Oh, you HAVE to see this, if you haven’t already. And maybe see it again if you have.
Donald Rumsfeld not only beats up Andrea Mitchell and takes her lunch money, he then goes out, buys his own lunch with it, eats it in front of her, and then makes her lick the crumbs up off the floor.
Dear God in heaven, it’s like watching a Pee-Wee League football team try to take on the Green Bay Packers. Andrea is WAY out of her league on this one.
Whichever Republican wins in 2012, I sincerely hope and pray he/she re-hires Rummy as SecDef.
My personal favorite line: “Never heard of him.” (around the 7 minute mark)
And from that point on, it just gets better. He keeps crushing her like a bug, questioning her premises and dismissing her smears and allegations out of hand in a cruelly-gently pitying tone of voice that suggests he’s dealing with someone who just stepped off the short bus.
Which, I suppose, is not too far from the truth.
Dang. “Both of them were three levels down, no, I haven’t read their books.”
That was beautiful. If only every conservative politician was as prepared and confident in their views.
Of course that requires that you haven’t had your spine surgically removed as so many in the GOP have.
Go Rummy!!!
After he makes her lick the crumbs off the floor he unzips his pants and…well… Excellent!
Donald Rumsfeld won’t back down…….MUCH LIKE HITLER!
“Never heard of him.”……..Now, there’s someone from CIA who did his job.
Honestly, the first thing that came to my mind when hearing her questions, with the emphasis on “but don’t you think THIS or wasn’t it actually the Bush administration that did THAT”or etc etc was that she was like a teenage girl who was DEAD SURE she was getting that car for her birthday/Xmas/Graduation (the list goes on), and each time came out petulant and deflated when it turned out to be last year’s barbie doll. I think thats why Rumsfeld was so patient–he figured out early on in the interview that he was dealing with someone of mediocre intelligence (at best) and couldn’t bear to crush her little ego any further when each of her her sticking points ending up gliding off the Teflon awesomeness that is “The Rum”. I thnk she was sure her hard hitting journalism would shake him up–I’m surprised he didn’t whip out a cigar and start smoking on the set, he seemed so unconcerned:).
That was beautiful.
I love Rummy too, Harvey, but his stubbornness on troop surges in Iraq was quite the impediment.
Rummy for Press Secretary? You bet.
Awesome. He deflects her blows and shivs her over and over and over again, gently, lovingly… it’s a thing of beauty indeed.
Interesting statement Mitchell makes that Rumsfeld and Chenney were an “Axis” against Rice. Why not Allied against Rice, or any hundreds of other synonyms?
I love Donald Rumsfeld! Ex-Fighter pilots don’t take a whole lot of guff from people. When attacked they will turn and shoot you down! But he does it in such a masterful way that they are left scratching their heads, as they go down in flames. Don Rumsfeld makes me smile.
I’ll wager Andrea Mitchell came away from that interview thinking about how uninformed she actually is. Hell, he even jogged my memory.
My “moment of happiness” fadded at about the 11:14 mark, when I realized the Rumsfeld Strangler would not be making a guest apperance. Maybe next time…
Marko – I’m admitting to a bit of historical ignorance here: stubbornness on troop surges… for or against?
I feel like I *should* know the answer, but to be honest, I tended to tune out all criticism of Rumsfeld because 98% of the time it was boilerplate leftist anti-war carping with no basis in reality. So, it turns out I filtered out the 2% of legitimate criticism, too.
So if you’ve got time, go ahead & weigh in.
Rumsfeld was against more soldiers in Iraq. Gen Shinseki wanted to send 200k or more, but Rumsfeld said no. IMHO, that led to the growth of the insurgency and the protracted counterinsurgency fight.
Rummy for SecDef? No, thanks. Rummy for Press Secretary, or Sec State? Hell yeah.
D.C. police are still stumped as to the identity of the Rumsfeld Strangler.:-)
Penultimatum – Ok, it seems pretty sensible that more troops = more dead Hadjis = we win. So why didn’t Rumsfeld support more troops? I know he’s not an idiot, so what was his compelling reason for saying no?
More troops = more logistics. They were not needed had we not fired the entire Iraqi military. Rumsfeld had nothing to do with that! We kicked Iraq’s ass in two weeks. More troops for what? We are not suppose to “nation build”! We are suppose to shock and awe (ass kicking) and then come home. We didn’t! We stayed and that is where the trouble started! It’s not our country! Let the Iraqi’s sort it out!
In the long run, it probably won’t matter what mistakes were made. They’re ALL going down the toilet over there. Personally, I’m looking forward to them bending over one last time with their head in it.
Harvey,
Yes, he opposed increases in troop surges and no, I don’t remember why. Bing West probably wrote down something about it in The Strongest Tribe– a book I highly, highly recommend – but I’m honestly not sure of that either.
Jimmy – “going down the toilet”? Don’t believe the hype. Here’s my best argument for calling this a complete win:
http://badexample2.blogspot.com/2011/02/upside.html
we digress gentlemen. As conservatives we can have differing opinions and celebrate in the differences. The real point is that one of ours kicked the crap out of one of their best and brightest. We need to take our shirts off and beat our chest and give the victory cry of the great bull ape.
Andrea, hard at work in the search for truth…err, well maybe not truth…maybe more like hunting for any excuse to try to blame Booosh for all the problems caused by Demcraps. After all, Bush lied when he repeated the intelligence first released by Bill Clinton and his wife, right? Nice try Andrea…err, well actually it was a pretty lousy try. Poor homely girl…it can’t be easy to be mildly retarded and very unattractive.
Actually, Harvey, I meant “the Mideast” in general – and not just Iraq. And I was being vague, overly general and stupidly emotional about Muslims. Shame on me. (Ooooooooh! I hear Mideast toilets flushing!! Ala ala alala lalal lala lall allla llllla alalalal Wooosh!)
The Rum, Sodomy and the lash. Andrea got all three in one shot.
Rumsfeld reminds me of what one of my project managers would often say, “Do your homework, and you’ll leave them no where to go.” No one, especially in the liberal media, wants to do their homework. Rumsfeld just shows what can be done by a conservative who does his homework and who has a good memory.
It amazes me that during the Nixon administration, Rumsfeld was known as Dummy Rummy (according to conservative radio host Howie Carr, who is a fan of Rumsfeld).
I’m with you, Marko. Press Secretary Rumsfeld.
I’d love to see Rumsfeld behind the podium doing the daily
White House briefings, but only if they put Helen Thomas
back in the front row until her head explodes.
One briefing should do it.
Rumsfield 1
Dumb blond 0
Nice interview, but where was Chomps?
Rum, Sodomy and The Lash! LOL!!! So, when did they join the “Royal Navy”?
My dad, Paul Tibbits, George Patton, Rummy. No matter what anyone says about George W. Bush, he sure knows how to pick people that love and defend America.
I have always loved Rummy. He had the best press conferences by far.
I remember one press conference when he just looked at the reporter and said “really? You get one question and THAT’S what you’re going to ask me?”
That response was so good, Aaron Sorkin and a bunch of other hollywood writers have been using it all over the place since then.
As usual, Rummy demonstrates who the adult in the room is.
Another analogy: remember the fight scene from Cool Hand Luke? Yeah, Andrea keeps coming back with pitiful, ineffective attacks until her opponent just walks away in disgust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0mgkaEGQc