Bad Burlesque At State
Classy:
A flip comment by a spokesman in the sunset days of a failed administration isn't worth getting too excited about. But this is the State Department, not Hardball. Is it too much to expect at least a facade of diplomacy and professionalism? In addition to the obvious background tension, there's also a very sensitive subject in Russia called the Kursk (and, more recently, the Nerpa). So yes, bring on the one-liners about the Russian navy. I wonder how long it would take Sean McCormack or Dana Perino to find a podium and a microphone if Sergei Lavrov or an underling started cracking jokes about the quality of protective armor on U.S. military vehicles in Iraq, the safety record of the Space Shuttle program, or the communication system used by cops and firefighters in New York City during emergencies.
A Russian warship will sail through the Panama Canal this week for the first time since World War II, the navy announced Wednesday, pushing ahead with a symbolic projection of Moscow's power in a traditional U.S. zone of influence. |
A flip comment by a spokesman in the sunset days of a failed administration isn't worth getting too excited about. But this is the State Department, not Hardball. Is it too much to expect at least a facade of diplomacy and professionalism? In addition to the obvious background tension, there's also a very sensitive subject in Russia called the Kursk (and, more recently, the Nerpa). So yes, bring on the one-liners about the Russian navy. I wonder how long it would take Sean McCormack or Dana Perino to find a podium and a microphone if Sergei Lavrov or an underling started cracking jokes about the quality of protective armor on U.S. military vehicles in Iraq, the safety record of the Space Shuttle program, or the communication system used by cops and firefighters in New York City during emergencies.
posted by The Cunning Realist at Thursday, December 04, 2008
10 Comments:
Oh, don't be so hard on them. If history has shown us anything, it's that humiliating a broken yet strong and nationalistic country is a good idea.
Hankest.
"Is it too much to expect at least a facade of diplomacy and professionalism?"
Yes, yes it is.
The adults show up in January, right?
Is it too much to expect at least a facade of diplomacy and professionalism?
In any proper banana republic, it is customary that El Jefe and his lackeys always maintain an aura of obliviousness.
-- sglover
I wonder how long it would take Sean McCormack or Dana Perino to find a podium and a microphone if Sergei Lavrov or an underling started cracking jokes about the quality of protective armor on U.S. military vehicles in Iraq, the safety record of the Space Shuttle program, or the communication system used by cops and firefighters in New York City during emergencies.
I know the nickname for Perino is either Dana Peroxide or Pig Missle(Don't ask!!) Anyone have one for McCormack?
Ok, Jimmy. I had to do it. I googled Pig Missile. The result was less salacious than I had hoped.
How the hell can the press secretary not know what the cuban missile crisis was?!? It makes my brain hurt! It seems I am the same age as Dana Perino. I was born after the Kennedy administration had come and gone. But I know what the Cuban missile crisis was! It's only, like, you know, one of the most important events in modern US history.
More and more I am amazed at what people do not know about history, civics, and whatever else. No wonder our public discourse is so stupid! So many people don't understand how our government is supposed to function, let alone how it actually functions. How can we have a working republic if people don't even know what happened 40 years ago?
Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion. But I really think Ray Zalinsky was right in "Tommy Boy". "What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public."
The US ship is adrift, with nobody at the helm, and no one at the rudder, for the next 45 days in a channel full of treacherous rocks.
We'll be all right. What could go wrong?
The thing you are saying is a big blunder.
Hey, there's a lot of helpful data here!
To my mind everyone must look at this.
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