I love it when people answer criticism with "I've been in the business for twenty odd years..." I always explain that the statement is not a proper argument in proving or disproving anything and ask for a reasoned, logical argument instead. I rarely get one and I doubt King could have given one in this instance.

Twenty years experience of being a media whore really only gives you twenty years of experience doing one thing. It looks like John C. King did that one thing to John McCain with a lot of energy and enthusiasm!

Finally, a critic has no responsibility to reach out and ask for a perspective from who they are criticizing. Movie critics do not. Music critics do not. TV critics do not. Book critics do not. Critics take a published/produced work and make all judgments from what is there- what is being offered to the public. That is what Glenn Greenwald did to King's McCain interview. It was a finished work that aired on television. Nothing else should be required. No perspective or side was offered to the viewers so it shouldn't be included by the critic. Greenwald was under no obligation to "reach out."

If King or CNN felt they needed to include a perspective or "side" to their report to defend it, the report was never worthy of being aired.

In fact, it would be a great position if the Gentleman from Illinois is planning to do a bit of drunk driving before running off a bridge with a woman, not his wife.

Should this happen and he then tries to save his own skin, rather than his hapless passenger, it will be good to have Teddy nearby for the advice of one who's been there.

You are a complete idiot! You have no clue about reality. A car goes off a road into a dark, freezing cold and quickly moving canal in the middle of the night. It is amazing that anybody got out. I am a former life guard, swim coach and have completed numerous Ironmans. I have also swam from Alcatraz in the SF Bay. There is no way that anybody can think clearly after the impact of the wreck, the shock of the cold, or the disorientation of the impact. When I swam SF Bay I was in a full wetsuit with a hood and footies. When I hit the water after jumping from the boat, all I could think of was "swim." My mind was in shock. And I had done a practice swim so I knew what the immersion was going to feel like.

Real life is not like the movies. It is not like TV. You do not hit the water, think about your surroundings, analyze the situation, pull your swiss army knife out of the glove compartment and start making plans on saving the kids in the back along with the dog. It is sheer panic. It is confusion. It is your worst nightmare. It is all sheer survival. I have had car wrecks where I could not think straight for an hour, and that is without the frightening shock of freezing cold water zapping you physically, mentally and emotionally.

I realize you and your wingnut buddies want to think that real life is like watching "Red Dawn" or "Starsky & Hutch." But it is not. Nobody in that situation goes down in pitch black, freezing cold water in time to save anybody. 99.9% of people do not even get back into the water.

Go back to your mom's basement, play a few more video games, watch "Red Dawn" a few more times, imagine you can save 'Murica against an invading army, and shove your idiotic, moronic comments where the sun does not shine. You have no clue because you do not have the life experiences to pass judgment.

There were huge failures -- a young president humiliated by Kruschshev, the Bay of Pigs, putting troops in Viet Nam, avoiding the civil rights movement until forced to act (Bobby finally did).

Somebody needs a history book.

Kennedy was never humiliated by Kruschev and succeeded almost every time they faced each other.

The Bay of Pigs was planned by the Eisenhower Administration and Kennedy reluctantly let the CIA continue with it after he was in office. One of the reasons it failed was because the Soviets knew when it was going to happen but the CIA just happened to avoid telling Kennedy of that, because he may have canceled it.

Kennedy put about 16,000 advisers in Vietnam, many of those after Diem was overthrown and executed and chaos was enveloping the country in November 1963. In late 1963 he was asking how to get out of Vietnam, and then he was assassinated. It was LBJ who raised the troop levels to over 100,000 after the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident.