John McCain, 1973: 'A Lot of My Captors Were Homosexuals'

[girl gone mad]

Back in 1973, when young John McCain had just been released from his five hellish years of torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese, he became a media sensation back home. His tale of heroism inspired the nation, and his refusal to back down and give in to his captors demands was thrilling stuff. Queerty tracked down what may be McCain's first personal account of his captivity and torture, for US News & World Report in May of 1973. They posted it online in January, but maybe it's because we're all so familiar with his tale at this point that no one noticed, until now, the bit where he says all his captors were homosexuals who got off on whipping him. No, that is not made up.

Now I don't hate them any more—not these particular guys. I hate and detest the leaders. Some guards would just come in and do their job. When they were told to beat you they would come in and do it. Some seemed to get a big bang out of it. A lot of them were homosexual, although never toward us. Some, who were pretty damned sadistic, seemed to get a big thrill out of the beatings.

Yes, ok. What?? How did POW McCain know they were gay if they weren't gay "toward him"? Were the homosexuals the ones who enjoyed the beatings or were the sadists a separate category? We have lots of unanswered questions here. Like—how come he mentions how gay the North Vietnamese were but leaves out that inspiring tale of the cross on the floor he mentioned last weekend?

http://gawker.com/5038534/john-mccain-1973-a-lot-of-my-captors-were-homosexuals

[davidnc76]

1. LOL

[DefenseLawyer]

8. Eight year olds, Dude. n/t

[rfranklin]

2. It gets reall lonely in that little cell...

You start thinking that the ugly guard is a hot blonde--or at least close enough.

[Disturbed]

4. McLame tells so many lies that a book needs to be written to

document them all.



“Hypocrisy, my friends, is the most obvious of political sins — and the people will punish it,” John McCain

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. "A lot of them were homosexual, although never toward us"

Can't decide if he's relieved or disappointed.

I'm gonna go with disappointed.

:patriot:

[miles 2 go]

6. I'm gonna go with Lying

So he is saying that he watched them have sex with each other but they never forced themselves on him? I think not.

[Skittles]

23. doesn't pass the smell test

not one damn bit

[Bob Dobbs]

5. Takes one to know one.

Hey, sailor!

Who knew gramps has a wide stance?

[girl gone mad]

9. He could totally tell they were gay..

because they used the secret gay whipping code. Three slaps in a downward motion, sashay, then jazz hands.

[WCGreen]

10. Ha Ha HAaaaHa Haa Haaa Hew...

Funny...

[Skittles]

24. LOL........girl gone mad

:rofl:

[miles 2 go]

29. I believe they also may have drawn a cross in the sand

with their penis. It was actually a plus sign, as in me plus you, but McCain remembers it as a stick, er I mean sandal, drawing a cross when he needs to come up with something to show his religiosity.

[Bluebear]

18. Wow, hilarious.

:eyes:

[deaniac21]

7. We should get this to EVERY media outlet in the country! This

will bring McCain DOWN!!!

[jakem]

11. are you saying this story will make McAint "go down"??!!

[Naturyl]

12. Yes, one wonders how McPain discovered this... (n/t)

[tinrobot]

13. Homosexual cross drawing Christians!

[Prophet 451]

14. How does he know this?

I mean, I could understand if he was claiming they raped him. He'd still be wrong but at least I could understand his train of logic then but if they never came on to him, how would he know?

[formercia]

15. He saw Vietnamese men holding hands

and assumed they were Gay. What a myopic idiot. :rofl:

[RandomKoolzip]

Huh. McCain's a lot like some people on DU.

Y'know, operating on the assumption that anyone who's violent, sadistic and evil is secretly homosexual, etc.

[RandomKoolzip]

16. Huh. McCain's a lot like some people on DU.

Y'know, operating on the assumption that anyone who's violent, sadistic and evil is secretly homosexual, etc.

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[Bluebear]

19. 'A lot of them were homosexual, although never toward us.' -How are you homosexual "toward" someone?

Idiot.

[RB TexLa]

20. And when I posted something about it in GDP it wasn't just locked it was completely erased

[JI7]

21. McCain has always claimed to have gaydar

remember in 2000 he said something about how he knows.

[ColbertWatcher]

22. Isn't every sailor issued his own gaydar?

I'm sorry, but this is just another example of how far out of the main stream this guy is.

His racist, misogynist, homophobic comments must in some way be related to his narcissistic, inflated self-assessment.

[XemaSab]

26. Rum, sodomy, and the lash

:o

[elshiva]

25. FUCK YOU McCain.

You're against gay marriage and now you spew homophobic shit. Just fuck off to Arizona.

:grr:

[FloridaJudy]

27. And this means....?

Hey, I'll bet most of them were heterosexuals - law of averages and all. Why on earth the sexual orientation of one's jailers should matter if they're not forcing one to have sex with them is beyond me.

I'll bet some of them were left-handed, too. Just can't trust those folks....:sarcasm:

[girl gone mad]

28. Yeah, it's..

a fucked up statement to just throw out there like that.

[AlphaCentauri]

30. so he enjoyed the big bang

[CitizenPatriot]

31. I posted this on Digg yesterday

and made sure it got a few views! I'm glad to see it coming around again -- dont' let it die, it's disgusting and says so much about him.

It is outrageous to me that he claims he "knew" they were homosexual. How exactly did he know this? They weren't "toward him" -- of course not, they have better taste, Hanoi John.