CNN’s Kyra Phillips tried everything but waterboarding to build daylight between recently retired CENTCOM commander Admiral Fox Fallon and the White House over TPM Barnett’s Esquire hit piece.
The admiral doesn’t play.
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Playing Fox FallonBy lex, on June 4th, 2008
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Indeed. CCN titles the piece “Adm. Fallon breaks silence”. After seeing so many others take their turn in front of the camera, what a class act the honorable gentleman demonstrates himself to be. I enjoyed his response that “There a lot of things in life that are important, and others that are less so…”. Out of context it may seem trite; in context it speaks volumes and is spot-on.
Well done sir. Thanks for your service and welcome home.
Hopefully President McCain’s administration will have need of him and put him to continued valuable service.
Guess it’s too much to expect Phillips to have learned anything from Adm. Fallon. They’re on to the next “show”.
bc, Indeed the Adm. is a class act and a sly fox to boot…with four decades of service and four stars he dosen’t have to answer to anyone except his bride and his god…a true master of his own domain with a good take on life’s important things…an example for us all. Best
Lex, I won’t put words in anybody’s mouth. I think I’ll step back and observe. I want to see what happens through the eyes of history. I mean real history and not just rhetoric. As to the Admiral, I would agree with Snake Eater, as long as the Admiral is speaking his own mind.
Somehow I don’t think antiwar.com will post that one. Timely though…just a couple of weeks ago they printed this “Dear Fallon” letter:
http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=12865
How gratifying.
Reporters always seem to get frustrated when they talk to someone in the military only to find out that the “journalist” isn’t the smartest person in the room.