Posted by zeugma on October 18, 2006, at 5:21:42
The White House has employed an interesting group of press secretaries. first there was the tight-lipped Scott McClellan, who rarely used an unnecessary word, which is praiseworthy, but (to be fair and balanced) he rarely used a neccessary one, either.
Tony Snow, his replacement, is much more voluble. However, I find him almost eqeally puzzling. Commenting on the new torture bill signed by Mr. Bush (whether it condones or condemns torture is a matter for a hermeneutic specialist, a field I have no expertise in) Snow made this comment, apropos a question about military accountability in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, which perhaps (according to Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn.) was really all about sex, not torture (hmm? was it consensual sex then?):
"The only way accountability doesn't exist is if
you believe that the military is not committed to it."So is he saying that if I don't believe the American military is accountable for what it does, then it isn't?
-z
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