"A Small Fraction of a Man" - William Rivers Pitt!!!

[Tess Anderson]

Oh yeah, I can see why they wanted him back:

thread: here

Another time-worthy BDS rant from the Bawstun drunk (those awards here ARE coming up soon). This the guy that fell Boston Harbor while intoxicated, took the meaning of the term "business hours" to a whole new level, and was once banned for threatening to beat up a fellow DUmmy who happened to be a woman, among other things:

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-13-10 12:14 PM
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A Small Fraction of a Man 
 Edited on Sat Nov-13-10 01:09 PM by WilliamPitt


(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Eric Draper, John Ott, Dirk Wüstenhagen)

A Small Fraction of a Man
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Saturday November 13 2010

George W. Bush was all over my television this past week, all over the newspapers, and the feelings inspired by his sudden reappearance are almost beyond my capacity to describe. There was the story about his hearty approval of waterboarding. There e] was the story that had him contemplating dropping Dick Cheney from the administration. There was the story that had him describing himself as a "dissenter" on the Iraq invasion. He did interviews, and excerpts of his new book dribbled out, and it was all too much to endure.

This is the guy, I thought to myself when I saw his face or heard his voice. This is the guy.

This is the guy who took a massive Clinton administration budget surplus and gave it away to his friends at the top of the tax bracket, a move that laid the groundwork for our current economic calamity.

This is the guy who breezed past a pointed warning about Osama bin Laden, terrorism and airplanes on August 8, 2001, because he was on vacation and couldn't be bothered.

This is the guy who parlayed that massive failure into a constant goad of fear to be wielded with impunity against the people he purported to lead. Plastic sheeting and duct tape, anthrax under your pillow, and of course, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

This is the guy who, not even a month after the Towers came down, looked into a television camera and said, "We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates."

Oh yes, this is the guy who stood before the American people in January of 2003 and proclaimed that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile biological weapons labs, uranium from Niger for use in a "robust" nuclear weapons programs, and that Iraq enjoyed connections to al Qaeda that led directly to the attacks of September 11.

This was the guy who presided over the outing of a deep-cover CIA agent after her husband had the temerity to call him a liar in the public prints. That agent was running a network for the purpose of thwarting any person or group that might try to deliver weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.

This is the guy who strutted like a bantam rooster under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished," bragging about the end of a war that was to grind on for seven more years, and grinds on even to this day, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.

This is the guy who said "Bring it on" and put a target on the backs of tens of thousands of US troops. This is the guy who is personally responsible for the death and injury of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. The body count from his administration is breathtaking in size and scope.

This is the guy who allowed the intelligence services of this nation to violate the Constitutional rights of its citizens in a way never seen before.

This is the guy who turned the entire world against America after that same world embraced us so completely after September 11. World leaders could not stand to be in the same room with him, and openly mocked him, thus humiliating us all.

This is the guy who literally fiddled while Hurricane Katrina devoured the city of New Orleans.

This guy actually said he considered dropping Cheney from the administration? It would be comic if it were not so pointedly fraudulent. Cheney ran the government, ran roughshod over every right he found meddlesome, and Bush sat by and let him do it with that same simpering smirk on his face.

This is the guy who set stem cell research back more than a decade because of his overarching fealty to "snowflake babies" over living, breathing, suffering people.

This is the guy who unleashed all the horrors of the torture chamber because the lawyers said it was OK. If the president does it, it's not illegal, right? Nixon came up with that line, but this is the guy who took it farther than it has ever been taken before.

This is the guy, and now he's back on my television again, and it makes me want to eat my own teeth. I endured him for eight long, brutal years, and have often thought since that no matter how bad things get - and they have, indeed, gotten pretty damned bad - I don't have to endure his face or his voice or his abject serial failures anymore.

But now he's back, and it is like returning to a nightmare.

I don't know what this George W. Bush Reputation Rehabilitation Tour will actually accomplish in the end. The same 20% of the country that kept his approval ratings from slipping into single digits - said group now being known as the "Tea Party" - will go out and buy his book. They will lap up his mealy-mouthed pabulum like cats into the cream, and some of our "mainstream" commentators will try to shoehorn the idea that he is missed into the national conversation.

He is not. George W. Bush was, and likely will forever be, the single worst American president in the nation's history. To outstrip his remarkable record of failure, criminality and disgrace, a future president will have to personally cause the Earth to crash into the sun.

All I can do for now is avoid the TV, stay away from the newspapers, and pray to God on High that this small fraction of a man will soon retreat back into the ignominy from which he has emerged. There is no salvaging him, and thanks to him, there may be no salvaging America in his aftermath.

We are all children of this bastard fool now. The least he can do is stay in the shadows where he belongs, while we toil and sweat to repair what he wrought.

http://www.truth-out.org/a-small-fraction-a-man65077

[franksolich]

There's a rule here, against posting the entirety of any of the Bostonian Drunkard's literary works.   

Usually something like this is done:

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-13-10 12:14 PM
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A.....rest of screed deleted for being redundant, superfluous, or really stupid

This kindness spares the membership any peril of dozing off.

[franksolich]

Another time-worthy BDS rant.....

It's buried way deep in the archives here, or was perhaps lost when our old home crashed (I think it's the latter, although P-J Comix preserved it in one of his long-ago DUmmie FUnnies), but one time franksolich did a Freudian analysis of the Bostonian Drunkard; had the trust-fund kiddie all figured out.

One of the points was that whenever the Bostonian Drunkard bashed George Bush, in real life he had just had an argument with his father, Pitt Sr., and lost.

George Bush is the acceptable "substitute" for the Bostonian Drunkard raging against his paternal ancestor.

In case one doesn't know, the parents of the Bostonian Drunkard are divorced; dad's an attorney prominent in Democrat politics down in Alabama, and mom's an attorney for a city council up in New Hampshire.

By the way, that's an admirable thing Mama "Raven" did; being divorced, a single mother with a foul boryborygmous rotten kid to raise, like Dan and Marilyn Quayle, she went to law school at night so as to better herself.

Anyway, it looks to me as if the Bostonian Drunkard had asked the old man for money, and the old man said "no," and hence this anti-Bush rant.

[BEG]

He obviously didn't watch one interview with Bush just as I couldn't stand to read his drivel. Pitt is such a bore.

[I_B_Perky]

In case one doesn't know, the parents of the Bostonian Drunkard are divorced; dad's an attorney prominent in Democrat politics down in Alabama, and mom's an attorney for a city council up in New Hampshire.

By the way, that's an admirable thing Mama "Raven" did; being divorced, a single mother with a foul boryborygmous rotten kid to raise, like Dan and Marilyn Quayle, she went to law school at night so as to better herself.

And Pittstain is a part time bouncer at his favorite watering hole. I bet the reason why his parents are divorced is they both blame the other for whatever gene caused the Pittstain to be like he is when all they would have to do is look in the mirror.

Pittstain is a prime example of what happens when liberal parents are allowed to reproduce.

Oh well. At least he isn't on welfare.

[NHSparky]

And Pittstain is a part time bouncer at his favorite watering hole. I bet the reason why his parents are divorced is they both blame the other for whatever gene caused the Pittstain to be like he is when all they would have to do is look in the mirror.

Pittstain is a prime example of what happens when liberal parents are allowed to reproduce.

Oh well. At least he isn't on welfare.

Don't bet on it--after all, he DOES live in Massholistan.

[I_B_Perky]

Don't bet on it--after all, he DOES live in Massholistan.

LOL!

I thought he was a trust fund baby and supposedly didn't have to work. Could be wrong though... won't be the first time. At least if you listen to my ex. 

[Ballygrl]

Translation=Bush giving good interviews and making American's look at him fondly versus Obama continuing his apology tour and looking like a fool on the world stage.

[franksolich]

LOL!

I thought he was a trust fund baby and supposedly didn't have to work. Could be wrong though... won't be the first time. At least if you listen to my ex. 

The Bostonian Drunkard, at 39 years of age, is a trust-fund kiddie.

But until Mama Raven departs this vale of tears--and one surely hopes that's still many decades into the future yet--she has the purse-strings.

Sometimes she says "yes," sometimes she says "no."

And when she says "no," the Bostonian Drunkard runs to Pitt, Sr.

If Pitt, Sr. says "no," then the Bostonian Drunkard writes a Bush-bashing column.

[I_B_Perky]

The Bostonian Drunkard, at 39 years of age, is a trust-fund kiddie.

But until Mama Raven departs this vale of tears--and one surely hopes that's still many decades into the future yet--she has the purse-strings.

Sometimes she says "yes," sometimes she says "no."

And when she says "no," the Bostonian Drunkard runs to Pitt, Sr.

If Pitt, Sr. says "no," then the Bostonian Drunkard writes a Bush-bashing column.

Wow! I didn't know that Frank. You sir, are a fountain of information on the life and times of the dumpmonkeys.


I would have guessed, not being a trust fund kiddie myself, that one would have gotten control of it at least by the time they are 30. If I was 39 and still beholden to mommy I think I would shoot myself.

Thanks Frank! 

[BlueStateSaint]

Translation=Bush giving good interviews and making American's look at him fondly versus Obama continuing his apology tour and looking like a fool on the world stage.

H5 for the distillation!

[JohnnyReb]

I would have guessed, not being a trust fund kiddie myself, that one would have gotten control of it at least by the time they are 30. If I was 39 and still beholden to mommy I think I would shoot myself.

Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth....others are born with a rusty fork up the rear.....guess which one usually handles his money more wisely.

[franksolich]

Wow! I didn't know that Frank. You sir, are a fountain of information on the life and times of the dumpmonkeys.


I would have guessed, not being a trust fund kiddie myself, that one would have gotten control of it at least by the time they are 30. If I was 39 and still beholden to mommy I think I would shoot myself.

Thanks Frank!

There was a primitive about three years ago, from Harvard, who had something against the Bostonian Drunkard, and checked out things.  What he found, he kindly shared with the world.

The Bostonian Drunkard's trust fund emanated from his maternal grandfather, the "Raven" primitive's father, who had been a big attorney in Boston circa 1940-1980--some prime inner-Boston real-estate there--but fearful that his shallow grandson would blow it away too quickly, there were some, uh, rather onerous conditions placed on it.

No one seems to know what those conditions are; I had speculated the funds would be dispersed to his grubby hands when the Bostonian Drunkard got married last year, but I was wrong.

It appears that the "Raven" primitive and her younger brother (also an attorney) are trustees of the fund, and it isn't wholly the Bostonian Drunkard's until mama kicks off.  (The "Raven" primitive is 65 years old, and one sincerely wishes her many more decades of life, like four or five more.)

The Bostonian Drunkard's father, divorced from his mother, has some dough, but not nearly as much.

And so it plays out as if a farce on Broadway, a middle-aged flabby flaccid boryborymous loser having to beg for money from either parent.  But it's the Bostonian Drunkard's own damn fault; if he weren't so conceited, so shallow, so grubby, so gaseous, so wilfully ignorant, his grandfather might have trusted him more.

It's got to suck when one's own grandfather doesn't trust one.

[Tess Anderson]

I was sort of sorry that I made a thread over this, but then I didn't expect anybody to actually read through the Pitt rant and some big names were there - peggyinca, flybynight,among others but now I'm happy I did - franksolitch is like a walking DUmmy expert, thanks for the info.

[franksolich]

.....now I'm happy I did -

I'm very happy you did, too, madam.

[ColonialMarine0431]

Bitter little man, ain't he.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I was sort of sorry that I made a thread over this, but then I didn't expect anybody to actually read through the Pitt rant and some big names were there - peggyinca, flybynight,among others but now I'm happy I did - franksolitch is like a walking DUmmy expert, thanks for the info.

No, no, dear lady, thank you!  However, I feel most of our cavern compadres failed to apprehend the true source of the Pittstain's deep and abiding unhappiness expressed in the quoted article:

...He did interviews, and excerpts of his new book dribbled out, and it was all too much to endure...

Yes...G. W. Bush will sell a million of these tomes in no time flat.  On the other hand, William Rivers Pitt, self-styled man of letters and co-author with a convicted kiddie pornster of a highly dated work (Doubly so since the appearance of Mr. Bush's volume) on the Iraqi WMD program, will forever languish in the authorial neverland one bare notch above mere vanity press scam victims.  The entire body of his lifetime writing will not likely get a million unique hits even on the free-and-worth-every-penny-of-it website like Truthout(thewindow).   

A delicious irony, is it not?

    

[BlueStateSaint]

Yes...G. W. Bush will sell a million of these tomes in no time flat.  On the other hand, William Rivers Pitt, self-styled man of letters and co-author with a convicted kiddie pornster of a highly dated work (Doubly so since the appearance of Mr. Bush's volume) on the Iraqi WMD program, will forever languish in the authorial neverland one bare notch above mere vanity press scam victims.  The entire body of his lifetime writing will not likely get a million unique hits even on the free-and-worth-every-penny-of-it website like Truthout(thewindow).  

A delicious irony, is it not?

   

DAT, it could be used as toilet paper in a future SHTF situation.  Probably the only thing that "tome" (Pittster's and Ritter's) could, and should, be used for.

[franksolich]

DAT, it could be used as toilet paper in a future SHTF situation.  Probably the only thing that "tome" (Pittster's and Ritter's) could, and should, be used for.

It's a pretty tiny book, though, small and not long at all.

As a little lad, franksolich used to read children's versions of Yiddish folk tales that were bigger and heavier than the Bostonian Drunkard's "book."  My books had bigger words--and more words--in them, too.

Really, it's pretty puny, that book.

[Randy]

Oh

Here I thought the title A Small Fraction of a Man was pittsters autobiography.

[BlueStateSaint]

It's a pretty tiny book, though, small and not long at all.

As a little lad, franksolich used to read children's versions of Yiddish folk tales that were bigger and heavier than the Bostonian Drunkard's "book."  My books had bigger words--and more words--in them, too.

Really, it's pretty puny, that book.

Okay--so The Heiress, who is just starting to potty-train, could use it.

[franksolich]

Okay--so The Heiress, who is just starting to potty-train, could use it.

The pages are glued to the spine, meaning that after it's been opened and read a couple of times, the pages separate from the spine and start falling out.

One gets what one pays for, and it's reasonable to assume the Bostonian Drunkard picked an el-cheapo vanity publisher to do the job.