Lacking Even the Ethics of a Journalist!
Petraeus PR chief Col. Steven Boylan (allegedly) has fun with Greenwald.* Greenwald gets snippy. The best part is when Boylan insults the lawyer** by telling him he’s no journalist. Ha! That’s like insulting a garbageman by telling him he’s no sewer worker.
So, there is your third major error in fact. Good thing you are not a journalist. . . . You are not a journalist nor do you have any journalistic ethical standards as we found out from the last time I engaged with you.
Greenwald answers Boylan point by point, rather windily. I’m sure he redeems himself, though I’m not sure how, after that. ***
* Allegedly, because we only have the sockpuppet’s word for it, and he may consider it suitably self-promotional to depict himself as the target of military reproach.
** For exhaustive information on Greenwald’s education, career highlights, assorted begats, check the embarrassingly detailed bio at his site. Also, enjoy the drawing of Greenwald, which does a remarkable job of capturing his inner wienie.
*** Disclosure: I try to make a point of not reading as much Greenwald as possible, and succeeded in maintaining my usual high standards with regard to this post.
(Sheesh. This is the problem with posting on a Greenwald post. It requires more background than whatever was originally entertaining. It’s … it’s like a Greenwald post.)
Patterico’s got your irony and your sockpuppet scholarship.
Protein Wisdom’s got your … protein wisdom: “It it weren’t so absurd, it would be positively absurdist.”
Crittenden just can’t stop poking it with a stick. UPDATE MCMLXVII.
Welcome Punditeers, etal. Special shout out to all the Balloonists! Must be a lefterly wind blowing. Stick around, you might learn something. Useless is as useless does. Hey, what about the time Bush didn’t lie, people didn’t die? I dunno about that. But apparently when Truman lied, aliens died. Ouch, war crimes smackdown. All this ointment, no fly? Oh, here it is.
Topics: Iraq, military, moronocy
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:45 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2007
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October 28th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
A pathetic, one-man circle-jerk. Or two, in the event his sockpuppet is involved.
Has he posted Update XXXIV yet?
October 28th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
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October 28th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
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October 28th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
When I read this story earlier today, it had all the earmarkings of a non-story. Then, as I read the comments on the post and elsewhere, it now has all the earmarkings of a phony story.
The in-depth “analysis” is typical of a disinformation ploy.
I made a coupled posts on it and even took screen shots of the original post…just in case.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Greeny Waldo of ‘Loon SPANKED…Angwy IT Is
Is this another phony story about another phony scandal?Catch the pathetic wave here
October 28th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Greenwald is a complete tool. I find it hilarious that he considers himself a “journalist”. The guy is a complete gas bag and a fool to boot. “Balloon Juice” seems to have developed a stutter, which is a diagnostic of Bush Derangement Syndrome. He should have a professional psychologist do a complete work up on him.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Balloon Juice is a fine one to complain. John Cole is a snark artist who supported the war when it was popular only to devolve into a bitter lib. Greenwald ain’t worth my time or yours, JC.
October 28th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Greenwald is one stupid son of a bitch. I don’t know why you, JC, or anybody, bothers with him.
October 28th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
IT keeps updating to get out of ITS own initial self-induced quagmire of journalspasm.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:53 am
Balloon Juice coming to Greenwald’s defense … talk about being known by the company you keep. Yuck.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:08 am
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October 29th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Greenwald answers Boylan point by point, rather windily. I’m sure he redeems himself, though I’m not sure how, after that. ***
Yah, it’s called using facts. I guess you’re not too familiar with the practice in these parts. John Cole said you were having a meltdown and I guess he was right. Maybe you need to concentrate harder on what Glenn’s doing. We call it the reality based community.
October 29th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Ah, facts, Delia? COL Boylan sent an e-mail to Greenwald, knowing full well that it could be published. The good colonel offers many opinions, and points out why certain decisions were made, but there aren’t many facts to discuss.
For example, GG states “Col. Boylan does not deny the central point of my post, because he cannot“. GG’s conclusion is an assertion based on conjecture, because COL Boylan doesn’t discuss the matter at all, so GG has no idea what COL Boylan thinks.
COL Boylan does offer the fact that the documents were “…not secret or classified…“, so their release, while unauthorized, is hardly a crime (I’ve personally seen worse flubs). And that’s it. GG has no basis for declaring that Boylan can’t deny GG’s assertion.
And so on, throughout the mind numbing post.
(Like you, Jules, I prefer not to read GG……..translating Sanskrit is simple by comparison.)
Me, I think that Glenn is mad because COL Boylan told GG what he did not want to hear. COL Boylan knew that anything he said would be misrepresented, thus the e-mail spanking the Sockpuppet Master for being the worthless and dishonest hack that is Greenwald.
COL Boylan did a fine job. I can only hope that GEN Patreaus give him an impact award for that missive. Or maybe a 3 day pass to Qatar for cold beer and a warm bed.
October 29th, 2007 at 3:10 am
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October 29th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Oh, god, now he’s not even sure if the email is really from Col. Boylan. So he emails the colnel. And he denies sending it. But then some people say they’re not really sure that’s a denial. So Greenwald emails again asking if the denial is really a denial. No response.
Greenwald, YHBT. YHL. HAND.
October 29th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Irony Of The Day
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October 29th, 2007 at 7:27 am
First time I’ve read GG.
Last time.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Then promptly denied doing it. Fabulous, a Colonel in the US Army.
Sock Puppet! Sock Puppet!
Back under my bed now.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:51 am
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October 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Then promptly denied doing it. Fabulous, a Colonel in the US Army.
I think we can safely take the “Fake But Accurate” strategy here.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Fool of an Infidel!
Why do you delve into the Vast Unclaimed Territory known as the mind of Greenwald?
October 29th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
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October 30th, 2007 at 2:41 am
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October 30th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Man, what gives here? Do you all just spend all your time muttering the same stop-think crap to each other all day long?
Reading Greenwald, or anyone who uses actual ARGUMENTS may seem hard after what your used to being fed by the ‘gummint’ but it does have it’s rewards. For instance, based on my own experience attached to the staff of a general when I was in the army(funny how so many of us who hate the mess we’re in actually served, don’t you think?), it’s hard to conceive Petreus actually wanting his PAO to spend his time on such petty rants.
There’s simply no pay-off for it. If Greenwald were as insignificant as Boylan asserts, why engage with him? And if Greenwald’s writing matters, why let someone provoke him with such a woefully inadequate diatribe? Where’s the payoff for the general? And believe me, the Gen. had better think there’s a payoff for him or there’ll be the devil to pay!
Further, what’s this schoolyard crap about “I didn’t write it! But I won’t tell you what I’m gonna do!” In my experience, and it’s pretty extensive, military men are usually characterized by how polite they are, and not by how much they resemble the Colonel in “Harold and Maude”. This could almost be a parody of what Gen. P’s public affairs officer would write. I’d think that if someone posted falsely under Boylan’s name, he’d be grateful for the alert. He seems rather unconcerned, don’t you think? Which leads to the suspicion that not only does Petreus have a ranting madman for a PAO, he has one who’s a liar as well.
I don’t think we’ll have to wait long before the army finds something else for Boylan to do with his time.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Man, what gives here? Do you all just spend all your time muttering the same stop-think crap to each other all day long?
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