The Weekly Standard has a full accounting of the charge of “incompetence” by Senate “Leader” Harry Reid against Generals Pace and Petraeus.
Fortunately, Bob Geiger has produced what he claims is a verbatim quote of the senator’s original remarks:
“I guess the president, uh, he’s gotten rid of Pace because he could not get him confirmed here in the Senate… Pace is also a yes-man for the president and I told him to his face, I laid it out to him last time he came to see me, I told him what an incompetent man I thought he was.”
So, now it turns out that Reid did, in fact, call Pace “incompetent,” despite the denials of all the bloggers linked above, and Reid’s own non-denial denial. Not only that, Reid claimed that he called Pace a “yes-man” and “incompetent” to his face. He claimed he questioned the man’s competence AND his integrity. He might as well have slapped him across the face with a white glove! How could none of these bloggers have thought such a claim newsworthy? So which is worse: the unbelievably small chance that Reid did actually say those things to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or that he lied about doing so in a pander to lefty bloggers.
The lefty bloggers, for their part, have shown themselves to be totally inept. They failed to report the comments, then they denied Reid ever made them while making their own unsubstantiated allegations, and now they defend the comments as irrelevant–and without even the slightest doubt as to their validity. Which is worse?
Indeed, which is worse? The lefty bloggers have no sense of what is right, good or honest anymore. They hound an 18-year old mercilessly about his sexual preference…. but stage a blogosphere-wide cover-up to protect their inept Senate Democrat “Leader” Harry Reid. How Taliban-esque.
Oh, and Ian…. you’ll have to take off your Veil of Reid Apologism now.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Uh, Bruce, here’s what I said in the comment to which you linked:
Bruce, you were the one who claimed that Reid called Petraeus “incompetent” yet this is what The Weakly Standard has to say about that:
So what is your source for the quote about Petraeus?
As for the “blogosphere-wide cover-up,” it just so happens that the blogger who provided the actual Reid quote about Pace is Bob Geiger, a progressive blogger.
“They hound an 18-year old mercilessly about his sexual preference”
I read and hear ‘Sexual Preference’ often, at least daily. Being gay is no more of a preference than one using their left had to write rather than their right. It’s just the way it is.
Being gay is not a lifestyle nor a preference. You’ll never hear or read anywhere about the straight lifestyle or the straight preference. So, let’s just say gay and leave it at that without implying that it is a preference or a way of life.
#1 – And once again, Wonder Woman tries to spin her way out of another controversy.
Here are the facts – not as if they mean a hill of beans to you and your ilk:
1. If Reid truly felt that Peter Pace was incompetent, his comments were still inappropriate. Insulting an authentic American hero who has dedicated his life to serving his country merely for a political applause line is beyond contemptible.
2. Dingy Harry Reid is anything but a stupid politician. He knows this kind of thing is beyond the pale – which makes his comments even more disturbing. In so eagerly joining the ranks of propagandists for whom facts are meaningless and political advantage the sole coin of the realm, Reid has unwittingly tilted his hand.
3. What’s amazing and sad is that in such consequential times, a lightweight like Dingy Harry is making an impact. He may well be remembered as the most contemptible and least honest public servant to come down the pike in a generation.
After all, you can tell a man by the company he keeps.
Regards,
Peter H.
Oh, and if anyone honestly believes that Sen. Reid told Gen. Pace he was incompetent to the General’s face…. I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn for you.
Reid doesn’t have even half of that kind of spine.
I have to add that this is a first. In the 2+ years I have visited this site, I’ve never seen Bruce, Dan, Nick or John ever call out a commenter by name in a blog posting.
What an ignominious fate…
Regards,
Peter H.
Peter-
To keep the record straight…. I believe I did call out the strange animal known as “Ridor” at one point.
But that doesn’t detract from Ian’s long overdue slapdown.
But you can’t call John F.YOu Kerry or Murthammud incompetent. Interesting.
#6:
Uh, right Bruce. Except your suggestion that I claimed Reid had not called Pace incompetent is belied by the facts. Now, when are you going to provide a source for your claim that Reid called Petraeus “incompetent?” Hmm?
I trust the Politico’s reporting at this point much more than the Lefty Bloggers covering up for their “Leader”.
#5:
Ah, yes, “The Few, The Proud, The Called-Out-by-Name.” I’m delighted to be a member of that illustrious group.
With apologies to Artie Kane, here is a tribute to our dearly debunked lefty commentator:
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
All the right wing’s dissing you,
and the answers you possess.
In your satin tights,
Screaming for gay rights
Trampling ol’ Red, White and Blue.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
Now this Blog is watching for you,
and the spinning you can do.
Call a hawk a dove,
Confusing sex with love,
You’re a liar – tell the truth.
Wonder Woman,
Get on out from under, Wonder Woman.
All our hopes are pinned upon you.
To cease the talking points you spew.
Stop your rhetoric cold,
Because it’s getting old,
Change your mind, and change the world.
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
You’re a wonder, Wonder Woman.
Regards,
Peter H.
Oh, and here is the accompanying video. Happy Friday!
Regards,
Peter H.
#11: First, you fantasize about me with a “massive hard-on”, then you fantasize about me being a super hero, and now you’re composing poetic tributes to me? Yikes!
Well, as long we’re you-tubing, here’s how I imagine Massive Petie and his buds trip the light fantastic.
Fantasizing??!! In your dreams, WW. I swear, you have a bigger ego than one of the Clintons. It all has to be about you, doesn’t it?
Let me spell this out for you. You are merely a tool to be laughed at – which we all do, successfully.
So much for you trying to detract from Bruce’s ultimate smack-down of you today. But don’t worry – we won’t let you forget it.
And speaking of You Tube, is this really you?
You’re a wonder, Wonder Woman.
Regards,
Peter H.
So what? If you polled most Americans and asked them about the military leadership in regard to the War In Iraq, I’m sure incompetent would at least have a plurality. Why sugarcoat someone’s job performance in a time of war? That’s when the job performance is most important!
Chase, you are showing your ignorance again. Results are not achieved by “polling.” The point is that it is not for a partisan hack like Harry Reid to be name-calling and disparaging someone who has spent their professional life in the military.
Furthermore, it is obvious you have never read The Federalist Papers, especially #71:
“The republican principle… does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion, or to every transient impulse…”
In other words (and to bring this down to your level), polling doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
Regards,
Peter H.
The point is that it is not for a partisan hack like Harry Reid to be name-calling and disparaging someone who has spent their professional life in the military.
Yet the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a political appointee, nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Should our military leaders be immune from criticism of their job performance, solely because of the job they perform? Such sentiment has no benefit for the nation.
Also, while it’s true gov’t needn’t comply to every sudden breeze of passion, it still must adhere to our system of checks and balances. 8 months ago the American people elected the Senate that today would have opposed Gen. Pace’s renomination.
That, Peter, is not a sudden breeze of passion. It is the voice of the people, expressed through their elected representatives. Had the American people returned the Republicans to the majority in Congress last November, Gen. Pace would likely have been renominated.
Obviously you don’t agree with the Senate Majority Leader and if a majority of Americans hold that opinion, perhaps we’ll see a change in power again next year. That’s how our government works.
#14: OMFG, now you’re fantasizing about me in leather! Good lord, next you’ll be calling out my name during your monthly conjugal relations. Have fun explaining that to your hubby. LOL!
#15
But just a not long ago, we were told over and over again how Kerry and Murthammud can’t be criticised because they served in the military. Why don’t you just come out and say that anybody that doesn’t agree with the Defeatocrats is incompetent and worthy of criticism?
Also, this shows your support for the military how????
First, you fantasize about me with a “massive hard-on”, then you fantasize about me being a super hero, and now you’re composing poetic tributes to me? Yikes!
I would recommend that you not flatter yourself. If I’m not mistaken, and I know I am not, Peter is referring to you as a lying, Amazonian DYKE.
Further, I would dare say that Lynda Carter has a better chance with Pete than you do. Or, with all due respect to him, he has a better chance with Lynda Carter than you do with Pete.
Ian’s question is left unanswered:
“So what is your source for the quote about Petraeus?”
He may have criticized him but that is not the same as calling him incompetent. (Of course inconvenient facts like that never matter to the right)
And lets face it, part of the problem in Iraq is the fact that not enough people have critiqued the leadership of our men and women in the Armed forces.
This manufactured uproar the rightists blogs are in shows just how starved the righties are for any type of red meat.
Further:
#19 you just can’t call them traitors. you can attempt to criticize all you want.
Further Still:
To call this a “slapdown” is hi-larious, quite similar to “Mission Accomplished” doncha think?
Further, Further Still:
For Bruce to even request an apology over this when he still owes others one, is a little mind bending.
#21:
At this point, keogh, I don’t really expect it to be addressed. Neither of two conservative sources (The Politico and The Weakly Standard) claim that Reid called Petraeus incompetent so either Bruce has a separate source for his statement regarding
or he embellished – perhaps unintentionally – the story a bit
#20:
Gee, not just a conservative but a misogynist as well. What a surprise! I hope the women around here take note of what a prominent conservative commenter considers the ultimate insult to a gay man.
Poor TGC, why are you so afraid of women?
Hoo boy, Chase is making this way too easy for me. For starters:
“Yet the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a political appointee, nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.”
And Harry Reid voted FOR his confirmation. So why is he flip-flopping now?
“8 months ago the American people elected the Senate that today would have opposed Gen. Pace’s renomination.”
Yet they still passed military spending without the “required” withdrawal date so beloved of you libtards and nutroots. I doubt that they would have the balls to vote down another General Pace. Your argument is without merit.
“Had the American people returned the Republicans to the majority in Congress last November, Gen. Pace would likely have been renominated.”
More conjecture on your part. Frankly, I doubt that Reid and Byrd could must enough votes to block any other nomination of the President to the JCS. Again, argument without merit.
Match, set, game. You lose. We have nice parting gifts for you backstage.
Regards,
Peter H.
#21 – “To call this a “slapdown” is hi-larious, quite similar to “Mission Accomplished” doncha think?”
Actually, 401K, your appearance on this board is a continued source of hilarity. But I digress.
“This manufactured uproar the rightists blogs are in shows just how starved the righties are for any type of red meat.”
You’ve got to be kidding. Manufactured uproar? It seems to me that if this was not a manufactured uproar, Reid would be sticking by his guns and standing by his now-credited statements. But he didn’t, did he? No – he issued an apology a la Mike Nifong. Too bad he didn’t offer to resign, though.
Well, 401K, you win the contest. I waiting to see if you or sean or Chase or some other libtard was going to win the coveted title of “Wonder Girl” (the younger, brattier version of Wonder Woman), and it looks like you are IT.
So, Wonder Girl, here’s your tribute.
Regards,
Peter H.
Actually, this Wonder Girl clip is more suitable for both 401K and IgnoAndNaus.
Regards,
Peter H.
Peter, that’s awesome!
I was hoping to see a clip of the “ball of light” type of transformation. Even as a kid, I wasn’t convinced by the simple fade in / fade out transformation.
Hey Peter – At #25, that soldier isn’t Robert Hays (of the Airplane! franchise), is it?
#28 – It sure is. Very perceptive of you to notice him.
A lot of soon-to-be big stars appeared as either guest “villains” or “victims” on the Wonder Woman show. That same episode featured Christopher Norris of “Trapper John, MD” as a slinky 1940s starlet and Carolyn Jones (of “The Addams Family”) as Queen Hippolyta.
Regards,
Peter H.
He may have criticized him but that is not the same as calling him incompetent.
What is incompetent, however, is a chump with his ass parked in DC claiming that a general who’s actually in Iraq “isn’t in touch with what’s going on in Baghdad.”
That, is how you wind up with a 19% approval rating. Well that and not doing a damn thing your job requires. But why let that get in your way when you can enrich yourself with land deals and pump pork into your state?
And lets face it, part of the problem in Iraq is the fact that not enough people have critiqued the leadership of our men and women in the Armed forces.
That’s all the liberals have done the past few years, other than orgasming whenever they die. Seriously. You confirm a general to run the show and then 6 months later decide he sucks balls? How realistic is that? It’s funny how traitors like you are comfortable criticizing our soldiers, but nobody can criticize heroes like Kerry and Murthammud.
This manufactured uproar the rightists blogs are in shows just how starved the righties are for any type of red meat.
Red is your color, Komrade.
Gee, not just a conservative but a misogynist as well. What a surprise! I hope the women around here take note of what a prominent conservative commenter considers the ultimate insult to a gay man.
Poor TGC, why are you so afraid of women?
Holy crap, can you spin! I hope the women around here take note of what a mindless oxygen thief you are.
Poor Ian. Tell you what, I’ll wire you some cash so you can get that BJ you desperately need.
Seems fair to me because:
1. My question as to how you can pretend to give a damn about “torture” while at the same time, actively cheerlead for those actively engaged in it is still unanswered.
2. My question as to how Ian pretends to be a lawyer one day and a professor of global warmism another day, is still unanswered.
3. My question as to how surrendering to AQ and handing them Iraq as a replacement for Afghanistan will make us safer is still unanswered.
4. My question as to how raising taxes on the middle-class to record levels, stifling investment (foreign & domestic), cutting jobs and lowering wages will help us is still unanswered.
5. My question as to what the exit strategy is for the war on poverty is still unanswered. Not only that, but my question as to how many TRILLIONS of dollars the liberals have squandared on that war is still unanswered. While you’re at it, how many lives and families has that war destroyed?
6. My question as to why the DOJ “scandal” is a scandal is still unanswered.
7. My question as to how surrendering to AQ and handing over Iraq to them will make “our allies” like us again is still unanswered.
8. My question as to why the liberals have so far pandered to the internet kooks, the tort bar, big labor and now letting the enviro-ass clowns write our energy bill, but they can’t seem to do what they said they were elected to do is still unanswered.
9. My question as to how you make pork “transparent” by hiding it until the bills are already passed is still unanswered.
10. My question as to how anybody could support blatant Communists like Hillary and the funky bunch is still unanswered.
I could go on, but in short, you’ll forgive me if I couldn’t really give a sweet, royal damn if that arrogant, spinning snob’s question goes unanswered. I know you lack the testicular fortitude (those words big enough for you?) to answer mine, so why in the hell should I answer yours or his. Put that in your crack pipe and smoke it.
#32:
I have never pretended to be a lawyer (although I stayed in a Holiday Inn a few times.) This is just another example of the dishonesty that is so rampant on the right these days. From the little lies like those of ThatGayMisogynist up to the gross and deadly dishonesty that got us into the disastrous Iraqi occupation, it’s all part and parcel of how the right operates.
TGC, good one. Speaks for me.
Peter – I always thought RH was smokin’ hot. A couple of his Airplane! moments are to die for. But I didn’t get his Wonder Girl scene. If he’s a war hero, why does he need a girl to defend him from bullies? LOL. Still, I love how the ball-of-light transformation is accompanied by a thunderclap and moves through the colors: red, white and blue. 🙂
#33 – Ian, way to half-answer one out of 10 questions. Let’s see, on a test, your score would be 5%. In your Global Warmism indoctrinations – oops I mean “classes”, sorry – do you care about test scores? Just curious.
Peter – Sorry, accompanied by an explosion sound.
#34 – “If he’s a war hero, why does he need a girl to defend him from bullies?”
Simple. The plot line revolved around Hays as a corporal who got his citation from FDR because he was a “war hero” since he single-handedly captured some Nazi soldiers. What he tells Drusilla (Wonder Girl) is that the Nazis surrendered to him; he didn’t really “capture” them.
Both Dru and Diana (Wonder Woman) help him to get his self-esteem back by letting him capture some bad guys on his own. It’s a really good show – one of my faves of the entire series.
Regards,
Peter H.
Peter, one last tip o’ the martini glass for the transformation clips. Watched again – yup, still funny. 🙂 There’s something about Dru in the woods…. just the expression on her face, as she tries hard to think and get a clue… that perfectly captures Ian, keogh and all the lower casers!
ILC, actually, I would like to see Ian’s question answered as well. With all due respect, Bruce, your post title suggested that Ian denied what that Reid called Pace incompetent. In fact, Ian posted that Reid said that Pace was incompetent. And the article linked to made no mention of Petraeus. As for whether Reid should have said it, or if he is the devil incarnate, I’ll leave that up to you and Ian.
I have never pretended to be a lawyer
You did when you first got here. Back when you were talking about the Fatherland all the time.
(although I stayed in a Holiday Inn a few times.)
Obviously it didn’t help since the ad is for Holiday Inn EXPRESS.
I’ll make it easy for I Am Nescient and Keogh, The Walking Vagina,
Just answer #’s 1 & 3.
Should be simple enough, no? I mean if the other stuff throws you, just answer those two. Or even just # 3.
#40:
Never, ever happened. I have never pretended to be a lawyer. Period. I challenge you to prove otherwise. Neither did I claim to be a Professor although I have taught courses at a university.
#42 – “Neither did I claim to be a Professor although I have taught courses at a university.”
Oh, you mean like Crystal Mangum never claimed to be a “ho” although she did dance at a few parties in Durham, NC with pretty much every straight male’s DNA in her panties.
Wonder Woman spins on – again.
Regards,
Peter H.
I challenge you to prove otherwise.
I challenged you to answer the freakin’ questions first.