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US Govt Plays Egypt For Laughs
Sky News ^ | February 4, 2011 | Robert Nisbet

Posted on 02/04/2011 9:06:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

So imagine you are America's most senior military official and you want the world to know you have been in regular contact with your Egyptian counterpart at a time of geopolitical crisis.

Which news outlet would you choose to get the word out?

In a signal of the Obama administration's apparent contempt for what Sarah Palin calls the 'lamestream media', last night the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen picked Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'.

Can you imagine Chief of Defence Staff General Sir David Richards heading for Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live to tell the British public, the UK military is ready....

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: egypt; mccain; mubarek; obama; tnb
Can this be true? Who is running this country?!
1 posted on 02/04/2011 9:06:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama, clown-in-chief?


2 posted on 02/04/2011 9:08:26 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Disgraceful.


3 posted on 02/04/2011 9:10:10 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve noticed that a lot of admirals and generals these days like to hang out where there are a lot of “gay” guys. Especially “gay” celebrity types.


4 posted on 02/04/2011 9:11:27 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s next? Is Soetoro going to address the nation from the set of The View?


5 posted on 02/04/2011 9:11:45 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Why is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen even appearing on any comedy show?


6 posted on 02/04/2011 9:34:13 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Why is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen even appearing on any comedy show?
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It is starting to look to me like we’re getting a dress-down as a nation and they’re humbling us and taking away our national pride. (Decorum seems to be headed out the door)

Reminds me of how the batterer does their victim— belittles to remove all feelings of self-worth and identity...then isolates and controls every aspect of that persons life.

Soon there’s no will left and the person becomes a shell... a slave.


7 posted on 02/04/2011 10:45:39 PM PST by Irenic
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Why is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen even appearing on any comedy show?

Cuz that F'n Obummer-butt-kissing, A-Hole...is a JOKE!"

8 posted on 02/05/2011 1:16:49 AM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet ((One of ONLY 37 Conservatives in the People's Republic of Vermont. Socialists and Progressives All))
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