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April 14, 2008
New York Times Unearths Talking Dinosaur
Here's something I bet you didn't know: Dick Cavett is still alive. Age and irrelevance have not improved him. Here he is attempting to ridicule General David Petraeus's hard-earned decorations on the pages of the same New York Times that ran the infamous General Betray Us ad the last time Petraeus reported on our progress in Iraq:
I can't look at Petraeus — his uniform ornamented like a Christmas tree with honors, medals and ribbons — without thinking of the great Mort Sahl at the peak of his brilliance. He talked about meeting General Westmoreland in the Vietnam days. Mort, in a virtuoso display of his uncanny detailed knowledge — and memory — of such things, recited the lengthy list ("Distinguished Service Medal, Croix de Guerre with Chevron, Bronze Star, Pacific Campaign" and on and on), naming each of the half-acre of decorations, medals, ornaments, campaign ribbons and other fripperies festooning the general's sternum in gaudy display. Finishing the detailed list, Mort observed, "Very impressive!" Adding, "If you're twelve."
Try to imagine Cavett or any of his Gray Lady facilitators earning so much as a Girl Scouts ribbon.
On a tip from Conan in Iraq.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 14, 2008 8:17 AM
Comments
Dick who?
Posted by: V the K at April 14, 2008 8:21 AM
His parent chose the right name for him: DICK.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 14, 2008 8:34 AM
Cavett needs to stick to name dropping around Martha's Vineyard.
Posted by: avalon at April 14, 2008 8:57 AM
Don't libs know anything about the military?
Posted by: shawha7878 at April 14, 2008 9:05 AM
Fucking picture scared me into next week.
WTF is UP with liberals who refuse to DIE! Carter, Mondale, Dick(head) Cavett, Cahppaquiddick Teddy, etc, etc!
Posted by: Conan in Iraq at April 14, 2008 9:05 AM
Dick Caveat is more like it. What a liberal loser. What is it about having a career in front of a camera that makes them go batshit?
Yeah, Conan. Scared me too. They just keep on living and looking like warmed over cadavers, don't they?
Posted by: Anony at April 14, 2008 9:28 AM
He's just jealous.
Posted by: joe at April 14, 2008 9:52 AM
Heston would have wiped his ass with this guy.
Posted by: UCA at April 14, 2008 11:53 AM
I can't stand Dick Cavatt. His kind would be the one who "cut and run" or hide behind women and children when a threat is present. People like him will never understand what it is to stand up for life and principal like our military does everyday. He probably doesn't have balls to make those comments to General Petraeus's or any of our military personnel's faces.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at April 14, 2008 2:33 PM
The most recent thing I can recall seeing him in is the Tim Burton movie, Beetlejuice. From that photo, it looks like he's trying for the title role.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at April 14, 2008 4:35 PM
I don't remember him in Beetlejuice. Who did he play?
Posted by: UCA at April 15, 2008 7:43 AM
I think it was a joke, you yahoos.
Posted by: Who's yer Army Dad? at April 15, 2008 4:12 PM
Just another liberal who knows absolutely nothing about the military or his own country. Gee, now thats news! Can't these people just accept that they're going to get old? A blind man could see it with a cane. Forget the plastic surgery, hair transplants, botox, etc., and just let Nature take it's course. You can always get someone to freeze your brain at the last minute and keep you in storage until a robot Dick Cavett is available.
Posted by: JDG at April 15, 2008 8:09 PM
What an idiot! The man's uniform is dictated, as I recall by regulations.
Posted by: Oftencold at April 15, 2008 8:50 PM
