Cavett
"You must be this tall to ride."
Posted on 04/13/2008 2:30:17 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
There’s something about General Petraeus that brings out the most quotable in liberals. Most recently it was LA Times wine critic Matthew DeBord who must have been auditioning for a fashion column as he critiqued Petraeus’s uniform and, especially, his many tacky, tacky medals awarded for service to his country. Righteous indignation about that from Uncle Jimbo, hilarious sarcasm at Iowahawk. Take your pick.
That was yesterday. Today it’s talk show host Dick Cavett, who I’m glad to learn is still alive, getting all hot and bothered about General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker in the New York Times.
Petraeus commits a different assault on the listener. And on the language. In addition to his own pedantic delivery, there is his turgid vocabulary. It reminds you of Copspeak, a language spoken nowhere on earth except by cops and firemen when talking to “Eyewitness News.” Its rule: never use a short word where a longer one will do. It must be meant to convey some misguided sense of “learnedness” and “scholasticism” — possibly even that dread thing, “intellectualism” — to their talk. Sorry, I mean their “articulation.”
Yes indeedy, Dick, where does this Petraeus fellow get off pretending like he’s some sort of intellectual? Poor clod only has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Princeton University.
But clever Dick can’t resist the lure of those bright, shiny medals:
I can’t look at Petraeus — his uniform ornamented like a Christmas tree with honors, medals and ribbons — without thinking of the great Mort Sahl at the peak of his brilliance. He talked about meeting General Westmoreland in the Vietnam days. Mort, in a virtuoso display of his uncanny detailed knowledge — and memory — of such things, recited the lengthy list (”Distinguished Service Medal, Croix de Guerre with Chevron, Bronze Star, Pacific Campaign” and on and on), naming each of the half-acre of decorations, medals, ornaments, campaign ribbons and other fripperies festooning the general’s sternum in gaudy display. Finishing the detailed list, Mort observed, “Very impressive!” Adding, “If you’re twelve.”
But if you’re a grown-up New York Times reader, if you move in the elite circles that Dick does, then valor, patriotism, and service to your country are just a clever punchline.
Baldilocks zeroes in the artillery:
When you’re soon in that rest home, Mr. Cavett, you can spend your remaining days thinking about how you have wasted your life; something which better men than yourself–like General Petraeus and General Westmoreland (RIP)—will never have to do.
Ouch. But it’s true. Dick Cavett has led, by most measures, a successful life, and yet in spite of his success he’s now shown himself to be a petty, envious, and ungrateful little man.
Perhaps the saddest part is that all this effete sniping represents an improvement in the tone as compared with the last time the General testified before Congress.
Do either one of you know how I can “ping” this to the specific attention of whichever individual(s) handle(s) any/all of the veteran-oriented lists hereabouts, please?
Ping!
Ping.
Libs would have been offended if Petraeus had shown up in BDUs, too.
In 1951, General MacArthur and President Truman met for a conference at Wake Island. Though not noted for a small ego, Mac met the presidential plane wearing only his usual khakis, not even a necktie.
Truman was offended, the press got wind of it (somehow), and Truman’s fellow liberals complained about the general not wearing full-dress for such an august occasion.
The episode was immortalized in the Hollywood movie starring Gregory Peck.
Chameleon-like, libs will adopt whatever position they need to discredit or disrespect fighting men. It is almost a law of nature.
Libs like Dick can never understand military service although they are willing to enjoy the benefits os someone elses. And they are threatened by the medals. If little dickie had ever won any awards he would probably carry them around too.
self-ping for later
Yo.
The world is so upside down...
It feels like we’re living in the twilight zone...
ping
You gotta see this one.
It never ceases to amaze me how childish and imbecillic media people can be sometimes.
“Libs like Dick”
Truer words were never spoken.
Legislators should have their own medals for things like earmarks, bribes, bedding interns, getting away with drowning your date, creative uses for FBI files, using IRS audits as weapons, etc.
I am shocked. I mean Dick Cavitt’s still alive. That’s a piece of trivia that might win you a free beer at the local pub.
Sadly, DICK is only saying what Dick Durbin, Nelson Rockafeller, Bill Clinton, Harry Ried, and the majority of Liberals think. At least he’s honest about his contempt of the military and doesn’t pretend to “support the troops” like most liberals.
LOL!
Female libs don’t.
"Cavett? Oh, sure. Little know fact: inventor of the cotton briefs 'panel' for men. Dead as a doornail."
Dick who?
Interesting isn’t it, our military system of rewards for
achievement consists of little bits of ribbon,
which reveal for anyone who understands them,
the extent of courage, bravery, and service.
Meanwhile, liberals have their own system
consisting of wine stains, smears of brie, empty platitudes,and Nobel “Peace” prizes which mean absolutely nothing.
Tet.
My thought exactly ... a name I haven't heard, or even thought of, in at least two decades.
It was agreed that no one would have anyone there to record the event, but an aide to President Truman, Denise Anderson, sat outside the conference room to record the conversation. Later the Truman administration used the conversation to try and discredit MacArthur.
After the meeting Truman and his entourage left, leaving MacArthur and his aide without transportation back to the airstrip.
They hitched a ride on the back of a civil aeronautics pickup, after failing to flag down a passing jeep.
Just ask Sir Elton John, with his slobbering this past week.
Thanks for pointing that out to the general public (and idiot lefties)
AFI 36-2903 pg. 18 Note 3. Center ribbons resting on (but not over) edge of pocket. Wear all ribbons and devices. See Figure 4.3 for arrangement of ribbons.
I realize this is an Air Force Instruction but, the Army instruction is similar in wording.
Yeah, and think of all the stand-tall guys who aren't.
Too bad Dickie couldn't see some "cool" decorations that he might like better than Petraeus's, but it seems this time around they've only been giving out Navy Crosses and MoH's posthumously, so he'd have to go to Arlington to see them.
Exceptionally well said!
Hey, Dick. Go bring me a Bronze Star from Afghanistan. Go find some Taliban and make strong battle against them, and then come show me your Bronze Star and tell me it's a "frippery", you annoying little Vegas lounge act. And take your borscht-belt buddy Mort with you. Tell him you'll let him open for you at The Sands. He'll be very happy.
LBJ wearing his lied, fake Silver Star that he put himself in for, and because he was an influential Congressman, got, from MacArthur.
YFK with one of his three purple hearts he demanded for a total of wounds you could get sliding into third base.
You're obviously not a conniseur of the fine operatic arts. He's the shrimp that talks in a whisper when hosting a radio program on opera on NPR.......ok, I know, you've got better things to do after midnight. :)
POS Ping.
Since they love to bring up Vietnam...
Television’s Vietnam, The Real Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjNIzcBLLlI
I always thouight that Cavett was a pompous ass. Now he has proven it to me once and for all.
Hey Dick, forget to take your meds??
Typical far-left, elitist moonbat.
A "Yale" grad, don't you know?
Oh, and his degree (the only one on record) is a "Bachelor's Degree in DRAMA.
Whoop-de-doo. I'm impressed Dicky
Of course for someone who has been suffering from clinical and manic depression depression since his freshman year at Yale, one has to wonder if his condition is not manifesting itself all over again in the form of "penis envy" for being confronted with a "real" American?
As Glen Beck is wont to remark, these A-Holes deriding someone like Patreus and his valor, makes blood shoot out of my eyes.
In my 8 years in the USAF (including 18 months in Nam) I was awarded 9 medals and I was/am as proud of my Expert Rifleman Ribbon as I am of my Bronze Star.
Of course for a Chicken Hawk and pseudo-intelectual, arm-chair General like Cavett and his ilk, he cannot even begin to appreciate the pride we who served take in having received such honors, for these words (honor, duty, country) are considered jingoistic and below their dignity and only applies to us "common" folk and peons who are considered foolish and ignorant for having served our country honorably.
;)
Of course, Dicky boy, never had a problem with his guest star on his show John "The Snake" Kerry and failed to even remark about his "fruit" salad, which when he testified before congress (above) his wearing his ribbons on fatigues was immoral, unethical AND ILLEGAL, but then, this fairry-haired-traiterous-rat-bastard, could do no wrong.
An island of Cavetts:
Petraeus graduated from West Point in 1974. He returned to the military academy in 1981. He earned the General George C. Marshall Award as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class of 1983 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He subsequently earned a MPA in 1985 and a Ph.D. in international relations in 1987 from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and later served as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the U.S. Military Academy. His doctoral dissertation, "The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam: A Study of Military Influence and the Use of Force in the Post-Vietnam Era," dealt with the influence of the Vietnam War on military thinking regarding the use of force.[20] He also completed a military fellowship at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in 1994–1995, although he was called away early to serve in Haiti.
From late 2005 through February 2007,[21] Petraeus served as commanding general of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) located there. As commander of CAC, Petraeus was responsible for oversight of the Command and General Staff College and seventeen other schools, centers, and training programs as well as for development of the Army’s doctrinal manuals, training the Army’s officers, and supervising the Army’s center for the collection and dissemination of lessons learned. During his time at CAC, Petraeus and Marine Lt. Gen.James N. Mattis jointly oversaw the writing of Field Manual 3-24 (on counter-insurgency), the body of which was written by a variety of field-grade Army officers and other experts.[22]
Cavett, you're a fool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus
He is one of those 'old celebrities' who wander the streets of Manhattan with their heads held high, trying to meet every passer-bys eye in desperate hope that someone will recognize them.
His is a pathetic existence.
I can predict that the leftists will smear Mr. McCain’s military service. They’ll try a swift-boat type propaganda campaign that will blow back with hurricane force and destroy the Stalinist party. They can’t help themselves. These tiny, wimpy purse-carrying worms will always try to cut down men taller than themselves.
As the few remaining natural habitats of The Fading American "Z"-List Celebrity all eventually fade away into the swirling mists of history -- Graumann's Chinese; The Brown Derby; lower corner left box on The Hollywood Squares -- these strange, fragile creatures, too, will watch helplessly as the candle of their final passing gutters and ebbs and (inevitably) fails altogether.
God willing, I mean. ;)
In the case of 5'6' Dick Cavett: that's virtually every male on the planet old enough to hear their own voices change. ;)
Never knew THAT about LBJ.Pretty low for a Texan.I’ve been hurt worse than Kerry while shoeing a horse.What frauds these little weasels are.
I imagine this little twit, in his school days, relished his job as hall monitor as an intoxicating way to have authority over others.
He probably avoided any sports, not only that he was inadequate, but because the thought of having to shower with all those boys was terrifying to him, his small little body exposed and open to ridicule.
He probably favored hanging out with the girls and gossiping because they were less threatening than the boy’s and he could easily regale them with his pseudo intellect.
He nothing more than a small effete little man who uses his dry sarcastic wit as a defense against his obvious insecurity.
Was that photo taken before he threw his medals over the fence?Oh,that’s right-he threw someone else’s medals over the fence.He framed his and put them on the wall of his Senate office.
This was news to me. I thought Dick Cavett had died and gone to hell.
[::Gets up. Walks towards window. Peers out into the Seattle night. Walks back towards computer. Sits down again.::]
Nope. Not here. ;)
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