008

Over at the Los Angeles Times, Matt Welch, a former Times writer, discusses his book John McCain: The Myth of a Maverick with journalist Andrew Malcolm. Watch the video here.

Comments

|6.19.08 @ 3:37PM|#

If you listen to Matt, you will hear him say that McCain himself admits that he cheated on his first wife-the first wife who, after suffering injuries as a result of a car accident necessitating several surgeries, the war hero dumped for the heiress.

Some here accused me of slandering McCain on other posts. First, any idiot knows that one does not "slander" another with the written word. Second, there is no question of fact relating to McCain's cheating, his leaving the first wife or her accident and subsequent surgeries. Third, there is no question of fact relative to McCain's efforts to bury the POW?MIA issue. All of the above have been established.

M2|6.19.08 @ 3:41PM|#

From looking at the cover pictures it's clear the problem is ice cream.

M2|6.19.08 @ 3:49PM|#

First, sorry about the mispost. Second...

M2|6.19.08 @ 3:49PM|#

"the first wife who, after suffering injuries as a result of a car accident necessitating several surgeries, the war hero dumped for the heiress."

So your position is that if one's spouse has been in a car accident, one cannot file for devorce?

Otnay oota ightbray. Or just some fucking cocksucking moralist?

Kolohe|6.19.08 @ 4:01PM|#

liberty mike (or Cesar?)

nobody (or at least not I) is saying that the shit with McCain's first wife didn't happen. What I am saying it matters amount as much as Obama's 'relatioship' with Bill Ayers - which is to say not at all.

It doesn't matter because 1) McCain has admitted he was an imature jerk 2)The first wife has forgiven him, or at least has moved on such that they get along fine just now. So if Carol McCain doesn't give a shit about what happened almost twenty years why should anyone else?

And you're still full of shit with the POW issue.

|6.19.08 @ 4:51PM|#

M2 and Kolohe

The purpose of my post is to expose the outrageousness of others who accused me of slandering McCain. The purpose of many of my prior posts was to continue to spread the message that this guy is a creep and a hypocrite and is not honorable and not the type of guy that I would emulate.

If you know me, I am the last person who would condone any state involvement in just about anything-including marriage. If Ron Paul had cheated on his first wife and divorced her after she had been in an accident, he would still have my support. But Ron Paul ain't no statist, McCain is.

|6.19.08 @ 4:57PM|#

Kolohe-

I am not Joe or Cesar or Neil. Yes, in real life I am an over the top, doctrinaire, absolutist anarcho-captialist-individualist. I hate authority and I hate those who genuflect to it. Think Lysander Spooner.

|6.19.08 @ 4:59PM|#

I am not full of shit on the POW issue. Look at and listen to the tapes on the Senate hearings.

|6.19.08 @ 5:50PM|#

Matt Welch has a book out on John McCain? When did that happen?

ZMan|6.19.08 @ 8:29PM|#

"I am not Joe or Cesar or Neil. Yes, in real life I am an over the top, doctrinaire, absolutist anarcho-captialist-individualist. I hate authority and I hate those who genuflect to it. Think Lysander Spooner."

Nobody cares.

|6.19.08 @ 8:39PM|#

Zman-

You don't like Lysander Spooner?

a knight|6.22.08 @ 1:17AM|#

@ Kolohe - if Carol McCain doesn't give a shit about what happened almost twenty years why should anyone else?

It matters because Republicans are constantly attempting to pass themselves off as the side in the political bipolarity, whose members possess a greater quantity of personal morality. For this alone, it is a relevant topic, just as it is releveant whenever discussing Gingrich, to point out the pond his little newt was pollywogging in when he was striving to take down a sitting president for lying under oath in a deposition given at preliminary hearings for a sexual harrasment laswsuit so frivolous, it was tossed summary judgment, because the plaintiff had not entered into evidence, one allegation of workplace harassment, that could be triable for factualness.

It is relevant, because it, along with other events in McCain's past, represent a substantive body of evidence that contrary to McCain's self-promulgated spin, his tongue is daemoniacally forked with multiplicitious bifurcations, and has a native folding functionality.

McCain's weaseling, forked-tongue tendencies are very germane to this election cycle for the illumination they can shed on the motivations for McCain's metamorphic revisionism:

From this: Alexander Bolton, "Seeking subpoenas-McCain and Bush clash on powers, scope of intel probe", The Hill (Internet Archives copy), March 4, 2004 --- To this in just 8 months: Walter Pincus, "McCain Backs CIA Shake-up", Washington Post, November 15, 2004

It would help understand how in the hell could McCain possibly assert that being held indefinitely witout trial, and without habeas corpus rights could possibly not be deemed an act of torture as judged by Western Civilisation's standard of jurisprudence.

Dan Eggen, "Senate Approves Plan to Limit Detainee Access to Courts", Washington Post, November 11, 2005

McCain is a political junkie, brutally addicted to "Beltway White". He's an immoral hack politician with an insatiable power thirst, as is burdened with the presidential monkey on his back. Lies, Damn Lies and John Sidney McCain III.

@ liberty mike -

You're full of shit with the POW issue.