Comments on: Radio, Radio

By: Crankybear

Crankybear — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:43 +0000

Apropos of nothing, my wife has owned a radio that looks very similar to that one for years (minor differences in the speaker grill). Cool!

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:56:43 +0000

Stockholm Syndrome? Does that involve dumping your wife for a younger, blonder, richer model?
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No, you’ve confused it with “Anhauser’s Syndrome.”

By: NealDeesit

NealDeesit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:19:41 +0000

McCain had that radio with him all the time he was a prisoner of war. It had been his grandfather’s radio. When his grandfather died, it passed to his father, the admiral, who gave it to John Sidney III to keep in the cockpit with him while he trained to be a Navy fighter pilot.

John Sidney III had the radio with him when his plane was hit by North Vietnamese air defenses. As he plummeted toward Earth, he knew that he had to take the radio with him, and to hide it where the “Gooks” would not find it and steal his birthright. So he hid it in his ass. All during his confinement, he listened to that radio, which inexplicably played only American stations. It was John Sidney III’s only source of American speech and culture, and he unconsciously began to modify his speech to mimic its distinctive sound.

This is why, more than four decades later, when John Sidney III says anything, he sounds like he’s talking out of his ass.

By: makeitstop

makeitstop — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:06:19 +0000

The winners are always the heroes, afterall, who gets to write the history? And as we know from neocons and their newest puppet, they make their own history; they told us so. I think that by now this also means “making it up” as they go along too.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:39:05 +0000

Are you questioning John McCain’s integrity??

By: Goodbyetoallthat

Goodbyetoallthat — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:44:33 +0000

At the end of the Vietnam War, a war the U.S. ruling elite started, three countries lay in ruins and millions were dead.

The supreme crimes thr U.S. committed against the Vietnamese people have been expunged from the record. All that remains are our “heroes.”

By: Cliff105

Cliff105 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:41:46 +0000

The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a ~~former prisoner of war~~ Republican, cheated is outrageous

No need to beat that old POW horse.

Everyone knows Republicans cannot lie…

By: vachon

vachon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:32:58 +0000

Look, I’d like to get back to the Supremes, if you don’t mind.

By: moeman

moeman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:09:50 +0000

Come on now, even if McSame had access to the questions don’t y’all know that them transistor radios have really bad reception, especially on that new fangled AM wave.

By: fauxmaxbaer

fauxmaxbaer — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:58:35 +0000

Stockholm Syndrome? Does that involve dumping your wife for a younger, blonder, richer model?