His Umbrageous Proboscis is still at it:
The ultimate significance of this matter, which goes far beyond the specific question of what Col. Boylan did or did not do in this case (though that is important in its own right), is articulated perfectly by Zack in this comment. The type of hostility, pseudo-intimidation, and stonewalling expressed by Col. Boylan here (in the emails of undisputed authenticity) is the type to which reporters are frequently subjected when they step out of line, particularly with war reporting. That is one reason why so few of them ever do.
And just survey the long list of media outlets and journalists which have been the target of swirling, right-wing lynch mob campaigns for perceived offenses in reporting about the war — The Associated Press, Reuters, Eason Jordan, The New Republic, Ashleigh Banfield. There is a clear attempt to create strong disincentives for any journalist or commentator to do anything other than cheerlead loudly and deferentially.
This is ridiculous. It’s obvious that some of the fellas who share the Colonel’s living space are engaging in a little high-spirited fun at Glenn’s expense. I don’t understand why he’s making such a big thing of it. Maybe he’s begun working on “How Would an Imbecile Act?”
Hey, look: another irony challenged liberal.
Jammie Wearing Fool points up the sheer, joyous insanity of Gleen going to tell his story of victimhood to the woman who was assaulted by the Coultergeist outside an Irish pub (NTTAWWT) after numerous Bloodies, while walking her dog.
Dan – With this, the little
faggotget elevated even higher in the Lefty pantheon, because now not only is he a member of a protected class, gay sockpuppets, but he can now add a victim multiplier to his bona fides.Why? Does he think he’s the only person entitled to cabana boys?
Fun gag, but the only problem is you can’t shame someone who has no shame.
Col. Boylan is too cool. I will say it again… I wanna see his face on a postage stamp some day.
Maybe he’s begun working on “How Would an Imbecile Act?â€Â
Um…begun? I think he’s been working on that for some time now.
At Patterico on 4/12/03:
“YOU MUST HAVE SEEN THIS: Anyone surfing the web today must have seen this New York Times op-ed by Eason Jordan, CNN’s chief news executive. In the piece, Mr. Jordan confesses the atrocities CNN has hidden about Iraq for years. If you missed it, it’s a must-read. Mr. Jordan details long-withheld information about torture and murder by Saddam (pulling out teeth with pliers is one of the kinder tortures described) that CNN decided not to tell people about until now…”
The rest here:
http://patterico.com/2003/04/12/you-must-have-seen-this/
Look, let’s call this what it is:
Saying that Glen Greenwald is a drooling, lying, sock puppeting idiot, is not a political statement. Provacative, perhaps, and arguably correct, but it’s not political.
And that goes for Greg Mitchell, too.
See, here’s the thing… the likes of Greenwald and Mitchell, can moralize all they want, and demand responses from the military in their moralization. But when they GET the straight truth, if they aren’t getting the desired genuflecting before the liberal press, and accepting their slanted premises as word, and confirming the left’s stunted worldview, Greenwald and Mitchell stokeup the presses, claiming that the mean old general was getting political on them, when in fact he’s speaking the straight, apolitical truth. It’s disingenuous as hell but it is a neat way to control the narrative, huh, guys? It’s obviously important to the political future of such as Greenwald to keep this narrative flowing in his favor, or he’d not expend all the trouble to knock down anything that might stand in it’s way… like noting some holes in his narrative.
(Hmmmm… the words straight, apolitical, and truth… and Greenwald… in the same sentence… Oh, never mind)
And we’ve still not addressed this question of Greenwald’s claims about the mailnote being confirmed. It’s still an open question. Nor has he addressed the credibility issues brought up by his make believe friend, Rick Ellensburg.
Oops. Guess by Greenwald’s lights, I got a bit political with that last one, huh? (yeah, right)
Why must you
lynchsmear Eason Jordan, Mark H!?If you were are particularly important person, would you waste your time with Glenn Fucking Greenwald?
Forget politics. Let’s say you’re the CEO of Burger King, or even The Gap. Would you give this tool 10 minutes of your life and the opportunity to mangle whatever you might tell him?
Me? Only if I was screwing with him.
Though it is nice of him to come right out and identify his (as well as E&P) as a liberal/antiwar blog.
The TNR’s conduct has been so spectacularly amoral that it is splashing all over the rest of the MSM. The left is trying extra hard to save their most effective ally, mostly by smearing the armed forces… again. I don’t know that it is entirely as cynical as it seems though. I sense a bit of panic mixed in with the dishonesty, as if their own wild eyed denial is beginning to fail them. Maybe they don’t fear that we will see their postions for what they are. Maybe their real fear is that they will see their positions for what they are. It is hard to pretend you are a secular priest when you finally realize your conduct has been enabling the worst sort of psuedo religious psychopaths. And if they face what they have advocated in Iraq and Palestine, then some smart ass is going to make them look at what they did in South East Asia, and what their grandfathers blithely ignored in the Ukraine. Long sotry short the left is going through a tought time right now. Much craziness will ensure.
You speak like Chinese fortune.
I think there’s a real possibility that their real fear is that they simply won’t be taken at all seriously anymore. My favorite liberal tells me that the news doesn’t seem to stick anymore, and I think he means the same thing I mean when I say I try to pay attention but there’s no traction on a lot of it.
Then again, this might just be that, days are, if it doesn’t get Katrina/Abu Ghraib/Lindsay Lohan-level hype then it must not be very important.
Either way, my sense is still that any crack-up would be of the “with a whimper” variety.
Do you all come by this naturally? Or did you have to take stupid pills? Just wondering.
I’m sorry, Hugh. I just find it hilarious that Mr. Ellison ap Elliswald misses the irony of accusing someone in outrage of not displaying greater integrity than he.
Im a particularly unimportant person and I wouldn’t waste my time with Socky McPuppetson.
Sockety McSockpuppet Meets Miss Ketel One
A blithering idiot with multiple sock puppets (though he is a best-selling author and famed constitutional attorney) being interviewed by a delusional drunk.
Stimulating radio. Must have tripled her ratings to at least six people, including four o…
Do you all come by this naturally? Or did you have to take stupid pills?
It just a normal side effect to linking to GiGi. We’re *always* dumber for having read him. Just imagine how bad off his regulars are. But then…lemme guess…YOU don’t have to imagine.
Cordially…
Geez, if we’re up against minds like Farouk, I don’t know how we’ll manage to remain upright. Devastating commentary, Farouk. Your arguments, they are unassailable.
I think you’ve shifted a paradigm here, my friend.
I mean, really. Stupid pills. How does one even begin to rebut something like that?
I surrender.
It takes a lot of ignorance mixed with gall to accuse a critic of the Gleens of “taking stupid pills”.
Those “perceived offenses” have been catalogued right here at PW, of course… and they are perceived much in the way one can perceive one’s hand in front of one’s face. The disincentive — and there hasn’t been much of one — is against covering a war from a hotel, relying on questionable sources, and publishing pseudymous sources who lack any accountability for phony stories.
That is likely why Ellers McEllerson didn’t provide a link for any of his examples — except for Ashleigh Banfield, who didn’t even warrant a mention in my piece.
Ellers provides a link to Hullaballoo, whose coverage of Banfield’s contract not being renewed makes no mention of the false and misleading nature of the criticism she had of her own colleagues:
Indeed, “hotel journalism” and the failure of journalists to show up for major combat operations are two points I raised in my piece also. Not that Ellers would catch that bit of irony either.
Nor is Ellers capable of recognizing that accusing MSNBC — home of the Olberdouche — of being a right-wing lapdog doesn’t even pass the laugh test. Which may be one reason he’s writing for Salon instead of practicing law.
Has anyone ever seen this Boylan person? He could just be a sockpuppet. Someone send me a copy of the email from Petreaus with the Iraq talking points (and headers intact), and I’ll dig into this.
Sorry, I must have deleted mine.
On the other hand, you simply mustn’t show this sort of thing. It might be disturbing.
Yet another bit of irony: Socky McSockerson bemoans efforts to cow the press with no realization that suggesting the press is spineless in the face of bloggers also could be characterized as an attempt by a blogger to sway the press.
I think he’d probably be better served by refuting the points made than trying to find out who sent it.
The Left is quite comfortable making baseless politicized accusations of lies, coverups, and conspiracies against the Army – the Army as an institution, and Army officers like Petraeus personally – and yet when an Army officer responds that they ought to get their facts straight before making wild allegations Greenwald cries foul.
The possibility that Colonel Boylan may have actually pushed back against the Left’s smears just feeds Greenwald’s favorite “shredding of the Constitution” meme. In Greenwald’s new propaganda spin, denying the Left’s politicized allegations makes the Army a “political Actor”, and constitutes proof that the Army is trying to intimidate the media from criticizing the war.
Trust me fellas I got this Vulcan mind-meld thing working. I learned it at a Star Trek Convention from some chick dressed as a Saurian and sauced on purple passions. There is a major conniption coming on the press front, and fairly soon, I think.
Saurian chicks are hot.
And if you don’t take that round of antibiotics afterward you never forget them, either.
Practice safe Saurian Sex – Learn it here at PW.
Any idea if Alan Colmes’ radio show is broadcast in Iraq? Somehow I doubt Boylan sits around listening to it even if it is or if Hannity and Colmes were broadcast there that he watched that extensively. That single line in the e-mail gives me great pause as to whether it was written by Boylan.
It was so perfect. He’d have to up to speed on what a total idiot and water carrier for the Islamofascists Colmes acts like on a constant basis.
I read somewhere that Farouk Hugh was Arabic for “kick me, I like pork.”
Well that is what I read,. anyways.
– ….when they step out of line…
– Lexicon alert: This phrase is the Lefturds neo code for “Lie through their fucking partisan teeth”
looks like AFN carries it. Now, whether the General’s PAO sits around and listens to it, I couldn’t say.
Only if I was screwing with him.
NTTAWWT
Any idea if Alan Colmes’ radio show is broadcast in Iraq?
looks like AFN carries it. Now, whether the General’s PAO sits around and listens to it, I couldn’t say.
I would think that not keeping tabs on enemy activity would count as a dereliction of duty.
Al-Jazeera, Alan Colmes… is there really a difference?