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pickel · July 11th, 2008, 03:17 PM

McCain Mixes Up Packers and Steelers in Pa. Interview - America’s Election HQ

Asso. Press "My teleprompter locked up and I forgot where I was ???"

Where, the hell, was his bro JOE ???? Reckon he forgot about the interview or was he just another whiner drying his crocodile tears

LMAO

John McCain’s campaign claims he had a “memory lapse,” after he incorrectly told a Pittsburgh reporter that he rattled off the lineup for the Pittsburgh Steelers when under pressure to give up names by his Vietnam captors.

McCain was being interviewed by the Pennsylvania TV station KDKA Wednesday when he started talking about how the Steelers “really made a huge impression on me, particularly in their early years.”

He recalled how, when he was being held in Vietnam as a prisoner of war, he “named … the defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates” under interrogation.

But ABC News’ Jake Tapper noted that every other recounting of the story, including that from McCain’s book “Faith of my Fathers,” involved the Green Bay Packers’ lineup — not the Steelers’.

A senior McCain adviser told FOX News it was a mistake, and that the story from over 40 years ago is a non-issue.

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pickel Ultimate Member Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Jackson,MS Posts: 5,319	John McCain’s campaign claims he had a “memory lapse" McCain Mixes Up Packers and Steelers in Pa. Interview - America’s Election HQ Asso. Press "My teleprompter locked up and I forgot where I was ???" Where, the hell, was his bro JOE ???? Reckon he forgot about the interview or was he just another whiner drying his crocodile tears LMAO John McCain’s campaign claims he had a “memory lapse,” after he incorrectly told a Pittsburgh reporter that he rattled off the lineup for the Pittsburgh Steelers when under pressure to give up names by his Vietnam captors. McCain was being interviewed by the Pennsylvania TV station KDKA Wednesday when he started talking about how the Steelers “really made a huge impression on me, particularly in their early years.” He recalled how, when he was being held in Vietnam as a prisoner of war, he “named … the defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates” under interrogation. But ABC News’ Jake Tapper noted that every other recounting of the story, including that from McCain’s book “Faith of my Fathers,” involved the Green Bay Packers’ lineup — not the Steelers’. A senior McCain adviser told FOX News it was a mistake, and that the story from over 40 years ago is a non-issue. __________________ "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ---Theodore Roosevelt Last edited by pickel : July 11th, 2008 at 03:25 PM.