An eye opening experience I had as a young Secret Service agent was the experiences I had as the “press agent.”
Newer agents on the president’s detail are assigned to babysit the press because that’s where you’ll do the least damage if you screw something up. I would sit with them all day on trips and fly back home on the “press plane” with them.
Some conclusions I drew from many hours and days of immersion with them:
1) Most of them are genuine imbeciles. Their conversations ranged from absurd to ignorant, to downright ridiculous.
2) They love to stand in judgment of others but, in the pre-cell phone camera era, they would engage in some of the worst debauchery you’ve ever seen on those planes. They’re really a disgusting group of people.
3) Most of them really despise Americans who actually work for a living. They consider themselves part of a community of knighted aristocrats and they look down on the people they’re supposed to cover.
I saw it. And you should treat these losers with the respect they deserve, meaning none at all.
The Iranian theocracy was an imminent threat.
They were committed to our destruction and anyone telling you otherwise is misleading you.
Between their lethal plotting against US targets, their continued efforts to shield their attempt to reconstitute their nuclear program using ballistic missiles, their global terror support, and their destructive drone program, there’s zero doubt about the threat level. Zero.
