As the story of General Stanley McChrystal's interview with Rolling Stone started to rock our world, I was at the airport headed for London. When I arrived in the Mutha-land, I was stunned to see that the story's impact was just as massive over there. Indeed, the remarkable tale of McChrystal's journalist-assisted career suicide seemed to dominate the other big news in England, like the World Cup 2010 going on in South Africa or Wimbledon happening just down the road. Personally, I haven't witnessed this much global interest in a Rolling Stone story since my own historic on-the-road piece with New Kids On The Block back in the Nineties. And considering the New Kids' relative lack of impact on military history and connection to the Pat Tillman cover up, this amazing and revealing article by Michael Hastings arguably dwarfs even my own journalistic masterpiece.
So now that that I'm safely back on American soil, I wanted to offer my own loose-lipped playlist for Stan The Man, a dude with a big ego and a very mixed record who finally accomplished the impossible -- actually stealing some of the cultural spotlight away from Lady GaGa. And to General McChrystal, here's some free specific advice from a recovering rock critic: next time you decide to crash and burn in flames in Rolling Stone, at the very least, have your publicists demand the cover.
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