PEOPLE KEEP SENDING ME THIS STORY FROM NEWSMAX: McCain: Hanoi Hilton Guards Taunted POWs With Kerry’s Testimony. I agree with Mudville Gazette, though, that the headline misrepresents the facts actually laid out in the story. While there’s evidence elsewhere that the North Vietnamese used Kerry’s testimony to demoralize some U.S. POWs (“Paul Galanti learned of Kerry’s speech while held captive inside North Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison. . . . During torture sessions, he said, his captors cited the antiwar speeches as ‘an example of why we should cross over to [their] side.'”), there’s no evidence that this ever actually happened to McCain, and the story doesn’t actually say that once you get past the headline.