John Ekdahl, a co-blogger at the terrific Ace of Spades blog, went on a heck of a tear against the Obama administration’s foreign policy failings and the sycophantic mainstream media, much of which refuses to root out and report the truth.
Here are the highlights, starting with comment about the British Parliament voting against joining the U.S. for military action in Syria. See Ekdahl’s full Twitter feed to experience the rant in all its glory:
No, really. The last time a UK Prime Minister was defeated on a war motion WAS FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN 1782!
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Tell me more about improving our standing in the world and repairing relationships with allies.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@NBCNews @abcnews @CBSNews @CNN Hey assholes, maybe want to mention the fucking collapse of our world standing in the debacle?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@NBCNews @abcnews @CBSNews @CNN Which one of you shameless embarrassments to journalism will meekly report this new reality?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Ekdahl then started referencing a Politico piece by reporter Glenn Thrush:
.@GlennThrush What part of your job do you enjoy the most, is it the shame-showers or the late night emotional breakdowns?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@GlennThrush Because this is embarrassing even for you. http://t.co/4naOMvKkrb
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@GlennThrush “The ashes of George Bush’s foreign policy”. Hey super genius, President SaysStuff has been running this gig for 5 years.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@GlennThrush Could you please point me to your 2005 article blaming Clinton’s foreign policy for Bush’s challenges?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@GlennThrush Or was that “different” somehow? Maybe my memory isn’t so good, but I kind think Bush was on his own by his second term.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@GlennThrush Hey Glenn, take two fucking minutes out of your day and explain this to me. —> http://t.co/RfYBN1vrRp
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@GlennThrush Because it seems to me (granted I’m not a paid journalist) that whoever that guy is has monumentally failed.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
The American press is failing us.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Perhaps this is the necessary chain of events to finally rid us of this media class nonsense.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@NBCNews @abcnews @CBSNews @CNN Any of you pathetic, useless assholes want to report that Obama SKIPPED two days of Syria meetings?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
But in Obama’s defense, Magic Johnson!
Ekdahl’s nuking continued:
.@NBCNews @abcnews @CBSNews @CNN No? It’s totally cool that Susan “YouTube” Rice was there?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
.@NBCNews @abcnews @CBSNews @CNN This isn’t even my fucking job. Arent you curious why Obama was meeting with Magic? http://t.co/v5IV90ETGw
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
We have an American president, without the UN, NATO, Allies or Congress going to war by himself on his own supposed authority.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
And the American press suddenly catches as terminal case of incuriousness.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
It really is amazing to step back and watch the press’ reserved caution in reporting ANYTHING.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
This is the same press that was fucking RABID over Valerie Plame and that other douchebag.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
And let’s not forget the ONLY reason we’re in this spot is because President Teleprompter went off script and offered a red line.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
And then, the crickets arrived in D.C.
You notice the administration has completely disappeared this week?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
You can’t even find Jay Carney, the king of shameless duplicitousness.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Did you see that poor sap they dragged in front of a microphone today?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
It looked like they kidnapped him from a fucking freshmen Georgetown political science lecture hall.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
The press mocked the hell out of Bush for bring up Poland as a partner in a military endeavor.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Now fucking England. England! is telling us to pound sand.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
The UK bails on us and Obama is meeting with fucking Magic Johnson instead of his foreign policy team discussing Syrian response.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
At what point will you media fuckers recognize Obama doesn’t take the job seriously?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
I mean, even in the 70s, the media recognized that Jimmy Carter trying to run the White House tennis court schedule was weird.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Any of you overpaid, over-complimented, intellectually-average assholes want to do some actual journalistic work?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
No? It’s just about the cause? Your pathetically depressed Columbia journalism professor wanted you to go this route?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Back to trying to figure out who our “allies” are in proposed attack on Syria:
In all seriousness, who’s with us at this point?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
This isn’t even a joke. —> RT @GayPatriot: Al Qaeda RT @JohnEkdahl: In all seriousness, who’s with us at this point?
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) August 30, 2013
Ekdahl’s entire media/Obama administration takedown can be read here.
