When I was flying out of Pleiku over the Ho Chi Minh trail it was on an EC47. We communicated on a highly encrypted radio network. There was one guy who used to call out, “Bawk…Bawk…Bawk… Bawk! Chicken Man! He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere.” I viewed it as comedic relief; some of our senior squadron officers were not nearly as amused. It was, after all, a combat zone and this was a secure radio network. There was always considerable speculation as to the real identity of “Chicken Man.” The reality, which I feel can be safely disclosed after 40 years, is that there was no single “Chicken Man.” There were several people capable of being “Chicken Man.” That was how the legend lived on. Just when the higher powers thought they were closing in on a candidate, someone else would step up to the plate and make it obvious that the primary suspect could not possibly be the guy. It was really quite simple. All that was necessary was for the “Chicken Man” call to go out at a time when the primary suspect couldn’t possibly have done it. Without admitting anything, I can do a pretty fair “Chicken Man” call to this day.
Today, we have the infamous “White House Insider.” This is supposedly a liberal Democrat who is totally fed up with Obama, so he dishes out the real inside dirt. Since most of what the White House Insider” has to say is totally consistent with what many of us believe with regard to the character and ability of Obama, it makes for entertaining reading. It would be great if the White House Insider were a real person, along the lines of “Deep Throat” from the Nixon era. Before he died in 2008, Mark Felt went public with the announcement that he was the one and only “Deep Throat.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/washington/19felt.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
Although there were numerous suspects with regard to the real identity of “Deep Throat,” it wasn’t until Felt disclosed the information himself that anyone really knew it was him. There were a lot of people who questioned whether “Deep Throat” even existed. He just seemed too good to be true. But, he was real, and the information he leaked brought down a U.S. President. I have always felt that there was more than one “Deep Throat.”
I have no way of knowing if the “White House Insider” is real, or not. Some of the things he says are so vivid and detailed that it is hard to imagine someone making this up out of whole cloth. On the other hand, these descriptions are so one-sided against Obama that they fall into the “too good to be true” (or “too bad to be true”) category, depending on your political perspective.
The latest version is with regard to the assault on Osama bin Laden. The link to the story is here. You can read it for yourself:
Following is a copy of the picture taken in the White House situation room. Ask yourself, who looks like he just got dragged off a golf course and was asked to be a witness at his own execution? Who looks absolutely horrified and who looks like they belong there? If this picture was designed to make Obama look Presidential, I wonder what the bad photos look like!
There have certainly been reports from this source that have been later verified, but there have also been reports that were ridiculously wrong. There are a lot of smart people who despise Obama, but think the “White House Insider” is just a hoax. I have no way of knowing if any of this is true. It seems a little hard to believe that any President, including Obama, could really be this bad. But the problem is that this will quickly circle the globe on the internet. Whether it is true, or not, a lot of people will believe it because it is consistent with their perception of Obama as a leader. That is a serious problem; a lack of respect for the office of the President of the United States puts us all at risk.
The only thing certain is that this is dangerous stuff. If this is accurate, then we have a real serious leadership problem in our government. If it is not accurate, then this individual is doing grave harm to our national security, and he should be silenced.
Too many people stood by silently while the liberal left and the main stream media falsely accused Bush of lying about the war in Iraq. That did great harm to the office of the President of the United States. If Bush lied, he should have been impeached. If he didn’t, those who falsely accused him should have been silenced. There is no safe middle ground.
TDM