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Way Ahead of the Facts: Quote of theDay
July 9, 2007
&;Way ahead of the facts&; said White House spokesman Tony Snow, on if there&;s any internal White House debate on a U.S. troop pullback in Iraq.
It&;s similar to the expression &;future truth&;, coined by an old boss of mine. No matter that the users he wanted me to write about were as figmentary as John Nash&;s roommate in A Beautiful Mind. Say something often enough, he&;d insist, and it will become truth.
But &;way ahead of the facts&; is also a non-denial denial, an acknowledgement that something not true now will eventually become so. It&;s a a classic of crisis communications from a White House in crisis&;or am I way ahead of the facts?
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