{"id":1043,"date":"2006-11-14T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/even-rummy-has-his-defenders\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T20:13:11","slug":"even-rummy-has-his-defenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/even-rummy-has-his-defenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Rummy Has His Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;although they are a strange and alarming bunch&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/kwiatkowski\/kwiatkowski123.html\">Douglas Feith,<\/a> widely derided as one of the key reasons that Iraq descended into the Pit of Hell &#8230; a neocon Defender of the Faith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2005_07\/006727.php\">venal and small-minded enough<\/a> that Gen. Tommy Franks called him <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2100899\/\">&#8220;the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Feith is banging the drum for dear departed Rummy, saying that if we only <i><b>understood <\/b><\/i>Rummy, the scales would fall from our eyes, and the full glory would just suffuse us like <a href=\"http:\/\/bluecrabboulevard.com\/2006\/11\/12\/everything-you-know-is-wrong\/\">God&#8217;s love. Viz:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font color=\"#ff0000\">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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t suppress the bad news; rather, change your preconceptions and theories.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To quote <a href=\"www.movies.westumulka.com\/darkman\/\">Darkman:<\/a> Oh, you gotta be shittin&#8217; me. <\/p>\n<p>If there is one constant of the Bush administration, it has been their commitment to denial.&nbsp; No mistakes were made.&nbsp; Things are going fine.&nbsp; Free people do bad things.&nbsp; The insurgency is in its last throes.&nbsp; Move along. Nothing to see here.&nbsp; Hey &#8211; the world changed on 9\/11.&nbsp; Code Orange.&nbsp; Be afraid.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When all four branches of the armed services combined to call for Rumsfeld&#8217;s ouster, however, the jig was up.&nbsp; The Repub\/neocon totem object of worship is anyone in the uniform of the armed services (well, as long as they don&#8217;t speak out against the war or anyone in authority, that is).&nbsp; If the military were to turn outright and openly against the Bushies (as is apparently happening, as many soldiers are starting to wake up to the conclusion that they and their friends are all dying for a hatful of hollow), then the Repubs and neocons would experience a total psychological breakdown.&nbsp; Up would be down, right would be wrong, and the whole political philosophy would &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>would &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Would actually begin to resemble the surrealistic neo-zen exchanges of a Rumsfeld press conference. <\/p>\n<p>And I just had to grab this last comment on the story from Sadly, No &#8211; this is hilarious. And disturbing. Disturbingly hilarious? Hilariously disturbing? Someone has been dwelling too long on the utterances of Rumsfeld, and I believe it hath made them mad&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><i>Rumsfeld is a bundle of paradoxes, like a fascinating character in a work of epic literature.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Rumsfeld is a pile of dirty clothes, the ones that you think might<br \/>\nbe clean enough to wear around the house, but not out on a date. And<br \/>\nthen you have to go to the store. Should you wear the<br \/>\nsuspiciously-smelling Rumsfeld? It is a fascinating mystery.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Rumsfeld is an apple strudel that someone has bitten into, and you<br \/>\ndon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know whether they decided to leave the rest because it was<br \/>\nunpleasant to taste, or they realized it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t their apple strudel in<br \/>\nthe first place.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Rumsfeld is an erect penis, existing percariously between relaxation<br \/>\nand ejaculation, easily coaxed into orgasm but ready to subside if<br \/>\nneglected. Do not use your mouth to further inflame Rumsfeld. He hates<br \/>\nthat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Rumsfeld is a stray booger that has landed on a work of great art.<br \/>\nOne cannot wipe him away without risking a streak on the canvas, so one<br \/>\nmust consider him to be part of the painting itself. He is multi-hued<br \/>\ngreen and will dry, in time. Be patient.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\">Rumsfeld is the midnight sun and the moon of the afternoon, a cancer<br \/>\ncell that may be a viable mutation, the breath of a newborn infant with<br \/>\ncolic. He is life itself, with the sting of death ever-resting in his<br \/>\ntail. He does not actually have a tail, however. He enjoys cheese, not<br \/>\nfor the purpose of consumption, but simply because it exists. It is<br \/>\ncheese, he is Donald Rumsfeld, all things have their proper place in<br \/>\nthe world. He is content. Do not call him \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rummy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. He will become<br \/>\ncranky.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/politics\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Rumsfeld\" rel=\"tag\">Rumsfeld<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Feith\" rel=\"tag\">Feith<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Iraq\" rel=\"tag\">Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/performancing.com\/firefox\">performancing firefox<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;although they are a strange and alarming bunch&#8230; Douglas Feith, widely derided as one of the key reasons that Iraq descended into the Pit of Hell &#8230; a neocon Defender of the Faith venal and small-minded enough that Gen. Tommy Franks called him &#8220;the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth.&#8221; Yeah, Feith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[363,847,353,370,354],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-current-affairs","tag-journalism","tag-politix","tag-webtech","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}