Bush cabinet member’s world of make-believe
One correction actually–put the apostrophe after the s.
“What the secretary was talking about (in his speech) was all of our accomplishments with minority contracts. At at the very end of his statement, the secretary offered an anecdote to explain politics in Washington D.C. He was speaking to a group of business leaders in Dallas and there were lots of Dallas Cowboys in the room.
“So he was offering an anecdote to say, this is how politics works in DC. In DC people won’t just stab you in the back, they’ll stab you in the front. And so the secretary’s point was a hypothetical, what he said was an anecdote. It did not happen.”
Let’s stop here momentarily and leave aside Tucker’s apparent misimpression that an anecdote is by definition fictional. It isn’t. An anecdote is a story about something that really happened, often used to illustrate a larger point.
Read the whole thing–James’ piece is brilliant in it’s simplicity.
Hat tip to Austin Mayor
Maybe they got the impression that anecdotes are by definition fictional because so many of Ronald Reagan’s anecdotes really were fictional.
Read the whole thing–James’ piece is brilliant in it’s simplicity.
Remove the apostrophe in “it’s.”