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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Michael Hastings, @sshole, writes gossipy article on Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff; who is then called on the carpet for mocking Biden and other civilian Obama-appointed idiots. Obama is not amused.
Posted by kotang at 5:27 AMThe Rolling Stone mag article causing all the fuss comes out Friday. It's written by leftist 'journalist' Michael Hastings, who has a history of true left-slant (he blogs at TrueSlant, alongside such illuminating nut jobs as Charles Johnson and Barrett Brown, and contributes to GQ, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, the L.A. Times, and other publications of known mostly leftist bent, if that tells you anything). Hastings, in fine gossipy form, relates how Gen. McChrystal and some of his staff offer pointed commentary on "Bite Me" Joe Biden and other senior Obama-appointed civilian staffers who are overseeing the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan...
Michael Hastings is an instrument of that undercutting. Look no further than his May 21 True-Leftist-Slant piece, "The Army is a 24-Hour Gay Joke"...
In the profile, author Michael Hastings writes that McChrystal and his staff had imagined ways of dismissing Vice President Joe Biden with a one-liner as they prepared for a question-and-answer session in Paris, France, in April. The general had grown tired of questions about Biden since earlier dismissing a counterterrorism strategy the vice president had offered.Imagine that, Gen. McChrystal annoyed at something an Obama-appointed Democrat sycophant has to say. Democrats that Obama appoints don't win wars; instead, it seems that they undercut the military every chance they get. See: Gays in the Military.
"'Are you asking about Vice President Biden?' McChrystal says with a laugh. 'Who's that?'" Hastings writes.
"'Biden?' suggests a top adviser. 'Did you say: Bite Me?'"
The article goes on to paint McChrystal as a man who "has managed to piss off almost everyone with a stake in the conflict," including U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Special Representative to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke and National Security Adviser Jim Jones.
Of Eikenberry, who railed against McChrystal's strategy in Afghanistan in a cable leaked to The New York Times in January, the general said, "'Here's one that covers his flank for the history books. Now if we fail, they can say, "I told you so.'"
Hastings writes in the profile that McChrystal has a "special skepticism" for Holbrooke, the official in charge of reintegrating Taliban members into Afghan society.
"At one point on his trip to Paris, McChrystal checks his BlackBerry. 'Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke,' he groans. 'I don't even want to open it.' He clicks on the message and reads the salutation out loud, then stuffs the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance."
Michael Hastings is an instrument of that undercutting. Look no further than his May 21 True-Leftist-Slant piece, "The Army is a 24-Hour Gay Joke"...
The homophobia in the military is akin to the homophobia in locker rooms or frat houses. The reason the military won’t allow in gays is the same reason we don’t know what professional athletes are gay. It’s not part of the culture. In this kind of atmosphere, you find the type of language that you get when you isolate a bunch of dudes in testerone scented quarters. Jokingly, I’ve seen soldiers sit on each others laps, pretend to blow kisses and then some, while continually make sexually suggestive comments to one another. On one embed, the soldiers showed me a video of another solider touching the penis of a donkey. (I won’t name the unit, but it could have been a bad YouTube hit.)Listen, Michael Hastings, you asshole, your girlish, churlish, kiss'n'tell bedtime-story gossip column-style writings aren't helping win this war, not even a little bit. You should stay home and play house with your Nasty Old Sluts.
The humor is not meant as malicious, I don’t think, and these are on the whole good guys. It’s just what gets joked about. Call it barracks humor, or call it an homoerotic environment.
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