Zakaria: Rumsfeld in a parallel universe and slightly deranged

[CatWoman]

Transcript:

I would make up a campaign commercial almost entirely of Donald Rumsfeld’s press conferences, because the man is looking — I mean, it’s not just that he seems like a bad Secretary of . He seems literally in a parallel universe and slightly deranged. If you listen to what he said last week about Iraq, he’s living in a different world, not a different country.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/30/rumsfeld-deranged/

[EFerrari]

1. Wait -- aren't there "things we know we know"?! n/t

[journalist3072]

3. There are the things we don't know we don't know; and..

the things we know we don't know.

And by the way, who do you think I am? It's "beyond my pay grade" to do "intelligent work." And to hell with "Old Europe!"

[EFerrari]

6. A known known.

"The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld" can be ordered from:

www.stuffedpenguin.com



:toast:

[journalist3072]

13. Thanks for that link!!!!!! eom

[marmar]

2. Well...

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

—Rumsfeld during a Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing


Whatever universe he's in, it's a scary place. :scared:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. What about the unknown known unknowns or the known unknown

unknowns? And then there are the known known knowns and the unknown unknown unknowns. And what about the known unknown knowns and the unknown known knowns.

Has he covered those yet?

[marmar]

11. He doesn't know about them.

:crazy:

[Vidar]

12. Actually pretty eloquent bushspeak.

[lonestarnot]

4. Fuck yeah! Definitely a campaign commercial!

Res Ipsa Liquitor

[digno dave]

5. don't count of Dems ability to take on such a grand task

as formulating a concise attack plan for November elections. :shrug:

[lonestarnot]

9. hmmmf. You calling dems stupid?

[digno dave]

14. In the immortal words of Fred Sanford:

if the shoe fits, shove it up your nose!

[MethuenProgressive]

7. "slightly"??

"They'll welcome us with candy, and flowers, and maybe balloon animals."

[CatWoman]

8. ROFL!!!

and maybe balloon animals......."

:rofl: