Colonel Steve Boylan to Glenn Greenwald(s):
“You are either too lazy to do the research on the topics to gain the facts, or you are providing purposeful misinformation — much like a propagandist. . . .
Well, sure. But he’ll always have Mona, hanging on his every word as if it were carved into a stone tablet and dropped from a mountain top like one of God’s own celestial Pringles crumbs.
And that’s gotta feel good.
(h/t CJ Burch)
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update: The irony, it tastes delicious. Like a sweet Brazilian libation served poolside by an oiled up cabana boy.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/28 @ 10:39 pm #
That was a great smackdown from the colonel, well worth reading.
Comment by wishbone on 10/28 @ 10:45 pm #
Hmmm, apparently the good Colonel could care less that Socky has been quoted on the floor of the Senate.
More, please.
Comment by Karl on 10/28 @ 11:12 pm #
I do believe the Col. is suggesting that GiGi is a chicken-blogger. I’m never too impressed with that sort of thing, but I find myself in general agreement with the Col’s suggestion that Ellers McEllerson is a lying, propagandizing tool.
Comment by daleyrocks on 10/29 @ 12:58 am #
The irony of the situation is definitely lost on Greenwald ask he asks for help from his minions in figuring out who could have written this e-mail which seemingly comes from the same e-mail address as a prior e-mail from the Colonel. The style also seems familiar.
How easily Glenn forgets.
It was a great smackdown on the pretentious Greenwald and a whiny offtarget response on the part of Glenn. Glenn considers anything the military says as political because it is Bush’s war. The problem is Glenn’s, not the military’s.
I suggest John Cornyn read the e-mail on the floor of the Senate in an effort to help determine its author.
This one made my day.
Comment by Big Bang (pumping you up.) on 10/29 @ 3:22 am #
- The good Colonel is pissing on a pile of burning shit. The SicProggs have their agenda, and nothing will stop them until a few of these douchenozzles end up in the slammer or with a few lumps on their noggins. They know only too well that Marxist “Big Lie” campaigns, and Gustopo tactics to squash opposing voices is all they’ve got.
Comment by B Moe on 10/29 @ 4:27 am #
“So instead of doing the interview with you, we went with the real talent, Alan Colmes. . . .”
Now that is just mean.
Comment by Lurking Observer on 10/29 @ 4:46 am #
Funny thing about the Constitution and the freedom of the press.
The press is entitled to ask the questions. It is not entitled to an answer. The press is not the courts, and it is not Congress—it cannot subpoena or otherwise compel the military to answer.
Nor is the press part of the Executive, wherein it can be ordered to comply, by the President.
It is the “Fourth Estate” through usage (mostly theirs) and custom. Being a rude so-and-so allows the military to ignore you, in a way that it cannot with the three (real) branches of government.
Something GG seems to have forgotten.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/29 @ 6:07 am #
Talk about a dismantling!
Comment by Darleen on 10/29 @ 6:55 am #
So instead of doing the interview with you, we went with the real talent, Alan Colmes. . .
Best.Line.Evah.
Comment by thor on 10/29 @ 6:59 am #
I just got a warm feeling inside and it wasn’t from my coffee. Good shit, Maynard.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/29 @ 7:35 am #
“Sometimes the fourth estate seems more like a fifth column.”
- Thomas Sowell
Comment by SarahW on 10/29 @ 8:13 am #
And that’s gotta feel good.
I don’t know. The sudden deceleration of Internet-Titan chip crumbs on one’s head probably smarts a bit. Not to mention the stone-slab thing.
Comment by Sticky B on 10/29 @ 8:21 am #
Did the Colonel actually make cock to face contact? Cause it sure seems like it.
Comment by mishu on 10/29 @ 8:37 am #
Especially when that fake branch is so damned unaccountable.
Comment by corvan on 10/29 @ 8:48 am #
When it gets so bad that the military notices (and calls) journalists and (journalist wannabes) on out right lies haven’t we reached the point that other journalists should notice it as well?
Comment by Drumwaster on 10/29 @ 8:55 am #
The real question is: would Gleen have even noticed the difference?
Comment by Clint on 10/29 @ 8:55 am #
It’s not that they don’t notice, it’s a professional courtesy. Never let the Facts get in the way of the Narrative. After all, listening to the news you would have thought the streets were clogged with people all against war.
Comment by Synova on 10/29 @ 8:58 am #
In the comments at the link someone is saying that Boylan is denying writing the e-mail.
I can’t quite imagine him writing it, actually, even if he wanted to.
Comment by Rick on 10/29 @ 9:00 am #
It *would* be very funny if Boylan had a sock puppet write to GiGi. A Major Wilson, let’s say.
Cordially…
Comment by Al Maviva on 10/29 @ 9:01 am #
An honorable man would understand that as a fairly deep and personal insult.
But then if a man lacks honor, the insult probably flies above his head, along with the offer of press credentials. For a constitutional scholar, the boy ain’t much of a close reader.
Comment by Rick on 10/29 @ 9:12 am #
BTW, for an extra hoot, some internet newbie @ Weasel Zippers has pegged Mona as GiGi’s sock-puppet. Thus, no sockpuppeting, by definition.
I’m so embarrassed to have understood differently.
Cordially…
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/29 @ 9:15 am #
yeah, there’s some debate about whether or not Col. Boylan actually wrote this. Something about it strikes me as a bit off. OTOH it’s got enough typos and grammar errors to qualify as something from an Army guy. (hi Major John!) ;D
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/29 @ 9:18 am #
even better, it’s our favorite ESL teacher from Houston!
Comment by cynn on 10/29 @ 9:23 am #
Either Boylan is just yanking GG’s chain, or there is something really odd going on with this. The internet is truly a hall of mirrors.
Comment by daleyrocks on 10/29 @ 9:30 am #
Salon needs to add a nice big mushroom shaped bruise to the picture of Glenn in the side bar after Glenn did every one the favor of publishing this smackdown.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/29 @ 9:33 am #
If he published this looking for sympathy he certainly didn’t find much.
Comment by SarahW on 10/29 @ 9:42 am #
FWIW, Greenwald made a (half) admission that the sockposts came from his own domicile, so the Mona thing is nuts as Mona.
Comment by SGT Ted on 10/29 @ 9:50 am #
I love a good pimp-slapping in the morning. It smells like…schadefreud
Comment by JD on 10/29 @ 11:03 am #
SGT Ted – That was not a pimp slapping. That was a full on cock slap, leaving a distinct mushroom bruise.
Comment by Major John on 10/29 @ 11:23 am #
“OTOH it’s got enough typos and grammar errors to qualify as something from an Army guy. (hi Major John!) ;D”
Hey now, soemtimes I do make a typo or tow…
Comment by JD on 10/29 @ 11:30 am #
Major John – Do not forget to send us your APO once you get over there. My better half is starting to get pissed that I come home from the grocery store with more Kool Aid singles and Crystal Lite every time.
Comment by baldilocks on 10/29 @ 11:31 am #
Heh, I was hoping that you’d comment on this. Thanks for not disappointing.
Comment by JD on 10/29 @ 11:33 am #
And, if you could, let us know what kind of snacks, toiletries, etc .. that you and the folks in your unit prefer.
Comment by SGT Ted on 10/29 @ 11:48 am #
Nah, it couldn’t be a cockslap…Gleen would enjoy it far too much, given his proclivities concerning cabana boys. NTTAWWT.
The Col made Gleen his little opinion biotch and treated him accordingly.
Comment by JD on 10/29 @ 12:01 pm #
wishbone – Are you still over there?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/29 @ 12:21 pm #
SGT Ted, it was a verbal atomic wedgie, done in the middle of the cafeteria, and Glenn’s still trying to get the waistband of his underroos out of his eyes.
Comment by The_Real_JeffS on 10/29 @ 12:35 pm #
In the comments at the link someone is saying that Boylan is denying writing the e-mail.
If so (and I don’t know, either way), I suggest that we start chanting “Fake But Accurate!! Fake But Accurate!! Fake But Accurate!! ….“
Comment by The_Real_JeffS on 10/29 @ 12:36 pm #
Oh, and we’ll need suitable paper mache heads…..I suggest GiGi, with a mushroom shaped bruise on his forehead.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/29 @ 1:14 pm #
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Comment by Major John on 10/29 @ 11:23 am #
“OTOH it’s got enough typos and grammar errors to qualify as something from an Army guy. (hi Major John!) ;Dâ€Â
Hey now, soemtimes I do make a typo or tow…”
Remeber, preview is your friemd.
Comment by Major John on 10/29 @ 1:37 pm #
JD – send the first batch to wishbone. I start up next week, and won’t get to Iraq for 2 months more. Right now I am trying to grok this Arabic….and I thought Dari was hard!
Comment by JD on 10/29 @ 1:42 pm #
Major John – I still have a bunch of my workbooks from DLI for Arabic. I could send them to you if you think it would help you, or anyone else.
Wishbone – Hear that? Need an address and any requests you may have.
Comment by JD on 10/29 @ 9:43 pm #
If anyone knows how to get in touch with wishbone, could you please let me know. Thanks.
JD
Comment by Major John on 10/30 @ 5:44 am #
JD – that would rock!!!1!11! HQ 108th Sustainment Brigade, 1551 N. Kedzie, Chicago, IL 60651, ATTN: S-5. We mobilize in a little over a week, and depart in around 2 weeks. (that vague enough for OPSEC? Kidding – it’s all public now).