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White House word play
The new spokesman for the White House has come up with a new way to say nothing.
Tony Snow opted for Yiddish today in continuing the administration’s strategy of not saying anything about top adviser Karl Rove’s potential legal problems stemming from a special prosecutor’s investigation of the leak of a CIA operative’s name.
“What I do know is bubkes,” Snow said, using the Yiddish word for nothing.
And he offered an alibi for why he might not be up to speed on any breaking developments concerning Rove.
“As far as I can tell nothing has changed,” he told reporters this morning, “but I don’t want to give you a steer on it because I was standing out there giving TV interviews this morning during senior staff meeting.”
Out on the South Lawn, President Bush today joined in the White House word play, offering this new term while welcoming Winter Olympic team members:
“We want to thank all the dudes and dudesses of the snowboarders who are here.”
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