Re: Aw, what the heck... just one more for the road :-)

"Sockpuppet Yustabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Sandman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=391626
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>> Rumsfeld Ramble Wins 'Foot in Mouth' Award
>> Mon December 1, 2003 09:09 AM ET
>>
>> LONDON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's curious
>> statement
> at
>> a press briefing was named on Monday as the year's most baffling
>> comment
> by
>> a public figure.
>> Rumsfeld, usually renowned for his uncompromising tough talking, was
> awarded
>> the "Foot in Mouth" award for a confusing message which probably
>> left his audience in the dark as to its meaning, Britain's Plain
>> English Campaign said.
>>
>> "Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me,
>> because as we know, there are known unknowns; there things we know
>> we know," Rumsfeld told the briefing.
>>
>> "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."
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> It is perfectly clear, except that one of the three possibilities is
> stated twice.

If you investigate other published quotes of the same statements, you find
that the repetition of one of the possibilities is due to Sanders'
carelessness. Rumsfeld actually described three distict and unique
possibilities. Sanders misquoted Rumsfeld in such a way that there were only
two.

> basically, he says that for all the things we do not know, for some,
> we know we do not know them  and for others, we have no idea that we don't
know them

Agreed.