How do you show your respect to the most decorated vet since General Douglas MacArthur? When mentioning him in a story, completely disregard his service and reduce his reputation to the smallest of proportions.
What am I talking about?
Michelle is on top of a hack job of an editorial piece done by CNN on Col. George Everett Day.
One of the members of John McCain’s new Truth Squad — which his campaign says was launched to respond to unfair attacks on his record of military service –- was a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and appeared in an attack ad for the group in 2004.
The group was created to attack 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry’s military service record.
"How can you expect our sons and daughters to follow you when you condemned their fathers and grandfathers?" asked former Air Force Col. Bud Day, who was a prisoner of war with McCain in Vietnam, in a 2004 Swift Boat Vets spot.
McCain has said that he opposed the group’s efforts.
On a campaign conference call Monday, a Politico reporter asked Day if there was any similarity between former Gen. Wesley Clark’s controversial Sunday comments about McCain’s military service and his own remarks about John Kerry during the last presidential campaign.
Day dismissed any equivalence. "The Swift Boat 'attacks' were simply revelation of the truth. The similarity does not exist here," he said. "…One was about laying out the truth. This one is about attempting to cast a new shadow on John McCain."
This is significant because they have written off Col. Day as some two bit heretic. You don't see one sentence in the article about his honorable service. Take it for what it is but I feel CNN has done a horrible job in giving the Col. the respect he deserves. CNN doesn't seem to care and has even turned off comments to the article which was gladly informing these idiots of there wrong doing.
Way to show your respect on the eve of Independence Day weekend.