• May 27, 2012

Four-Star General Lara Logan Upset With Fellow Journalist’s Lack of Military Service

by Wonkette Jr.  1:15 pm June 29, 2010

Stroke it, war apologist.Rolling Stone war journalist Michael Hastings was on Howard Kurtz’s Sunday chat show to talk about doing journalism for real, instead of just writing neo-con combat fantasies for the Washington Post op-ed pages. But what did CBS News’ battlefield babe Lara Logan think of Hastings for reporting what General Stanley McChrystal and his senior staff said? “Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has,” she said. What?

In case you’ve already forgotten the forced resignation/retirement of the U.S. War in Afghanistan’s commander, Hastings wrote a story about Stanley McChrystal’s hatred of America’s civilian military leadership that led to Obama’s firing of the general. But how could Hastings write an article when he hasn’t even served in the military, or at least served as babymama to military contractors, like Lara Logan has?

On Monday, Kurtz told some online commenter what he wouldn’t say to Logan’s face: “I don’t agree with her serving-his-country line. That would suggest that a journalist who hasn’t been in the military doesn’t have the standing to cover a war, and that strikes me as off base.” [Washington Post/Glenn Greenwald]

Send your Journalistic Negligence items to tips@wonkette.com, ATTN: Fletch. This isn’t JournoList: anonymity is assured.

{ 121 comments }

Texan Bulldoggette June 29, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Lara Logan isn’t even American—what country was Hastings supposed to serve? She did manage to serve her country (S. Africa) by getting knocked up & sleeping with all the other journalists that she could. Any chick who sleeps with Michael “Crocodile Dundee” Ware is just gross.

Deelzebub June 29, 2010 at 1:21 pm

She’s had so many military members in her that she thinks she was in the military.

weejee June 29, 2010 at 1:22 pm

Laura’s being outrageous!! Following her logic would mean that only writers who are drunks could do article about DUIs. Oh, never mind.

saggyboobedhag June 29, 2010 at 1:22 pm

Once he has unprotected sex with a military contractor, will that then qualify as serving his country?

AnnieGetYourFun June 29, 2010 at 1:23 pm

Matt is SO pissed about this.

Prommie June 29, 2010 at 1:23 pm

Added Logan “Colonel Frank Burns is a wonderful officer, and a fine surgeon.”

Dashboard_Buddha June 29, 2010 at 1:25 pm

The look on her face in the picture seems to say, “Impressive…but I don’t think it will fit”

Chet Kincaid June 29, 2010 at 1:28 pm

This silly bint has lost all credibility thanks to these stupid, sore-loser comments. Apparently, unlike Michael Ware, Hastings is not a JSLF (figure it out).

I would still hit it with a cricket bat, though. (The bint, not the traitor.)

CrunchyKnee June 29, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Lara sucks.

MattW June 29, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Finally, a blogger who will work for a steak sandwich.

(And a steak sandwich.)

4tehlulz June 29, 2010 at 1:28 pm

LEAVE MY BOYFRIEND ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE

Ken Layne June 29, 2010 at 1:29 pm

Apologies for posting this briefly under my byline. “Fletch” is our new Journalistic Negligence contributor, and he/she toils in anonymity so as to not get fired from his/her *real* newsroom job because people always get fired for saying anything, in this town.

Crankenstank June 29, 2010 at 1:30 pm

Lara Logan single-handedly won all her country’s wars when she was in the military, which is why South Africa was awarded the World Cup. Take that, Michael Hastings, you lily-livered wimp.

user-of-owls June 29, 2010 at 1:30 pm

Can we also send in tips about Journalistic Diarrhea? You know, like “Logan’s Runs.”

SmutBoffin June 29, 2010 at 1:31 pm

“Fletch”? WTF?

[re=608529]Ken Layne[/re]: Oh.

BklynIlluminati June 29, 2010 at 1:35 pm

Is she going after Gretchen Carlson’s job as Head Retard in Charge? She is doing terrible job if you ask me. Not enough derp derp derp’s.

facehead June 29, 2010 at 1:36 pm

Wonkette’s Warblogging Armada is complete.

Welcome Fletch.

Geogre June 29, 2010 at 1:36 pm

Oh, this is wonderful.

Laura Logan isn’t alone, either. Essentially, The Press is furious. 80% of the reaction was, “How could he have burned the source like that? You never actually write what they saaaaaaay, because then you won’t get the free hotdogs!” 20% was her version of “How unpatriotic.” The 20% was secretly the 80%.

In other words, they got scooped.

Hastings did reporting that affected the world. He told the truth about those in power. He may be a toad, etc., but they’re sycophants. Laura Logan is purty as she can be, and she’s more serious than most, but she’s also in the hip pocket of her sources. The end.

jus_wonderin June 29, 2010 at 1:37 pm

Please don’t tell me that Lara fell for the “Why don’t you and I go to the hangar to get a look at my predator drone? line”

That is the oldest trick in the book.

slappypaddy June 29, 2010 at 1:39 pm

she said, “if they believe that a piece is balanced, they will let you back.”

what she means is, if you suck cock well enough (which includes cooing and swallowing), you will be invited back to suck some more.

norbizness June 29, 2010 at 1:40 pm

A $750 billion (i.e. larger than everyone else put together) annual Pentagon budget can surely cover the purchase of a particular CBS reporter’s brain waves. Combine this with Elana Kagan’s forced “I love the military more than my own life” contrition at the confirmation hearings, and you get to about 50% of the reason I think this country has died and the corpse is beginning to stink up the koint.

x111e7thst June 29, 2010 at 1:42 pm

[re=608518]saggyboobedhag[/re]: Or at least his cuntry.

RoscoePColtraine June 29, 2010 at 1:43 pm

“My torpedo may be small, but believe me babe, you WILL feel it.”

bureaucrap June 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

[re=608529]Ken Layne[/re]: In “this” town? Barstow? Victorville? Indio?

Cmoney June 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

How patriotic and loyal, and such excellent boobs. This shill’s contract will be renewed.

mostly corn June 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

“Journalistic Negligence Contributor?” Fletch is going to be busy, methinks.

SayItWithWookies June 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

Dammit — I might have to take her off the list for this. I hate it that she’s made this into a hypothetical crisis for me.

Ken Layne June 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

[re=608544]norbizness[/re]: A garage door opener’s remote with a weak battery could control Lara Logan’s brain waves.

DustBowlBlues June 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

[re=608513]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: I know it’s bullshit, but who is the daddy, anyway? For the love of all that is salacious, please tell me it’s McFourstargen.

Golfing OJ June 29, 2010 at 1:46 pm

Logan: “I HAVEN’T been given talking point orders from Auntie Limbaugh! I HAVEN’T!”

Glenn Beck: “We need to examine what ‘MLK Day’ really means!”

Jon Stewart: “Those funny G20 protesters in Toronto are so dumb and silly! Ha ha, if those funny silly anarchists were to somehow make a real Guy Fawkes splash, heh heh, I’d maybe sort of be out of a nightly comedy gig. Which kind of isn’t funny, heh… but, ha ha. Okay, anyway, back to yukking it up about the dead oily pelicans!”

Metallica: “Kill Em All.”

freakishlystrong June 29, 2010 at 1:47 pm

This is how sucky so called journalism has become. Someone actually journalises the shit out of something fer realz and the hacks come out of the woodwork to discredit him.

Fletch is our only hope.

DustBowlBlues June 29, 2010 at 1:47 pm

[re=608520]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: It is my belief that Matt is secretly jealous of this Hastings person and will not sleep until he is personally responsible for the indictment of at least one Goldman/Sachs exec. Think how impotent poor Taibi must feel.

Hooray For Anything June 29, 2010 at 1:50 pm

[re=608544]norbizness[/re]: That’s better than the original line she was supposed to say :“I love white people more than my own life”

Texan Bulldoggette June 29, 2010 at 1:51 pm

[re=608553]DustBowlBlues[/re]: When she wasn’t making sweet love with all the other journalists, I believe she got herself knocked up by a married military contractor. (Dude probably worked for Blackwater….)

Dashboard_Buddha June 29, 2010 at 1:55 pm

Speaking of Journalistic Negligence, I’d like to see that Journalist in a Negligee

Heyo! Thank you thank you…I’ll be here all week.

populucious June 29, 2010 at 1:57 pm

Lara Logan’s revisionist history:

Woodward & Bernstein: Some highly placed government source wants to meet us in an underground parking lot to give us damaging secrets? What a horrible traitorous tool. Let’s report him to the CIA and then go to that really nice reception the RNC is holding at the Watergate Hotel.

Neil Sheehan: Screw you Daniel Ellsburg, with your “papers”. I’m going to tell the Pentagon on you. As if the public needed to know something like this! It might cause them to lose respect for their military!

Emile Zola: I don’t care if you do have evidence that Esterhazy did this. Why would you even look for such information? The French people feel much safer knowing that Jew is behind bars.

Ah yes, what a much more pleasant world it would be.

RoscoePColtraine June 29, 2010 at 1:58 pm

A military commander, a journalist, and a whole lot of alcohol, all in the same room. Tragedy was inevitable.

Briguy June 29, 2010 at 1:58 pm

[re=608521]Prommie[/re]: Frank Burns eats worms

you didn't ask, but June 29, 2010 at 2:01 pm

She’s the point person for the villager people. I guess folks hoped nobody would “hit” the girl, but Matt had no compuncture about this as AnnieGet has demonstrated. She’s a sellout, playa hater like most of these corporate notetakers. (Good luck, Fletch! Do minimum-wage/interns get overtime?)

Fletch, in your spare time (kidding) correct me if I’m wrong: I honestly believe they’ve deluded themselves to think they’re hip and know the score, that’s why they do what they do (compromise/suck up). Some of them are just paid hacks (probably a few getting some of that Pentagon PR dough under the table) and when somebody who can actually get published pulls the curtains off their version of cocktail mingling, they’re all like “the emperor does too have clothes,Armani, according to my sources”. High school version sycophants as Matt said. And a side effect of J school professionalization that wasn’t in (as great an) effect in the 1970s when reporters were working class/broke-ish.

dex June 29, 2010 at 2:01 pm

the good life was so elusive/handouts, they got me down/i had to regain my confidence/so, i got into camouflage.

DustBowlBlues June 29, 2010 at 2:02 pm

[re=608559]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: This only works for me if she can verify that they were in a bunker with missiles going off over their heads, and thought it was the end of them both so, why not?

Otherwise, she’s as tawdry as her so-called journalistic ethics. “Getting asked back” might work for her ego, but those of us who would like to know what really is going on in this corrupt world just don’t care about how cool she feels. It reminds me of the little cuties who supposedly report financial news when all they’re doing is drinking on some executive’s expense account in exchange for doing reporting that is nothing but an infommercial.

FMA June 29, 2010 at 2:03 pm

Fletch? Is that you, John? John Cocktoston?

I guess Lara is OK. She’s no Campbell Brown, who some time ago was 60-feet tall.

you didn't ask, but June 29, 2010 at 2:04 pm

[re=608556]DustBowlBlues[/re]: You’re probably right. I wish this type of envy motivated a lot more reporters to step up their games instead of genuflecting to the status quo.

El Pinche June 29, 2010 at 2:06 pm

[re=608518]saggyboobedhag[/re]: DOH!! zingah!!

AnnieGetYourFun June 29, 2010 at 2:08 pm

[re=608556]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I don’t doubt it for a second. But at least he is powered by hungry greed and bile, and not just the desire to be with the “in” crowd.

I mean, I guess. To be fair, I’ve ignored absolutely everything Matt has said or done up until this point, including anything that Wonkette ever linked to. So I don’t really know anything about him at all other than that his name SOUNDS Araby, and so he’s probably a traitor.

KGalatro June 29, 2010 at 2:09 pm

What is ACORN up to now? Watch the video at http://www.ACUACORNAction.org to find out what ACORN has become. Track former leaders to ensure that we know when ACORN attempts to create new groups using fake names to continue their work.

user-of-owls June 29, 2010 at 2:09 pm

I fear the day when some commenter asks for the first time whether Anonymous Fletch has sweater puppies. That didn’t end well the last time.

ella June 29, 2010 at 2:12 pm

Murrow is spinning in his grave.

Texan Bulldoggette June 29, 2010 at 2:13 pm

[re=608577]KGalatro[/re]: Your post would make more sense if we were talking about, um… ACORN.

Tundra Grifter June 29, 2010 at 2:17 pm

[re=608514]Deelzebub[/re]: According to Wonkettte, the military contractors have a bit of teh gay…why would they be interested in a hottie like LL?

yellowdogdem June 29, 2010 at 2:18 pm

Laura Logan is “CBS’s chief foreign correspondent.” They must have chosen her from a group of reality TV rejects. She has the stoopids.

RoscoePColtraine June 29, 2010 at 2:19 pm

[re=608577]KGalatro[/re]: I always knew they were out there plotting some diabolical scheme to take back the levers of power in some suburban strip mall office space. Thank you for sharing your link to the filling station where we can all top of our tanks of batshit crazy.

JMP June 29, 2010 at 2:21 pm

[re=608529]Ken Layne[/re]: Anonymous? I thought Fletch was Chevy Chase.

[re=608577]KGalatro[/re]: How horrible, the idea that a group that did a lot of good work might try to create a new organization after being destroying by a wimpy congress after being the victims of a hit job by a confessed criminal. Oh, and that’s completely off-topic.

S.Luggo June 29, 2010 at 2:22 pm

Only someone who has never been in the military should be allowed to criticize someone who has nver been in the military. Profit!

I bet Lara’s a screamer.

Radiotherapy June 29, 2010 at 2:22 pm

Anything to do with Howie Kurtz is crap, so there should be little surprise here.

[re=608531]user-of-owls[/re]: Could be hookworms too!

AuntieLola June 29, 2010 at 2:24 pm

I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that she is criticizing a reporter for reporting what actually happened.

Nope, still not computing. Will keep you updated.

actor212 June 29, 2010 at 2:25 pm

Kurtz was afraid to confront Logan because he knew a Predator drone was shadowing her, awaiting her call for an airstrike.

steverino247 June 29, 2010 at 2:25 pm

[re=608548]bureaucrap[/re]: My guess is Yucca Valley. Maybe in a wooden shack way outside town with a shitload of orange extension cords duct taped together running from his place to the nearest power source. Lots of broken “empties” strewn around outside, left behind by Ken’s occasional alcohol-fueled “target practice” sessions. Inside, there’s an out-of-tune piano where he pounds out “The Old Rugged Cross” when the mood strikes him, which is often.

Wait, that’s my great-aunt Beechie’s place in Twentynine Palms. Sorry.

WickedWitch June 29, 2010 at 2:27 pm

[re=608529]Ken Layne[/re]: Shivers! It feels like the 1950′s when Hollywood types were blacklisted!

Golfing OJ June 29, 2010 at 2:29 pm

[re=608577]KGalatro[/re]: I refuse to respond to this obvious troll.

DemmeFatale June 29, 2010 at 2:30 pm

[re=608513]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Why the hate for Michael (Bad-Ass) Ware?

Come here a minute June 29, 2010 at 2:31 pm

Can I borrow Lara Logan’s towel? I just ran into a water buffalo.

RoscoePColtraine June 29, 2010 at 2:31 pm

[re=608555]freakishlystrong[/re]: Journalists, like many in the animal kingdom, prefer to be spoon fed. Many of them simply couldn’t survive in the wild anymore, not knowing where the next meal is coming from (if it’s coming at all!), literally having to rely upon their wits and cunning to make the kill. This Hastings dude literally turned on his trainer, and like …ate his arm off. Now they’ll probably be leery of the rest of the animals for awhile.

mustardman June 29, 2010 at 2:33 pm

I gotta take her side on this. She has probably spent a lot more time in warzones than the rolling stone reporter. Either way, I always find these media feuds amusing. Kind of like watching locusts eat each other for a change instead of the crops….so it’s all good.

Egregious June 29, 2010 at 2:38 pm

Huh. So let me get this straight…Hastings files numerouse news articles from combat zones, his fiancee is F’ing murdered in said combat zone, and yet Lara Logan discounts Hastings as a journalist by suggesting HE has not sacrificed enough.

Yes, yes indeed. Lara is right. The real heros of the fourth estate are those brave and honorable beltway journos that cream in their britches whenever they get squirted with water by the VP at his backyard cookout.

JMP June 29, 2010 at 2:40 pm

[re=608583]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Considering how it’s completely off-topic, and centers around their link, I suspect one of the trolls and one of the spambots got together recently and had a baby.

OhBoy June 29, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Hello flyboy, here are a couple of warheads for ya’!

Gorillionaire June 29, 2010 at 2:44 pm

[re=608622]mustardman[/re]: She’s just a skinny little blonde chick. Don’t get too attached.

Native of SL UT June 29, 2010 at 2:50 pm

Since Ms. Logan is suggesting that Journalists only report on things that they have actual real time experience in, Ms. Logan should limit herself to only reporting about how blowjobs can further your career.

Limeylizzie June 29, 2010 at 2:54 pm

Michael Ware obviously fucked her brains out.

Aurelio June 29, 2010 at 2:54 pm

I refuse to read a lecture on ethics from the Whore of Babylon.

Advocatus_Diaboli June 29, 2010 at 2:55 pm

great tits, Lara. the rest of you, well …
Don’t say anything if you can’t say something nice ….

DustBowlBlues June 29, 2010 at 2:55 pm

[re=608575]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: I should have added that I’m all for Matt T bringing down the wrath of justice on the head of a banker douche.

Neilist June 29, 2010 at 2:56 pm

[re=608622]mustardman[/re]: “She has probably spent a lot more time in warzones than the rolling stone reporter.”

/snark off

That Rolling Stone reporter’s fiance got blown up by an IED while working in Iraq for an NGO promoting democracy. And he’s got more than enough time in “warzones” to write up the stupidity that McCrystal and his flunkies were idiotic enough to mouth in his presence.

But I agree with you completely about the “media spin.” The so-called MSM has to turn this into a “media feud” to avoid having to address the really important parts of Hastings’ article, to wit:

1. We’re losing in Afghanistan, Big Time.

2. The COIN strategy that McCrystal and Petraeus sold is not working, and cannot work given the time, money and manpower constraints involved.

3. No conceivable strategy that has any probability of being accepted by the America politic can work.

4. Barry “Mr. Change We Can Believe In!” Obama waded into this quamire against competent advice to the contrary; in the face of history; and when he didn’t have to. Simply because Barry lacked the political guts, honesty and backbone do what he should have.

But glad to see you’re buying into the con, Mustardman. Restores my faith in “American Democracy.”

/snark on

Laura Logan: More military tread marks on her privates than on an Talibani run over by an M-1A1 Abrams!!!!

[Thank you! Thank you! My MOS was in "Military Humor." Or was it "Military Intelligence"? Hey, Thank you! I love doing these USO Tours into Wonkettistan! Hey, here the one about the lonely trooper and the camel?]

doxastic June 29, 2010 at 2:57 pm

My mind just collapsed under the sheer weight of possible “embedded reporter” jokes.

Limeylizzie June 29, 2010 at 2:58 pm

Stop with the hating of Michael Ware I ,for one , would love to bury his lede.

McDuff June 29, 2010 at 3:01 pm

[re=608523]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: Size Matters! (or so I’ve heard)

TGY June 29, 2010 at 3:06 pm

[re=608654]Neilist[/re]: Yeah. It’s as if idiocy is inheritable through the office of the president.

Maus June 29, 2010 at 3:10 pm

“Upset With Fellow Journalist’s Lack of Military Service”

Logan’s loves (to do) her country so much, she found a government contractor husband while over in Iraq. More journalists should do that so they could be less “biased”.

Chumpatized June 29, 2010 at 3:16 pm

I’d like to sign up for the class in journalistic ethics that Lara Logan took. Surely, something taught by Profs. Mary Hart and Jay Leno would guarantee an easy A.

GOPCrusher June 29, 2010 at 3:20 pm

“Cmon, you know you want to touch my smart bomb. Just right here, touch the tip.”

friendlyskies June 29, 2010 at 3:22 pm

Wow. Just wow. I always sort of liked her. That’s over. On the upside, I guess it’s good to know that Logan is in the PR business, rather than journalism. This actually provides a valuable historic record of the wars, in a way. We can go through her old reports, and they will let us know what didn’t happen. Once we eliminate all of the scenarios she describes, it may be easier to figure out what really took place.

Maus June 29, 2010 at 3:23 pm

[re=608622]mustardman[/re]: “I gotta take her side on this. She has probably spent a lot more time in warzones than the rolling stone reporter.”

False authorities are the best authorities.

norbizness June 29, 2010 at 3:25 pm

[re=608552]Ken Layne[/re]: And it only cost the Pentagon 1.2 million dollars.

Barrelhse June 29, 2010 at 3:32 pm

[re=608523]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: Or, possibly, “Do the batteries go here?”

sati demise June 29, 2010 at 3:36 pm

[re=608513]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: oh, I love Michael Ware even if he did have a lapse of judgement and sleep with this slutty neo con air head.

I am sure that is why he has PTS syndrome to this day.

sati demise June 29, 2010 at 3:37 pm

[re=608523]Dashboard_Buddha[/re]: like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
bombs away! splush

Barrelhse June 29, 2010 at 3:38 pm

[re=608544]norbizness[/re]: Smells like koint.

Autoo June 29, 2010 at 3:44 pm

[re=608695]Maus[/re]: And as another commented before me, she, Lara Logan, ostensibly a reporter, is bitching at a fellow reporter for reporting what actually happened.

My mind is fairly boggled.

sati demise June 29, 2010 at 3:48 pm

[re=608654]Neilist[/re]: golf clap, huzzah

masterdebater June 29, 2010 at 3:49 pm

OK, I asked this conservative chick that I know, and she says that if you blow a soldier, it’s considered serving your country. Sailors don’t count. She didn’t say why.

Geogre June 29, 2010 at 3:49 pm

[re=608654]Neilist[/re]: Wow, um… good for you.

Mother Jones has an article on “The Myth of COIN” as well.

I disagree about the foolishness of adding the “quagmire,” myself. I see Afghanistan as Somalia with money and travel links to the world: a hole in the earth where anyone and anything can be, can hide, and then can leave.

The “media feud” is just the fact that these turds were scooped, and their sycophancy is on display. Ticks always bite harder when you’re removing them.

snideinplainsight June 29, 2010 at 3:56 pm

Four stars = ??? whore diamonds?

Capitol Hillbilly June 29, 2010 at 4:42 pm

I used to have a thing for Lara, but then she had to go and open her big mouth.

Maus June 29, 2010 at 4:44 pm

[re=608736]Autoo[/re]: Hahahaha. Even if it happened, and you were there, if you don’t report what happens in the US Military through the framework of a US Military agent, you’re “biased”!

El Pinche June 29, 2010 at 5:01 pm

[re=608596]JMP[/re]: 7

weejee June 29, 2010 at 5:02 pm

[re=608654]Neilist[/re]: Pull no punches when doing a smackdown. Did love your play with Abrams, considering ol’ Abe was the one who switched from the WWII-based “we had to destroy the village to save it” to the more COINesgue Vietnamization and COORDS PRU “commanders” became “advisors.” Black, white, gray, spookie, spookie.

sati demise June 29, 2010 at 5:41 pm

[re=608769]snideinplainsight[/re]: Exactly!

when was the last time anyone got maximum whore diamonds?
Do we have a winner!

StanTheComedyMan! June 29, 2010 at 5:46 pm

[re=608849]weejee[/re]: Neilist IS Comedy. Almost as funny as the Obama Administration’s “foreign policy”!!!!

Thank you! Thank you! “Extend your tour” and stay for the second show would you? We’ll stop-loss the same jokes, but with twice the casualities!!

Buttery1000 June 29, 2010 at 5:58 pm

These days, the line between general and journalist are blurrier than ever.

Zadig June 29, 2010 at 6:20 pm

[re=608654]Neilist[/re]: The whole “Obama keeping us there” is just the weirdest fucking thing in the universe for me. He knows we’re fucked, we know we’re fucked, nobody in America is going to put “victory” and “Afghanistan” together in a sentence, unless it’s a sentence about how nobody says “Afghanistan” and “victory” together.

Why stay? In order for the “no spine” argument to work, there would actually need to be some fucking pressure on him for him to keep us there. There just fucking isn’t, at least not out in the open. The guy who announces that he has magically teleported all US citizens home from Afghanstan today, with his mind powers, would get free head for the rest of his life.

I’m just so confused, about this thing.

Long Form Def Certificate June 29, 2010 at 6:45 pm

It’s journalism such as Lara’s that has kept the Israeli-Afrikaner nuclear collaboration an open secret.

& even more, the fact that S.A. discontinued its offensive nuclear programme when they realized the coming turn to black-rule, & not wanting any darkness to have the bomb.

Oh, happy days.

Neilist June 29, 2010 at 7:23 pm

[re=608932]Zadig[/re]: “I’m just so confused, about this thing.”

You must be confused if you’re trying to have a rational discussion with that ASSHOLE Neilist.

Or insane. Same thing, really. (Although the meds are better. Nurse! Oh, Nurse!)

/snark off

The history of US “military adventures” is that, for each American life lost and tax dollar spent, it gets harder and harder to leave because of the adverse domestic political consequences.

When the US finally got into World War I, and told the French High Command that, in the short term, the US Army could only deploy about one soldier to France, Marshal Foch (I think) responded with something like “That’s okay. Send the one, and we’ll do our best to get him killed.”

[Although he said it in French. Or as Stan The Comedy Man McCrystal would say, "Fag language."]

Also, Obama is a Centerist — and thus, by definition, gutless. What has he done since elected that was “radical” or even remotely “leftist”? The Wall Street Bailout? Caved. Health Care? Caved. Afghanistan? Caved.

Petraeus, Gates, et al. have already backed away from Obama’s commitment to withdraw SIGNIFICANT numbers of US troops by July of next year. There has been no “slapdown”; instead, Petraeus was reverse-promoted back to command.

Wanna bet what Barack “Spelunker” OBama does come next July?

/snark on.

Coming Soon on K-Tel Records! Barry O! does Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Greatest Hits!:

“Sixteen months, whatdaya get?
30 K committed to Risk of Death!
Oh Barry don’t ya call me ’cause I won’t go,
Your “Feets of Clay” is beginning to show!”

[Okay, I concede. That was one of my lamer efforts. Which is really saying something.]

RANGERS LEAD THE WAY! HEY!

StanTheComedyMan! June 29, 2010 at 7:30 pm

[re=608961]Neilist[/re]: Neilist, you ASSHOLE! I’ll handle the Official U.S. Army Humor in this website!

Hey, Wonkette Pinkos! What do you call 130,000 U.S. Troops in Afghanistan?

“A Good Start!”

:::Rimshot:::

Get it? Get it?

Gee. Tough crowd. I feel like “President” Karzai’s brother at a DEA convention!

:::Rimshot:::

These are the jokes, folks! Not everything is as funny as the phrase “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

:::Rimshot:::

Don’t worry, you’ll get that one after you leave. If you make it past the snipers and the IEDs!

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INCOMINGGGGGGGGG!!!!

problemwithcaring June 29, 2010 at 7:40 pm

[re=608932]Zadig[/re]: Yea, concur (with props to [re=608654]Neilist[/re]:). Why is he stuck on stupid? Is the Afghan war all that separates the Pentagon’s Industrial Complex from complete extinction? And, yes the poor people of Afghanistan would be fucked by an American withdrawal, but Uzbekistan (and 2/3rds of the rest for the impoverished and criminal globe) isn’t a democratic utopia and yet no declaration of war. Why Why Why keep fucking this chicken?

rmjag June 29, 2010 at 8:16 pm

[re=608583]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: he/she etc is just confusing what blackwater has done with Acorn .

rmjag June 29, 2010 at 8:28 pm

[re=608644]Native of SL UT[/re]: what little credit u give her ! only blowjobs u think ? u have deliberately ignored the hours and years she spent intensively ‘studying’ ass-licking , jockstrap-snuffling and many many MANY other ‘things’ shitwhereubeenallurlife ?

weejee June 29, 2010 at 8:36 pm

[re=608964]StanTheComedyMan![/re]: Good start? What you been smokin’?

A lot of folks “in the know” say that when fighting a guerrilla war you need something a 10:1 troop ratio (in your favor, natch) to be successful. If some of the Taliban numbers being tossed about are halfway accurate, then 130K would about meet that number.

Iffin’ you goes in the wayback machine to the Brits who were successful in Malaya, then may have had around a 29:1 ratio. The French lost in Algeria with about an 18:1 ratio. Both the French & the US lost in Vietnam with a little under a 2:1 ratio. Now of course, the Brits are the Brits, and the Frogs are the Frogs, and Vietnam was fought by baby booming hippies who were too stupid to dodge the draft like all the GOP chickenhawks & war wimps and they were all stoned out of their gourds on killer weed, hash, and heroin.

So good start? Maybe not so much unless you maybe want to add another 300K or do some serious dealing with a lot of tribal leaders, including a lot of Talibandeleros.

So Ali Ben Bullshit up there in thh hills, COME ON DOWN AND LET’S MAKE A DOPE DEAL!!!

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baba June 29, 2010 at 8:48 pm

…Someone should educate Lara Logan and other so called journalists about what role the news media play in informing society.If we have a general that is stupid enough to give an interview like that,he shouldn’t have the job in the first place.
Michael Hastings should be commended and praised by his fellow journalists for actually doing his job instead of hob nobbing with power while claiming you are societies watchdog.

J June 29, 2010 at 10:23 pm

Did you know she used to be hostess at a restaurant in Manhattan? True. So, ya know, she’s served her country too. Well, not her country. But her adopted country. Well, at least its hungry.

StanTheComedyMan! June 29, 2010 at 10:44 pm

[re=608988]weejee[/re]: Wee, let’s tour together! First the Catskills; then some of the seedier bars right across the Sin River from Subic (the ones with those FABULOUS South Korean rock bands!); then the Corner Lounge at the Marriott Hotel in Beruit. (If they rebuilt it, I mean.)

Hey, I was driving through the camp of the Korean Airborne south of Seoul! The place was absolutely flat! But there were all these signs: “Watch for Falling ROKS!”

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Jokes, folks. These are the JOKES. You know, like my CAREER?!?

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[re=608968]problemwithcaring[/re]: Neilist is an ASSHOLE untrained in the Art of Humor.

Stalkin' June 29, 2010 at 11:56 pm

60 minutes? –I doubt it flyboy.

norbizness June 30, 2010 at 12:05 am

Good God, it’s like Dueling Comedy Wastelands up in here.

zhubajie June 30, 2010 at 12:12 am

[re=608513]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Has she slept with any generals?

zhubajie June 30, 2010 at 12:16 am

[re=608559]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: She shoulda stuck with butt-secks.

zhubajie June 30, 2010 at 1:20 am

[re=608553]DustBowlBlues[/re]: No probably it was some PFC who snuck the condom off when she wasn’t paying attention.

Mr Blifil June 30, 2010 at 7:38 am

Now I’m pissed at Lara Logan for indirectly causing a minor rehabilitation of Neilist’s cred. That’s ok, he’ll say something stupid about guns and then everyone will be all “ban that ASSHOLE” once more.

norbizness June 30, 2010 at 9:07 am

[re=609090]Mr Blifil[/re]: Brevity is the soul of wit; that and not yielding to the natural temptation to signal when one’s snark has been activated.

thefrontpage June 30, 2010 at 9:45 am

Logan’s Runs!!!

Logan’s Runs!!!

Lara Logan is over-rated as a reporter.

But she’s pretty hot. Just ask her friends in Afghanistan and Iraq.

crapshooter102 June 30, 2010 at 9:50 am

I am a little late on this, everything about Lara Logan sucks. Only a Lara can go to war, fire no shots and allegedly get hosed by half the Brass and Reporters. How many Male Reporters can turn that little trick? And oh by the way, Is she a citizen yet, if not lay off the Aussies. Seriously folks, this is the New Journalism. Go find the highest ranking Officer, talk to him and write what he tells you. I thought they use to call these Puff Pieces and the MSM should get a Nobel Prize in this category. If CBS News doesn’t fire this reporter, I will be Pissed.

Neilist June 30, 2010 at 1:30 pm

[re=609090]Mr Blifil[/re]: Guns Is FUN!!!!!!!!

[Don't worry, Blif. It is IMPOSSIBLE to "rehabilitate" Neilist's "cred." I had none to begin with.

[Or "with which to begin," if you're from Harvard.]

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