Talk About Your Chutzpah...

[WillyT]

Definition of CHUTZPAH
: supreme self-confidence : nerve, gall

Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity, brashness, brass, brassiness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, effrontery (also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa), crust, face, gall, nerve, nerviness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, sauce, sauciness, temerity

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Far worse, however, was the anonymous statement given to ABC from an unnamed White House (or senior) official, presuming to tell the Japanese that they face a long and dire future:

“It would be hard to describe how alarming this is right now,” ABC quoted the anonymous official as saying. . . .

“They need to stop pulling out people — and step up with getting them back in the reactor to cool it. There is a recognition this is a suicide mission,” the unnamed U.S. official was quoted by ABC as saying.

First, there is no public policy reason why this unnamed US official should be left “unnamed.” What is ABC’s excuse? More important, what are these people thinking?

The Japanese have just suffered one of the worst triple catastrophes in their or anyone’s history. Thousands have been killed, more thousands may never be found. Whole towns and villages have been destroyed by the the quakes or wiped away by the tsunami. And now they face a desperate situation at this nuclear facility with no assured solutions and all options involving huge dangers to workers. But they hardly need to be told this by some anonymous smuck sitting in Washington, especially one representing a US government that is failing to address the needs of America.

Nor do the Japanese need to be told by an unnamed American official to buck up and be more courageous. Dozens of workers dealing with the quakes, the tsunami and now the reactor crisis have risked their lives. The fifty or more people who have been working close to the failed reactors may already have been exposed to lethal doses. These people know what they’re facing and yet they’re still confronting the dangers and have been doing so for a week. The helicopter pilots now dropping water over Units 3 and 4, and the firemen working the hoses below, are also risking their lives, as are control room crews.

Earth to cowardly US official: STFU.

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Link: http://my.firedoglake.com/scarecrow/2011/03/16/japan-nuke-watch-why-is-unnamed-us-official-lecturing-japan/

:wtf:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. They are at that point,

no, not chutzpah...

[Bonobo]

4. Yes, chutzpah. They do not need to be taught the meaning of self-sacrifice

from an American diplomat with a fat ass deformed from sitting in his cushy chair all day.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. In that sense yes,

but we are at the point where some people will die... or let me correct this are already dead.

And if this was oh San Onofre, we would be at that pont too.

Unfortunately the people making it are not either the PETCO management, or if this was San Onofre, Edison...

I will raise a glass for them by the way.

[Moral_Imagination]

12. Dam lazy government worker...

:wtf:

Is that you Scott Walker?

[Angry Dragon]

2. Maybe this un-named US official should go over there and show

them how to do it........

[WillyT]

3. Agreed !!!

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. You really do not want to go there

in fact the Americans there will be going there... not their bosses

[Angry Dragon]

9. NO!! ..............I do want to go there

I am getting real tired of elected officials finding fault with everything that is America
They sit there and blame everyone else for the ills of this country and the world instead of looking in the mirror
and seeing that they are the cause of the ills of this country and the world.

So I think this person should be named ....... they are giving out secret government information and should be named and arrested
And if they think they can do a better job then they should get their ass over there and show them how it is done or keep their damn mouth shut

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I am willing to bet the person who said that

was out of script and is career at the department of energy, not elected.

Only a career person would be that dang specific and quite frankly off message.

[Alameda]

6. I wonder how long the that official will be unnamed?

You know, things like this are hard to keep quiet.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Unnamed U.S. official needs to get his/her

ass in there and cool the reactor. Go ahead, unnamed U.S. official, I dare you to go in there. Big talk from a little man/woman.

[PhillySane]

10. What's laughable in this statement

is that the US Navy (which still occupies Japan to this date) decided to move their boats to safer waters. So whose got balls?

[Moral_Imagination]

13. Yes by all means lie to protect Japanese officials

while a meltdown takes places. This is the nuttiest post ive read in weeks.

[gateley]

14. There was a guy on MSNBC (probably) who basically said the same thing --

Wait, maybe he was on w/Anderson Cooper.Gotta think about it -- wonder if it's the same guy?