[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

A top Russian banker says Russia's payment methods should be a 'state secret' because the West keeps shutting them down so fast Viral Biden Brain Freeze During Debate Sparks Major Question: Who’s Really Running the Country? Disney Heiress, Other Major Dem Donors: Dump Biden LAWYER: 5 NEW Tricks Cops Are Using During DWI Stops 10 Signs That Global War Is Rapidly Approaching Horse Back At Library. This Video Needs To Be Seen By Every Cop In America 'It's time to give peace another chance': Thousands rally in Tel Aviv to end the war Biden's leaked bedtime request puts White House on damage control Smith: It's Damned Hard To Be Proud Of America Lefties losing it: Rita Panahi slams ‘deranged rant’ calling for assassination of Trump Stalin, The Red Terror | Full Documentary Russia, Soviet Union and The Cold War: Stalin's Legacy | Russia's Wars Ep.2 | Documentary Battle and Liberation: The End of World War II | Countdown to Surrender – The Last 100 Days | Ep. 4 Ethereum ETFs In 'Window-Dressing' Stage, Approval Within Weeks; Galaxy Americans Are More Likely To Go To War With The Government Than Submit To The Draft Rudy Giuliani has just been disbarred in New York Israeli Generals Want Truce in Gaza, Joe Biden's felon son Hunter is joining White House meetings The only Democrat who could beat Trump Ukraine is too CORRUPT to join NATO, US says, in major blow to Zelensky and boost for Putin CNN Erin Burnett Admits Joe Biden knew the Debate questions.. Affirmative Action Suit Details How Law School Blackballed Accomplished White Men, Opted For Unqualified Black Women Russia warns Israel over Ukraine missiles Yemeni Houthis Vow USS Theodore Roosevelt 'Primary Target' Once it Enters Red Sea 3 Minutes Ago: Jim Rickards Shared Horrible WARNING Horse is back at library Crossdressing Luggage Snatcher and Ex-Biden Official Sam Brinton Gets Sweetheart Plea Deal Music The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home [featuring Pacman @ 0:49 - 0:57 in his natural habitat]

Neocon Nuttery
See other Neocon Nuttery Articles

Title: Just like most of us, Condi learns about major international news from the t.v. She is clueless.
Source: AMERICAblog
URL Source: http://www.americablog.com/2007/11/ ... -of-us-condi-learns-about.html
Published: Nov 28, 2007
Author: Joe Sudbay
Post Date: 2007-11-28 14:37:39 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 142
Comments: 4

Just like most of us, Condi learns about major international news from the t.v. She is clueless.

by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 11/28/2007 08:40:00 AM ET

Okay, I'll admit it. I often get my news from reading the crawl on the t.v. while I'm working out. But, I'm not the Secretary of State during major international crises, including a war I helped start. But, in fact, your Secretary of State also gets news about major world developments from the t.v. while she's working out. And, bad news does not interfere with her exercise regimen.

Just in case anyone still wonders why U.S. foreign policy is such a disaster, this passage in Maureen Dowd's column is illustrative:

In 2006, when Israel invaded Lebanon and many civilians died, including children, Condi and W. drew Arab and U.N. ire for not forcing Ehud Olmert to broker a cease-fire faster.

That same year, in another instance of spectacular willful ignorance, she was blindsided by the Hamas win in the Palestinian elections.

As she described it to Bumiller, she went upstairs at 5 a.m. the morning after the Palestinian elections in 2006 to the gym in her Watergate apartment to exercise on her elliptical machine. She saw the news crawl reporting the Hamas victory.

“I thought, ‘Well, that’s not right,’ ” she said. She kept exercising for awhile but finally got off the elliptical trainer and called the State Department. “I said, ‘What happened in the Palestinian elections?’ and they said, ‘Oh, Hamas won.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, my goodness! Hamas won?’ ”

When she couldn’t reach the State Department official on the ground in the Palestinian territories, she did what any loyal Bushie would do: She got back on the elliptical.

“I thought, might as well finish exercising,” Rice told Bumiller. “It’s going to be a really long day.” It was one of the few times she was prescient on the Middle East.

Wow.

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  

#1. To: All (#0)

From the Watergate to the State Department building is a five- to ten-minute walk.

I imagine Condi could jog it in two or three minutes.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-11-28   14:38:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Rice is window dressing as is the State department in general. Our foreign policy is not conducted through the state department at all. It is not transparent. State is little more than an intenational visa processing and American tourist aid organization. It does nothing of import. It decides nothing of import. Rice's job is dis-information. Whatever she does is just to make it look like the US is engaging in "diplomacy". It is fake. Whatever real diplomacy occurs - occurs behind the scenes through unofficial channels and different centers of power- "intelligence/DOD." Rice is powerless puffery. Of course she learned about that conflict watching TeeVee- no one bothers to include her in on the real stuff. DC knew that attack was coming well in advance.

The Daily Burkeman1

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-11-28   14:57:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

you know, I've noticed members of this administration make a lot of references to watching tv. bush actually almost implies that the war is a "tv thing", comments like "people get upset by what they see on their tv"...it's made me wonder, because it's done so often I think it must be some kind of a plan, but I can't figure it out. is it their idea of pretending to relate to regular people? or is it not sinister at all, and they're just tv watchers and figure everyone must be? I don't know, and I'd have to research, but it's just my opinion that they refer to tv watching a whole lot.

kiki  posted on  2007-11-28   22:43:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

ok, a quick 5 minute search yielded the following: (I knew I wasn't totally crazy)

"This remains a difficult and tense period in Iraq," McClellan said. "Oftentimes the progress that is being made doesn't get as much attention as the dramatic and horrific images of violence that people see on their TV screens.

``Obviously, much of the attitude for our citizens is being shaped by what they see on their TV screens from Iraq -- I know that,'' Bush, 57, said.

Bush Speech Makes Repeated Mention of Hard Work #3 But because Tommy Franks did such a great job in planning the operation, we moved rapidly, and a lot of the Baathists and Saddam loyalists laid down their arms and disappeared. I thought they would stay and fight, but they didn't. And now we're fighting them now. And it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. And I'm optimistic.

ITEM: “The march to war hurt the economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens - she calls me ‘George W.’”

We have a strategy to deal with al Qaeda in Iraq. But any time you say to a bunch of cold-blooded killers, success depends on no violence, all that does is hand them the opportunity to be successful. And it's hard. I know it's hard for the American people to turn on their TV screens and see the horrific violence. It speaks volumes about the American desire to protect lives of innocent people, America's deep concern about human rights and human dignity. It also speaks volumes about al Qaeda, that they're willing to take innocent life to achieve political objectives.

Thirdly, it sends the wrong signal to the enemy. It just says: "Wait them out. They're soft, they don't have the courage to complete the mission. All we got to do is continue to kill and get these images on the TV screens, and the Americans will leave." And all that will do is embolden these people.

kiki  posted on  2007-11-28   22:58:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]  [Register]