Forgive me - long time lurker who sometimes finds 'interesting things'. I found this article this morning in my local news: https://www.wthr.com/article/somethings-missing-in-hbos-new-film-on-john-mccains-life
For a man with No Names history (yes, he's been a criminal from the start, I think) someone has gone out of their way to be sure and leave his 'legacy of good' behind. I nearly choked on my coffee this morning!
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"PUBLISHED: MAY 25TH, 2018 - 5:09AM (EDT)
NEW YORK (AP) — It's no coincidence that the words "President Trump" aren't spoken in "John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls," the HBO documentary on the Arizona senator that debuts on Memorial Day.
There's enough to talk about, from candidate Trump's belittling of McCain for being taken prisoner in Vietnam to the senator's rejection of Trump's promised repeal of the Obama administration's health care law. McCain's family doesn't want Trump at the 81-year-old senator's funeral when he succumbs to terminal brain cancer.
The filmmaking family of Peter Kunhardt and his sons, George and Teddy, felt that including Trump would detract from McCain's story.
"We knew that we wanted to portray John in a way that would stand the test of time," said Peter Kunhardt. "Five years from now, 10 years from now, these attacks are going to fade into the ether and John's career is going to stand on its own. We didn't want the oxygen sucked out of the room by what's going on right now."
Nicolle Wallace, a top McCain aide during his 2008 campaign for president, said that was smart.
"I think McCain will matter a lot longer than the politics of the moment, and Trump is all about the politics of the moment," the current MSNBC host said.
Instead, the filmmakers focused McCain's life and service to his country. The son and grandson of U.S. Navy admirals spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war, then entered politics. He's spent three decades in the Senate and twice ran for president.
The Kunhardts came up with the idea after McCain's cancer diagnosis was announced and were well-positioned, since they had done a similar film on McCain's friend Ted Kennedy in the final years before that senator died of the same disease. McCain quickly agreed. He was working on a memoir and saw the documentary as another way to promote his campaign for greater civility and cooperation in public life."
This is just outrageous. Yes, Q, These People Are Stupid.