(For previous posts in this series, see here.)
One of McCain’s successes is the way he has managed to cultivate and flatter the press so that they have been very gentle to him and taken his self-portraits of being an honorable, independent-minded maverick at face value, instead of portraying him more accurately as a self-aggrandizing panderer who shamelessly exploits his Vietnam experiences to hide his right-wing agenda and his reckless personality.
The real McCain is a much darker figure. To start to get a better idea of who he really is, watch this ‘McCain in three minutes’ video, produced by ABC News’s Good Morning America.
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