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Markos Moulitsas: “Hopefully from meeting us, these politicians can see that we’re not these crazy, wild-eyed radicals that some people like to think we are.”
Good luck with that, Markos.
Gee whiz. I really expected to see a more professional looking guy.
Remember that Star Trek episode when a 10 year old Clint Howard commanded a dreadnought battle cruiser? He confronted the Enterprise and wanted to intimate Captain Kirk, but he knew using his real face would just do the opposite. So he fashioned a fierce looking dummy to do his talking for him.
I think Kos needs to do something like that.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 06 19 at 12:19 PM • permalinkJust as well Bingley stays off the telly, then.
And here we had such plans…
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2006 06 19 at 12:20 PM • permalinkThat cap must have been taken as he was spinning his way out of answering the “screw ‘em” comment:
KOS: ... [I]n a way it’s funny that they have not updated their talking points in two years. And so they want to keep resurrecting an old quote. There’s nothing I can do about it. What I can do is I can say the fact is the reason, the context for that quote, was solidarity with my brothers and sisters in arms, Marines and soldiers. I wore combat boots. I served during the first Gulf war. And people are making a choice between private armies and mercenaries. I make my choice. I stand behind our men and women in uniform, and I’m not going to apologize for that. But they’re going to keep resurrecting that, and that’s fine. That’s what they do ...
You tell ‘em Markos. BTW, its worth metioning that while he was in the military during GW1, he wasn’t in theater. His comment is technically true but leaves a inaccurate impression that he was in the war.This is the look a 15-year-old boy gets when he’s finally managed to convince the olds they can leave him alone at home over the weekend, massaged the girlfriend for 60 minutes, but has just been informed that a) she’s already having if off with an older guy who’s “got one way bigger than yours”, b) she needs to go home because she’s got to wash her hair tomorrow, or c) he’d better have a convincing explanation for ejeculating before getting his pants off.
Hey, I’ve been there, but at least it wasn’t on national TV.
And this little gem from his bio:
Immediately after high school, at the age of 17, I enrolled in the US Army, and served in Lawton, Oklahoma and Bamberg, Germany. I was a 13P—an MLRS/Lance Fire Direction Specialist (artillery), and served between 1989-92.
1st off private, you ENLIST in the Army, not ENROLL. This ain’t charm school, Cupcake. Secondly, you were TRAINED at Fort Sill (Lawton) you didn’t SERVE there.
And since you were stationed in Bamberg, Germany, you fired the weapon system approximately ZERO times during your entire “career” as a soldier. Thanks for serving your country in Germany during the Gulf War and keeping the German economy going by patriotically guzzling gallons of Hefe Weizen.Imagine the guy in the picture coordinating the fire of a system designed to flatten an entire square kilometer. Be afraid, be very afraid.
And people are making a choice between private armies and mercenaries. I make my choice. I stand behind our men and women in uniform, and I’m not going to apologize for that. But they’re going to keep resurrecting that, and that’s fine. That’s what they do ...
That’s utter bull shit. These are privately employed security guards, not a mercenary army. Most are ex-soldiers who are simply trying to work a dangerous job for a good wage. They help the coalition by freeing resources to hunt the bad guys.
But I can tell that Lollipop Kid couldn’t give a fat rat’s ass about the well being of the coalition soldiers there.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 06 19 at 12:57 PM • permalinkThat may be your second best post ever. My favorite is still: “This is not the greatest SUV in the world. This is just a Tribute.” No way am I going digging through the archives to find a link though.
Posted by carpetback on 2006 06 19 at 01:31 PM • permalinkmojo, when I was in Germany (Bamberg, in fact) way back qwhen, the Hefe Weizen was out of stock for a while….something about a lone Yank sucking the national supply dry. Was that you?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 19 at 02:18 PM • permalinkHis eyes look really red. A couple of joints before the interview maybe…? :)
Posted by Bashir Gemayel on 2006 06 19 at 04:28 PM • permalinkWhat I can do is I can say the fact is the reason
What does that mean? In, say, English?
people are making a choice between private armies and mercenaries. I make my choice.
Who are these “people” of whom he speaks, those “people . . . making a choice between private armies and mercenaries”? And, “between private armies and mercenaries,” his choice was. . . .
Looks like a poster for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Although, Kos kind of resembles M. Night Shyamalan, who’s more talented at making suspense and horror entertaining.
That boy is queer. (not that there’s anything wrong ect).
Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 06 19 at 06:52 PM • permalinkThat’s one face you’re never going to see on a T-shirt. Rest in peace, Che.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 06 19 at 07:59 PM • permalinkMojo—It’s fun to be modest about it, but let’s face, every morning, the Soviets woke up, looked West, and decided, ‘not today.’
I doubt it was the Greenham Common Women they were looking at. So attaboy.
As for Moulitsas, I haven’t had an expression like that on my face since the last time the seat fell off my bicycle.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 19 at 08:25 PM • permalinkOK, I’ll bite. What the HELL is the difference between a private army and mercenaries…?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 19 at 08:27 PM • permalinkSwinish Capitalist—No, that’s the Marines. I mean, come on, SEVEN uniforms for the ENLISTED men?
So that would make Markos a Gulf-War-ERA veteran, like Ward Reilly was a Nam-ERA vet, keeping Charlie out of Stuttgart during Tet…?
Hey! That makes ME a Gulf War-ERA veteran, too! Wow! I feel so manly! Watch my eyes pop!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 19 at 08:34 PM • permalinkHey mojo,
I knew a guy who spent a couple of years at Fulda with the US Army. He was there after the Berlin Wall fell, so his job focussed mainly on making sure the Soviets were pulling out according to schedule.
This guy had previously served in Gulf War 1, illuminating targets with lasers (so you can guess where he was), before rejoining the main 100-hour ground thrust. Got some pretty gruesome photos from the Highway of Death between Basra and Baghdad, and plenty of photos of laughing, smiling Iraqi conscripts looking forward to some US hospitality.
He still thought Fulda would have been one tense place before 1989, and had only the greatest respect for the Cold War Army.
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 06 19 at 08:35 PM • permalinkErr, that Highway of Death was between Kuwait City and Basra . . . my bad.
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 06 19 at 08:36 PM • permalinkSwinish Capitalist—“In cadence, accessorize!”
Or, if you’re looking for a man’s life in the British Army: “Prepare to camp! CAMP!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 19 at 08:57 PM • permalinkKyda—No, He’s got Cindy Sheehan’s eyes!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 19 at 08:58 PM • permalinkCNN caught him with that “I just pumped the neighbor’s cat” look on his face…
//Gunny Highway
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 06 19 at 10:03 PM • permalinkSure, show their pictures, print their words. How can you be so cruel to them?
Posted by charles austin on 2006 06 19 at 11:30 PM • permalinkKos: “Hey, is that the Transamerica building in my pocket or am I just glad to see me?”
Posted by charles austin on 2006 06 19 at 11:35 PM • permalink#42 - thanks mcenroe, I need a laugh today. Good to know I can count on timblair.net when the workplace is turning to shit all around me.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 06 19 at 11:39 PM • permalinkApparently he bragged that “Democrats can make the trains run on time” last week. Oh, he’s a sharp one, he is.
Posted by charles austin on 2006 06 19 at 11:41 PM • permalink51. Enlisted during the evil Bush I administration too. Must’ve contemplated enlisting in the even more evil Reagan admin. Whipping Noriega, Gorby and Saddam evidently took it out of the boy besides addling his brain!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 06 20 at 12:14 AM • permalinkapparently Kos does appeal to a certain bull-dyke liberalista. Head on over to http://www.Taylormarsh.com to watch a grown woman (at least I THINK it’s a woman) swoon over that sweet lil kos. It’s been a non-stop orgasmathon over there ever since Yearly kos.
He’s exactly how I pictured him, Right down to the gormless expression and sports jacket. Do I win five dollars?.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 20 at 01:52 AM • permalinkMarkos, sweetheart, baby, two words: bo. tox.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 20 at 09:50 AM • permalinkwronwright wrote about Kos:
He confronted the Enterprise and wanted to intimate Captain Kirk, but he knew using his real face would just do the opposite. So he fashioned a fierce looking dummy to do his talking for him.
I think Kos needs to do something like that.
...and he might even find the original prop from the show on eBay or something.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 06 20 at 11:22 AM • permalinkJust when I got to thinking that I would be perfectly OK with it if I never saw or heard from that pooftah or his “NutRoots” again, this thread brings a desperately needed smile to my face.
Seriously, hasn’t Markos reached the Brangelina level of “Irrelevant People That the Media Won’t Shut Up About” yet?
O/T, but something else I’ve had more than enough of is that damned Over My Head song. Once more and I’m going to freak the hell out and bite someone. If you’re outside the US and haven’t yet had your eardrums raped by The Fray, well, at least you’ve got that going for you. For now.
Posted by WingDynasty on 2006 06 20 at 03:37 PM • permalinkroyalpain — Never mind queer. ‘That boy ain’t right…’
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 21 at 12:55 AM • permalinkAnd to think, I served in Bamberg from 1986-1989, I might have actually ran into this guy at some time. I was a 13 fox for 2/78, which changed designation to 3/1. Not that I got to carry a radio, got stuck in the TOC for a Mech Infantry battalion.
And I did my job of sucking down that Hefe Weizen as well. God I loved that beer.
The_real_jeffs when did you serve in Bamberg and what did you do? Donald Sensing served in the unit I did, until 1988 I think.
Posted by James Stephenson on 2006 06 21 at 09:34 AM • permalinkActually I think Donald left in 1985.
Posted by James Stephenson on 2006 06 21 at 09:34 AM • permalinkThe Star Trek face you’re looking for is here:
http://js.jsweb.serverpro5.com/series/TOS/TOS1/tos_1-10.htm
Tim, could we just use this picture in the future, instead of having to actually look at Kos?
Thanks.
I’ve mentioned before that I knew Kos when he was an undergrad. My gaydar isn’t all that great, but he never struck me as gay. Funny-looking, yeah. Intense, oh yeah. Full of himself and convinced of his own superior intelligence, hell yeah.
But at that time actually a nice guy. Seriously. I enjoyed knowing him. Now the the Armstrong payola stuff is coming up, I’m more and more sure that the law degree was a means to an end, and the end included making a buncha money. I think Kos mostly believes what he says (he was way into “oppression of the people” and “liberation theology” when I knew him [although he wasn’t religious at all]) but that he also believes what helps him.
My guess is he saw more of an opening on the left than the right or he’d be on the right. Let’s see. I knew him in around 90-92 and he graduated around then, so 3 years of law school and he comes out just after the Gingrich Revolution. He’s got no in there, so . . .
Makes a kind of weird sense to me.
And if you think that pic is funny, I’ll have to see if I can call up something from the Northern Illinois University Northern Star. He had long, curly hair back then.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 06 21 at 12:40 PM • permalinkJust looked it up. Markos wasn’t at NIU until ‘93. I didn’t remember that. So, he must have graduated around 97. He was first a staff reporter then (something) editor then editor-in-chief of The Northern Star, the student daily. (A decent student newspaper, many of whose editors went on to journalism careers). There’s nothing online, picture-wise, although I found some letters to and from him and a couple of columns, so if I can get a friend to search the physical archives I may be able to come up with the picture.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 06 21 at 12:52 PM • permalinkYou blogsheep would have to agree that this Kos character is giving the whole evangelical blog thing a really bad name. I mean if this clown be a success, and vastly more successful than the bloghead, what hope is there for you guys to get your important messages thru to the right people?
Timbo it’s time you resorted to asymmetric warfare on this kos dickhead. You need to show him who’s boss before it gets out that he’s more successful than you at this blogging caper.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 06 21 at 09:48 PM • permalink
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