Wait, Is Doug Feith Actually “The Fucking Second Stupidest Guy On The Face Of The Earth?”
Oh good gravy. First check this again. Remember Doug Feith? Yes, the very same Doug Feith. Who could forget Doug Feith?
Above: Doug “Stupidest Fucking Guy On Face Of Earth” Feith
Now contemplate Blue Crab Boulevard, another of those medium-traffic right-wing blogs on the basic Ace of Spades HQ/Dan Riehl/Patterico goofwagon.
Everything You Know Is Wrong
November 12th, 2006About Donald Rumsfeld, according to a person familiar with him. Douglas J. Feith worked closely with Rumsfeld for four years. He refutes a lot of the popular myths about the man. Especially the cartoonish figure that his political opponents have drawn.
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Rumsfeld is a bundle of paradoxes, like a fascinating character in a work of epic literature. And as my high school teachers drummed into my head, the best literature reveals that humans are complex. They are not the all-good or all-bad, all-brilliant or all-dumb figures that inhabit trashy novels and news stories. Fine literature teaches us the difference between appearance and reality.
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Those of us in his inner circle heard him say, over and over again: Our intelligence, in all senses of the term, is limited. We cannot predict the future. We must continually question our preconceptions and theories. If events contradict them, don’t suppress the bad news; rather, change your preconceptions and theories.
Read it all, it is a very different picture than is routinely presented in the media or especially by his enemies. I like the way Feith presents the way Rumsfeld has been portrayed:
What Rumsfeld believed, said and did differs from the caricature. The public picture of him today is drawn from news accounts reflecting the views of people who disapproved of his policies or disliked him. Rumsfeld, after all, can be brutally demanding and tough. But I believe history will be more appreciative of him than the first draft has been. What will last is serious history, which, like serious literature, can distinguish appearance from reality.
That’s actually a good thing to remember about all media coverage on any subject.
Yes, in contrast to other portraits, this is clearly an incisive and valuable account by an observer with no self-serving political motives, who isn’t famous for a total lack of honesty or accountability coupled with a titanic and arrogant incompetence, as chronicled throughout the entire world of political journalism. And who didn’t, for instance, resign the number-three post at the Department of Defense one step ahead of an FBI investigation for espionage — about which Donald Rumsfeld certainly wouldn’t have any inside dirt stowed away, so why bother being nice to him. Feith, you say? Can’t say I’d heard of him before, old bean.
Jesus.
Following habit, I shall now resort to comedy as a means of coping with perceived iniquities.
Everything You Know Is Wrong
November 12th, 2006
About Dick Dastardly, according to a person familiar with him. Muttley worked closely with Dastardly for four years. He refutes a lot of the popular myths about the man. Especially the cartoonish figure that his political opponents have drawn.
Muttley: “Khee-hh-hee!”
Read it all, it is a very different picture than is routinely presented in the media or especially by his enemies. I like the way Muttley presents the way Dastardly has been portrayed:
What Dick Dastardly believed, said and did differs from the caricature. The public picture of him today is drawn from news accounts reflecting the views of people who disapproved of his policies or disliked him. Dastardly, after all, can be brutally demanding and tough. But I believe history will be more appreciative of him than the first draft has been. What will last is serious history, which, like serious literature, can distinguish appearance from reality.
That’s actually a good thing to remember about all media coverage on any subject.
Nope, parodies are futile.
I think I just coughed up my skull.
“He was motivated to serve the national interest by transforming the military, though it irritated people throughout the Pentagon.”
Buh?
“Rumsfeld is a bundle of paradoxes, like a fascinating character in a work of epic literature.”
Buh?
“Those of us in his inner circle heard him say, over and over again: Our intelligence, in all senses of the term, is limited. We cannot predict the future. We must continually question our preconceptions and theories. If events contradict them, don’t suppress the bad news; rather, change your preconceptions and theories.”
Oooookay, well…. I’m sold.
I’d read the whole thing, if nothing else then for the money shot, when Feith gives Rummy the happy ending, but, you know… ew.
In other news, Administrative Assistant Rumsfeld received the endorsement of the entire cast of Jackass, and will be working with Steve-O and company on their next project.
So … Rumsfeld’s political opponents made him say all those foolish things that made him look like a total ass on a regular basis?
Give him credit. He never said, “Bring it on!”
When you say parodies are futile doe sthat mean your going to leave massive laffs right there on the table? Natasha on Boris? Helllllllllo?????
I just had a hiccup laugh that encompassed an entire spicy tuna roll!!!
Meanwhile, in another reality —
He told me that he didn’t remember saying, ‘Stuff happens.’ He was really in denial that this was his fault.
Admittedly, “Cakewalk” Adelman is hardly a reliable source.
you know, repeating “Doug Feith” “Doug Feith” like that … it starts to sound a lot like a drumbeat of impeachment…
Ugh – why do you keep sending me to these sites?
Why do I keep going there?!?
Frankly, I should have turned back at the first sight of a latin page header – that’s a deadly affectation, and a sign that there’s nothing good to follow. (hmmmm, how would that dandy little phrase look in latin?)
As near as I can tell (and I ain’t no latin scholar), Crabbie’s little header “Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes” works out to be something along the lines of “Don’t be afraid of the highest day…don’t even wish for it.”
To which I can only add – no fucking shit.
Crabbie, re: Dougie is the fucking stupidest yada yada – That does not sound like anything Franks would say.
“Why, not my Tommy!!!!”
The public picture of him today is drawn from news accounts reflecting the views of people who disapproved of his policies or disliked him.
That’s because apparently the only who doesn’t is you, Dougie, and you are…well, let’s not talk in a circle.
Actually “Everything You Know Is Wrong” is the name of a blog I believe you and your readers would enjoy.
It’s also the name of a catchy Weird Al song. Not his best, by far, but it has its own merrits.
Additional :
HOLY CRAP!
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/webpics/Weird_Al_Yankovic.jpg
Am I the only on who sees the resemblance? Shit! It’s all been in code! Weird Al is secretly Doug Feith! It all makes sense now!
“Everything you know is wrong”
Firesign Theatre, 1974
Rumsfeld is a bundle of paradoxes, like a fascinating character in a work of epic literature.
Rumsfeld is a pile of dirty clothes, the ones that you think might be clean enough to wear around the house, but not out on a date. And then you have to go to the store. Should you wear the suspiciously-smelling Rumsfeld? It is a fascinating mystery.
Rumsfeld is an apple strudel that someone has bitten into, and you don’t know whether they decided to leave the rest because it was unpleasant to taste, or they realized it wasn’t their apple strudel in the first place.
Rumsfeld is an erect penis, existing percariously between relaxation and ejaculation, easily coaxed into orgasm but ready to subside if neglected. Do not use your mouth to further inflame Rumsfeld. He hates that.
Rumsfeld is a stray booger that has landed on a work of great art. One cannot wipe him away without risking a streak on the canvas, so one must consider him to be part of the painting itself. He is multi-hued green and will dry, in time. Be patient.
Rumsfeld is the midnight sun and the moon of the afternoon, a cancer cell that may be a viable mutation, the breath of a newborn infant with colic. He is life itself, with the sting of death ever-resting in his tail. He does not actually have a tail, however. He enjoys cheese, not for the purpose of consumption, but simply because it exists. It is cheese, he is Donald Rumsfeld, all things have their proper place in the world. He is content. Do not call him “Rummy”. He will become cranky.
You liberals, as usual, have nothing but hate spite and anger for those who work hard to protect our nation. I hope the next terrorists attack is in a predominantly liberal left city, so you get what you deserve, and what you want, too because you support the terrorists.
Oh, the terrorists are very happy the dems won, which means you are terrorists.
Yeeeeah! Terrorist attacks! Oh boy! I hope I die.
Gary: Haven’t you been deported yet?
I have no doubt in my mind that Rumsfeld worked very hard, doing what he thought was the right thing to do.
His problem, in addition to his cynical ideology, is that he’s the worst (in-the -Peter-Drucker-Who-Moved-My-Cheese-way) kind of manager.
Who supports terrorists?
George Bush has been working hard for over 3 years to turn an entire country into a terrorists’ playground? Haven’t you heard him going on and on about how hard he is working to develop Iraq into a World Class Learning Center for Terrorists? How many speeches has he given praising the effort and crowing about the successes he has had?
Oh and that tie alone should be more than enough to land Feith’s ass in the Hague.
Welcome back, Gary. Rumsfeld sucks, but you swallow.
Nice juvenile revenge fantasy ya got going there.
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
I call shenanigans on this Gary. Yes, that does resemble his simplistic, childlike, easily-led quasi-logic, but this dose sounds more like “retarded ten-year-old” than “middle-aged man with little to live for who believes anything the neocons tell him and, disinclined to look beyond the surface of the talking points he’s given, draws conclusions from convoluted knowledge based on shallow and frequently inaccurate non-facts.” I believe this is merely a skillful but overeager Gary clone.
Good try, though. Just dial it back a notch and a half, and you’ll have it.
fabbo — how sad, yet typical, that the appearance of your subtle and incisive prose poem was followed so closely by a great steaming pile of troll, thus deflecting attention from your precise and telling metaphors. Bravo, fabbo. Shame on you, Gary. Jumping around on the furniture while the grownups are trying to talk.
Gary, gary, gary. Defeat makes you so mean-minded! You still haven’t come off that drunk, have you?
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I hope the next terrorists attack is in a predominantly liberal left city, so you get what you deserve, and what you want, too because you support the terrorists.
Yeah! Not like that LAST terrorist attack that took out downtown Pasedena, Texas…
Oh, wait…
I hope the next terrorists attack is in a predominantly liberal left city, so you get what you deserve, and what you want, too because you support the terrorists.
Point the First: The only people I have ever heard hoping or wishing for (or at least eagerly predicting) more terrorist attacks are the right wing nutjobs and trolls, like Gary.
Point the Second: The only people I have ever heard wishing for mass death upon their political foes are the right wing nutjobs and trolls, like Gary. Who, I might add, shows himself quite willing to wish mass death upon his own political brethren if it means wiping out a slightly larger number of his political opponents.
Point the Third: If liberals supported terrorists and wanted more attacks, they certainly wouldn’t want them to kill other liberals. Unlike Gary (see Point the Second), liberals are not interested in taking out folks on their own side for the sake of killing off the guys on the other side of the aisle. Furthermore, since more terrorist attacks in the U.S. would undoubtedly vindicate (to some degree) the politics of fear that the Republicans have been trading on for almost six years, why on earth would liberals want them to occur?
Point the Fourth: Why the hell am I responding to trolls? I don’t know. I blame the cold medicine.
I’m sorry, but the Really Rottens were always totally robbed at the Laff-o-lympics. I think the games were fixed, personally.
That the Washington Post actually elected to print this in its editoral page speaks volumes about the complete downfall of the corporate media. Next up, why W. really is the greatest son a woman could ever have by Barbara Bush.
Thank you, Smiling Mortician. Gary is a work of art unto himself, or perhaps a freak of nature. He’s an intellectual black hole, a point of infinite density rigorously following some twisted law of cosmology known only to himself, sucking in matter, energy, light, space, time, hope, Cheetos and all our attempts to educate him, and leaks nothing but the occasional burst of political Hawking radiation, a meager spurt of soul-destroying gamma rays. Perhaps, someday he may evaporate, but the universe will be a dark and cooling cinder by then. For now, we can only persevere and try not to get pulled in.
Here in beautiful Left City, despite the population being predominantly liberal, the news of the day is the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and a sense of possibility pervades. The forcast is for peace and prosperity, with no car bombs or terrorist attacks forcast. That’s the news from Left City.
mikey
I hope the next terrorists attack is in a predominantly liberal left city, so you get what you deserve, and what you want, too because you support the terrorists.
Of course they are going to attack a predominantly liberal left city – what the hell else in the country is worth attacking? The Wal-mart in Ashland, Kentucky? The Burger King outlet in Wenatchee? Shit. Every last thing of value in this country is in a predominantly liberal left city.
You liberals, as usual, have nothing but hate spite and anger for those who work hard to protect our nation. I hope the next terrorists attack is in a predominantly liberal left city, so you get what you deserve, and what you want, too because you support the terrorists.
We are the hateful supporters of the terrorists? You’ve just offered them targeting advice, and are gleefully frothing at the prospect of terrorist success in bringing about our fiery deaths: you WANT them to win as long as it means liberals die. Gary, not just misguided or ill-informed, he’s on the other side.
Gary: what city would that be? Homoville, ACLUistan?
But the terrorists and the liberals are working together, so if the terrorists do attack, it will be a predominately conservative city! Like, uh, Salt Lake City, or Colorado Springs! Aieeeee!
Capillamentum? Haudquaquam conieci esse!
As opposed to people who wish indiscriminate death on those they disagree with, which I suppose is indicative of a soul filled with fresh peaches and spring sunshine.
Also, there should be a comma between “hate” and “spite”.
Donald who? Douglas Fucking Stupidest who?
These nobodies yer talkin about, that’s just idiotic pre-11/9 thinking. Everything changed! Etc…
Catch that Pigeon!
>>Those of us in his inner circle heard him say, over and over again: Our intelligence, in all senses of the term, is limited. We cannot predict the future. We must continually question our preconceptions and theories. If events contradict them, don’t suppress the bad news; rather, change your preconceptions and theories.
As funny as Sadly, No can get with the likes of Gavin & Retardo posting, it’s still not half as funny on its best days as Gary.
Gary, don’t ever leave. I mean, until you’re deported, anyway.