A stony silence

[WilliamPitt]

White House Silence on Rove's Role in Leak Enters 2nd Day

By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: July 12, 2005

WASHINGTON, July 12 - President Bush was asked today if he planned to fire Karl Rove, a senior aide at the center of an investigation over the unmasking of an undercover C.I.A. officer, and he offered only a stony silence in reply.

"Are you going to fire him?" the president was asked twice in a brief Oval Office appearance with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore. Both times, the president ignored the questions.

Then a White House aide signaled that the session was over. "Out those doors, please," the aide told journalists. "Thank you very much."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/politics/12cnd-rove.html?hp&ex=1121227200&en=58863f7c28b3a331&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[FuzzyDicePHL]

1. Today's press briefing

offered no more about it either. Scotty just kept deflecting any questions about Rove, Bush*'s confidence in him, or whether the WH had any "credibility problem."

[norml]

2. Out those doors, please, Mr.Bush.

Thank you very much.

[Jara sang]

12. Yes, don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you.

Or let it, I don't care, just get out.

[Dave Reynolds]

3. Is this gathering momentum?

I don't really want to be optimistic here.

[Goldmund]

10. Why not?

Optimism is good for your complexion.

[KarenS]

4. Habitual liars and control freaks hate to be caught lying,,,,

Do ya think that they think, they can just breeze on by this one too???

[Generic Other]

5. The silence is very telling

When a habitual liar can't think of something to say, you know it's bad.

[sweetheart]

6. Challenged for the metaphor of a stony silence

When water runs over stones, there is no silence.
But that would be a stony brook.

If silence has stones, then it is a stone moment,
one with ancient rock, and not silence.
Or perhaps it means stoned faces, hiding expression
mount rushmore silence.

But implied is then a silent photograph of
liars, deception covered up, fraud and
a closet of skeletal betrayers trading
pockets of flesh that one of them
can appear to be human.

But then that isn't silence.

[BeHereNow]

7. Power- the silence is about power.

These ghouls do not hesitate to let the rest of us know,
in a situation like this, that they don't care what we think.
The silence is the exercise of authority- they don't feel that
they have to comment on it at all.
That is my take on it as one who studies human behavior.
It is the ultimate "Fuck you" and the American people
should be outraged by the behavior.
BHN

[Stephanie]

8. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Every time he refuses to answer, they should all ring their cell phones.

[bigtree]

9. :Silence remains,

inescapably, a form of speech.
-Susan Sontag

[H2O Man]

14. "Silence is

the true language of cosmic adoration." -- Gandhi

[H2O Man]

16. "A conspiracy of silence

speaks louder than words." -- John Lennon

[BeHereNow]

17. That's it- the silence is a communication

and says far more than any words ever could.
It says, "Fuck you, I don't have to tell you ANYTHING."
And that is exactly how these people think.
BHN

[CitrusLib]

11. Show some charity folks

It must be scary for a puppet to contemplate life without his puppetmaster. :evilgrin:

[LSK]

13. "Im not going to comment on that while theres an ongoing investigation"

This is the new official slogan of the White House.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Ahh...When's the next press conference? Before or after he fires Rove?

:shrug: