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May 28, 2007

Paul Wolfowitz Finally Achieves Negative Self-Awareness

Here's Paul Wolfowitz's explanation today of why he was forced to resign:

''I think it tells us more about the media than about the bank and I'll leave it at that,'' he told the British Broadcasting Corp. ''People were reacting to a whole string of inaccurate statements and by the time we got to anything approximating accuracy the passions were around the bend.''

Yes, it's awful when such things happen.

EARLIER: Dick Cheney on Larry King:

CHENEY: I think there's a special obligation on major news organizations, when they're dealing with what can sometimes be life-and-death matters, to get it right.

Posted at May 28, 2007 11:37 PM | TrackBack
Comments

He is dead on, only he is speaking cleverly. When he said 'If they fuck me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too,' it was from watching too much Sopranos -- it was a result of the media, not of the more genteel gangster culture of the bank.

Along with many of his other statement, that statement turned out to be inaccurate. Reactions did send passions "around the bend."

Posted by: hedgehog at May 29, 2007 12:29 AM

We know the feeling exactly, Wolfnowitz:

People were reacting to a whole string of inaccurate statements and by the time we got to anything approximating accuracy the passions were around the bend ... and before we knew it, 700,000 Iraqis (and a rounding error of Americans) were dead.

Posted by: anon at May 29, 2007 03:03 AM