Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The Eagles Pull Out Your Eyes

Right. Where does the idea that a loudmouth general so insecure in his masculine position that he's got to pop off to a fucking Rolling Stone reporter with the sort of loser-undergraduate dick-wagging that'd get you laughed out of a SigEp house party in order to reassure himself and his staff about the size of their balls has somehow "undermined" the authority of The Obama come from? Meanwhile, it seems to me that Obama is not only fully in command here, but that he's got a real nasty streak. Instead of firing the guy and letting him salute off to the golf course in silent obscurity, he makes him parade himself in front of the national press offering a litany of obsequious apologies, which is a lot more humiliating than being fired as far as I read it.

Addendum: And fired hiz azz.

14 comments:

pistoffnick said...

Bread and Circuses...

Montag said...

what's with all the under-grad cracks lately? judge Yoda by his size, do you?

McChrystal can't go. NPR said so this morning. the situation in Afghanistan is in a critical phase right now. any other general would have to be brought up to speed and it would throw 'em off track to pull troops out by August. or something like that.

Cüneyt said...

Wrong Roman metaphor, pist. And lazy, too.

Anyway, IOZ: Nailed it!

mds said...

I sometimes wish that Truman had forced MacArthur to wear a tutu during his triumphant ticker-tape parade.

Jack Crow said...

One might root for all to fail. Or maybe herpes of the eyes for the lot of them?

Is that asking too much?

the talking dog said...

No matter how sass-mouthed he may be, you don't just go around changing the gravedigger of empires in the middle of the dang funeral.

cemmcs said...

Meanwhile, the US war machine continues to kill without interruption...

the talking dog said...

No matter how sass-mouthed he may be, you don't just go around changing the gravedigger of empires in the middle of the dang funeral.

Well I'll be gosh-darned: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_mcchrystal

Seems we went and replaced the gravedigger with the danged funeral director.

Huh.

RedPhillip said...

@ Jack:

One might root for all to fail.

Absolutely!

Or maybe herpes of the eyes for the lot of them?

Yes!

Is that asking too much?

Not at all.

@ dog:

[...] you don't just go around changing the gravedigger of empires in the middle of the dang funeral.

I am reminded of a slogan from my youth: Don't change dicks in the middle of a screw, vote for Nixon in '72!

Jack Crow said...

RedPhillip,

I think we share a view of things. Pleasant. Shiny.

To quote that fictional browncoat, let's "aim to misbehave."

Joey Steel said...

Splendid fellow, that Obama! That was a very skillful operation.

RedPhillip said...

Jack, don't forget pretty... so pretty. Like candlelight, writ large.

The Promiscuous Reader said...

Meanwhile, it seems to me that Obama is not only fully in command here, but that he's got a real nasty streak. Instead of firing the guy and letting him salute off to the golf course in silent obscurity, he makes him parade himself in front of the national press offering a litany of obsequious apologies, which is a lot more humiliating than being fired as far as I read it.

Suits me. But then military men are into those little s/m rituals.

fledermaus said...

"Where does the idea that a loudmouth general so insecure in his masculine position that he's got to pop off to a fucking Rolling Stone reporter with the sort of loser-undergraduate dick-wagging that'd get you laughed out of a SigEp house party . . ."

It only happens in cities where Jay fucking Leno is a little too hip for the room.