the general is wearing his coffin face there
Posted on 12/07/2005 5:02:15 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein December 7, 2005 - 07:26.
The forces of NBC, in the persons of Matt Lauer and Barry McCaffrey, launched a major attack on the enemy this morning. No, not on Al-Qaida or the Baathist dead-enders. We're talking of a real MSM enemy: Donald Rumsfeld.
Lauer began the assault by using yesterday's release of a videotape featuring Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to promote the notion of bad US troop morale. Lauer noted that Zawahiri was looking relaxed, answering questions, not bothering to be armed, and asked NBC employee, retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, whether seeing such a tape motivated or frustrated the troops.
When McCaffrey didn't respond with a negative assessment of troop morale, Lauer tried another tack to produce the desired result:
Lauer: "But let me go back to it again. If you're one of the troops on the ground there and you're roughing it in Iraq and you've been there longer than you thought you were going to be there and you see this guy seemingly comfortable, doesn't it frustrate you a little bit."
Again, McCaffrey wouldn't play along..
But Lauer was absolutely implacable, and when he tied the issue to MSM bugaboo Donald Rumsfeld, any reluctance of McCaffrey to sing from Matt's hymnal evaporated.
Lauer: "Sticking to the subject of morale, it's clear that there were miscalculations going into this war. Clearly the way we were going to be greeted hasn't turned out to be the reality, the level and the scope of the insurgencies [were underestimated], so when it comes again to military commanders and troops, do you feel they may be frustrated that back home in Washington no one has lost their job over this?"
McCaffrey: "Clearly bad judgments were made by the civilian leadership in the Pentagon going into this war. It got away from us, it didn't have to be this way. One would think Sec. Rumsfeld and others would be held accountable for it."
Lauer, finally sensing blood in the water: "These military people live by a code, among other things, of accountability, so do you think they would want someone like Sec. Rumsfeld or others to be held accountable?"
McCaffrey suggested that troops in the field wouldn't focus on that, but that "the military leadership" realizes that the civilian heads of the Pentagon engaged in "widespread" misjudgements.
Lauer, clearly now with his man in his sights: "You've heard the drumbeats for a while and it seems to be intensifying again [thanks to you, Matt] surrounding Sec. Rumsfeld. Do you think he's going to hold onto his job?"
Lauer hit the Mother Lode, as McCaffrey replied:
"I'm surprised to be honest he's still there. His judgments were egregiously wrong. He's staying now to shape the Armed Forces over the next 20 years. It's hard to imagine why someone who made that series of bad calls would be allowed to be the architect of future armed forces."
McCaffrey called on a number of senators to lead the anti-Rumsfeld coup. He described McCain, Hagel, Warner, Reed as people "who understand national security," and in a clear pitch for them to lead the revolt, said "it's about time for them to step in and make their views known."
Today Show/NewsBusters ping.
That interview just goes a long way to show what head long persistence will do for you........... and, what a total ass Buried McCaffrey is and always has been.
The MSM and the Democrats are going to get us all killed. They had better learn how to speak and spit at the same time, because Arabic is going to be the language of choice in this country if they do not shut up!!!!!
And as always, a well written piece..
Maybe McCain and Warner have a clue. Not the other two.
Don't watch the GOSSIP show !
They can hide their HATE !!
Not to mention he was a joke as Klintoon's drug czar.
It's still a cut-and-run.
http://www.neoperspectives.com/rumsfeld.htm
The Best of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Just felt the need to post this!
the general is wearing his coffin face there
Enemedia.
Wow, TODAY show is still on the air? (har)
...I think it peeked with the chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs.
Nice neo-logism! Woul [-)d that be a "Fleet" Enemedia?
Oh yeah, forgotten about that. Good catch.
I can't take credit for that one. Saw it on other posts and liked it. You dualized it in a way I didn't consider. Works for me!
RE: The Good General
I can remember when he was Clintoon's "Drug Czar" where he obviously failed miserably.
I remember footage of him presenting an award to some mexican law enforcement big wig and speechifying about what a gallant ally we have in our war on drugs. Later the big wig was proven to be corrupt and in cahoots with the traffickers. Ouch!
THIS is how I remember McC: A dupe, blinded by his own sense of his majesty.
The MSM is the propaganda wing of the democrat party. They will do anything to further their party, even to the detriment of this country.This has always been so. They have just become more brazen about it. And they are seeing their empire collapse around their feet and they are getting desperate.
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