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My New Hero: Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore

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Male reporter: General, a little bit more about why that's happening this time, though, and did not have that last time...

Honore: You are stuck on stupid. I'm not going to answer that question. We are going to deal with Rita. This is public information that people are depending on the government to put out. This is the way we've got to do it. So please. I apologize to you, but let's talk about the future. Rita is happening. And right now, we need to get good, clean information out to the people that they can use. And we can have a conversation on the side about the past, in a couple of months.

The General's statement is right here.

More on General Honore's statement right here.

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O. F. Jay (www):

Dean, ever notice just how *masculine* this guy speaks? No pussyfooting, no prevarications and equivocations. It reminded me of Rumsfeld a couple years back, even Baldilocks wrote about how Rummy speaks the way men used to.

I don't want to sound any more masculist than I already do, but I hope it's not lost on any of us that the man, well, talks like a man.

9.21.2005 4:45am

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Steven Malcolm Anderson (www):

I salute Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore.

9.21.2005 5:17am

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Dean Esmay:

Yeah. I love it. "This is the way it is. Suck it if you don't like it."

I also love the puhfect southuhn gentleman's accent he's got going on.

"You ah stuck on stoopid. Ah'm not gonna ansuh that question. We have gotta deal with Rita. This is public infuhmation that people ah depending on the govuhment to put out, this is the way we gotta do it. So please ah apologize to ya, but les' talk about the fyootchuh. Ritar has happened... Raht now we gotta get good clean infuhmation out to the people..."

I'm not making fun of it by the way. I think it's a magnificent way of speaking. They ought to teach it in schools down in Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, etc. :-)

9.21.2005 5:23am

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Ted Armstrong (mail) (www):

I too cheered when I heard the good general's words. At last, someone who speaks their mind and doesn't suffer fools.

Wouldn't you just love to hear Scott McClelland respond to a Helen Thomas question with, "Helen, you are stuck on stupid. I'm not going to answer that question. Next question please."

9.21.2005 7:17am

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Kristian H. (mail) (www):

As a former Air Force Officer, I have always been thrilled by the directness and effectiveness of competent leaders in the Military (which alas are still very rare). They don't want excuses, they want solutions. And they are trained to worry about the mission first, and to ignore everything else that is inconsequential.

The one problem with that is this implicitly trusts the REST of the world to do their job-- such as the Mayor of NO and Govenor of LA.

But the people in NO should be thankful that at least one person down there has a clue bat, and isn't afraid to use it. :)

9.21.2005 7:36am

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Rhianna (aka rmschoon) (mail) (www):

Honore is well respected in the US military. He kicks ass, and takes names. He's not what I would term 'brutal' but he doesn't bear fools. He's been known as that kind of man, and OFFICER, for his entire career. I'm just glad he gets to tell jackass MSM reporters to shove it in no uncertain Southern terms. :)

Take that all who think a Southern accent makes you stupid! Oh, by the way, I think a good deal of WHY he's a non-rhotic speaker has to do with the fact he was born and raised in Louisiana, where they still have a passing attempt at being gentlemen.

9.21.2005 8:20am

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Tyrone Steels II (mail) (www):

My father, the honorable Tyrone Sr. SIR!, has always told my brother and I the following:

Sons, a man has fun and plays games when it's the fun times. When the fun times end, a man shoots straight and pure, never blinking a damn eye or he loses them.

I've always took those words to heart and practiced them even when it was EXTREMELY painful. Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore is just doing the same. And some people, men and women, have problems with that? My fellow men, what good are we if we're not willing to shoot straight and pure?

9.21.2005 8:24am

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Arnold Harris (mail):

I like people who converse accurately and truthfully, which is exactly what the general did in dealing with whomever the media fool was that just became immortal for the next few years.

That was exactly the way the generation of military and even civilian leaders whom I grew up to respect in the 1940s and early 1950s spoke and acted. They were held responsible -- by themselves as well as others -- for the results they achieved, and they didn't screw around with doubletalk.

So Lieutenant General Russel L Honore has my respect as well. Would I respect a man like that as president of the United States and commander in chief of our armed forces? You bet your ass I would, because I've been waiting for someone just like him for the past 50 years or more. Ever since Harry S Truman left the White House the morning of Dwight Eisenhower's first inauguration, and went unescorted with his wife Bess on a cab ride to Union Station to catch a train back to Independence, Missouri.

Its about time we dropped all the political correctness and just started working on real-life solutions to some of the problems that are besetting America. And we can start with plain talk and compelling the news media to drop the notion that anyone put them in charge of anything in a national emergency.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

9.21.2005 9:26am

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maor (mail):

Unfortunately, his insistence on talking about public safety instead of what the reporters want to talk about is going to be attacked as some sort of violation of the First Amendment...

9.21.2005 10:11am

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Stace:

Finally, someone giving it straight to the "feces-flinging monkeys". I LOVE it.

I watched it on video this morning, and I swear it looked like Vice Admiral Allen in the background was trying not to crack up.

9.21.2005 10:27am

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Bryan AWS (mail) (www):

Well, the fact is, he answered the question the first time, and it was asked again about THREE TIMES by people who apparently can't hear or understand what he's saying. "Stuck on stupid" is apparently a more colloquial way of saying "asked and answered."

I'm always put off by my journalistic brethren and sistren who insist on asking the same questions over and over when it has long become apparent that the person doing the answering isn't going to be any more forthcoming than he/she already has been.

Kudos to Honore.

9.21.2005 10:30am

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Mike (mail):

Note to the press: It is not about you. You are media, a transmitter of information, something that goes between two other persons or things. You are not the story.

It really wasn't about you. I know it's hard, but get over yourselves. It's not about you.

9.21.2005 12:46pm

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LeftBrainFemale (mail) (www):

I’ve opted to offer 9.22.2005 8:12am

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LeftBrainFemale (mail) (www):

Whoops! Thought I knew how to do that! Once more - I've opted to offer DGSOS Tees in my store (with credit given to LTG. Honore.)

9.22.2005 8:17am

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Dan Kauffman (www):

Don't Get Stuck On Stupid
I have to say this is a refreshing change,
“You are stuck on stupid, I’m not going to answer that question”

Mind you this is not the ONLY time the Press has gotten chewed out by this man

There's a link to an earlier video where he called the press coverage BS

LT. GENERAL RUSSEL "RAGIN CAJUN" HONORE TAKES THE PRESS TO THE WOODSHED

"That's B.S. It's B.S.," Honore raged.

"I can tell you that is B.S. We have got 300 helicopters and some of the finest EMS workers in the world down there.

"You need to get on the streets of New Orleans, you can't sit back here and say what you hear from someone else."

9.22.2005 7:19pm