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You must be talking about the accusations in 2008 of Sen McCain being literal Manchurian Candidate.
by TheGirondin 10y ago
You must be talking about the accusations in 2008 of Sen McCain being literal Manchurian Candidate.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoI'd never heard this, so looked it up. Wikipedia claims it came up in 2000, not 2008: An anonymous smear campaign began against McCain, delivered by push polls, faxes, e-mails, flyers, and audience plants.[126][142] The smears claimed that McCain had fathered a black child out of wedlock (the McCains' dark-skinned daughter was adopted from Bangladesh), that his wife Cindy was a drug addict, that he was a homosexual, and that he was a "Manchurian Candidate" who was either a traitor or mentally unstable from his North Vietnam POW days.[126][136] The Bush campaign strongly denied any involvement with the attacks.[136][143] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#2000_presidential_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#2000_presidential_...