Deception in Demise
WaPo article from 5/27
"Noname reports for duty in his own heroically touching HBO tribute"
"By Hank Stuever
TV critic
May 27"
"Sen. Noname (R-Ariz.) was by all accounts alive when I wrote this review a few days ago, but I had to check anyhow, because a long and boundlessly approving HBO documentary, “Noname For Whom the Bell Tolls” (premiering Monday), all but assumes the former-POW-turned-elder-statesman has gone on to his greater glory. The film is clearly intended as a grand farewell, with no mistaking what all the bell-tolling is about, and for whom."
Article never answers the initial question.
There is a taped intro by noname.
Wouldn't he take a live Q&A / Interview on the recently-released docudrama?
Look at how recently.the airing date was nailed down:
"HBO’s Noname Documentary Gets Premiere Date & Title – Update
by Erik Pedersen
May 8, 2018 12:06pm
PREVIOUSLY, April 16: Noname certainly has led an extraordinary American life, and now HBO has begun work on a documentary about the six-term senator, 2008 GOP presidential nominee and longtime Vietnam POW.
Produced and directed by multiple Emmy winner Peter Kunhardt (HBO’s Jim: The James Foley Story, King in the Wilderness), along with his Emmy-winning sons George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt (Jim: The James Foley Story), the untitled film is an exclusive profile of one of the most influential forces in modern American politics…"
http://deadline.com/2018/05/john-mccain-documentary-hbo-kunhardt-films-1202365228/
"Noname Takes Parting Shot at Washington Politics in Trailer for HBO Documentary (Video)"
"We need to give the American people what they deserve and right now they’re not getting it,” senator says
Umberto Gonzalez | May 18, 2018 @ 10:43 AM"
So we know.the taped intro.was done.before May 18th. Maybe well before.
"Noname agreed to the filming shortly after he was diagnosed with a deadly form of brain cancer, known as glioblastoma…"
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/05/10/hbo-release-mccain-documentary-whom-bell-tolls-memorial-day/598182002/
Not even a picture of him watching the premiere at his Sedona compound.
Is he too busy working? He's still drawing that paycheck. His staff and fam claims he's still working.
So where is he?
Why no access for MONTHS?
Last trip to Mayo was mid-April.
Anothed WaPo article , this one from yesterday:
‘We wanted noname to see this while he still could’: Inside the making of HBO’s new noname documentary"
By Steven Zeitchik - The Washington Post
Posted: 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 29, 2018
"A few weeks ago [6 weeks] noname saw his life unfold before his eyes.
The Arizona senator was in a hospital room at Phoenix's Mayo Clinic recovering from a serious intestinal procedure when Teddy Kunhardt paid a visit. The 32-year-old Kunhardt had just co-directed "noname: For Whom the Bell Tolls," about noname's life, and he wanted to show it to the politician.
Noname sat and watched, transfixed. When it was over he clasped the filmmaker's hand and thanked him.
"I think I was so emotional I just ran out of the room," Kunhardt recalled.
"It was a little — abrupt," laughed Mark Salter, noname's longtime speechwriter and ghostwriter who was in the room."
"The world of media and entertainment has rushed to find ways to celebrate noname, whose brain cancer diagnosis came just 11 months ago. That celebration reaches a crescendo of sorts this weekend, as a Salter-written memoir of noname, "The Restless Wave" (which hit stores just several days ago), and "Bell" (which debuts on HBO on Monday) both arrive to consumers.
Multiple mediums have been marshaled essentially to create a rare object: a living eulogy."
Do a search for noname documentary and ALL the usual MSM outlets are reporting on it.
Yet not one even reports calling noname for his current thoughts. No pix. Nothing. Doesn't that seem odd?
Is it simply a case of being on glide-path? That would be understandable. But if he's fit enough to work, he can't take a single interview?
If he's not, why hasn't noname resigned, and let someone able do the job Americans expect of their elected representatives?
Here's one possible reason: