It sounds to me like Bolton must have read this book. It describes his type of "reaction" as precisely what good managers should use for bad employees.
Posted on 04/17/2005 6:10:38 AM PDT by Commander Salamander
Boy, this confirmation battle over John Bolton, the president's plain-spoken nominee for U.N. ambassador, is really heating up. Sen. Barbara Boxer, the Democratic Party's comely obstructionist, has charged that Bolton needs ''anger management lessons.''
I don't know about you, but nothing makes me want to hurl a chair through the window and punch someone's lights out like being told I need anger management lessons. So I was interested to hear about the kind of violent Boltonian eruptions that had led Boxer to her diagnosis. Well, here it comes. (If you've got young children present, you might want to take them out of the room.) From the shockingly brutal testimony of Thomas Fingar, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Intelligence Research: Q: Could you characterize your meeting with Bolton? Was he calm?
Fingar: No, he was angry. He was standing up.
Q: Did he raise his voice to you? Did he point his finger in your face?
Fingar: I don't remember if he pointed. John speaks in such a low voice normally. Was it louder than normal? Probably. I wouldn't characterize it as screaming at me or anything like that. It was more, hands on hips, the body language as I recall it, I knew he was mad.
He was ''standing up'' with ''hands on hips''! Who's he think he is -- Carmen Miranda? Fortunately, before Bolton could let rip with a ''pursed lip'' or escalate to the lethal ''tsk-ing'' maneuver, Fingar was able to back cautiously out of the room and call the FBI anger management team, who surrounded the building and told the deranged diplomat to come out slowly with his hands above his hips.
Well, I haven't been so horrified since . . . well, since David Gest split from Liza Minnelli and launched a multimillion...
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LOL!!
Actually, now it's the USCIS, they have moved to a five letter acronym.
ROFL! Who knew Steyn would stoop to song parodies?
A Steyn ping.
The new secret weapon to slay all Dimocrats ... The Hokey Pokey!
You put your right hand in ...
You take your right hand out ...
MAKE HIM STOP ! I'm spewing all over.
The whole article is hilarious. Steyn keeps topping himself.
Steyn nails it again!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Maybe he's seen a few DFUs?
Too funny over here.
'Twas my first thought as well.
Over here!
Perhaps a little makeup and a pair of diapers would make him a little less intimidating?
LOL
Boxer represents the Disneyland Distrikt.
Umm ... people who read Steyn? Admittedly, they're probably more common in his stage and culture columns, but he's used them in his political columns, too, for quite some time.
lol!! Fantastic article. How do you write this columnist and tell him how great this was?
Steyn is great - thanks for the ping!
Bump for later reading
Oh my goodness!! I have to get to the emergency room. My sides have split open from laughing!!
Mark, will you please marry me?
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