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May. 1st, 2004 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taerowynI knew I didn't agree with Rumsfeld's politics, but now I think as a person he's an ass too.
He spoke to the Newspaper Association of America/American Society of Newspaper Editors about the glory of America, rah-rahing free speech and the freedom of the press, following which this exchange occurred:
SEC. RUMSFELD: Question? Yes?
Q Lou Ureneck from Boston University. Some experts have said that --
SEC. RUMSFELD: I thought this was for editors and publishers. (Laughter.)
Q Formerly of the Philadelphia Inquirer. (Laughter.) I teach journalism at Boston University.
SEC. RUMSFELD: Wellllll, that's close. (Laughter.) What do you think, folks? (Laughter.) (Applause.) You want to let him have it? All right. What is it, Professor?
Q Hopefully, the students are listening. (Laughter.) Some people say that the current insurrection in Iraq is traceable to the closure of a newspaper a couple of weeks ago by Mr. Bremer. I'd like to get your thinking and reasoning about that event and what it may have contributed to the events of the last week and a half or so.
SEC. RUMSFELD: I love the beginning of that question, "some people think." There is nothing that some people don't think. (Laughter, applause.) The idea that the conflict and the flare-ups and the shootings and the killings that are taking place in Iraq today are a result of the closing of that paper, I think, is, A, a stretch, and B, undoubtedly not provable, and, I would submit, not only not provable, but not accurate.
The paper was closed for 60 days, I'm told. It still is under way. The coalition determined that it was inciting Iraqi citizens to violence by deliberately reporting false stories, which is a violation of the law that prohibits inciting civil disorder in Iraq at the present time. More than a hundred papers have sprung up in Iraq. Most are covering events in a very responsible way.
Now let's get a REAL editor or publisher. (Laughs.) (Laughter.) I hope your students are not watching. (Laughter.)
Just the "what is it, professor?" and the "a REAL editor or publisher," rub me the wrong way. Admittedly, part of that is due to the fact that it was one of MY professor's, but still.
And as one of his student's I'm glad I got to see it (after the fact, of course) cause it showed me what a pretentious ass this guy can be and how much he will do to sidestep questions - some of the questions were great, the answers not so much.
He spoke to the Newspaper Association of America/American Society of Newspaper Editors about the glory of America, rah-rahing free speech and the freedom of the press, following which this exchange occurred:
SEC. RUMSFELD: Question? Yes?
Q Lou Ureneck from Boston University. Some experts have said that --
SEC. RUMSFELD: I thought this was for editors and publishers. (Laughter.)
Q Formerly of the Philadelphia Inquirer. (Laughter.) I teach journalism at Boston University.
SEC. RUMSFELD: Wellllll, that's close. (Laughter.) What do you think, folks? (Laughter.) (Applause.) You want to let him have it? All right. What is it, Professor?
Q Hopefully, the students are listening. (Laughter.) Some people say that the current insurrection in Iraq is traceable to the closure of a newspaper a couple of weeks ago by Mr. Bremer. I'd like to get your thinking and reasoning about that event and what it may have contributed to the events of the last week and a half or so.
SEC. RUMSFELD: I love the beginning of that question, "some people think." There is nothing that some people don't think. (Laughter, applause.) The idea that the conflict and the flare-ups and the shootings and the killings that are taking place in Iraq today are a result of the closing of that paper, I think, is, A, a stretch, and B, undoubtedly not provable, and, I would submit, not only not provable, but not accurate.
The paper was closed for 60 days, I'm told. It still is under way. The coalition determined that it was inciting Iraqi citizens to violence by deliberately reporting false stories, which is a violation of the law that prohibits inciting civil disorder in Iraq at the present time. More than a hundred papers have sprung up in Iraq. Most are covering events in a very responsible way.
Now let's get a REAL editor or publisher. (Laughs.) (Laughter.) I hope your students are not watching. (Laughter.)
Just the "what is it, professor?" and the "a REAL editor or publisher," rub me the wrong way. Admittedly, part of that is due to the fact that it was one of MY professor's, but still.
And as one of his student's I'm glad I got to see it (after the fact, of course) cause it showed me what a pretentious ass this guy can be and how much he will do to sidestep questions - some of the questions were great, the answers not so much.