Highlights:
John McCain is dead. …
The phenomenon we are witnessing is so Orwellian that I can’t resist exploring it. … I am with trying to understand the regime under which we live, and the media lackeys that glorify it.
The tributes to McCain from the major newspapers are so over the top that there’s something more going on here …
McCain’s bellicosity in foreign policy knew no bounds. A discussion of all the interventions he favored — every one of which would have intensified the problems it was allegedly to solve — would take all week. …
McCain’s preferred foreign policy has yielded death, displacement, and regional chaos on a massive scale, not to mention a huge shot in the arm to the very Islamic radicalism he assured us he was fighting against. (McCain’s insistence on being involved in every Middle East conflict under the sun made him some hideous bedfellows, … as when he met with members of the Northern Storm Brigade, which had handed American journalist Steven Sotloff over to ISIS …
We are to believe that McCain was a “maverick.” … because from time to time he joined forces with the Democrats … That’s our definition of a maverick now?
Ron Paul was a maverick. He stood up to the entire Establishment, … He cast the sole “no” vote in the House more than all other congressmen put together. He opposed the Fed when no one else so much as mentioned it, much less criticized it. He stood up to the empire — the whole rotten system, … Will our gatekeepers of approved opinion have such kind words for Ron Paul? … The last thing the regime and its kept media want is a genuine maverick, a true dissident …
McCain loved the regime and the empire. … And that is why they love him. … McCain’s legacy lives on in every politician and journalist who jumps on every propaganda report to justify another round of bombing and destruction.
It lives on in a media that craves bipartisanship … in the service of the state …
It lives on in the families who are missing children because of a war that McCain finally admitted had been a hideous mistake …
McCain was a man of the state, in every fiber of his being. That is why they cheer him. …
