posted on October 24, 2006 11:09:31 PM new
This came today from a reporter friend in another city. Talk about double-speak!
> I just got done reading 1984 and so, fortunately, am conversant in "doublethink" where one believes two self-contradictory things at the same time.
> So, the following actual, no kidding, completely accurate exchange between a reporter and presidential spokesman tony snow makes perfect sense.
> Also, 2 plus 2 equals 5. up is down. black is white. Bush is smart.
> Here's the transcript of yesterday's briefing.
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> "Q Tony, it seems what you have is not 'stay the course.' Has anybody told the President he should stop calling it 'stay the course' then?
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> "MR. SNOW: I don't think he's used that term in a while.
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> "Q Oh, yes, he has, repeatedly.
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> "MR. SNOW: When?
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> "Q Well, in August, because I wrote a story saying he didn't use it and I was quite sternly corrected.
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> "MR. SNOW: No, he stopped using it.
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> "Q Why would he stop using it?
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> "MR. SNOW: Because it left the wrong impression about what was going on. And it allowed critics to say, well, here's an administration that's just embarked upon a policy and not looking at what the situation is, when, in fact, it's just the opposite. The President is determined not to leave Iraq short of victory, but he also understands that it's important to capture the dynamism of the efforts that have been ongoing to try to make Iraq more secure, and therefore, enhance the clarification -- or the greater precision.
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> "Q Is the President responsible for the fact people think it's stay the course since he's, in fact, described it that way himself?
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> "MR. SNOW: No."
posted on October 25, 2006 05:41:57 AM new Press briefings with Tony Snow are good readings in how to spin propaganda. In a more recent conference Snow describes "stay the course" as "constant motion".
Snow describes "stay the course"....
"So what you have is not "stay the course," but, in fact, a study in constant motion by the administration and by the Iraqi government, and, frankly, also by the enemy, because there are constant shifts, and you constantly have to adjust to what the other side is doing."
A good reporter then asks...
"But if you're moving forward, tell us how you're moving forward because we don't really see it." Press Briefing
