I don't know that much about the military, but is it common to place civilians into high-ranking military position???
Blurb from Fresh Air summary
He thinks there was too much White House influence in the communications corps. They brought in a White House insider, a civillian from the Bush campaign. They promoted him to two-star rank, so that he outranked the colonel who would normally have been in charge of communications. Several other Bush adminstration officials opened an office next to theirs, and it changed the way they operated.
Anonymous |
10.30.04 - 11:23 am | #
Magnum sez:
Here's a wild prediction.
Jon Stewart, Time's Man of the Year.
oops, Here
Out and About |
10.30.04 - 11:23 am | #
I heard the interview yesterday. He was being straight.
I was in the military during the Tailhook scandal. The response back then was proper even though it took down some Officers and Administration officials who were not involved directly.
The reason it was proper is something called command responsibility.
The glaring lack of this responsibility regarding Abu Gharib pisses me off to no end.
jmuss101 |
10.30.04 - 11:24 am | #
Very, very interesting. I was coming to think the same things myself, but the Marine already has the experience of actually working with these people. Displeasing that Fox effectively made a ready-made script...
TheaLogie |
10.30.04 - 11:24 am | #
Has anyone seen video of the Floridians taking the "bush pledge" and if so, where?
Out and About |
10.30.04 - 11:25 am | #
newsweek poll
Bush 48 Kerry 44
man will they have shit on thier face on Wednesday
Sheik Arbusto |
10.30.04 - 11:26 am | #
They promoted him to two-star rank, so that he outranked the colonel who would normally have been in charge of communications.
I work at an Air Force base, my mother has been a civil service employee (she worked in defense contracting) for over 30 years, off and on. I am and have been around Military/Civilian interaction in the workplace.
My take on that statement was that the civilian was promoted to the GS equivalent of a Military two-star rank. GS-13 or 14, maybe?
RCSanders |
10.30.04 - 11:26 am | #
O&A, try asking on Kos. I believe the pledge story first made it on someone's Diary.
Proof that if you want to sell a lie, or a whole pack of the, the first thing to do is control information. This is why it is essential that we destroy the right's hold on the electronic media. Print is wonderful and print is nice but its TV and to an extent radio that controls the way people think (or don't think) about the world.
We have to smash the strangle hold of the Republican right on the media.
Europeans who can't understand how about half of the country can vote for an idiot despot would understand if they saw what passes for news in the United States.
EPT |
10.30.04 - 11:28 am | #
Josh Rushing is incredibly impressive in Control Room. he's a good man placed in an impossible situation, trying to do the best he can. What comes through again and again is the fact that the Iraqis respect him. He's there to do PR and he does it well. But he's also, quite clearly, a human being with a moral center.
David Ehrenstein |
Homepage |
10.30.04 - 11:28 am | #
MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. - Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday the invasion of Iraq will go down in history, along with the war in Afghanistan, for its "brilliance."
Pardon me but this comment proves beyond a doubt that Cheney's "DELUSION" of off the charts.
Orwell called it "NEWSPEAK" but it now should be called "BUSHSPEAK and CHENEYSPEAK. Karl Rove has twisted the truth with such fierce Orwellian MENDACITY to spin a "FANTASY Bushworld" that FICTION and EXCUSES have replaced FACTS and ACCOUNTABILITY.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will be remembered as the most demagogic American President and Vice President in history.
standa |
10.30.04 - 11:28 am | #
MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. - Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday the invasion of Iraq will go down in history, along with the war in Afghanistan, for its "brilliance."
Pardon me but this comment proves beyond a doubt that Cheney's "DELUSION" of off the charts.
Orwell called it "NEWSPEAK" but it now should be called "BUSHSPEAK and CHENEYSPEAK. Karl Rove has twisted the truth with such fierce Orwellian MENDACITY to spin a "FANTASY Bushworld" that FICTION and EXCUSES have replaced FACTS and ACCOUNTABILITY.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will be remembered as the most demagogic American President and Vice President in history.
standa |
10.30.04 - 11:28 am | #
Welcome back too, EPT, I've been doing some anonymous posting from my machine at work, but TGIS.
TheaLogie |
10.30.04 - 11:37 am | #
People with morals and a sense of decency mix into the Bush administration like oil mixes into water. (And we know which one is the oil in this metaphor.)
yep |
10.30.04 - 11:40 am | #
Yeah the guy has doubts and disappointments, but will he vote for or against Bush this year?
That will determine what kind of 'honest truth teller' he really is.
2 car bombs in Iraq today.. wonder what kind of explosive was used.
wonder if any media whores or attack poodles will try to connect the dots.
Sheik Arbusto |
10.30.04 - 11:51 am | #
2 car bombs in Iraq today.. wonder what kind of explosive was used.
wonder if any media whores or attack poodles will try to connect the dots.
Whatever do you mean?
Saddam gave weapons to terrorists; not us.
And since Saddam's been captured, everything in Iraq has calmed down. Or do you believe the biased liberal media?
Why, Iraq is a model for democracy. Let the right people vote, and the right outcome will occur. Just like in America.......
Robert M. Jeffers |
10.30.04 - 11:59 am | #
"Europeans who can't understand how about half of the country can vote for an idiot despot would understand if they saw what passes for news in the United States.
EPT | Email | Homepage | 10.30.04 - 11:28 am | # ..."
You're right there. My ancient Mum (late 80's) who still lives in England and is VERY conservative (but HATES GWB) came to visit earlier this year.
I walked in on her watching TV news one evening (CNN, not FOX). All she said was "Now I understand what's gone wrong with America. This is total rubbish".
Scary isn't it? Late 80's and more on the ball than ~ 50% of our electorate.
In a Nutshell |
10.30.04 - 11:59 am | #
Important voter information for you to have and to share:
1. If you are not sure what the poll opening & closing times are for your state, or know somebody who needs this information, go here:
Look at the following list of names and consider who they would most likely vote for if they were allowed to vote in our coming election,
Martin Luther King
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Kennedy
Nelson Mandela
Bishop Tutu
The Lorax
When you cast your vote will you be voting the same way as you think the above people will vote?
How closely aligned with these people will you be?
Jimmy James |
10.30.04 - 12:17 pm | #
Jimmy James-
They're all communists. I just talked to the spirit of McCarthy.
-Ann "mangina' Coulter
Anonymous |
10.30.04 - 12:24 pm | #
Who would these people vote for?
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Nixon
-Judge Taney
-Father O'Coughlin
-Jefferson Davis
-Joseph McCarthy
-Curtis LeMay
-Lindburgh
-John Wayne
-Bill the Falafal
bebe rebozo |
10.30.04 - 12:28 pm | #
Proof that if you want to sell a lie, or a whole pack of the, the first thing to do is control information. This is why it is essential that we destroy the right's hold on the electronic media. Print is wonderful and print is nice but its TV and to an extent radio that controls the way people think (or don't think) about the world.
We have to smash the strangle hold of the Republican right on the media.
Europeans who can't understand how about half of the country can vote for an idiot despot would understand if they saw what passes for news in the United States.
All true. Julius Striecher would have been proud.
Robert |
10.30.04 - 12:52 pm | #
Oh yeah, the military guys have the cred. Gotta give the Marine our respect. Nothing more noble than a soldier. Look he can even change his mind. I'm so impressed.
The war was wrong, war-of-agression-style wrong, way before this guy figured it out (if he really has figured it out).
Barlow's got a fetish for the military and for military 'solutions.'
Sane people don't have that problem.
Atrios, you don't, do you?
Yeah, yeah |
10.30.04 - 12:56 pm | #
Just got our National Geographic this month. It has a picture of a Marine logistics officer who had to bring his own map to Iraq.
They didn't even give him a fricking map.
That adds a whole new layer of incompetance in prosecuting this war. Not even a damn map.
Scanned in picture and source on my homepage (not trying to blogwhore, but this particular section isn't included in the online version of the magazine).
Dorothy |
Homepage |
10.30.04 - 1:18 pm | #
Captain Josh Rushing sez (per Ted): "Al Jazeera would ask extremely combatative questions, often based on false premises..."
Like our, "we're here to liberate you and bring democracy", that kind of false premise?
Or are their false premises more sinster?
Your Mom |
10.30.04 - 1:22 pm | #
nice pic, dorothy, it ain't blogwhoring if it's got a slant and this one is great
i guess outsourcing our logistics to private military companies has done for iraq what "trickle down" economics has done for the job market
syntallic |
Homepage |
10.30.04 - 1:23 pm | #
Syntallic,
I was floored when I read that. I know that the CIA and the DoD have had six or so satellites trained on Iraq, not to mention spy plane flyovers etc.
They couldn't even run to Kinko's and print our some copies for the guys who had to direct convoys through enemy territory? Or even pull old copies from Powell's UN presentation out of recycling?
Geez, Hogan's Heroes had a better operation than the people directing our troops.
Dorothy |
Homepage |
10.30.04 - 1:39 pm | #
The SCLM has taken a hatred to him.
Figures,
spork_incident
I disagree. The media love Jon Stewart because he says what they cannot say. The individual reporters know that they are being muzzled by their senior editors, or are afraid to too harshly criticize for fear of losing access. They know he is right in his criticism of the media, which is why there was so much written about his confrontation with Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. It was covered far more than something like that would normally warrant, and it was because it was a way for the media to confirm what Stewart has been saying all along without making it look like it was themselves who were reporting on it.
BottleInFrontOfMe Russ |
10.30.04 - 1:48 pm | #
Important voter information for you to have and to share:
1. If you are not sure what the poll opening & closing times are for your state, or know somebody who needs this information, go here:
Look at the following list of names and consider who they would most likely vote for if they were allowed to vote in our coming election,
Martin Luther King
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Kennedy
Nelson Mandela
Bishop Tutu
The Lorax
When you cast your vote will you be voting the same way as you think the above people will vote?
How closely aligned with these people will you be
Jimmy James |
10.30.04 - 3:50 pm | #
Grand Moff -
I keep trying to bring up you DKos link, and just get a blank page. Nothing comes up.
Do you have a front page suggestion (what to click on from there)?
Kate |
10.30.04 - 6:38 pm | #