New TAH feature: Complete the Yon-ism
Here’s a little concept I have been toying with, complete the thought for Michael Yon. He never just comes out and says anything unless he’s cornered, in which case he implicates something entirely not connected to the subject. As a logic based humanoid, I realize how this puts me at a disadvantage, it’s like arguining with the wife 2-3 certain days a month. Now, because of the dearth of information that he throws out there, I often times devote significant mental energies to figuring out just what in the fug he is talking about.
Just recently it occured to me that I should either create a Michael Yon Magic 8 ball (on sale soon at your local AAFES) or throw it out to you, my beloved readers. Anyway, today’s innaugural one is from this enigmatic post:
Anway, can you please vote and let me know how to interpret this?
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Who’s the Uncle Duke Doonsbury guy in Yon’s Facebook page? Is that from 1987?
Yon hasn’t looked like that in years and is much more rotund and moonlike these days.
I’m fairly certain it means “I had my ass handed to me and everyone knows I’m a guano loco liar, but I still need my loyal sycophants to believe I’m riding an armored horse into battle wielding only my trusty 28mm and a pen so they’ll hit my PayPal button.”
Oooh shiny! Please do tell me this will be a regular feature? It goes better with coffee than even fudge striped cookies from dem wee elvey dudes.
What the two truth tellers above me said!! LOL
Ooops, three!
i needed an “all of the above” choice.
There really SHOULD be “All of the above” option. Adding links to this gem to my latest..;)
you know this guy has had so many retractions you really have to wonder WHY THE HELL anyone prints his stories
I have to agaree with the other ladies, there should be an All Of The Above option… or maybe it was the sodomized Keebler elf that was killed by the SF guys in a cab? I mean if Yon didn’t get enough cookies as a child it would explain a lot.
STOP IT! EVRYBODY SHOULD STOP ATTACKING MICHAEL BECAUSE HE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH THE COURAGE TO TELL THE TRUTH! WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ IS A CIVIL WAR? MICHAEL YON, THAT IS WHO! EVRYBODY ELSE WHO SAID IT WAS COPYCATTING OFF OF HIM!!! WHO WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD THE COURAGE TO TELL THE TRUTH THAT WE WERE LOSING IN AFGHANISTAN BECAUSE OF GENERAL MCCHRYSTOL? MICHAEL YON, THAT IS WHO! YOU PEOPLE NEED TO STOP ATTACKING HIM AND REALIZE WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME SIDE IN THIS WAR! EXCEPT YOU ALL ARE BRANEWASHED CJ GRISHOM OBAMA HATING GAY MOSLEM PISS CULT MEMBERS.
Anyone else flash on this video during tammi’s rant?
TSO writes: I prefer this one…
It’s always that “Mustafa” fellow. He’s like the invisible playmate that little kids often have.
Can I buy a lowercased letter Tammi?
No way that is a Yanian. Just too cliche.
poor tammi. it’s hard when you find out that your cape-wearing, fearless and intrepid hero is really just a chubby, lying crybaby of a megalomaniac – laying in a dark corner somewhere in Thailand – isn’t it? sorry hon.
Tammi…it’s okay. Acceptance is one of the first steps, hon.
Tammi, Tammi, Tammi; did you not get the memo? All caps doesn’t really do anything to bolster your point. Yon got sloppy in his embeds and was basically being a pain in the ass to the people on the ground. Couple that with his attempts to smear the big Kahuna in theater (McChrystal) ended badly for him. What did you think would happen when he went after Mac? It is known that he was even escorted off an SF camp by the Team Sergeant for being a douche. There has been a pattern of this type of behavior by him for several years now.
Please remember that the next time you want to add a comment. Plus; I didn’t know there was a gay moslem piss cult?
That was a troll, right?
+1 for the “regular feature” idea.
TSO has it – Tammi writes from the firm of Tongue & Cheek. (Yon will be taken on staff by the rival firm of Over & Dunwith.)
Tammi please repeat after me,
“Hello everybody, my name is Tammi and I am a yonaholic”
Tammi, It’s very hard to accept that your fantasy guy is a fat, stupid and narcisistic idiot who cares nothing about anyone but himself…take a deep breath and get over it…if you are lucky you will find another hero to fantasize about when you are having great sex in your dreams…..because I can’t see that happening anywhere else.
Tammi Fever: I have read Michael Yon’s online magazine for years and used to be a fan. The reason I did so was to read about the soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan that he covers.
Somehow, his writing now is subjectively about him and his magnificient ideas/insight. He’s more Seymour Hirsch than Ernie Pyle. He’s not the Michael Yon of 2003.
He has lost his purpose as a photographer. I get more out of http://www.militaryphotos.net nowadays, and am doing fine without his sappy, self-centered dramatics.
(And one other thing: As a man, if someone else challenges me, I push back without apology and take my lumps for doing so. As a man, I don’t go publicizing my personal tiffs like a little Nancy.)
Oh crap, Jonn, I was thinking the same thing. haha
What did he do this time? Haven’t payed attention to him in years, well except that Yon vs Blackfive/Hanson/Grey Hawk/This Ain’t Hell/Rest of Humanity feud a months back.
As for McCrystal, I’m sorry to disagree, yes Obama silly Surge plan takes precedence over all else stupid. General McCrystal is a large contibuting factor though. He just admitted somewhere(can’t remember where I saw it) that he didn’t understand the conflict, and thats an understatement.
Okay, that seals it. I saw the video. Yes, it hurt. And, no, I didn’t make it all the way. It only took a few seconds–and then a few seconds more–to conclude that Tammi is Soup Sandwich’s sister!
I’m surprised that “General McChrystal cannot be trusted.” is not a choice.
Yon’s problems started when he stopped trying to be today’s Ernie Pyle and started trying to be today’s David Hackworth.
So how come we can’t blame the fact of cab flagging difficulty on inept PAOs who are trying to muzzle him by denying his first amendment rights and paying those cab drivers to stay home, therefore further proving his claims of waste!!
SPEW ALERT: Just viewed the Leave Belichick Alone video. Words fail me. That is an Instant Classic. Should be available daily as a semi-permanent link for at least a month.
Get that Bilichick video up on YouTube. It might go viral.
#26 Hackworth’s problem was that he tended to exaggerate.
@28: Fitzy is an icon of the Pats Faithful here in New England. His website has lots of wonderful videos, most of which are mos’def’ not safe for work.. 🙂
@31. Ah. Thanks. That line, “It was just a little video” damn near put me on the floor.
I’m actually waiting for TSO to name a dog after Fitzy.
“OBAMA HATING GAY MOSLEM PISS CULT MEMBERS.”. Wow, just, uh, you know, like wow. I didn’t know ObamaGurl was posting under another name.
Will the Yon Magic 8 ball be available to civilians anytime soon? Like maybe at Target?(no pun) Can I pre order?
I have a an answer to add to the survey question…
Because the Pedros are better and faster…Mike Yon said so and we should all listen to him instead of the guys who are in it…cough.
Hey Tammi Fever…Take off your RCG’s and see the AH Yon has become. B5 has more…or maybe you need some money to buy a clue?
WOW. count on a troll to go haywire to protect the “honor” of someone who is clearly full of shit
Oh….you meant THAT Michael(dot)Yawn….
Gosh, Yet another MY persona…. or did non of you figure that tammi fever is probably Twinkie.. I mean Yawn.
Proud to be banned by Mike Yawn…
LB
Tammi,
I love how I keep getting mentioned by you Yon fanatics as if i’m the root of all his issues. I’ll admit to being responsible for providing the information that led to several decisions to end or not allow an embed, but seriously! You people give me way too much power. Everything I have done with respect to Yon has been in public. I don’t need to use other people or create fake profiles to expose the guy for who he is.
And if anyone wants a current photo of Yon in Afghanistan that proves his rotundness, email me at cj@soldiersperspective.us
It seems to me that a bunch of people’s sarcasm detectors are broken.
I thought Tammi’s rant was quite funny.
I’m pretty sure Tammi is mocking the Yonbots and their rabid defense of him. I’ve seen “her” comment on the Michael Yawn site. 😉
You forgot his standard response:
“Jimbo lied. I never embedded with the Canadians. He never served in combat. General Menard was watching a Hockey Game instead of pulling his guard duty at the taxi stand.”
“If the Generals really wanted to win this war, they would get on their knees and ask me to embed.”
“BioGas is the answer. They just didn’t feed me enough beans.”
“If the Red Cross was taken off the MedEvacs, we would have won 11 years ago.”