High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Making an Ex-Ambassador Butt-hurt
A few years ago, presumably because of all the torture United has inflicted on me over the years, I was bumped to business class on an Amsterdam-Chicago flight. A friend was sitting in coach, and during boarding some very agitated woman sat next to her, talking loudly on the phone: “They put me in coach! COACH! I had to do the walk of shame!”
Turns out this woman was the ex-US ambassador to the Netherlands, appointed (natch) by Obama. Well, it also turns out that I was sitting next to Bill Daley, and my former boss from that brief interval where I had a real job, another prominent Chicagoan. They and the humiliated ex-diplo had been in Amsterdam for a wedding.
Since I would have preferred to sit in a jump seat having a root canal for 10 hours instead of sitting with that lot, I gladly swapped seats with the ex-ambassador so I could sit with my friend, and she could sit with hers
Oh–miss high and mighty didn’t even say thank you for sparing her 10 hours slumming with the hoi polloi. She didn’t even acknowledge me.
This all came to mind when reading about, and watching a few excerpts from, the testimony of the ex-US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.
Just as United had offended the amour propre of the ex-ambassador on the plane, the President of the United States had grievously damaged the ego of Ms. Yovanovitch by unceremoniously axing her–and dissing her on Twitter. (That’s Yovanovitch with two”v’s”, not a “v” and a “b”. I checked to make sure.). How dare he fire her! How dare he insult her! Doesn’t he know who she is??????
And get this–this pampered creature of the US permanent bureaucracy compared her fate to that of Christopher Stevens. You know, the US ambassador to Libya who was sodomized, murdered, and burned to a crisp by rampaging jihadis in Benghazi on 9/11/2012 When Hillary Clinton–for whom it is metaphysically certain that Yovanovitch voted–was in charge of the State Department, and who (at the very least) lied shamelessly about the events leading up to Stevens’ gruesome death.
Yeah. Marie’s experience was totes the same. Totes!
All I can say is: who the fuck does she think she is? Who the fuck do all these people think they are?
But apparently the making Her Royal Highness Marie “Antoinette” Yovanovitch butt-hurt is a high crime and misdemeanor, worthy of impeachment. At least in the mind (being generous here!) behind Adam Schiff’s bulging eyes.
You could not make up this shit. I knew things were going to be crazy starting 8 November, 2016. But in my wildest imaginings I could have never figured they would be this crazy.
But maybe it’s all for the good. Outing these jumped up apparatchiks, and the coterie of DC journalists who slobber over them–including, I emphasize, from Fox News–may be the greatest public service that Trump has performed, or will ever perform. We can see them in all their petty vanity, overweening pride–and serial incompetence. It is not a pretty sight, but it is a damned instructive one.