So Stevey, A. stands for alcoholic, Boylan never did get off the sauce. You would think after getting drunk and yelling at demonstrating Koreans, thereby receiving a knife wound, a nick if you will, for his troubles, he would see the writing on the wall. Many times nuance with this crowd is lost.

GG's posts have obviously struck a nerve to have inspired such a thoughtless, hasty reaction from a public affairs guy.

He was the 4th grade tattle tail too.

He secretly wrote your name down on a piece of yellow-lined paper if you talked in class (or posted comments too often) when the teacher was ill and went to barf in the toilet. I'm ready to leave/heave on my own Glenn. Tolerance? I can't tolerate too much more chronic ill crappers in the neo-con world anymore.

If your name was sent to the General Petraeus you went to war, drafted , enlisted, or tricked by the DOD, as in this case...to be blown to smithies in the Middle East. The "jollies" get blown into pink mist from one of those Boylan street bomb, bouncing Boylan's Weapons of Mass Destruction the international army/munition Wall Street merchants distributed throughout the globe.

BOMB.

Boylan's are what military get promoted in bush's/chaney's mercenary mentality.

OIL.

You are not a journalist nor do you have any journalistic ethical standards

And Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt and the right-wing bloggers they meet with are journalists and do have ethical standards?

Wow.

He at least acknowledges that Glenn is a lawyer, and what lawyers say after submitting the irrefutable evidence of politicization exhibited in this e-mail is this:

Your Honor,

"I rest my case."

Hello,

Having worked in this environment for the last 25 years, the most frightening part of these attitudes expressed by senior military is that they are no longer hiding them. There has always been the right-wing lean to military people, maybe that has some socialogical link to the work, but there was often a realization that the bias was something to be hidden or at least minimized. The military culture fostered under the current administration is so unbalanced that many of these people now feel free to openly express and act upon their most partisan, often rabid, right-wing ideas. These attitudes are effecting how the milititary operates from Iraq to the Air Force Academy, and not for the better.

There was never any reason to believe that the Bush administration's dedication to creating a hackocracy did not extend to the military, every bit as much as it did to FEMA, GSA, DOJ, NASA, EPA, etc.

That doesn't make it any less depressing and offensive.

For decades, the military and the clergy have been among the most respected institutions in this country. The Bush administration has worked to corrupt and discredit them both. Short-term partisan gain is the only benefit they can imagine.

Well, that and accolades from imaginary, yet-unborn historians.

Simply amazing! Not only does this Boylan character appear to be a smarmy, condescending, juvenile, mean spirited prick, but an illiterate smarmy, condescending, juvenile, mean spirited prick.

I guess he's bucking for a promotion.

verging on threatening.

When they threaten you -- as I read the tone of this hack's "invitation" -- they show you bother them. As well you should.

There's more than one 14 year-old colonel in the army; at least there used to be. One scene I remember:

As a high-school kid, and military dependent, I got a job one summer working as a greenskeeper's helper on an army golf course at Fort Sill, OK. One Saturday morning I was sent up to the clubhouse to fetch something. In those days -- almost 50 years ago -- they sent enlisted men out to work in facilities like the golf course. One, in fatigues, had been grubbing in the flower beds outside the windows of the snack bar.

When I arrived, A portly man, red-faced, in checkered -- yes, checkered -- bermuda shorts was screaming at the kid in fatigues. The gist of it was: you didn't salute me, I gave you plenty of chances, and you refused to do it, and now I'm gonna see that your sorry ass gets sent to the stockade; the MP's are on the way. The private was mumbling something like: I'm sorry, sir, I didn't realize you were an officer, etc. Maybe he'd been insolent before, but now he was plainly scared.

So...a nineteen year-old kid digging in the petunias on his hands and knees was gonna get sent to the stockade for not saluting a half-drunk pig with a flattop and a pair of bermuda shorts you wouldn't put on Aunt Sally's mule. I just stood there with my mouth hanging open.

It wasn't the worst injustice I've ever seen, but it was plenty nasty, and a pitch-perfect match for Col. Boylan's exchange with Glenn. The military asshole factory apparently never sleeps, and never, ever shuts down.

I don't know if I would take it, but it seems like he's offering you a trip to Iraq.

Not sure what value there is in it, and going to "prove" him wrong is definitely a bad reason, but the offer is on the table, however bitterly made.

The good colonel's phrasing and style looks almost identical to that found at Confederate Yankee: full of bluster and accusation but completely devoid of fact.

The issues of accuracy, context, and proper characterization is something that perhaps you could do a little research and would assume you are aware of as a trained lawyer.

That's just a mess. How did this guy get a position that requires the ability to communicate? And how does he not have someone checking his letters for this kind of error? One of my first jobs included doing just that for a VP of AT&T. The higher up you get, the more people you normally have doing that. Usually just to prevent exactly this kind of embarassing letter.

we went with the real talent, Alan Colmes

By "real talent" they meant someone who will say whatever they want him to say and then plead that he's a "liberal".