almost by universal consensus in washington, everyone understood this was essential i a prewrittpre written kabuki theater sort of thing. everyone should fall on the sword. they kept the dream beat going. everybody agrees that it s unfair to shinseki. i think he was a bad manager, great american, great patriot, bad manager. they knew they had problems. his leak team lied to him, apparently, according to reports. there was an expectation, this is how these scandals unfold and the guy s got to do what he s got to do. you called for shinseki to be pushed out in his washington post column. he responded personally. he did. you got your wish. what has been accomplished except for the political appearances? i m not sure anything has. now we go into the long question of do we repair something that s been broken for decades and the likely answer to it is no. but shinseki dug his own grave here. the president made problems for
to me. almost by universal consensus in washington, everyone understood this was essential i a prewrittpre written kabuki theater sort of thing. everyone should fall on the sword. they kept the dream beat going. everybody agrees that it s unfair to shinseki. i think he was a bad manager, great american, great patriot, bad manager. they knew they had problems. his leak team lied to him, apparently, according to reports. there was an expectation, this is how these scandals unfold and the guy s got to do what he s got to do. you called for shinseki to be pushed out in his washington post column. he responded personally. he did. you got your wish. what has been accomplished except for the political appearances? i m not sure anything has. now we go into the long question of do we repair something that s been broken for decades and the likely answer to it is no. but shinseki dug his own grave here. the president made problems for
depression. my father would get mad when we throu threw away a pen. we have stuff, stuff, stuff. loyalty, workers expected that of bosses in their company. that was a different era when the boss, the ceo lived in the same town, went to the same church or synagogue or their kids played on the same little leak team. now that isn t so much. that comes through in the movie. yeah. i spent a lot of time talking to ceos and members. tommy lee jones character really represents that point of view in the film in the sense of, all right, i m making a lot of money, doing what i m supposed to be doing for the stockholders and at the same time i have people i worked with my whole life that i feel responsible for and how am i supposed to balance those things out. it s shifted too far in the direction of the requirement of
by universal consensus everyone understood this was essentially a prewritten kabuki theater, the guy has to fall on his sword and everyone had written the copy in advance and wanted to get to the beach so they kept the drumbeat going. it is unfair to shinseki. great american, great patriot, bad manager. they knew they had the problems. the leak team lied to him according to reports. there was the expectation, this is how the scandals unfold. you called for him to be pushed out in the washington post column? he responded to me personally. what has been accomplished other than the political appearances? i m not sure anything. now we will go into the long question of, do we repair something that has been broken for decades and the likely antiis answer is no. the president made problems