Re: Rumsfeld: Foot-In-Mouth award winner

midtowng wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/12/01/rumsfeld.english.reut/index.html
>
> "Reports that say something hasn't happened are always interesting to
> me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we
> know we know," Rumsfeld told a news 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."
>
> John Lister, spokesman for the campaign, which strives to have public
> information delivered in clear, straightforward English, said: "We
> think we know what he means. But we don't know if we really know."
> [...]
>
>
>   Very Danesque I must say.

This is actually quite brilliant. It's rigorously logical and
expressed in a memorable style. If Lister is complaining about
this he'll probably be bitching about Tintern Abbey or
Sense & Sensibility next, or maybe complaining that
"to be or not to be" is, like, confusing, man.