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Pentagon Spokesman Resigns After New SecDef’s First Day on Job
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Posted on 02/18/2015 3:50:46 PM PST by Perdogg

Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby, the press secretary of the Pentagon and they guy you always see explaining American military action on television, announced his sudden resignation today, one day after the new Secretary of Defense was sworn into office.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: ashcarter; ashtoncarter; bhosecdef; carter; johnkirby; kirby; pentagon; resignation; resigns; spokesman
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1 posted on 02/18/2015 3:50:46 PM PST by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Holy Crap,Whats that tell ya????!!!!????


2 posted on 02/18/2015 3:51:35 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: CGASMIA68

Purge?


3 posted on 02/18/2015 3:51:59 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: CGASMIA68

He couldn’t work for a person he believes is an idiot/political hack.


4 posted on 02/18/2015 3:53:56 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CGASMIA68
Holy Crap,Whats that tell ya????!!!!????

Basically it frees him up to speak freely. Especially after Obama's speech of appeasement to terrorist policy today. Them poor terrorist all them wants is a job and education.../sarcasm

5 posted on 02/18/2015 3:56:28 PM PST by cva66snipe (He (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Perdogg

He always looked scared out of his mind when he spoke to the public. Obummer has some kind of power over him, something he is bribing/blackmailing him with. The crapola they used to have him say was absurd (just like the rest of the spokes-robots). IMHO he was forced to say the stuff the islamic administration told him to say.


6 posted on 02/18/2015 3:56:54 PM PST by TheConservativeParty
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To: Perdogg

Kirby parroted what everyone else in the regime said. I don’t see a big loss here.


7 posted on 02/18/2015 3:57:59 PM PST by silent_jonny (True: "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" -- Phillipians 4:13)
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To: Perdogg

Oh, he “resigned”???
He serves at the pleasure of the govt...he is assigned to the job so his “resignation” is not accurate...he is a serving naval officer who is assigned to this job. Whether he does it or not is up to his boss...but he is still a Navy PAO unless he RETIRES from the Naval service...
I know ‘cause I been there, done that....


8 posted on 02/18/2015 3:58:17 PM PST by matginzac
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To: Perdogg; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Perdogg.


9 posted on 02/18/2015 3:59:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Perdogg

It says the new SecDef doesn’t want someone wearing a uniform in that job.

Maybe they can find a transgendered Muslim black woman to replace him.


10 posted on 02/18/2015 3:59:24 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Perdogg
Sources close to Carter say that he has “expressed reservations about having a uniformed officer represent the Defense Department in its daily dealings with the news media...

Sounds like the potemkin SecDef hates the military, just like his boss.

11 posted on 02/18/2015 4:00:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: silent_jonny
one could argue that some of these perfumed princes stayed on because they thought they were the last roadblock to complete tyranny by obola boy....

then again, those grand military pensions keep their tails wagging and some of them will do anything to get them...

they all took oaths to defend this country......a good number of them, by participating in his debacle called obola are violated any honor they might have once had...

12 posted on 02/18/2015 4:01:05 PM PST by cherry
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To: Secret Agent Man
He couldn’t work for a person he believes is an idiot/political hack.

That can't be it, he's been working for Hagel the last couple of years.

13 posted on 02/18/2015 4:01:29 PM PST by keat
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To: Perdogg

Kirby was a pitiful excuse for an Admiral. He toed the Obama line all the way. Good riddance.


14 posted on 02/18/2015 4:08:12 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Perdogg

No great loss.....Democrat LIARS are a dime a dozen.


15 posted on 02/18/2015 4:08:23 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Perdogg
Is Baghdad Bob still around?
16 posted on 02/18/2015 4:10:16 PM PST by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: Cicero

WANTED: Experienced Community agitators and Occupiers for Pentagon spokesman for US Department of Defense. Two year job. Must be LGBTP (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite, or Pedophile) qualified, and muslim.


17 posted on 02/18/2015 4:11:19 PM PST by matthew fuller (US Constitution with index- http://constitutionus.com/)
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To: Perdogg
I've been hired! I've got a job! Thanks, Obama!


18 posted on 02/18/2015 4:11:38 PM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: Perdogg

Kirby was really bred to be a PAO type, and by all accounts he was good at it. Some staff officers are top notch in their area, and it is a foolish boss who discards talent.

The new SecDef, Ashton B. Carter, is an odd bird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Carter

This leads me to suspect that there is some personal bad blood here. People you hate you fire immediately. People you think are wrong for the job you consider reassigning.


19 posted on 02/18/2015 4:13:44 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Kirby seemed like a political hack to me. Maybe he was forced into flacking for this appalling administration.


20 posted on 02/18/2015 4:16:42 PM PST by neocon1984
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