When I read the exchange of emails I could only come to one conclusion: this guy shows typical right-wing paranoia. He's a good candidate for Hate Radio when he retires from the military.

The thing that gets me about binary thinkers is how much they remind me of the school aged kids who form the circle around two others in a fight. The apparent hard-wired need to immediately take sides. Lots of folks commenting here reverted to a "check it out," "maybe it's a hoax," "wonder what this is about" position. As might be predicted, then the efforts to try to verify began in earnest. And, we're still willing to entertain those among us who wonder if the verification we've achieved is sufficient. Two entirely different demonstrations of analytic process. I suspect many of us still qualify our condemnation of Boylan's unsolicited email with the unspoken, but conscious thought, "to the extent it is affirmed Boylan sent the email."

And, Cordelia, if Boylan's email header was sooooo super secret, why use that route to communicate with Glenn? If it's 'classified' Boylan exposed it himself. It's not Glenn's job to protect him from his own stupidity.

I don't have to talk to you, since a journalist with ethical standards is what you aren't. I am interested only in matters military. It would be a fabrication unworthy of my time to say that not at all disinterested in this be I.

And one more thing, add I will: identity theft sucks. As does posting on the web under a stolen name, neither of which interested in I am.

"The fact that the White House dispatched to Iraq a pure political hack -- the former Bush/Cheney '04 communications official -- to incorporate into the U.S. military those communications techniques is obvious evidence of the White House's deliberate effort to politicize the military's war communications."

Exactly. Boylan didn't even need to open his mouth. This already proved that this administration is turning the military into a propaganda outlet, accessible only to the right. But it's great that he did; we got a good taste of what he calls 'comic relief'.

But you have to ask yourself, why would they expose themselves to the real questions that only dissenters can ask? Why would they? After all, it's not as if the army is unaffiliated anymore. Boy, I think all this chumminess with the Pakistani army has had an effect. Our army has learned some valuable lessons from them.

But don't worry. The time of reckoning is near. Whether it's Hillary or Obama, heads will roll.

RICE, POWELL, PETRAEUS, MUKASEY, GATES ETC., ETC.

THEY MAY HAVE STARTED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS, BUT DEVELOP DISEASED MINDS, INFECTED BY THE WHITE HOUSE HAS DRIVEN ALL ORIGINAL MAJOR CHARACTERS OUT, EXCEPT THE TWO WHO CAN ONLY BE IMPEACHED TO BE REMOVED.

BUSH HAS SNUBBED HIS NOSE AT THE LEGISLATIVE AND THE JUDICIARY,

DOING JUST WHAT HE WANTS, LEGAL OR NOT, WITH LITTLE CONFRONTATION FROM ANYONE IN POWER.

THE RECENT WAR PROTESTS THIS LAST WEEKEND ARE A BEGINNING, LIKE THOSE DURING THE VIETNAM ERA, THAT CONTRIBUTED TO IT'S END.

THIS IS A SPARK WHICH SHOULD GROW INTO A CONFLAGRATION OF OPPOSITION, AND END THIS NIGHTMARE BUSH HAS WROUGHT UPON THE NATION

"Wow, I laud your readers for having the patience and resolve to indulge your verbose tirades. Day after day, I note that your column receives among the most comments. Your readers deserve a medal. You might want to throw them a bone and get to your point in the first paragraph. Assuming you have a point."

Thanks for checking in, keeping track, and complementing GG readers. Which might be a bit self-indulgent since you seem to be a regular, if somewhat partial-reader. I know reading more than one paragraph at a time is "hard work". Which is probably how in the name of all that is holy, the "point" about the military colluding with conservative media was missed.

So keep checking in, try a little more reading and enjoy the comprehension level going up at least a bit.

I was looking for more samples of his prose, but this is a really interesting piece of work. He is defending the use of white phosphorus, and having trouble.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/08/1516232

His diction seems better than his email prose, but that isn't uncommon. His attitude seems identical.

You'll be waiting a long time, Jordan.

Yes, I realize this; but it's worth calling him out just to try to improve the rhetorical quality of the debate. I have several Conservative friends (war supporters etc.) whom I enjoy debating with because they argue coherently and make sense, rather than lying back in the tall grass and poring over liberal blogs and posts searching for trivial or nonexistent "gotcha" contradictions (mostly in the form of accusations of "hypocrisy" which do not deny the accusations but instead attempt to unseat or weaken the position of the accusing party).

I figure it's worth a try. He can think and put a sentence together; he must be capable of a straight unembellished contention, rather than easily-deflected attempts at "undermining" statements by Greenwald and others.

In the flurry of yesterday's comments and speculation - alternatively worded; trying to make sense out of nonsense - I didn't take the time to read the full version of Boylan's unsolicited email Glenn posted at UT until this morning. The introductory paragraphs are pretty funny, actually. He seems to start out trying to strike a jovial, avuncular tone and then loses it as he sinks into his own two-dimensional self-space.

I am not sending this as anyone's spokesperson, just a straight military Public Affairs Officer, with about 27 months overall time in Iraq who is concerned with accuracy, context and characterization of information and has worked with media of all types since joining the career field in 1991.

Yep. That is a single sentence. Wonder why Boylan felt the need to include that he was "straight?" It's anyone's guess how Boylan feels he can make the claim that he's not anyone's spokesperson while responding to a piece a Glenn has written about military public affairs' releases. What's interesting is his first sentence suggesting he'd wanted to post this in Glenn's letters section. I had hoped to post this in response to your article, but apparently it is closed already. What a lost opportunity for the rest of us.

Glenn left a comments opportunity open when he posted the email in full. Turned out to be an opportunity for the Freepers to chime in. As expected, unable to address the substance of Glenn's post, they chose to vent their spleens on Glenn.