Remember Michael T. Flynn, the less than model lieutenant general who chanted “Lock her up!” while denouncing Hillary Clinton at the Republican convention, who wrote a crack-brained book with crack-brained author Michael Leeden1 in which he declared that “I’m totally convinced that, without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated, and very likely destroyed” by Islamic militants, who claimed that Iran was leading a huge, worldwide alliance intended to well, defeat, dominate and (very likely) destroy the good old USA, who claimed that there were, right now, Muslims among us scheming to impose sharia upon us—and not the “good” sharia, either! The “bad” sharia! The really bad sharia!
Yeah, remember him? Well, he’s better now, now that he’s President Trump’s national security advisor, if you believe WashPost columnist/source stroker David Ignatius, whose most recent column, based on an hour-long chat with Flynn, has all the punch of a Jimmy Fallon interview.2 Yo, Dave! Congrats on all those big fat scoops that will surely be rolling your way now that Flynn knows he owns your ass!
Afterwords
Don’t bother to read Dave’s column, but do read the comments, as Dave’s readers take him apart for being the ass-kissing toady he is.
SPECIAL DAVE UPDATE
In today’s column (the guy is relentless), Dave continues to kiss ass (while covering his own with some “on the other hand” statements from unnamed “experts”) by “explaining” President Trump’s “controversial” (that is to say, shameful and ridiculous and counter-productive) ban on travel from seven Muslim bad countries, to wit: “Defenders of the ban could argue that it might prevent a metastasis of the Islamic State into the West after its capitals are crushed.” Curiously, however, the “senior Trump administration official” that Dave quotes only talks about possible terrorist attacks occurring in Ramadi, which, last time I checked, was not in the “West”.3 Well, anyway, Dave isn’t saying any of this himself. He’s only the messenger—the messenger who says whatever senior Trump administration officials tell him to say.
- Paul McLeary and Dan de Luce gave us a grim view of Flynn’s and Leeden’s grim nonsense, in their review of The Field of Fight, published in Foreign Policy last year. ↩︎
- I’ve never watched Jimmy, so I don’t know if he’s as lame as everyone says, but I’m happy to follow the crowd if it leads to a cheap laugh. ↩︎
- Since the most fortunately suspended travel ban only affects the U.S., it wouldn’t protect the “West” in the first place. Dave might have asked a follow-up question here, but he’s only a stenographer, not a reporter. ↩︎
