{"id":11522,"date":"2012-04-30T05:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2012-04-30T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T09:30:24","slug":"what-grates-about-the-secret-service-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/04\/what-grates-about-the-secret-service-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"What grates about the Secret Service scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Still more from that brilliant column by Peggy Noonan, America\u2019s Crisis of Character<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There is the Secret Service scandal. That one broke through too, and you know the facts: overseas to guard the president, sent home for drinking, partying, picking up prostitutes.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s terrible about this story is that for anyone who\u2019s ever seen the Secret Service up close it\u2019s impossible to believe. The Secret Service are the best of the best. That has been their reputation because that has been their reality. They have always been tough, disciplined and mature. They are men, and they have the most extraordinary job: take the bullet.<\/p>\n

Remember when Reagan was shot? That was Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy who stood there like a stone wall, and took one right in the gut. Jerry Parr pushed Reagan into the car, and Mr. Parr was one steely-eyed agent. Reagan coughed up a little blood, and Mr. Parr immediately saw its color was a little too dark. He barked the order to change direction and get to the hospital, not the White House, and saved Reagan\u2019s life. From Robert Caro\u2019s \u201cPassage of Power,\u201d on Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood, Nov. 22, 1963: \u201cthere was a sharp, cracking sound,\u201d and Youngblood, \u201cwhirling in his seat,\u201d grabbed Vice President Lyndon Johnson and threw him to the floor of the car, \u201cshielding his body with his own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nIn any presidential party, the Secret Service guys are the ones who are mature, who you can count on, who\u2019ll keep their heads. They have judgment, they\u2019re by the book unless they have to rewrite it on a second\u2019s notice. And they wore suits, like adults.\n

This week I saw a picture of agents in Colombia. They were in T-shirts, wrinkled khakis and sneakers. They looked like a bunch of mooks, like slobs, like children with muscles.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to the person who invented casual Friday. Now it\u2019s casual everyday in America. But when you lower standards people don\u2019t decide to give you more, they give you less.<\/p>\n

via America\u2019s Crisis of Character \u2013 WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HT:\u00a0 Doug Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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