McCain Changes POW Story For Local Sports Team

ABC's Political Punch:

Asked what first comes to his mind when he thinks of Pittsburgh, McCain chuckled, "the Steelers. I was a mediocre high school athlete but I loved and adored the sports but the Steelers really made a huge impression on me particularly in my early years."

And then McCain told a rather moving story about his time as a P.O.W. "When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, physical pressures on me, I named the starting lineup, defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates."

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"Could you do it today?" asked the reporter.

"No, unfortunately," McCain said.

Here's one reason he likely couldn't do it today -- the Steelers aren't the team whose defensive line McCain named for his Vietnamese tormentors. The Green Bay Packers are. At least according to every previous time McCain has told this story. And the McCain campaign just told ABC News that the senator made a mistake -- it was, indeed, the Packers.

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Comments

[jethrock]

Changes????

You mean lied?

Again using his POW stories, and lies about them.

Jeez... How can anyone trust anything that comes out of this numskull's mouth?

[JohnFromCensornati]

"Social Security is a disgrace."

I trust that that was from McLiar's heart.

[andvoodoo2]

Social Security is a disgrace. No one can live on what they get from Social Security in this day and age. (That's what he meant, right?)

[tinarm]

This reminds me of Hillary's Bosnia story. Let's just hope he doesn't keep changing which team he used when he is a new state.

[JohnFromCensornati]

No, let's hope he does.

[Egalitare]

I think Hillary's story got demoted to obscure trivia status after this gaffe.

[sws3030]

The really funny part will be when he tries to do this in Dallas and refers to the local team as the Patriots.

[anninroosevelt]

If I was held captive, I could give them the lineup of the 1948 World Champions Cleveland Indians. That would sound authentic: Lou Boudreau, Joe Gordon, Jim Hegan, Larry Doby, Satchell Paige, Bob Feller, Gene Bearden, Steve Gromek, Dale Mitchell, Bob Kennedy, Ken Keltner, Eddie Robinson, Bob Lemon, Russ Christopher, Joe Tipton. They would think I was on a great squad -- and it was. McCain and I are the same age, by about 3 weeks. I could probably name several members of the Red Sox, whom we defeated in a playoff, the Boston Braves, whom we defeasted in the World Series 4-2, the damn yankees, the Tigers. No one has suggested that I become President of the United States. It's not McCain's age which disqualifies him -- it's his stunted politics. GO INDIANS! even in this miserable year. GO OBAMA! in this change year. (And yes, I know he is "flip-flopping" except he isn't. And write to him personally -- not through one of our blogs.

[AryanMjolnir]

GO INDIANS! GO INDIANS! GO INDIANS/1

[atienne]

I don't think it's as much his color as it is his party. Let's not forget the MSM is in the tank to the Republican regime! I wish someone there would have called him on this!

And you're right, Nick...it's not dementia...it's pure pandering, that's all. Why should he care because it's not like the MSM will stick it to him anyway!

[gomonkeygo]

I think it'll be the Mudville, Mississippi Mudjumpers...when he speaks in Mudville.

I wish I could change font size in my comments, so I could make the word LIAR fifty feet tall!

[gladys46]

Is Bu$h, Inc. going to steal this election for this man!? Really! I'm getting a very strange feeling about this man's sneekerings, giggling, joking about very serious issues, actually telling falsehoods! He's not even informed in pertient matters!

The American people must be very aware of McCain's strange behaviors even if MSM does not loop these continuous gaffes, etc.

Perhaps this smugness, this stuffed canary behavior is because he knows something we are not thinking about! Theft of yet another American election!!?

[andvoodoo2]

In other words, he's not even TRYING anymore? Maybe you're right. Maybe he knows something we don't know (Diebold) and that it doesn't matter what he says or does. He'll be the new king, I mean dictator, I mean President whether we like it or not.

[gladys46]

Yeppers! This is getting stranger and stranger!! This is the exact same way Bu$h behaved! Brother Jeb was on the case in FL in 2001, and while we all watched in FL in 2004, they took their operatives to Ohio!!?

It is too hard to believe that this man McCain is what they expect the American public to vote for ... so what's really going on!!?

[gladys46]

"2000" Al Gore, not 2001.

[NickNas]

It is not dementia it is an outright LIE. I don't care HOW old you get if it were true you would NEVER forget something like that. He has plenty of time to dream up hero stories while he was there,

[alnd]

This is just too funny!!!

[OhMyGoodness]

I find it utterly offensive that this old white man is given a free pass with the msm and has proven time and time again that he is completely incompetent and will lie with ease. He's never called on it outside of liberal blogs. Why is this? Is it the color of his skin?

[andvoodoo2]

It's the color of his money.

[BrettnCalgary]

Being the pale, sickly, fish belly white of a walking cadaver gets you a pass from the media?

[BEHM777]

I hate saying this in 2008 because we should be so far past it, but I think that has something to do with it. It is Fear of a Black President.

BEHusseinM777

[punkingale]

I don't know about that. The media certainly loved Obama when it was him against Hillary.

[poco767b]

Old man yells at big white fluffy thing in sky, can't quite remember it's name though.

[JackND]

He didn't make a mistake, he made a pander.

And it made about as much empirical sense and was as bafflingly low on payoff potential as Hillary's tall tale of Tuzla.

[helonias]

Dementia is what its called my friends

[poco767b]

it isn't dementia if it were it would be forgivable, it is a mixture of arrogance and ignorance. He either doesn't understand or care, that people can look up and compare his words.

[DRaymond]

McCain doesn't realize that there is such a thing as fact checkers?

I'm not sure what is worse, that he thought that he could get away with such pandering and not get caught or he really has forgotten a story that he has repeated so many times.

Either way he is not clear minded enough to be president.