State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley Resigns Over Manning Comments
**Written by Doug Powers
Crowley probably should have taken a powder after he tweeted birthday greetings to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and more recently, via a Twitter post that was later deleted, compared the middle east situation to the Japan tsunami.
Instead Hillary’s spokesman has been forced out due to comments about the detention of Bradley Manning:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s spokesman P.J. Crowley resigned Sunday, just days after publicly criticizing the detention conditions of Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking reams of classified information to WikiLeaks. Crowley’s departure was first reported by CNN.
During an event on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass., Crowley called the treatment of Manning, whom military jailers forced to sleep naked for several days last week, “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.”
Asked about Crowley’s remarks at a news conference Friday, President Obama said he “asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assured me that they are.”
Somewhere in Berkeley an emergency City Council meeting has been called to decide which day(s) will be used for a holiday and parade to honor Crowley as a co-hero.
According to Manning’s lawyer, his client’s strip down is the result of “sarcastic” comments made about suicide. This attorney needs to remind his client — not to mention one former State Department spokesman — that airports and prisons are non-sarcasm zones of the highest order.
**Written by Doug Powers
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Another Amateur bites the dust
This administration should hide their faces in shame. Who appointed these people???
Oh. Never mind.
I won’t be happy till bho and his whole sorry team resigns or are voted out!
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I’m more surprised they showed him the door rather than just keep his dumb butt. It’s akin to Whack-A-Mole- where one elite academic after another just keeps popping up and unveiling a little more of the anti-USA positions within the administration.
Next!
This kind of torture will stop after Bush leaves office and Obama takes over…
Manning should have been shot.
P J Crowley was just auditioning for his dream job CEO of NPR.
The jailers should of just put another naked man in the bed with Manning.
Yet another Obama stooge bites the dust.
LOL
That’d be on their To-Do list of inmate rights.
Beat me to it, SwedeBabe, but I will expound upon it:
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
another one bites the dust
Hey, I’m gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
or, if you prefer: Weird Al Yankovic’s version (cue the accordion):
Another one rides the bus
Another one rides the bus
Another comes on and another comes on
Another one rides the bus
Hey, who’s gonna sit by you
Another one rides the bus
Coming from you, that there was funny!!!
Um, well….Another One Bites the Dust was my wedding song. True story. Really.
Yeah, Happy, I did a double take when I saw that comment. Totally cracked me up.
I wonder if anyone has bothered to take a count of all the morons who have had to “resign” due to saying or doing some stupid. I have a feeling they have had the most of any previous administration. Every one of Obama’s appointees, and all the dems in Congress have taken stupid pills, so stay tuned for more “resignations” to come. Regressives just can’t help themselves. It is in their genes that have been screwed up by all the drugs.
You inspired me. In honor of yet another Obama loser who got what he dearly deserved.
Queue Freddie Mercury
I get to go play bubble hockey with my 2-year old grandson now! Later…
They never really go away. Just lay low for a while and resurface in another guberment position. They’re all pond scum.
How about Biden and Obama resigning because of their stupid comments.
now does he now get counted as unemployed, the new figures for unemployment confuse me. it seems to me the unemployment rate should be going up, but by using the new math it is going down.
That’s too good for him. He should be turned loose with a bunch of the families of the people who died because of him.
Gaffe Meister Biden sort of paved the way for people with diarrhea of the mouth. Having your mouth constantly overload your @$$ no longer disqualifies you from holding a high position in gubmint.
Well, just think of what kind of martyr Manning would have been for the liberal cause if he committed suicide while in custody after Freeing Information. Of course Crowley wanted him to have that choice.
(I need caffeine or a nap. Shouldn’t post while cranky.)
As Michelle might say:
DLTDHYOTWO
I know a few counties in Iowa where we could have Manning shovel pig sh!t until he’s no longer with us.
It’s all in the “adjustments” – sort of like global warming.
Citizens that are not in a constant state of fear really don’t understand that the imbeciles are calling the shots in very important arenas. You can’t be sure that they handle anything correctly, including relief efforts for Japan, assisting people fighting and dying for their freedom, and defending us against foreign aggression. Actually you can be certain that this administration is failing at every opportunity. Just don’t know how much of the failure is on purpose versus incompetence.
Nothing this regime has done has been an ‘accident’. It’s all on purpose. That purpose is the downfall of America and civilization.
Flyoverman said:
Thanks. I thought at first you said Queen Fredie Mercury (which would be technically correct name), but you said Queue. Great song, even for a wedding song, JPinSB
@the jim: On purpose is what I believe. I don’t think they’re in it to further the interests of this country. Rather, it’s to advance the philosophy of a global order where America is subject to the laws and pontifications of elitists that don’t even live here.
Yeah, ya think? Aiding and abetting the enemy in wartime and putting inteligence people and soldiers lives at risk. If that isn’t high treason, what is?
Interesting this hit the fan at the same time DADT went down the PC hole. Correct me if I’m wrong – wartime is not a good time for a social experiment in the armed forces. Manning was distraught over a break up with his significant other. Lots of soldiers get Dear John letters, and don’t commit high treason. Did Manning’s homosexuality affect his decision making? Don’t know is not a good enough answer. And like Mjr Dr Hassan, will people ignore dangerous behavior to not cross the islamophobe/homophobe barrier?
Don’t know.
Just to clarify my comments from before regarding the transgender interest:
I don’t have any attraction to men and prefer the beauty and physical attributes of any woman 100% of the time. The ONLY REASON I have any such interest as I indicated in another thread is because I get SO TIRED of the crap that women often direct toward me that I sometimes think a TS would be my next best option. Unfortunately, I can’t get past the equipment dilemma and so haven’t acted upon my desire to increase the options available to me.
I’m pretty sure that if a straight white male had been observed throwing tantrums and chairs while on duty and at his post, he’d have been drummed out as undesirable. That kind of behavior has no place in our military. The fact that it was condoned by people wearing bars and stars shows to go ya that todays military leadership has gone to the dogs.
JP, I don’t think that there is any doubt that OBambi is America’s enemy. There is no doubt that the damage that he inflicts is purposeful. I’m simply saying that he is assisted by inept, fools that really are useful tools in his purposeful damage to this great country.
And if it is happening in the military, no place will be safe from the infection known as ‘liberalism’.
Left-wing ideology destroys everything it comes in contact with – similar to how a weak acid corrodes and disolves an object over time.
They should leave a 12 foot piece of rope within reach of his cell.
Strange; One of these bums resigns, but, others just laugh at their prosecutions. (Rangel, Waters.)
I witnessed an airman ask for the latest issue of “High Times” in a waiting room on an afb. Very bad move. Of course, this was back in the day.
The treatment of Crowley is not fair and balanced. The One atoned with a beer summit, but Crowley gets the boot. Crowley still jabbed at The One in his resignation letter: “The exercise of power in today’s challenging times and relentless media environment must be prudent and consistent with our laws and values.” Ha-ha.
A bullet is too good for Manning…he should be hung for treason. As for Crowley…good riddance!
Crowley’s departure, as you said Doug, is LONGGGGG overdue. The man is a certified nitwit.
JP in SB:
That is a HOOT! The grandmas and all the old Aunts and Uncles are probably still talking about you.
This guy Crowley has seemed like a major league moron ever since I first heard of him.
I saw a MSM coverage story describe Crowley as a “respected” foreign policy expert.
I can’t find any information on him to warrant such high praise.
In the first place, I believe that his initial appointment says a lot about Liberals’ lack of seriousness regarding our Nation’s security.
On this subject alone, I have been proudly voting anti-Democrat Party since I have been legally allowed to.
Fixed it for you, I hope you don’t mind.
His mother must be very proud of him.
PJ Crowley has been touted by fellow Democrats, as a very intelligent person.
I find it very amusing that there are so many “intelligent” Democrats out there, serving in Congress, and the White House, who don’t have a clue. It’s more than that, I think. All these “intelligencia”, who are reportedly so much smarter than Republicans, make gaff after gaff, or when asked questions pertaining to their area of “expertise”, they make stupid comments, or reveal in other ways, the total depth of their incompetence.
In the future, perhaps someone will suggest to the “employee selection committee,” that in addition to veting, each candidate be given a rudimentary IQ test…or not. At least they’ll keep furnishing the comic relief for the rest of us.
I like Weird Al Yankovic’s version babiesgrandma. Just need to change “rides” to “under” and it be perfect.
Leave it to Doug Powers not to understand what satire is, with the tweet from Crowley. It’s also interesting that as much as right wingers talk about the Constitution, they don’t mind claiming someone to be guilty until proven innocent, as evidenced by Virginia “Patriot” and others here. Funny how Obama can do the same exact action that GWB would have done and he still gets criticized, go figure.
Or as we used to say in MY unit… “Letting your alligator mouth overload your tweetie bird a$$”.
In Western NC, we call it letting your BATTLESHIP mouth overload your SHOWBOAT a** !
Post #47: zzzzzzzzzzzzz
That means he graduated public high school and was able to point out England on a world map.
cabrerski #51,
But more importantly, can he point out the Panama Canal in Egypt ? Even Chrissy Matthews is THAT smart ! Tee hee !
these scumbags never “resign.” please. he was whacked because even this Regime likes to put up a front to hide their marxism and old PJPinko wasn’t able to hide his particular brand of rat-ism.
leftists never resign – you need a conscience for that.
I don’t mean to generalize, but I live close to the gay neighborhood in my city. Many gay people have an attitude and are quite sarcastic. They have the whole, I’m entitled because I am a minority air about them. I don’t go to their neighborhood anymore, I went there once to a camera shop and was treated so horribly by the gay employee there (I did nothing, just asked a few questions and got the sarcastic, snide, swishy treatment). I am nice to everyone and could not believe the whole “you are not welcome here treatment I got”. From what I have witnessed from the behavior of the California gay, I bet that is how Manning was behaving. He deserved to have anything that may be used as a suicide instrument taken away. Let’s see how snide the snot nosed brat will be from now on. He deserves a treason charge with a firing squad.
The fact that Obama “asked” the pentagon shows how inexperienced he is. He has no knowledge of his most important job, CINC. He should have said, my pentagon follows guidelines by the book, so I am confident that Manning is being held under strict protocol. King Hussein is such a fool and I am going to say, worst leader in modern U.S. history. I am so ashamed of the U.S. right now. Weak, unorganized, not a hint of a unified front from the leadership…. My WWII fighting grandparents are spinning in their graves.
Not sorry he’s going. Wish Hillary were going with him, and then Biden, and then Obama…
Show me one thing the GWB did that he didn’t get slammed by the left.
Huuuummmppphhh
Guess she told us!
Hear Hear! Far be it for us “anti-intellectuals” to comprehend the nuanced brilliance of such a towering wit as the formerly employed PJ Crowley.
I stand by every word. Can PJ or jug ears ssay the same?
Who Is Barry Soetero?
Hi ShoreDor
You in on the Levin surge ?
OK_L,
Take THAT, you dastardly conservative !!
Now, do you FEEL properly told ?
You Betcha!
Sign,
As you well know, anything out of this °O° administration leave EVERYONE properly rolled.
And fleeced too.
Regardless of what some dipship leftist gnat says.
OK: Is there any other kind?
Here is something else I did. Hope it works. I emailed the local a.m. dj talk host at station that has Levin on it and also has Ernest Istook (Ex-OK Congressman) with the Heritage Foundation. Istook is who gave Bachmann & King the details of this hidden funding. I asked DJ to get our reps on and ask if they knew voting Yes on the continuing resolution was a vote for funding °O°Care.
I seem to always be late to these threads, I just started commenting at Hotair too, but I posted Mark Levin’s Friday night show on the “Obama Makes No Sense” thread. He called John Boehner out as
a cowardthe coward that he is on this.On March 14th, 2011 at 12:23 am, ShoreDor said:
You’re not late ShoreDor, having troubles getting traction with this.
Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Bet everybody could tell you the latest Charlie Sheen news, though.
OK_Loyalist:
Rush has been talking about the $105Billion too. He had Michelle Bachman on the other day (Thursday, I think).
I’m calling Boehner’s office tomorrow. I’ll be polite and make them fear me.
Talk to you in the morning. It’s almost 1:00 am here in NJ and i have a busy day tomorrow.
ShoreDor = A Paulette Revere … nite
I sleep naked. Who can I sue?
I’m not suicidal but nearly chewed my arm off early one morning….
Hey I cleaned a gelding’s popo yesterday for the first time. Can I get in on this Manning thing?
And so it begins, as the RNC force feeds us their amnesty candidates:
“Let us not mince words. There are at most five plausible Republican presidents on the horizon – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Utah governor and departing ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Massachusetts governor Romney and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.”
– George Will March 6, 2011
Don’t forget Chris Christie who may be (relatively) fiscally conservative, but is an R.I.N.O.!!!!!
(Sorry, submitted too soon.)
Chris Christie is a hoplophobic gun grabber, an amnesty freak, and a RINO in general.
He may pass for a conservative in New Jersey, but is a hard left regressive anywhere with common sense.
That was YOU on Coyote Ugly?
In all fairness, tried then shot and be done with it. What’s taking so long?
McVeigh was caught, tried and shot in the time it’s taken this little squirrel to be forced to sleep nude so he doesn’t do the right thing. Makes me wonder just what went on with the OKC bombing, before and after, just curious.
Who was president back then? That’s right the Baby driller.
Only comment, YOU CAN’T CURE STUPID!!!
Bonehead Boehner, favorite song “Cry Me a River”…another bought and paid for RINO…com’ on Tea Party get rid of these bums.
You’re right, of course. Trial followed by execution…..
Manning sleeps in a suicide prevention smock and prosecutors will not seek the death penalty:
Somebody remind me what major accomplishments Hillary has had over the past couple of years.
Ok, somebody remind me of any accomplishments Hillary has had ever.
On March 14, 2011 at 09:33 am, T-Bone said:
She DID make a lot of money in a mysterious fashion through investing back when they lived in Arkansas. She is the smartest woman in the world, you know. /sarc
She stayed married to Bill.
There is proof they hooked up at least once because Chelsea looks a lot like them. After that, I am not sure. I think they live in separate places even. They only get together for political theatre.
Ever see a picture of Webb Hubbell? Chelsea looks more like him than Bill, imho.
I started to post that Hillary only stayed with Bill and put up with his philandering because of her own political aspirations and how he helped her. I don’t believe that she has given up her desire to be POTUS.
Webb Hubbell? I’m going to think about it.
Nobody has to force me.
What?! What’d I say?
Why waste a bullet? Take him to Gitmo… sharks gotta eat, too, y’know…
If they don’t recommend the death penalty, does that mean he can’t mete out the death penalty?
What do you have to do to get executed for treason in this country? Attend a Tea Party rally while singing the Star Spangled banner, wearing an “Obama’s not my President” button on your T-shirt which reads, “Capitalism is superior to socialism“, before reciting passages from Orwell’s “1984″?
Apparently giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the U.S. ain’t enough…
Leave it to MSD to not realize that we’re all poking fun at the fact that foreign policy these days is a joke, ala Twitter.
Make sure that Manning eats plenty of Peanut Butter Snickers first
Seriously, Manning and Nidal are getting better treatment than most of our military.
Bizarro World.