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Originally Posted by Cool Hand
Ahem.
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Excuse me, have you ever been questioned live, by television reporters, on camera?
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Yes. Not nearly as many times as Karen Hughes, but yes.
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Do you have any idea how many IQ points you lose when that camera light comes on while it's pointing in your face, even if you're a pro at it?
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Zero. Extreme nervousness is a distinct possibility for most folks (though not for Karen Hughes, whose sole "qualification" for her current job appears to be a stint as a tee vee reporter in Dallas), but you don't lose IQ points.
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Originally Posted by Cool Hand
Yeah, so our Constitution does not contain those words. Our pledge of allegiance does, however, so it doesn't take too much imagination to suppose how even a very bright, otherwise well-spoken person could make the mistake under pressure. Any of us could.
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Oh, come on, man. Let's assume for the sake of discussion that the event at issue was in fact a videotaped press conference.* I, for one, wouldn't make that particular "mistake" with a thousand cameras pointing at me. Neither would you. The chances that a highly experienced media whore like Hughes simply committed a slip of the tongue here are infinitesimally remote.
Then again, it's possible that Hughes is every bit as Jesus-addled as President Bush. If that's the case, she likely wants the Constitution and the Pledge all melded together and one could reasonably call the statement in question a Freudian "mistake."
So yes, you're correct; there are more than two possibilities.
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The trancript describes the event as a "Briefing En Route to Ankara, Turkey." That description is perfectly consistent with an audiotaped sit-down on a plane.