We just love it when the Washington Post gets all [expletive] on us, particularly in a Hillary Clinton story:

A more explosive example of the stress came a few days later. Phil Singer, the campaign’s deputy communications director, emerged from a meeting on Feb. 11 and without explanation started angrily cursing the war room. “[Expletive] all of you,” he shouted, according to a witness, then stormed out and did not return for several days.

Penn was growing increasingly aggravated by what he saw as an untenable management structure, which another aide described as an “oligarchy at the top.” Penn had no real people of his own on the inside and chafed whenever Solis Doyle or Ickes got involved in his sphere. At one point, he and Ickes, who have been battling each other within the Clinton orbit for a dozen years, lost their tempers during a conference call, according to two participants.

“[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted.

“[Expletive] you!” Penn replied.

“[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted again.

Proving once again that the [expletive] Penn is mightier than the [expletive] sword.

By the way, that was quite a long story for the Post.  No doubt they had to edit stuff out, for space purposes.  Extreme Mortman has exclusively obtained the parts of that inside anecdote that were left on the cutting room floor.  Here’s the rest, a continuation of that conversation:

“[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted.

“[Expletive] you!” Penn replied.

“[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted again.

[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted.

“[Expletive] you!” Penn replied.

“[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted again.

[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted.

“[Expletive] you!” Penn replied.

“[Expletive] you!” Ickes shouted again.

Hillary Clinton  Washington Post

2 Comments »

  1. Beavis N. Butthead said,

    March 6, 2008 @ 10:51 am

    Heh, heh: they said “[Expletive] you!” The FCC is gonna have to fine the networks for airing Hillary’s news conferences and the CDC will have to test interns assigned to Bubba for STD’s, while the Secret Service will only have to drug test Obambi’s staff for cocaine and pot, daily.

  2. Craig Colgan said,

    March 7, 2008 @ 2:37 pm

    Beautiful. Just beautiful. I will laugh for a week. Ickes is going to implode any minute now. How fun will that be? Has anybody told Hitchens?

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