Letters to the Editor
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boylan
Surely you don't think Boylan got his job by being apolitical? I'm sure a *qualification* for the job was "must be a GOP drone."
And so it proves.
And, as you say, this is a very bad situation. Very. Bad. We can't get a new president, and a new ruling party fast enough. It's going to take years to undo the damage, if it can be undone. Something I wonder about.
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Ad hominem on Steroids
Holy Smokes I haven't seen this many insults and smears per word count since an RNC press release.
Eith Col. Boylan emailed GG whilst intoxicated or has to be horribly dense to not realize
he is a makin' GGs point.
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are you sure this isn't from a freeper?
Hard to believe this tripe comes from a US Col. Amazing.
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are you sure this isn't from a freeper?
It's from the same email address as the prior emails I received from him and has all the same adornments. Obviously, my first thought upon reading it was that it had to be fake - but it's clear, at least from everything I can see, that it is authentic.
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Just remember
The good right-wing hack works for you and me, since we, as tax-payers, pay for his hackery.
Perhaps the DOD IG should look into matters....
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Egad!
"Everyone can decide for themselves if that sounds more like an apolitical, professional military officer or an overwrought right-wing blogger throwing around all sorts of angry, politically charged invective."
Ignoring the content, the writing style seems more like that that of a fourteen year-old than an Army Colonel.
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I agree with PhysiProf
Boylan might benefit from a refresher course in writing, perhaps English 101. But on the bright side, his spell checker seems to work.
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politicization
I eagerly await America's outrage -- esp. in the mainstream and right wing press -- over the rank politicization of our apolitical military and related infrastructure. After all, nothing is more "big government" that governmental -- and tax dollar -- involvement in partisan activities. I assume such outrage will happen around January, 2009, just following Hillary's inaugeration.
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oops
that's PhysioProf, sorry my spell checker isn't up to Boylan standards...
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Wouldn’t it be nice to be a fly on the wall….
and be able to see and hear the conversation when Boylan is sitting around having many more drinks in the officers’ club with Betray-Us and his other flunkies (in addition to whatever booze he was choking down when he wrote this drivel) and bragging to everyone how he really nailed that bastard, Greenwald, who is making all this trouble for them.
What is the phrase? If brains were dynamite he couldn’t blow his nose?
I could see something like this coming out of a troll at NewsMax, but the spokesman for the head of the Iraq forces? C’mon.
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creeper? My first thought, is this e-mail made to be a joke?
It's too difficult to "spoon" anymore of that military screed. What desideratum! ME feel yucky.
It was cumbersome to read that:
-"diatribes as they provide comic relief here in Iraq." O, boy, Boylan.
-"no ethical standards" O, pewky, Holy Boylan. Ya's all red and bloody.
Thanks for sharing that disgusting email. Sorta. Now I'll go to the back porch to heave-ho, and gungy-ho toward the Boylan's a chewed breakfast of b-berry flapjacks. O, up chucked spokesman.
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The "professional" military
GG:
...I'm hardly the only one to observe that this behavior smacks of the sort of politicization that has infected all of our government agencies under this administration -- an infection that is far more disturbing and dangerous when the politicized arm in question is the U.S. military. ...
Glenn,
Decades ago at the end of the abortion called the 'Vietnam War', many were very happy to see the end of the slavery called the draft. We thought that perhaps the USA would terrorize the rest of the world far less, and send our young people into battle far less --- if only we had a 'volunteer' army.
A few souls objected that a "professional" army could be very dangerous to a free country and that trained career warriors would lead to ever more killing of innocents in foreign lands.
I ask you; now that we can look back and see the continuous military interventions around the world - who was correct? The founding generation believed that a standing army was a terrible danger to peace and freedom --- perhaps they knew something we have forgotten.
By the way; whatever happened to the 'peace dividend' we were going to receive after the fall of the USSR?
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Grow the f' up, Boylan!
I'm in agreement with most of the others I've read so far here. Boylan must have gotten himself elected Hall Monitor in the sixth grade, and that was the highlight of his life. It seems he has never been able to let go of that corner of authority, still not understanding why everyone is snickering behind his back. He is a study of a child in a man's body. He would be thought of as a pitiful person if it weren't for the fact that he is colluding with people in power who are causing death and destruction and shaming and destroying, for years to come, the reputation of our country. Thus, he is not to be pitied, he is to be despised, and exposed to all as the hack that he is.
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@ other profs
Yes, the over-all style and quality of Boylan's email reminded me instantly of student letters to the campus newspaper.
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wow.
glenn - as always, i enjoy your post. but nothing could have made your point as well as boylan's email. thanks for posting it.
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It would be funny
except for the fact that its really scary
The world really is a dangerous place. Which is why I feel it's important that the people responsible for defending America from her enemies have a little bit more on the ball than an eighth-grader taunting you with "Oh Yeah - Come here and say that! Or are you chicken?"
I am hoping alcohol was involved. I'd hate to think that kind of prose is representative.
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Government trolls
Yep, how many of those right wing cranks that post nonsense all over the web supporting the war and pretending to be nutjob antisemite "liberals" are actually authored by those in the employ of the government, the military, and the defense industry for the purpose of disinformation and keeping this charade and shell game running until there is nothing left to steal from our treasury? Probably over half of them.
Like telemarketers, they operate from a script.
But telemarketers are actually human beings, these things are somewhat less than that.
Ad hominem attacks and no response to issues and questions are their trademark. They lack the depth and intelligence to deal with issues and questions.
They do realize that we are onto to them and this makes them unsettled. Keep pushing those buttons that elicit response. It's a tell, and I don't think they even know how to play poker.