Smoking Out the Evildoers

The Air Force has constructed a flow-chart for how to respond to blogger criticism.

I think I would be classified as a “rager.”

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  • thespacecowboy

    Looks like they need a little help in their flow-charting skills; there should not be 2 questions in a ‘decision’ box.Teh Bob ‘Rager’ Cesca. Has a nice ring to it.

  • JimmyJames

    Rage against the dying of the Right! :)

  • dontpanic23

    Too bad you’re not from Texas, Bob. Texas Rager just has a ring to it.This looks like one of those 1960s signs in a school bathroom or gym locker for someone confused about how venereal diseases are contracted. Christ, can you imagine someone taking this seriously and referring to it from their wall as they surf the blogosphere? And wait until they start trying to dissect the fine points of snark. That should make a fun flow chart.

  • http://www.stutzfamily.com/stutzblog/2009/01/09/back-from-thai-ing-one-on/ ligess
  • bjritz

    Following the air force blog char the above entered (stuzfam) blog is in need of the Fix the Facts step.The blog has the words: A Yankee In BelgradeThis falls into the Misguided arena because there aren’t really Yankees anymore unless you are a baseball player. Also this blog could create division in the Jet Butts because of the whole introduction of the North and South thing.Having viewed this blog the airman, flier or cook must declare his/her association with the branch and their participation in conflicts of the past relating to Belgrade.Or was this Belgrade, Montana?I would bet no one in the AF would ever look at this.

  • gypsysoul

    is this for real? i kept looking for a hidden onion!this flow thinga-majingy is b.s! i can name at least 3 steps between rager and misguided and unhappy customer should come first. i would ask bush for our money back as an “unhappy customer” but did we really buy him? he is equivalent to buying a ticket to circus for the lions only to have an elephant go rogue on your ass!and why is everything in “quotes”? as if “misguided” is code for “retarded”, “rager”…”bob cesca”?!?!

  • bjritz

    gyps, the quotes are McCains fingers in the air.

  • LameDuckHunting

    I dare say we’re ALL ragers on this bus…….Wow, you can’t make that shit up!

  • GItheJOE

    Does everyone realize that our tax dollars were used to create this shit? Seriously, there was probably a 12 man team working for weeks on this. I am going to put the bill at $1 million.Yes, definitely a RAGER. It is the best title of all.Thank you Rager Bob.

  • Alan4s

    >>Thank you Rager Bob.Where can I get my Rager Bob Secret Decoder Ring? That’s the kind of thing Bob should sell on the Goddamn Awsome Store – it’d drive the Air Force flowchart dipshits crazy.

  • SillyGit

    If I were in the Air Force I would find this insulting. This appears to indicate that they think that their personnel are incapable of thinking for themselves.However, if this indicates that their PR people were responding to criticism in a random ad hoc fashion, then this is actually a good chart since it outlines a uniform and rational response.This *is* the organization that had a crew that flew nuclear weapons around the US without realizing it and sent nuclear weapons components to Korea instead of the aircraft parts they had asked for. This *will* get you lots of criticism.Talking of criticism, thespacecowboy is right. They have a mistake in the first decision box that should be corrected. It can be corrected by changing the text from:

    Has someone discovered a post about the organization? Is it positive or balanced?

    to

    Someone has discovered a post about the organization. Is it positive or balanced?

    I’m not position flexible about misuse of the language.Raging Ragers and the Rants they Rage.Would make a good book title. Gives one thought.

  • http://watergatesummer.blogspot.com/ enigma4ever

    wow…I guess I am a “rager” too….but they have the Ragers between ” unhappy customer” and “trolls” ????omg….too funny..someone send this Jon Stewart….

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    I love the update: ‘Matt Yglesias writes, “Of course what this doesn’t do is allay one’s doubts that a branch of the military whose institutional identity and mission were a pure creation of the Cold War era may not be well-suited to the present-day geopolitical context.”‘Dang straight. My Question #1 during any conversation with strict constructionists is, “Where does the Constitution authorize an Air Force?”