“Therefore, I take responsibility before my readers… I will no longer take the Palestinian leadership’s declarations seriously.”
- Saudi journalist Ahmad Al-Rab’i, on being misled by Yassr Arafat concerning arms shipments to Palestinians
“It’s not about one individual player. Everybody has to take responsibility. I take responsibility.”
- Milwaulkee Bucks general manager Ernie Grunfeld, on the team’s underperformance during the 2002 season
“They did what they believe is the right thing. These are all people we trust, but I take responsibility for what happened.”
- Fidel Castro, on the mistaken downing of two civilian airplanes in 1996
“Still, I must take complete responsibility for all my actions, both public and private. And that is why I am speaking to you tonight.”
- President Bill Clinton, on his relationship with Monica Lewinsky
“I apologize for not speaking to the public before… Making the system stable is my responsibility.”
- Terunobu Maeda, president of Mizuho Holdings Inc., on computer errors that caused malfunctions with Mizuho Bank ATM’s
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“I am responsible for the approval process in my agency.”
- CIA director George Tenet, on the faulty intelligence cited in President Bush’s State of the Union Address
“I gave my speech to the nation and it was cleared by the intelligence services.”
- President George W. Bush, on same
Fanny Roborat
16 comments
Rook
July 12, 2003 at 5:37 pm
1Adam, I sure wish you would activate the trackback on movable type. I love your humor, it puts more poor attempts at satire and sarcasm to shame. But I still would love to link by trackback, i.e., allow those pings! It’s not like I could steal your thunder. Hehehehe.
adam
July 12, 2003 at 6:02 pm
2Frankly, I just haven’t looked into what TrackBack IS. I’ll do so…
Landis
July 12, 2003 at 10:28 pm
3Um, I’ve seen it elsewhere. What the heck is it?
BTW, great points. I had to cover the end of the post with my hand while reading it. I knew what was coming and didn’t want to skip ahead (I have a habit of doing that).
Rook
July 12, 2003 at 10:46 pm
4Trackback is a way for me to link my posts to yours. If you have a post on an issue that I also made a post on, I can ping your post. Then, it will show (1) trackback on your post. When someone clicks on it, they see a link to my post.
All you need to do is make sure that “allow pings on by default? is checked in the preference section on MT. Then, when you’ve found a post on a blog with MT, you can click the trackback link, make a copy of the URL, then go to your post and past the link into the ping url window at the bottom of the page where you work on your post.
Don
July 13, 2003 at 1:49 am
5BTW
I certainly am glad that I - like Dubya - am not responsible for any less than truthful information included in this year’s State of the Union Address.
I didn’t give it, he did. Bhut if anything was less than the truth someone else must take the fall (Oops, I mean, be responsible).
For confirmation, please refer to recent comments given (toltally voluntarily) by the Director of the CIA and some others.
Why it took so long for the world to be made aware of this less than truthfulness, and why the US inflicted its military force (with some of those of our loyal allies) in the meantime — well, I have moved beyond all that, just as has our CinC.
Any resemblance between “CinC” and “sink” is totally coincidental and not even worthy of consideration by Loyal Amurikans.
Don
July 13, 2003 at 1:58 am
6Incidentally
I totally deny any responsibility for any typos and misspellings in the preceding post - or any others related in any way to me.
I, like Dubya, have learned the joy and freedom of being able to “move beyond it”.
Please pay close attention to puctuation and do not read the above to anything approaching “I like Dubya”.
It is of ultimate import that each of us learns which information we must pay close attention to and which we must not.
If there is any confusion today, it will be cleared up, when deemed necessary, as established clearly by George Orwell’s concept of “Newspeak”.
kriselda jarnsaxa
July 13, 2003 at 6:29 am
7To allow TrackBack pings to be received by your site, all you have to do is turn the “allow pings by default” in your preferences settings. The stuff he was mentioning about copying and pasting is only if someone is wanting to make a post and send a TrackBack ping TO you - and if they’ve set up their Movable Type client to notice if something can be pinged, they don’t even have to do that. I hope that made at least a smidgen of sense. I’ve been awake a lot longer than is usually good for me to explain anything technical.
John Isbell
July 13, 2003 at 2:36 pm
8Good points by Don (or his speechwriters and intel services).
That last line is crushing. Gotta get me a Spurious George sock puppet. It talks! It moves! It watches elephants!
Rook
July 13, 2003 at 6:10 pm
9“I did not have sexual relations with that sock puppet!”
Linkmeister
July 13, 2003 at 6:12 pm
10If you cite an MT post elsewhere by its full link in your own post the other person’s post is automatically pinged. So if I post something citing this post (http://www.felbers.net/mt/archives/001593.html) it will be pinged.
Deep Throat
July 14, 2003 at 12:10 am
11Please enjoy this goodness . Guess he did edit and rewrite the durn thing for days in advance. They wouldn’t lie about this, would they?
Chicory
July 14, 2003 at 11:26 am
12The CIA DID check the speech- for typos and possible leaks of security. It wasn’t like they were asked to check for accuracy!!! Come on folks. Move beyond it.
(I’m moving back to the underground.)
Don
July 14, 2003 at 11:23 pm
13I’ve already had a movement, thank you very much.
Anonymous
July 15, 2003 at 5:45 pm
14What do you expect from AWOL the college cheerleader? Courage?
Jason
July 18, 2003 at 10:49 pm
15Adam, I’m a C-Dawg fan, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to quote Clinton in this context. He took responsibility for his affair because he had to, not because he wanted to. His attempts to cover up his actions failed and he was forced to come clean and ask for America’s forgiveness. If Bush took responsibility for misleading the American public a month from now, and it was after so much evidence was found that even his supporters reluctantly agree he misled people, would you consider his admission a true act of taking responsibility?
Jay
July 21, 2003 at 11:16 pm
16My sea going friends and I were quite amused by Bush’s attempt to blame a subordinate. As we all learned our first day on the ship, it’s your watch, it’s your responsibility. The buck always stops with the Captain.