September 18, 2002

9:17 PM

"Mr. Magoo." Just the man to run the Army in a two-front Middle Eastern war, right? username: metafilter password: metafilter via rc3.
posted by specialk420 (9 comments total)

Heh-heh, ah Magoo, paying a visit to the bakery was a great idea -

Confound it! This article's only about some fellow named Thomas White, who was chosen by that Cheney fellow as the new Army secretary. Someone felt the new blood was a little bit green, y'see, so they nicknamed the fellow after Magoo - ah, ah, there's the catch in it all! Heh-heh...yessss....

Now, if I can only remember where I put that bread...
posted by Smart Dalek at 10:09 PM on September 18, 2002

Thomas White today, and Thomas White yesterday (Thanks to the Wayback Machine). One could almost say that his resume had been sanitized for your consumption.
posted by michaelonfs at 10:35 PM on September 18, 2002

animal farm, much?
posted by donkeyschlong at 10:43 PM on September 18, 2002

nice one michealonfs. nice.
posted by specialk420 at 10:57 PM on September 18, 2002

Absolutely. Great stuff, michaelonfs, thats the kind of stuff that sends Maureen Dowd into a frenzy.
posted by gsteff at 2:44 AM on September 19, 2002

Has anyone here heard Thomas White's voice? I heard him during his congressional testimony concerning his years at Enron. He sounded disturbingly like Bill Clinton - voice (and Arkansas accent), equivocation, word parsing and all.
posted by troutfishing at 6:12 AM on September 19, 2002

michaelonfs,

wow.
posted by hackly_fracture at 9:45 AM on September 19, 2002

michaelonfs - great. This is what makes the Web so cool. And Metafilter too, of course.
posted by soyjoy at 11:12 AM on September 19, 2002

"In any other administration, Bush's scandal-plagued Army secretary, Thomas White, would be history. But the rules have changed."
posted by homunculus at 12:58 PM on September 19, 2002