Seriously! Does this guy look like a waiter?According to Yahoo!, Valerie Jarrett, who is also the President's Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, ''was seated at the head table along with several other big-name politicians and a handful of high-ranking military officials. As an officer sporting several stars walked past Jarrett, she signaled for his attention and said, 'I'd like another glass of wine.'''
White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, sitting next to Jarret, allegedly began ''cracking up nervously.'' Yet, no one dared inform Jarrett that it was four-star Army General Peter Chiarelli she sent off to get her wine, not a waiter.
''The guy dutifully went up and got her a glass of wine, and then came back and gave it to her and took a seat at the table,'' a tipster told Yahoo! ''Everyone is in tuxedos and gowns at this thing, but the military people are in full dress uniform.''
Chiarelli, perhaps on directions from the White House, tried to play down the incident. But it's one thing to pass it off, but he went beyond the call of duty in an effort to take the heat off Jarrett in the media.
The general emailed CNN:
''It was an honest mistake that ANYONE could have made. She was sitting, I was standing and walking behind her and all she saw were the two stripes on my pants which were almost identical to the waiters pants -- REALLY. She apologized and will come to the house for dinner if a date can be worked out in March.''
A mistake ''anyone could have made''?
You're far too kind, General Chiarelli.
First of all, if Valerie Jarrett didn't recognize you personally as the second-highest ranking officer in the U.S. Army, she should have at least recognized you as a four-star general. Fuck! You were in full dress uniform! Wouldn't the four-stars and a multitude of awards and ribbons, which include:
Defense Distinguished Service Medal (with two bronze oak leaf clusters) Distinguished Service Medal (Army) Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit (with two bronze oak leaf clusters) Bronze Star Medal Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal (with four bronze oak leaf clusters) Army Achievement Medal (with one bronze oak leaf cluster) Joint Meritorious Unit Award Army Superior Unit Award National Defense Service Medal (with two bronze service stars) Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Iraq Campaign Medal (with three bronze service stars) Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal Army Service Ribbon Army Overseas Service Ribbon (with award numeral "3") NATO Medal for Yugoslavia Combat Action Badge
... at least be a clue?
Second of all, if all she did really see were the two stripes on your pants, what the fuck? Is that the way Jarrett typically addresses waiters? With a snobbish, stuck-up, can't-even-look-at-them-when-requesting-something attitude?
Of course, this comes as really no surprise. This is the same piss-on-them disdain the radical left has shown for our nation's military for decades.
After President Bill Clinton took office in 1993, a senior military official tried to greet a young woman on the White House staff. The arrogant woman's reply? ''I don't talk to the military.''
