On my way home from work today I was listening to a show called The World on a local NPR station.  The host was reading some emails from listeners and one caught my attention.  It was from a man named David Brown who said the following about a segment two days earlier that featured an interview with the man who ran the “Hanoi Hilton” where John McCain spent over five years of his life against his will.  (Brown’s letter is read about two minutes into the segment.)

So much for integrity and neutrality.  What a glowing endorsement for John McCain - how he’s a true American hero.  The true purpose of your piece became obvious when you followed it with a trivial snippet on how Barack Obama received an endorsement from a Hindu temple in India. The word Hindu to most Americans is indistinguishable from Muslim.  the intent is obvious, McCain is the true American whereas Obama is not. Shame on your program.

When I got home I looked up the McCain segment from two days prior.  Not surprisingly, it was far from a “glowing endorsement.”  McCain’s jailer said that McCain “lies to American voters about what happened to him in Vietnam in order to win support for his presidential campaign.”  Of course, the man claims that McCain was well treated during his stay and that the two are friends.  He even said he would vote for McCain in part because of his efforts to improve relations between Vietnam and the U.S.  Overall the piece could hardly be called even a tepid endorsement.

Could it be that Mr. Brown himself is a bit ashamed at the obvious disparity in sacrifice and love for this country between the two candidates and wants to make the mere mention of it off limits like any other speech that might be unfavorable to Obama?

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