The President was elected to run this country by a majority of its voting citizens. The general is a hireling. This country has a civilian government. If the general is permitted to mock his leaders (a court martial offense, by the way) then his subordinates can, by the same justification, mock him, and so on and so on, right down to the lowliest private.
"Dig the damn latrine yourself, Sarge!"
McChrystal should know this by now, and he DID apologize. This demonstrates that he is more aware of how it all works than Kramer (not a difficult chore). But that was too late. McChrystal has been McChrystallized. Now he can go and write his book. Thanks to Palin, the bar has been lowered for rightwing ratbag claptrap. He can easily outdo her.
If Kramer has any employees, I really hope the moon him in unison. I really doubt this, because I suspect that Kramer is typing all this nonsense from 4th period detention, where he was sent for doing something stupid, ie acting like Kramer.