FIRST PHOTO: Ed Harris as John McCain in HBO's 'Game Change' -- EXCLUSIVE

It’s called having your arms broken repeatedly while enduring 5 years of torture. You know, real torture. Let’s see Christopher Hitchens write a Vanity Fair story about how he volunteered to have his arms broken.

It’s called getting your arms broken because you wanted to go “kill some g**ks” and weren’t a good enough pilot to stay in the air. Had he not been shot down he wouldn’t have been labeled an ‘American Hero’. Let’s face facts, John McCain is a racist and an opportunist. If you don’t know that, you obviously haven’t done your research.

@Allen – You sound like the typical mindless Liberal Drone who has absolutley no facts to backup your unsubstantiated gratuitous remarks. Your suggesting that any American fighter pilot who was shot down was not a pilot good enough to stay in the air ?? John McCain is a national hero who you have insulted and disrespected along with thousands of other heroic American fighter pilots. You must be very proud of yourself.

Doug – It was McCain that started the fire on the Forrestal that killed 134 and injured 161.

Surviving crewmen and those who investigated the Forrestal fire case reported that McCain deliberately ‘wet-started’ his A-4E Skyhawk to shake up the guy in the F-4 Phantom behind his A-4.

‘Wet-starts’, done either deliberately (the starter motor switch allowed kerosene to pool in the engine and give a wet start) or accidentally, shoot a large flame from the tail of the aircraft. In McCain’s case, the ‘wet-start’ ‘cooked off’ and launched the M34 Zuni rocket from the rear F-4 that punctured the Skyhawk’s fuel tank, knocked the M-65 1000 lb. bomb off it’s 500 lb. rated mount, and touched off the explosions and massive fire.

@Doug – The Red Baron was suffering from brain damage when he got shot down due to bad decision-making; what’s McCain’s excuse?

To be clear, I receive no free checks. I likely earn more than you do – and I make that statement based on the knowledge of my own income vs. that of the average American. I have become successful because I am thoughtful and innovative. I know how to reach goals and exceed project expectations.

I am no pilot, but I am a researcher. I can read – and read beyond the written word into the depths of their meaning. My statements were made without too much exertion when it comes to John McCain.

As for the assertions that I scream racist because I have nothing more substantial to make complaints about, you need only to google a bit to find out where Senator McCain’s tendencies lean. I am from humble beginnings but am insightful enough to recognize that I am of the historically privileged skin tone in this country and that while I work very hard, I have had it far easier than many. I spent much of my childhood around those who valued race more than species and I can smell that stink on the Senator more than half a continent away.

Perhaps this knowledge plays into my sentiments towards the Senator as well as those whom you have stated are out for a ‘free check’. Perhaps my sense of community feeds my desire to help the less fortunate. Perhaps your celebration of self feeds your apathy.

I concede that my initial statement was simplistic, but this is an entertainment blog. I also concede that from time to time it is my guilty pleasure to bare my liberal soul in a comments section.

What I know for certain is that one day soon, my generation’s liberal warriors will move from the meaningless realms of debate on the internet to the more substantial footing of this nation’s civic centers. We are strong and we are clever and we have the groundwork laid by our nation’s forefathers to right this ship.

Make no mistake; we will drown the likes of Senator McCain in our patriotic fervor. We will bury your kind under mountains of righteous service. We will educate this nation’s children and once again lead by example and not control by force. There is nothing of which I am more confident.

(Excerpt from the mindless liberal drone handbook.) pp42-45