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Journal pudge's Journal: Questions 12

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Q Is the sky blue?
MR. McCLELLAN MCCLELLAN: The sky is, using the colors of the rainbow, between indigo and green.
Q Are you saying the sky is blue?
MR. McCLELLAN: I didn't say that.
Q If you were to actually give a name to the color of the sky, would it be blue?
MR. McCLELLAN: We have not discussed that as a possiblity.
Q What do you think? Is it blue?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think it is just what I said it is.
Q Can you just tell us if the sky is blue, or not?
MR. McCLELLAN: Look Ed, I've given you the answer. I don't know what other way I can say it.
Q You can say the sky is blue.
MR. McCLELLAN: I've described it as best as I can, and I wish you'd just print it how I say it.
Q I think the American people want a straight answer.
MR. McCLELLAN: I think the American people are less concerned with what light wavelengths the atmosphere reflects than it is about the President's plan that has given us the greatest economic growth in 30 years.

Bonus: name that politician!

  1. If the question is, literally, "is the sky blue?," the answer is why, no! Of course not! The sky doesn't actually have any color, and it depends on how you, the subject, is looking at it, not to mention what time of day it is, what sorts and sizes of clouds, and that sort of thing. If the question is, normally, does the sky appear as blue to most people, then golly, of course it does!
  2. We have reason to suspect the sky is mauve.
  3. The sky is not blue.
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  • 1. Rumsfeld
    2. Cheney
    3. Rice
    • Close! 3 is Clinton. Although I guess it was also a test to see what your leanings are, since it really could be anyone who has told a direct and clear lie. Rice, though, would have been:

      No one had even thought that the sky might be blue.
      • You did a switcheroo on there, sneaking back to the last administration :)

        If the sky is a BJ, then yes, it's Clinton. If the sky is counterterrorism measures or the Iraqi threat to national security, then I still think it's Rice.

      • No, Rice would have said:
        • There is no way I'll answer that question. I owe it to the president to be as objective as possible in these matters. You'll just have to read about it in my book.
        • There is no way I'll answer that question. I owe it to the president to be as objective as possible in these matters. You'll just have to read about it in my book.

          No, Rice has not refused to answer any questions, that I recall. That's a myth. She has answered just about everything asked of her in public, and has met the 9/11 Commission for several hours in private, and will meet with them again, if they wish.
          • Yet a meeting in private may as well be on the moon. The view being, "A public still nervous about terrorist threats does not want to hear the nuances of executive privilege."

            Personally, I'd be fine if everyone would drop the whole thing. I really hope that Rice be firm and never cave. To do so would show that public outcry is stronger than policy.

            Besides, this type of inquiry didn't happen with Perl Harbor, that I recall.
            • Yet a meeting in private may as well be on the moon. The view being, "A public still nervous about terrorist threats does not want to hear the nuances of executive privilege."

              Yes, that's true. And that is why the commissioners -- even the ones who agree with her position -- think she should appear. I personally think she shouldn't, because I think the public will get over her not appearing.

              I really hope that Rice be firm and never cave. To do so would show that public outcry is stronger than policy.
      • I thought 3 was Colin Powell (the 'ol "there -are- WMD in Iraq" speech).

  • #1 is Kerry, only he flipflops in one paragraph or less.
    #2 is much harder becuase it is a much more common evasion tactic to respond with something closely related to but not answering the question.

  • The sky is most definitely not blue. It's light blue, baby blue, powder blue; watchamacallit. Blue is the color of lapis lazuli stone, or of sapphire. or really little else I can think of occurring naturally.

    Now, seriously, as a native Spanish-speaker, I have a completely different color category for the sky, because Spanish has a distinct word "celeste" for sky-blue (meaning, appropriately enough, "celestial").

    The point of this is, I guess, than you can call the sky "not-blue" and still have plausible

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