Recreational drug use

Via Misha comes this story over at SkyNews talking about the recent release of the footage of John McCain being interviewed as a POW. As Misha points out, the article has this amazing paragraph:

The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette.

That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've read today. He was shot down in October, 1967. In those days, the health risks of smoking, while suspected, were not nearly as well known and understood. Many, if not most, in the military smoked. And, after all, it's not like he did "a little blow" like someone else I could mention.

What the real story *should* be is not that he was smoking, but that he quit. But that doesn't correspond with the agenda. Nor does reporting that Obama only recently quit himself, though not really.