Politics: How Did We Miss This?
The New York Times reported Friday that Richard Perle did consulting for Loral Technologies, the company that sold illegal weapons technology to China. All of this transpired months before Perle was brought on as chairman of the stupid Defense Department advisory board that he sits on. So who was in charge of the vetting?
The answer is simple. These guys don't vet their buddies. They don't give a sh*t whether their pals have drowned kittens in buckets or pushed wheelchair-bound seniors onto freeways. This, to them, is the height of loyalty. The Bushies don't vet, they don't care what people think of their friends, and they rarely cut bait on them. The Clintonites (and I'm a fan of this method) would disavow a bum choice for something, and decry their heinous act and whatever else was required to get the stink of badness of themselves. These guys just let bad choices whether the storm, or their say that the person was 'misunderstood,' but doesn't want to be a 'distraction.'
This is part of the super-genius/totally insane strategy of these bastards. Part of me believes that they have such a sense of entitlement that they just think they deserve to succeed at everything they try. It isn't confidence, really, because confidence requires thoughtfulness. It is cockiness, or this overdeveloped sense of entitlement that manifests itself on Bush's smirking mug when he isn't evoking false profundity. They just believe that if they do whatever they are doing without taking a moment's hesitation to allow for the possibility that it wasn't the best course of action, then nobody will think it was anything but a wise move. Sadly, they went from Honeymoon with a right-wing press to a post-9/11 honeymoon press blinded by the confusion between patriotism to one's nation and patronism of one's president. Now, as the corner is turned on this war, and as the media begins to realize that both they are being used in the embedded journalists program as PR (and removed when it suits their needs), and as the bad begins to outweigh the good, perhaps the press will demonstrate their utility as the public's eyes and ears. Or maybe not.
The New York Times reported Friday that Richard Perle did consulting for Loral Technologies, the company that sold illegal weapons technology to China. All of this transpired months before Perle was brought on as chairman of the stupid Defense Department advisory board that he sits on. So who was in charge of the vetting?
The answer is simple. These guys don't vet their buddies. They don't give a sh*t whether their pals have drowned kittens in buckets or pushed wheelchair-bound seniors onto freeways. This, to them, is the height of loyalty. The Bushies don't vet, they don't care what people think of their friends, and they rarely cut bait on them. The Clintonites (and I'm a fan of this method) would disavow a bum choice for something, and decry their heinous act and whatever else was required to get the stink of badness of themselves. These guys just let bad choices whether the storm, or their say that the person was 'misunderstood,' but doesn't want to be a 'distraction.'
This is part of the super-genius/totally insane strategy of these bastards. Part of me believes that they have such a sense of entitlement that they just think they deserve to succeed at everything they try. It isn't confidence, really, because confidence requires thoughtfulness. It is cockiness, or this overdeveloped sense of entitlement that manifests itself on Bush's smirking mug when he isn't evoking false profundity. They just believe that if they do whatever they are doing without taking a moment's hesitation to allow for the possibility that it wasn't the best course of action, then nobody will think it was anything but a wise move. Sadly, they went from Honeymoon with a right-wing press to a post-9/11 honeymoon press blinded by the confusion between patriotism to one's nation and patronism of one's president. Now, as the corner is turned on this war, and as the media begins to realize that both they are being used in the embedded journalists program as PR (and removed when it suits their needs), and as the bad begins to outweigh the good, perhaps the press will demonstrate their utility as the public's eyes and ears. Or maybe not.
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