In preparation for hurricane Rita, General Russel Honore took on a panic mongering press corp in New Orleans:
Gen. Honore: Let’s not get stuck on the last storm. You’re asking last storm questions for people who are concerned about the future storm. Don’t get stuck on stupid, reporters. We are moving forward. And don’t confuse the people please. You are part of the public message. So help us get the message straight. And if you don’t understand, maybe you’ll confuse it to the people. That’s why we like follow-up questions. But right now, it’s the convention center, and move on.
Reporter: General, a little bit more about why that’s happening this time, though, and did not have that last time…
Gen. Honore: You are stuck on stupid. I’m not going to answer that question. We are going to deal with Rita. This is public information that people are depending on the government to put out. This is the way we’ve got to do it. So please. I apologize to you, but let’s talk about the future. Rita is happening. And right now, we need to get good, clean information out to the people that they can use. And we can have a conversation on the side about the past, in a couple of months.
That’s dealing with the press corp! President Bush needs him to be the bouncer at his next press conference on Iraq. In the meantime, I’m surfing the web for a desk plaque reading “Don’t get stuck on stupid!”
Read the complete transcript or listen.
That was too funny….keep ‘em coming Jer
Luis
September 29th, 2005
[…] Folks seem to be stuck on the Scopes Monkey Trial, and the picture of science vs. anti-intellectual creationism is being painted with very broad strokes. Jonathan Witt of the Discovery Institute has written an excellent article to refute the erroneous assumptions made in the media and elsewhere. Critics of the theory of intelligent design often assert that it is simply a repackaged version of creationism, and that it began after the Supreme Court struck down the teaching of creationism in Edwards v. Aguillard in 1987. In reality, the idea of intelligent design reaches back to Socrates and Plato, and the term “intelligent design” as an alternative to blind evolution was used as early as 1897. More recently, discoveries in physics, astronomy, information theory, biochemistry, genetics, and related disciplines during the past several decades provided the impetus for scientists and philosophers of science to develop modern design theory. Many of the central ideas for the theory of intelligent design were already being articulated by scientists and philosophers of science by the early 1980s, well before the Edwards v. Aguillard decision. […]
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October 12th, 2005