History Channel pissed me off when they spent an entire Memorial Day weekend running and re-running John McCain, True American Hero (and a couple of other documentaries about him) a few years ago. McCain was catching a lot of hell from conservatives, so the History Channel took revenge on their conservative viewers by plastering his ugly mug on TV nearly 24/7 over a Memorial Day weekend.
He may have been a good guy, or not. His father and Grandfather were Admirals, his father was on submarines during WW-II, while his grandfather was already an Admiral then. The father later became a flier. It would have been better if John Sidney McCain III had gone into subs instead of Naval aviation... he was near the bottom of his Academy class and he was a terrible pilot. He was a reverse ace, he lost 5 Navy aircraft. Admittedly that includes the one he was shot down in, and one that was lost on the deck of the Forrestal through no fault of his, he just happened to be there when someone else screwed up, big time. Still if Daddy and Grandpa hadn't been Admirals, he'd not have been in the cockpit to lose numbers 4 and 5, after having lost 1,2, and 3.