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The name of Mr. Wouk's antihero, Captain Queeg, has become useful shorthand for a leader whose instability is exceeded only by his incompetence.
War Stories Cynthia Crossen 2010
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At least Captain Queeg had the decency to start a witch hunt over STRAWBERRIES.
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Take the worst elements of Captain Queeg, Nellie Oleson, Stinky from Abbott & Costello, and an STD'd scorpion, bundle it into a man and put said man in charge of a complex, challenging city and you'll get what Rudy Giuliani was really all about.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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(MY THOUGHTS: Smart economists are jumping Captain Queeg's ship, mostly because of our govenment's corrupt short-sighted policies on the social and international fronts.)
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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(MY THOUGHTS: Smart economists are jumping Captain Queeg's ship, mostly because of our govenment's corrupt short-sighted policies on the social and international fronts.)
Archive 2005-03-13 Michael Evans 2005
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Doctor Zhivago says: backup you remind me of Captain Queeg, have you found out who’s been stealing the strawberries yet?
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It's a rare thing that Australian hack Rebecca Weisser steps out from behind the op-ed page, which she edits for Captain Chris 'Queeg' Mitchell -- indeed she's usually supervising items for the page's gotcha 'Cut and Paste' section, such as the recent startling news that Barack Obama said 'Michelle and I' where 'Michelle and me' would have been technically correct.
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In the Wouk novel, one way that Queeg demonstrated his madness was to conduct an exhaustive all-night search for some nonexistent strawberries in a war zone.
Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No Adam Levin 2011
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At trial, Queeg shows himself to be quite insane and the subordinate is acquitted.
Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No Adam Levin 2011
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The GOP wants America to believe that President Obama is the second coming of Captain Queeg, an insane man who is incapable of steering our nation through the myriad typhoons of the 21st century.
Adam Levin: Consumers Be Damned: Senator Shelby, Captain Queeg and the Politics of No Adam Levin 2011
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