Fans of the office will find this vid quite humorous. Others will find it just plain humorous. It’s slick, too slick to be a casual throw-away. And since it got into my inbox via a Moveon.org contact I’m thinking this is a big-time slam. It’s good. I like it. It’s a well designed hit piece. It appears just in time to take the spotlight off (or attempt to) Alec Baldwin, an icon of the anti-Bush folks.
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Fire the Wolfman.
#1 – …and admit that all liberals are abusive to their children.
Both comments make no sense… but the left seems to be quicker to jump on the bullshit wagon since the elections. Probably due to the inability of the Pelosi/Reid lead group to get anything done.
And what is bullshit about wanting to fire another corrupt right wing asshole? Maybe you think he should be rewarded, how?
Paul Wolfowitz doesn’t need any help assassinating his character he has done a fine job of that himself.
What does this have to do with Alec Baldwin? NOTHING!!! Considering that the tape was released late yesterday to the public Your assertion that this parody is an attempt to change the topic is just plain stupid! I hope it was a joke. If it was forgive me. In addition there wouldn’t be enough time from last night for some organization(moveon.org) to piece this together as well as it has been done (not well but not the typical horrid shit you see on youtube)
#3 James Hill
James you make some of the dumbest statements I think are possible for a human to make and still be able to feed themselves.
If we can find any significant character flaws in Wolfie’s critics, then we should probably just excuse the misuse of his office for the career and monetary gain of his girlfriend, whom some World Bank employees have called his “neoconcubine.”
J, you are assuming he can feed himself.
So the first attempt this week to attack Wolfowitz failed, as he went well beyond what he needed to do to disclose his relationship with the employee to later got a raise and a promotion, and can prove it all with documentation and testimony from every single board member and human resource person involved.
I guess this is step two? If at first you don’t succeed, whine whine again.
Sorry, the “employee WHO” not “employee to.”
BTW, nice try, Gary. Wolfowitz tried to stay out of her raise and promotion . He issued statements in writing to everyone who needed to know about their relationship includig the board and her immediate bosses. The board literally forced him to be part of the decision.
But hey…good luck with the smear. Why attack someone for the job they are actually doing (or not doing) when you can try to create a “sex” scandal, right? Still seething over Monica, are we?
Outside of the Wolfowitz bashing, what do you think will happen to these videos when the actors decide to sue the content creator for misuse?
What a bunch of desperate spin-doctoring. Really, JCD, an attemp to divert attention from Baldwin’s outburst? Get real. This hit piece – and there’s no doubt that’s what it is – was signed by an organization that quite up-front wants to fire Wolfie.
As for malren – “still seething over Monica” – good god, talk about desperate attempts to divert a spotlight.
If the neo-con spin is that Wolfie had nothing to do with the run-up of his girlfriend’s salary to just short of $200K a year for, what, was it secretarial duties? Don’t just assert it without sourcing it. That’s bullshit. Still seething over exposure of all the neo-con corruption, incompetence and refusal to face reality, are we?
I for one don’t give a shit if Paul Wolowitz gave his girlfriend a job or a raise. The only people it should matter to is the shareholders of the bank.
Why, when someone creates a commentary that opposes a right wing figure does the entire right wing assume that they speak for all liberals? How do you know the person who made this is liberal? Maybe they just think it is a good subject to joke. Maybe they work for the bank and see what he did as unfair. You don’t know but you just go into hate liberal mode and spout your nonsense.
Personally I don’t see anything wrong with what he did. People do it all the time in all sorts of businesses. It isn’t ethical but I don’t get to make that call the BOD does.
Malren….. if Wolfie did everything above board as you say, and didn’t mislead any of the board members about his actions concerning Riza’s job and salary, then the special ad hoc panel that was ordered today by that board to discuss his fate as bank president is probably just a waste of time.
One thing that seems clear so far is that her job shuffle came as a direct result of Wolfie’s intervention. It was originally necessitated because he had to get her out of his direct or indirect supervisory control at the World Bank as part of the ethics provisions in his own contract. After that, the situation gets a little less clear, and not everyone seems to agree about his candor.
Wow!
Who really cares when there’s video like this out there?!!!?!
(Warning: leads to a non-porn girlie video)
Oh, come off it. Wolfowitz (heck of a name) would be a piece really bad work even if Alec Baldwin did not exist. We are should all be hoping Wolfy gets the boot before he can further destroy the reputation of the World Bank. Let him take his paramour with him.
Does anyone find it kinda creepy that he REALLY DOES look like a wolf. What ever happened to sheep’s clothing? Is sheep’s clothing just a Democrat thing?
This reminds me of the extensive screen time “Wolf Blitzer” received during Gulf War 1.0…
There were so many GREAT jokes about his “name” (COME ON, that name is a STAGE name and CAN NOT be real!!!) — that war reporters’ screen names (it’s a “SHOW” now, NOT JOURNALISM) was redefined. Watch for it henceforth, I know it happened, now you can watch for it!
SuckCrapFragFarkShutShatMuthaFrogga…
16 – Time for your meds, man.
The World Bank’s ethics panel twice insisted that Wolfowitz not recuse himself from decisions on salary nivolving his girlfriend. They signed off on everything he did. This is starting to look like a media campaign to fire Wolfowitz by the other bank memeberes who don’t like him digging into corruption at the bank. If the other neocons would be as anti-corruption as this guy, especially with regards to military contracts, we’d be better off.
If they could extend this to the UN that would be good.
MikeN, you seem to have a lot of confidence in Wolfie. If he’s as good at rooting out corruption as you claim, he would be best utilized back in our own administration, since voluminous evidence of corrupt military contracts in the Iraq war has surfaced. Perhaps you’ve inadvertently put your finger on the reason Bush wanted to get him out of his administration, to get rid of this corruption fighting superhero.
Referring to Riza’s (Wolfie’s neoconcubine) work at the State Dept, the salary for which was still being paid by the World Bank, Sidney Blumenthal of Salon magazine writes, “Wolfowitz got the State Department to agree that the ratings of her performance would automatically be ‘outstanding.’ Wolfowitz insisted on these terms himself and then misled the World Bank board about what he had done.”
As a person who famously favors pre-emptive action, could this be Wolfie’s pre-emptive approach to blunt any future criticism of his girlfriend’s high salary? Her work would always carry the acclaim that goes with glowing performance reviews, so wouldn’t her raise be justified? I remember the days when performance reviews had to be earned, but I guess I’m old fashioned. I can’t quite imagine the brass balls it takes to insist on pre-agreed “outstanding” reviews.
Maybe it’s just my “outside Washington” mentality that makes these unusual outside job assignments, with salary still paid by the World Bank, seem like they might be available only to the privileged few.