Donald Rumsfeld: Mangler at Large

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The Plain English Campaign, an British organization that strives to have public information delivered in straightforward English, has given this year's "Foot in Mouth" award to none other than U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. [Kuro5hin.org]

Rumsfeld won the award for the following:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

Mr. Rumsfeld narrowly beat out California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's submission was:

"I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."