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RUMSFELD HAS NO JUDGEMENT ON DINNER JOKES Thu Mar 25 2004 17:28:28 ET Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was asked Thursday about jokes made by President Bush at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner. Joined in progress... QUESTION: I want to go back for a minute, if I might, for both of you, to the question of this seriousness of Iraq. I want to stipulate fact, laughter and applause from the audience. And then he showed another picture, "No weapons over there," laughter and applause. Another picture, "Maybe under here," laughter. So my question really, truly, in all seriousness is both for the president, with respect, and for the news media, is it appropriate to make a joke -- seriously, sirs -- about the hunt for weapons of mass destruction when both of you, of course, were involved in the difficult issue of sending troops to war for that hunt? And did the news media also blow it by sitting there and laughing? QUESTION: Did we blow it last night? RUMSFELD: I wasn't there, and I think... QUESTION: Which is why I'm reading the transcript very accurately to you. RUMSFELD: I think you would have to -- to know what I would think, I would have had to be there. I think the context of those evenings -- I wasn't there, as you said, but I think I've attended in previous years on occasion and I just am not in a position to be judgmental about that. END |
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