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Nominations for the 2017 Ron Ziegler award now being accepted!
If you have mercifully forgotten Ron, here's an old reminder from the NYT:
The Nondenial Denier
By TODD S. PURDUMFEB. 16, 2003
... Asked in February 1971 if allied troops were preparing to invade Laos, Mr. Ziegler replied: ''The president is aware of what is going on in Southeast Asia. That is not to say anything is going on in Southeast Asia.''
Mr. Ziegler dismissed the 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters as a ''third-rate burglary'' and attacked The Washington Post's coverage of the case as ''shabby journalism'' and ''character assassination.''
But on April 17, 1973, Nixon stunned reporters by saying that he had conducted an investigation that raised the prospect of involvement by White House officials.
Mr. Ziegler told a puzzled press corps that this was now the ''operative statement,'' repeating the word operative six times. Finally, R. W. Apple Jr. of The New York Times asked, ''Would it be fair for us to infer, since what the president said today is now considered the operative statement, to quote you, that the other statement is no longer operative, that it is now inoperative?'' ...
By TODD S. PURDUMFEB. 16, 2003
... Asked in February 1971 if allied troops were preparing to invade Laos, Mr. Ziegler replied: ''The president is aware of what is going on in Southeast Asia. That is not to say anything is going on in Southeast Asia.''
Mr. Ziegler dismissed the 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters as a ''third-rate burglary'' and attacked The Washington Post's coverage of the case as ''shabby journalism'' and ''character assassination.''
But on April 17, 1973, Nixon stunned reporters by saying that he had conducted an investigation that raised the prospect of involvement by White House officials.
Mr. Ziegler told a puzzled press corps that this was now the ''operative statement,'' repeating the word operative six times. Finally, R. W. Apple Jr. of The New York Times asked, ''Would it be fair for us to infer, since what the president said today is now considered the operative statement, to quote you, that the other statement is no longer operative, that it is now inoperative?'' ...
The 2017 Ron Ziegler award will honor the White House press secretary who most convincingly plays a clueless tool incompetently shilling for a shamelessly corrupt administration. Nominations are now being accepted!
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