Posted on 11/29/2001 5:39:08 AM PST by newsperson999
The U.S. State Department has long been a preserve for snobs and a culturing place for political correctness and other forms of smug Ivy League bigotry. Many of its elite corps are out-patients from the Kennedy School of Condescension. The "staties", as they are sometimes called, consider themselves the carriage trade of the Washington bureaucracy. The Middle East is where these diplomatic tactical twerps like to go "slumming." This slum-of-choice is a lateral move, in that Washington D.C. itself is a Palestine of political parasites.
It is the unwritten fiat at the U.S. State Department, before you earn your diplomatic pouch you must first learn to "make nice" with Yasser Arafat who they consider to be a kind of "user-friendly" terrorist. At the Department, Arafat is the "stray" that has been found and adopted as the mascot of the New World Order. In pursuit of legitimizing him, the State Department refers to him as "Chairman Arafat" - although after he's been sitting in a chair for any length of time it is necessary to take it to any empty lot and burn it. Among the assorted envoys and envoy-ettes, support for this slob supercedes devotion to American interests.
Embracing Arafat is their article of faith. When they recite the Pledge of Allegiance, his name is inserted instead of the flag. In fact, before you can be hired by the State Department you must first demonstrate an ability to identify Yasser Arafat's ass on a silhouette chart. All "staties" must be indoctrinated in the dogma that Israel is an upstart nation, and its determination to retaliate for terrorist attacks is impolite and presumptuous. Arafat's machinations dovetail neatly into the carefully manicured designs which State Department pantywaists find so cunning. These pragmatic ciphers know sucking up to Yasser Arafat is the surest way to achieve, not peace in the Middle East, but upward mobility for themselves in the Washington bureaucracy CLICK FOR FULL ARTICLE
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I've been kind of presuming that our State Department is NOT filled with statesmen, but basically manned by people who are not fit for their real jobs in foreign relations, and thus pose a danger to the PHYSICAL SAFETY of Americans, and indeed to the future of the world. I also presume that it's a pretty ingrown place, and that it entirely needs to be overhauled. I am irritated and angry with state, and if these feelings turn out to be entirely unjustified, I shall remain SUSPICIOUS, nonetheless.
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In fact, before you can be hired by the State Department you must first demonstrate an ability to identify Yasser Arafat's ass on a silhouette chart.
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this stuff is hilarious. It reads like a Jack Benny stand-up act.
He's also a FReeper known as "firehat."
I've kind of lost my agreement with him, though, when he went off the NWO deep end and started ragging Dubya for his every move.
You've got to read the whole thing. This piece is outstanding! I'm in stitches reading it.
whenever Arafat enters a men's room, an attaché from the American Legation will station himself outside of Yasser's booth in case he wants someone to slide a magazine under the door.
This guy should take his act on the road.
Hey well, he's an equal opportunity comedian.
Norman Liebmann is one of the funniest guys on the planet.
>>>>>Norman Liebmann is a former television writer [Johnny Carson; Dean Martin; wrote and produced "Chico and the Man" and created the characters for "The Munsters" (who are all named after his relatives)] and a brilliant and insightful columnist/humorist. Please visit his Web site, Firehat, a treasure trove of Clinton- and media-bashing.
From his column at NewsMax.
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