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Originally Posted by JollyRoger
It was to a reporter, he was on Scarbourogh this morning, and says he has tapes. There is no doubt here.
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On the contrary, I see what could be construed as one misinterpretation by the AP report already:
"The article quotes a member of McChrystal's team making jokes about Biden, who was seen as critical of the general's efforts to escalate the conflict and who had favored a more limited counter-terrorism approach.
"Biden?" the aide was quoted as saying. "Did you say: Bite me?"
McChrystal himself quipped: "Are you asking about Vice President Biden?". "Who's that?," he asked."
I am reading the RS article now, and it reads to me that the general and his staff are guessing at what his latest gaffe might sound like:
"Now, flipping through printout cards of his speech in Paris, McChrystal wonders aloud what Biden question he might get today, and how he should respond. "I never know what's going to pop out until I'm up there, that's the problem," he says. Then, unable to help themselves, he and his staff imagine the general dismissing the vice president with a good one-liner."
Hardly the same as making those comments directly about the VP. There are plenty of other things to criticize, of course... that one's just a little misrepresented.