MARK, THIS IS A RANT: BE RIGHT OR GET FIRED | 2005-12-26
One of my main themes is thatno one should get our money or our respect unless they EARN it.
That is the rule you face every day at work. Why in the HELL are so many people exempted from it?
I am sick and tired of people patiently reelecting the same people while everything goes to hell.
I am sick and tired of people recognizing a "professional journalist" when "professional journalism" is going down the tubes because nobody trusts them any more.
I have said to many people many times that when a crisis occurs, the people who are called in to deal with it are called in precisely because they CAUSED it. The response to this is the bovine look I am so used to.
When something collapses, it is the experts in that field who have failed. When the Soviet Union collapsed and not one professional froeign policy expert, least any of the professional Sovietologists, had predicted it, who did they call in to deal with the situation?
They called in foreign policy experts and ESPECIALLY professional Sovietologists, of course.
And leading the parade like the man with banner "Excelsior" was the Professional Journalists who held the banner that said,
"Let's not try to assign blame. Let us pull together and deal with the problem before us. Let's look to the future, not debate the past."
Let me ask you a question. When you make a costly screwup in a real job, how often does your boss say:
"Let's not try to assign blame. Let us pull together and deal with the problem before us. Let's look to the future, not debate the past."
I would not want to deal with a company that thought like that.
Yet our entire national policy is run on EXACTLY that basis.
On September 11, 2001, I wrote in Whitakeronline that not one single intelligence "expert" would suffer the slightest inconvenience for what happened that day.
In fact I predicted that all that would result from that disaster would be a PROMOTION for everyone who helped cause it.
Right again, Bob.
Our intelligence experts and terror experts are the same ones we had on September 10, 2001.
Except that they have been promoted and have bigger budgets now.
Which is what I predicted on September 11, 2001.
Gosh darnit, we can't catch Osama Ben Laden, can we?
Well don't worry about it. Our top experts are on the job.
The examples are endless.
And everybody wonders what's wrong.