Posted on 01/12/2024 3:03:10 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Move over, Algore. There's a new King of Sighs in town, and his name is David Ignatius, columnist of The Washington Post.
Gore famously put a dent in his presidential ambitions when he sighed his way through his first debate with George W. Bush in 2000.
Those were sighs of disgust, as compared to the sighs of despair Ignatius unleashed on today's Morning Joe.
For days, the show had blacked out the scandal surrounding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's lengthy failure to inform the White House of his hospitalization and his cancer diagnosis.
But Morning Joe could no longer avoid the story when on today's show, Sam Stein raised it in the context of asking whether Austin's situation had delayed the administration's decision to strike the Houthis in retaliation for their attacks on commercial shipping.
You might have expected Joe Scarborough to play defense for the Biden administration on the matter. But instead, a skeptical Scarborough asked Ignatius how Austin survives this, and whether any other Secretary of Defense would keep his job in such circumstances. Declared Scarborough: Austin "went AWOL." Ouch!
A stumbling Ignatius, playing defense for Austin, unleashed multiple sighs in response. He asserted that Austin's failures were not a "capital crime" [i.e. a firing offense].
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Washington Post editor circles the waggons round Llyod Austin. But surprisingly skeptical Scarborough suggests he should be fired.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
When David Ignatius sighs, or effectively says “so what”, that is a three letter agency which Truman regretted creating saying it/sighing.
Austin has been a Cancer on the DoD.
One wonders - will we ever see Austin again?
Or like the Soviet Politburo-style Democrat-Marxist DC upper echelons have become, will we all be kept wondering, until suddenly his death is announced six weeks from now?
Austin is an AA HIRE!
I’m guessing the way the deep state seduces journalists to their side is by letting them know ‘the truth’ and that only they are ‘adult’ enough to handle it - then they’re hooked. For example let’s say (hypothetically) that Austin was killed in Ukraine and the hospital story is a cover for the fact Austin was not suppose to be in Ukraine. And that David Ignatius knows - but can’t give a hint... Of course it’s more likely Ignatius woke up on the wrong side of the bed... and he’s just in a bad mood.
Fake News aside, I remember back in my Navy days when we learned that the Secretary Defense is an administrative job and so that position is not in the “chain of command” fore combat decisions.
That's comforting...
For all intents and purposes Lloyd Austin should be removed immediately as Sec. of Def. in that he was AWOl. Oh sorry he is the magic color.
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