Media most often lies with images, like the beautiful woman next to the new car. With McCain, the images are making the argument that McCain is fit enough to be president. So I went looking at pictures to see if the media is misrepresenting Senator McCain, who is 71 years old. Especially since McCain released his medical records in 1999 and yet did not release his current medical records.

I found a number of pictures on the internet that represent McCain and that are not showing up in normal media. So I think the normally used John McCain images are a lie, especially concerning his age:

• lack of movement coverage, see the cane
• lack of profile shots showing age stoop
• makeup and lighting coverup up age spots on face and hands
• lighting hides lack of hair
• lighting focuses away from many chins
• lack of unstaged shots like celebrities normally get, like McCain walking about, McCain asleep in the senate or McCain angry in the senate
• McCain only shown in a suit, not in the sweaters or casual leather jackets that he used to wear

Click on read more to see the images you don't normally see.

If you look at the coverage of McCain, you will see very little coverage of movement or profiles. Only Youtube videos seem to be capturing realistic moments. I think that is because a profile shot shows the age stoop. This picture comes from "Raw Video: Too Old? 'You Little Jerk,' McCain Laughs" on YouTube. By the way, McCain is also short.

This image comes from the Old Man McCain blog. In the original, you can clearly see the cane as well as the really bad age spotted complexion of Senator John McCain.

In fact, in this picture you can even see the scars from surgery due to malignant Melanoma surgeries in 1999, 2000, and 2002. This is something that does not go completely away and even has a high risk of developing brain tumors. Did you know this?

Wait, wait there is more. Senator John McCain frequently makes appearances with his mother to show that he is not old, and the corporate media conveniently does not tell the rest of story, which is the heart disease risk from his fathers side of the family:

Besides battling melanoma, McCain may also have a significant risk of familial heart disease. While he is fond of pointing to his nonagenarian mother as an indicator of his likely longevity, voters should be aware that McCain's father, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., died of a heart attack at the age of 70. Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., died of a heart attack (likely brought on by war-related stress) at the age of 61. In treating his high cholesterol, McCain is probably not extending his life by taking Vytorin; note the recent reporting on Vytorin's lack of effectiveness in reducing the incidence of heart attacks. In short, McCain has already lived longer than his father and his paternal grandfather, both of whom died of heart disease.
(Bits of News)

So visually both the age spots and Melanoma are being hidden!

When I first saw this shot, I actually did not recognize Senator John McCain since the media has been so good at taking shots that minimize his lack of hair. Note that in the walking shots of Iraq and New Orleans, that McCain is wearing a baseball cap. Note the combed across hair. Basically, Senator John McCain is bald on top. Shhhhh!


















The sweater shots of McCain were originally meant to soften his image, however I think they look very appropriate and "retired" for the age of 71, that McCain actually is. That is why all the sweater shots had to disappear.
















This is the type of shot that the sweater shot was trying to mask, which according to reports is a common shot of Senator John McCain's angry temperament on the senate floor and elsewhere.






















Here is the way, McCain dressed for a long time. I think it was to hide the aged stoop profile and to remind people of the "war hero" status. With age, height and posture problems, Senator John McCain now only looks credibly presidential in a nearly black suit.

Senator John McCain fell asleep at the mega important event of the State of the Union. The extreme pressure on reporters to lie is demonstrated by this apology by a reporter who noted the obvious conclusion, that McCain was asleep.
















The ability of a presidential candidate to make quick decisions under wartime stress and to adapt and learn is absolutely critical for our consideration. Even the chances of McCain living through his presidential term is an important consideration. F. M. Arouet writes a very good exploration of these issues in "McCain Nears 72--or Really 83?". Actually, due to the wartime stress on health, F. M. Arouet says that we ought to actually consider Senator John McCain as much older.

A 72-year-old white male has a 3.5 percent chance of dying within the following year.

But remember that McCain suffered 5 1/2 years of torture, stress, and poor nutrition in a North Vietnamese prison camp. Researchers have found that prolonged stress actually ages human beings prematurely at the cellular, DNA level, as reported by CBS in 2005. Stress results in a thinning out of telomeres, the DNA "ends" that control aging. Here is the money quote from that report on 60 Minutes:

It was as though there had been in excess of 10 years of extra aging in these individuals' blood cells. … And that's actually an underestimate. That's a very conservative estimate.

if each year of the stress of detention added two years to McCain's biological age, a biological 83 year old white male would have approximately a 10 percent chance of dying by the end of August, 2009.

If each year of such stress added three years to McCain's biological age, a biological 89 year old white male would have slightly more than a 16 percent chance of dying by the end of August, 2009.
(Bits of News)

Now go back and read about all of the Senior McCain moments in the context of this information! So the issue of Senator John McCain's age is a very important critical factor to consider, which I think people would consider if the corporate media was not lying with the images used of McCain.

Update: Interestingly, the John McCain website has a set of images showing John McCain active in the woods shots to counter the inactive McCain stories. Here is an example:


In my research, staring at pictures, I saw a number of shots that looked like this, where the shoulder does not look like it is in the correct place. The shoulders are just fine. There are massive shoulder pads in that suit! The epic shoulders are just another example of what you think you see and what is really there being two different realities.