We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:47:01 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... Rush Limbaugh, kind of amusing, sometimes annoying, occasionally funny, but, honestly, not an appropriate debate topic for 24 hours or more in congress. These people literally must have nothing to do. They have certainly accomplished little over the last two years. Of course, they're after Limbaugh, not just because of the MoveOn mess, but because they... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:31:23 -0600 The term hiding under a rock comes to mind. Ah-HA! The ol' "I can ignore you until you grow tired of pestering me" tactic! ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65206 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65206 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:29:12 -0600 Well, I think congress should have stayed off of MoveOn add, too, believe it or not. The only reason it got traction and hurt the Dems is that it came out on the same day as the testimony and the little speeches the Dems were giving. Which made it seem like it was coordinated and that is why they got cornered into making a comment on it. Otherwise, I think that these messages should remain off the congressional floor. as if they didn't have anything better to do. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65205 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65205 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:24:28 -0600 Rule 1. No one is allowed to disagree with Dingy Harry and Move on. Rule 2. If Move on screws up with an ad .. scream about anything else. Rule 3. I enjoy the screaching. PS Denny Moore has not responded to either of the two letters I sent him asking if he condemned the Move on ad concerning the general. The term hiding under a rock comes to mind. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65201 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65201 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:32:41 -0600 I recall the 2005 "secret" test of the "secret" plan. First, NJ EmerOpCen issued a press release the week prior so people wouldn't panic, with followups on the day prior and the day of. On the day of, ERs from Newark to Cape May were jammed with people demanding "pneumonia shots" because the press releases only appeared in three newspapers -- two of which were in Trenton. The local Talk Radio stations kept reminding people it was only an exercise, but the station managers decided to do that as a public service after the first hundred panicky calls about "the germ bombs." Second, after a week of promising aviation support to augment the State Police and making phone calls to Fort Dix, Lakehurst, West Trenton and Picatinny Arsenal, the EOC discovered that they couldn't get any medevac support because 1. the 1159th AeroMed had been disbanded in January 2002, 2. the last UH-1V in the state had been sent to Ft. Drum in April 2003, and 3. the only UH-60 helicopters -- and crews -- in the NJARNG had been deployed to Iraq in November 2004. Iceberg, tip of the. On the positive side, the tranny folks who had been mobilized performed Above and Beyond -- until the fuel allocated for the exercise ran out... Lessons Learned: Sorry -- FOUO. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65199 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65199 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:37:21 -0600 Wow, that hydraulic rammer is a real pita when it's broken, isn't it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65197 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65197 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:22:40 -0600 I don't think the administration should say anything on the Rush thing, either. However, the point that I was trying to make (and obviously missed making) is: because the moon-bats have been constantly on the offensive in the propaganda sphere, it would only stand to reason that their attacks would become more visceral and less connected to logic as time goes on since there is seldom a counter-attack from the conservative establishment, including the White House. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65196 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65196 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:08:34 -0600 I don't think Bush should say anything at all. I'm not sure they hit any sort of psychology with the folks at home. Here, among the moonbats I know, they were like "whose Rush?". It got tuned out ASAP. So, we'll see. It was pretty obvious who he was talking about, but since most of the outside world does not know who Jesse macbeth was and a few other phonies, it is easy to misconstrue. Still, it's a good way for them to waste time, quietly pass spending bills, pass non-binding resolutions and do nothing that really changes the status quo. They don't get blamed for anything bad happening and people will forget soon enough that they were talking about "losing Iraq" since they stopped talking about it and the press has stopped talking about it. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65185 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65185 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:56:40 -0600 The whole Limbaugh brew-ha-ha is a text-book example of Reid & Co. attempting cognitive dissonance on a grand scale. The scary part is: I think they will succeed because they have laid the groundwork with their previous forays into the realm of social psychology (e.g. the war is already lost). The sad thing is instead of counter-attacking, the administration has played perfectly into their hands by refusing to engage in the info/propaganda war. I wonder what Ronnie would say about a White House that is so communicatively challenged… http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65184 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65184 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:49:01 -0600 Yesterday I watched/listened to the Blackwater hearings from my desk in work. Rep. Diane Watson (D)-CA, used nearly the entirity of her time to discuss Rush "Limbo" (I don't think her mispronunciation was intentional). Not that she would have had anything intelligent to say to or ask Mr. Prince, but it was silly. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65183 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65183 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:48:18 -0600 Best part is they unleashed the attack dogs from Vote Vets. I will not question their patriotism, but I will question their sanity. These dufuses were supporting Oberman's "George Bush had Tillman murdered for his political beliefs" conspiracy. Before that, I just thought they were a bunch of guys who wanted us to go kick some but in Afghanistan and get out of Iraq, which I could debate. After that sterling moment on MSNBC, I realized they were bat sh^t crazy. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65182 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65182 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:37:55 -0600 Yeah, Limbaugh can be annoying, and it's unbelievably absurd that Congressional "leaders" have wasted time and effort both condemning and lauding him on the floors of their respective chambers. But the incident is more disturbing for the serious political and cultural conflict it's a part of. It exposes a serious attempt by some on the Left to squelch commentary from the Right that exposes their hypocrasy and weaknesses on national security and support of the military, and their desire to suppress freedom of speech through the use of manufactured McCarthyite scandals. Absurd, but serious ..... and very dangerous. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65180 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65180 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:22:14 -0600 Did the Congress pass any meaningful legislation in the last session? Have they passed the upcoming years Defense Budget? They surely have better things to do with their time than "condemn, Rush Limbaugh" All that did was commit the known opinion from some on the left into the history books and the official record of Congress. As a tax payer that pisses me off! I pity the FOOLS!! Suckas are just trying to lay the ground work for next year to neutralize the right side of the governments certain political add/commercials over Move On... won't work but hey if Sen Reid and Boxer want to waste time on this fine, it means they are not earmarking... right... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65179 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/10/hi_fires_octobe_1.html#comment-65179 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:21:52 -0600