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serai.
My jaw is literally agape.
Classic internet wank played out on the Bush war administration front
Wow. I mean WOW. O_o
To see the kind of grade-school shenanigans that are common coin on Harry Potter boards employed by a fucking Colonel of the U.S. Army is just...*sigh* Well, it's just too beautiful to behold. Methinks I may go blind from the glory.
Hhhokay. So.
Glenn Greenwald, noted and notable left-wing gadfly blogger gets a very weird email from Colonel Steven Boylan, who is second to ol' Petraeus (sp?). Earlier this year, Glenn had exchanged a couple of emails with the Colonel when he sent to ask if he might get a convo with the big dude. He also asked why the only people to get any time with him were rabid right-wingnut types, and it looks like that irritated the Colonel. Hence the missive.
It's a thing to behold, truly. Do go and read it here. It is a long, peevish, whiny rant, reeking of the schoolyard bully, in which Boylan calls Glenn names, dares him to come to Iraq - "you won't cause you're scared nyahhnyahhnyahh!!" - impugns his manhood...oh, it's wonderful. And all in these strange loopy sentences that sound, frankly, like the guy is totally wasted. As many commenters at Glenn's blog note, it's easy to imagine him sitting at his computer with a half-drunk bottle of Jack Daniels on the desk, hitting SEND with a last chuckle before he falls face forward onto his keyboard.
But it doesn't stop there. Oh no. This is the BUSH administration. You didn't think the batshit would end there, did you?
After copious head-scratching and back-and-forth about email headers and IP addresses on the comments forum, Glenn decides to try and verify the email. He sends to the colonel, attaching what he received, and asks him if he wrote it.
Class?
That's right. He denies he ever wrote it, and calls it "interesting". He seems oddly unconcerned that someone is faking emails from him to the media using his email address, correspondence structure and signature. (The clincher is the writing style, with which we're familiar because Glenn has been posting the emails all along. It's, shall we say, original.) But the colonel is surprisingly calm. Why's that?
Wait for it...
Because somebody has OMG HACKED into his identity before and, like, tried to rent under his name and stuff. But they totally don't know who they're dealing with, so yeah whatever. He'll deal with it. And it's none of your business how, n00b. And he's not talking to you anymore, KTHXBI. *flounces out*
It's been fun in a bitter, Carlinesque to watch the Bush administration slowly eviscerating itself, and I'd laugh a hell of a lot more if we weren't all caught in their backwash. But this...this is a little bit of heaven.
Please spread these links around, and let people know what's going on here. This kind of thing really should be shared; it may be the beginning of something much bigger. Fuckups of this royal calabre don't come along every day, so let's make sure everybody has a chance to get the popcorn going.
My jaw is literally agape.
Classic internet wank played out on the Bush war administration front
Wow. I mean WOW. O_o
To see the kind of grade-school shenanigans that are common coin on Harry Potter boards employed by a fucking Colonel of the U.S. Army is just...*sigh* Well, it's just too beautiful to behold. Methinks I may go blind from the glory.
Hhhokay. So.
Glenn Greenwald, noted and notable left-wing gadfly blogger gets a very weird email from Colonel Steven Boylan, who is second to ol' Petraeus (sp?). Earlier this year, Glenn had exchanged a couple of emails with the Colonel when he sent to ask if he might get a convo with the big dude. He also asked why the only people to get any time with him were rabid right-wingnut types, and it looks like that irritated the Colonel. Hence the missive.
It's a thing to behold, truly. Do go and read it here. It is a long, peevish, whiny rant, reeking of the schoolyard bully, in which Boylan calls Glenn names, dares him to come to Iraq - "you won't cause you're scared nyahhnyahhnyahh!!" - impugns his manhood...oh, it's wonderful. And all in these strange loopy sentences that sound, frankly, like the guy is totally wasted. As many commenters at Glenn's blog note, it's easy to imagine him sitting at his computer with a half-drunk bottle of Jack Daniels on the desk, hitting SEND with a last chuckle before he falls face forward onto his keyboard.
But it doesn't stop there. Oh no. This is the BUSH administration. You didn't think the batshit would end there, did you?
After copious head-scratching and back-and-forth about email headers and IP addresses on the comments forum, Glenn decides to try and verify the email. He sends to the colonel, attaching what he received, and asks him if he wrote it.
Class?
That's right. He denies he ever wrote it, and calls it "interesting". He seems oddly unconcerned that someone is faking emails from him to the media using his email address, correspondence structure and signature. (The clincher is the writing style, with which we're familiar because Glenn has been posting the emails all along. It's, shall we say, original.) But the colonel is surprisingly calm. Why's that?
Wait for it...
Because somebody has OMG HACKED into his identity before and, like, tried to rent under his name and stuff. But they totally don't know who they're dealing with, so yeah whatever. He'll deal with it. And it's none of your business how, n00b. And he's not talking to you anymore, KTHXBI. *flounces out*
It's been fun in a bitter, Carlinesque to watch the Bush administration slowly eviscerating itself, and I'd laugh a hell of a lot more if we weren't all caught in their backwash. But this...this is a little bit of heaven.
Please spread these links around, and let people know what's going on here. This kind of thing really should be shared; it may be the beginning of something much bigger. Fuckups of this royal calabre don't come along every day, so let's make sure everybody has a chance to get the popcorn going.
