Thursday 6 September 2018

“John McCain was a war hero, flawed like his country” | SCMP


Well, I found the online version of my letter the South China Morning Post published today.
John McCain was a war hero, flawed like his country
They edited it lightly, to remove a couple of my rhetorical flourishes including a couple of sharpish references to their chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo, the focus of my ire. I'd called him a bigot (a favourite curse of the Left) and impugned his morality in criticising McCain's breakdown under torture when the worst he, Lhatoo, had faced in his life was some snarky letters to the editor. 
They removed those. 
But good on them for printing something sharply critical of a senior member of their staff. 

Published with the above headline and photo.