Telling slips

There were two such slips on Meet the Press today, and both are very funny. One was Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright:

MR. RUSSERT: The vice president of the United States said that no matter who is elected president, there will be another terrorist attack, but the difference is that John Kerry may not have learned anything from September 11 and would deal with it as a criminal act rather than an act of war.

MS. ALBRIGHT: Well, this is just a series of outrageous statements that Vice President Bush has been making and using scare tactics, and it is...

MR. RUSSERT: Vice President Cheney.

MS. ALBRIGHT: Vice President Cheney said that.

(Is that because sometimes it seems like Bush is only the VP, and the other guy is really in charge?)

And possibly the funnier one:

SEYMOUR HERSH: [T]here was a wonderful general, just retired from the Air Force, named John Gordon, who'd been a deputy director of the CIA. And he pushed it. He did the unthinkable in the Nixon White House -- you know, in the Bush White House, because he pushed stuff that they didn't want to hear. He forced a series of meetings.

I don't think that one needs much unpacking.

-- Michael

Comments

[bog]

I saw both of those and wondered similarly. I was glad I wasn't the only one to find them humorous enough to mention.

[d meyers]

slips are funny but substance is more important. HWL, you are much betting getting transcripts than I. The most outrageous was Albrights last statement regarding N. Korea, Iraq as contrasted with China and former Soviet Union. She basicly said something to the fact that our policy shows if you have nukes we wont' attack you, if you don't we will. She gave China, USSR and N. Korea as examples..

What a dim wit

[Cheryl]

Actually, the slip I like best is Bush saying that it will take some time to restore chaos in Iraq.