everwas

a blog by Ian Kennedy

Tag: television

  • Rummy Blustered

    Rummy Blustered on Face the Nation

    SCHIEFFER: Well, let me just ask you this. If they did not have these weapons of mass destruction, though, granted all of that is true, why then did they pose an immediate threat to us, to this country?

    Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, you’re the–you and a few other critics are the only people I’ve heard use the phrase “immediate threat.” I didn’t. The president didn’t. And it’s become kind of folklore that that’s–that’s what’s happened. The president went…

    SCHIEFFER: You’re saying that nobody in the administration said that.

    Sec. RUMSFELD: I–I can’t speak for nobody–everybody in the administration and say nobody said that.

    SCHIEFFER: Vice president didn’t say that? The…

    Sec. RUMSFELD: Not–if–if you have any citations, I’d like to see ’em.

    Mr. FRIEDMAN: We have one here. It says “some have argued that the nu”–this is you speaking–“that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent, that Saddam is at least five to seven years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not be so certain.”

    Sec. RUMSFELD: And–and…

    Mr. FRIEDMAN: It was close to imminent.

    Sec. RUMSFELD: Well, I’ve–I’ve tried to be precise, and I’ve tried to be accurate. I’m s–

    Mr. FRIEDMAN: “No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.”

    Sec. RUMSFELD: Mm-hmm. It–my view of–of the situation was that he–he had–we–we believe, the best intelligence that we had and other countries had and that–that we believed and we still do not know–we will know.

    Thanks to Stephen Berlin Johnson and the Center for American Progress

  • Thanks be to the Gods of the Internet!

    Thanks be to the Gods of the Internet! After trawling various chat rooms a kind soul named Lydia offered to tape us the final episodes for us so we can save ourselves the embarrassment of admitting to Motoko that we can’t operate a VCR.

    Since submitting my email address to these X-File chatrooms, my spam profile has taken an interesting turn,

    Now I get an entertaining mix of offers for miniature shotgun mikes and infrared cameras. . .

  • X-Files

    We’re in big trouble. Izumi’s friend sent us a blank video tape and a request that we tape her episodes 19 & 20 on the 9th season of X-files. Of course my fumbling with the VCR timer screwed us up and we missed the first episode and then Tyler popped out the tape so he could watch Thomas the Tank Engine and we missed the second episode. As luck would have it, these are the last two episodes of the nine year series and the show was going to reveal all in a two part show called The Truth.

    So now we’re diving into the murky waters of X-File land posting our plea on message boards everywhere and looking for a kind soul that can dub us the two golden episodes so we can avoid the wrath of Izumi’s friend. All the while knowing that Motoko also hangs out on these boards and will most likely see our post and understand why we’re late to delivery – ah there’s no escaping the roving eye of the internet is there. . .

    Wish us luck, “The Truth is out there” and, Motoko, if you’re reading this – GOMEN!