Drum complained about “Gen. Petraeus’s PR blizkrieg” and got spanked by the general’s PAO, Col. Steven Boylan. I give Drum credit for printing the reply at length. I woud add, however, that the myth about Gen. Petraeus only briefing the GOP arose because Sen. Carl Levin was the only Democrat who bothered to attend Gen. Petraeus’s briefing.
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I thought it was only guys like Jeff that like being spanked. He’s constantly talking about spanking and whipping out his willy that you’d think he’d be busted like your GOP pal Sen. craig.
Constantly, Drew? Go find the quotes where he’s not satirizing how he’s presented.
Then go find how many times your favorite lefty bloggers accuse righties of being closeted fags.
There is an all out effort to discredit, as much as possible, anything in the Petraeus report before it comes out. One of the Sunday morning shows had Shrum and Carville in on the act, and pieces like those linked are becoming extremely common. Predictable, I guess, but interesting to watch.
I was just checking out another crazy lefty post debunked by Confederate Yankee and others about us invading Iran. It was a diary on dailyKos purportedly relaying a conversation the diarist had with a sailor on a U.S. carrier. Of course because the lefties know nothing about the military the fakery was easy to spot although none of the kosmonauts apparently did until the righties started laughing at them. That prompted a post from the Grand Kosmonaut himself warning the kiddies not to trust everything they read on the intertubes and that in this case the righties were right to laugh.
The point, apart from pointing out another stupid fake from the left, was that while perusing the Kos site I happened to notice today’s blogroll, which included a link to Balloon Juice, again confirming John Cole’s conservative bona fides, for what it’s worth.
It will be interesting to see what happens when he presents his report. Will the entire Democratic Congress flee the room like that harpy from California?
Geez, those troglodytes on Drum’s site are… beyond words. Do they talk to their mothers with those mouths?
What Petraeus Will Tell Congress
Given the nature of fighting this war, Steven A. Boylan should end up on a postage stamp when all is said and done.
I am not sure I can kick the asses of ALL Geraldo’s bodyguards unless they come at me one at a time like a bad kung fu movie. But if Geraldo with all his machismo ever wants to throw unaccompanied, he can get his lawyers to deconstruct my web address and set it up.
He is a pussy
Neptunus Lex was also hoisting the flag on that dKos diarist.
BTW, I went with “spanked” just because the “beating a Drum” line would have been too obvious.
#6 Andrea, just another example of the hazards of winning.
Drum is Strict Party Line, no deviations allowed. This makes him useless to the people who already Believe because he doesn’t tell them anything they haven’t already gotten as Received Wisdom; people who don’t Believe are insulted until they go away. What that leaves is the folks who are stupid enough to take the remainder as “debate” (i.e., should Bush be impeached and hung, or just impeached? — discuss) and/or clueless enough to not know the Authorized Channels for Receiving the Word. IOW they’re the Blue State equivalent of the slack-jawed village-buffoon yokel, and such folks do tend to be coarse in their vernacular.
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Ric
Lotta hate over there, huh?
Best we just leave those stupid brown people to the jihad.
Since Petraeus is of Greek extraction; like Themistocles, Pericles, et al; wouldn’t the phrase be phalanx or some such thing. Seriously Dum has been only one step above DU, Kos, and the Huffington Post. Sadly, Matthew Yglesias, is two steps above by his posts and the replies seen there in.
Narciso–I think he’s of Dutch extraction.
Narciso and Dan Collins:
One of these days I may blog on this, but Wikipedia also says he’s Dutch. Some Northern Europeans have Latin or Latinized-Greek names. Most of these seem to come from the Renaissance, when educated men would translate their Germanic names into Latin or Latinized Greek, since they were writing their books in Latin anyway for an international audience. As I recall (too lazy to look it up now), there was a Renaissance scholar who signed his books Georgius Macropedius (Greek for ‘Longfoot’), but his original name was Georg Langfuss (same meaning in German). The Agricola who wrote De Re Metallica, the standard work on mining (translated into English by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover) was presumably orginally an Ackermann or some other equivalent of Farmer, which is what Agricola means. ‘Boethius’ is the very Greek name of some modern Swedes. There are other examples, but I can’t think of them right now (haven’t had breakfast yet). I think Petraeus’ ancestor in the male line must have done the same thing, and that his name was originally whatever the Dutch word for Rocky or Stony is, since that’s what Petraeus means. Good name for a no-surrender general. And it probably implies that his family has been literature and even downright scholarly for centuries.
Sorry, “has been literate”, not “literature” — I’m feeling a bit subliterate myself now. Time to make some waffles.