I Knew It! Rummy doesn't know what a "Digital Camera Is! He isn't even

[KoKo]

on the Internet from his testimony today! He's "out of it" he's 72 years old and he doesn't even know what the "Internet" is! He has "clerical help" old guys like him refer to "staff" as "clerical." Old guys like Rummy don't get that the Pictures of these Abominations could be out on the "Net" before he could get his "secretary" to download them and give them to him at "7:30 Last Night according to what Rummy said was when he FIRST SAW the ABOMINATING PICS!

These people are "out of touch." They don't even know what the "INTERNET IS!" They live in the old world before the "tech revolution."

They are "OUT OF TOUCH" and don't know that we on the "Net" are DAYS and MONTHS ahead of them! It's disgusting how "out of the Loop" these folks are!

I'm on the NET and I'M NOT A KID OR A TECH GEEK! I want the BEST information out there! I learned what I needed to to get here. I didn't have the $$$'s to rely on Secretaries or Clericals to get me Here! :nuke:

[belle]

1. That's fine. Don't anybody tell them.

They really are the pointy-haired boss, collectively (tm Dilbert).

[mike_c]

2. soon as they figure it out they'll work hard to restrict net access...

...and content.

[zbdent]

14. What makes you think they'll wait that long?

the ignorant want to ban (or call magic/witchcraft) that which they cannot comprehend . . .

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. ahh yes, when you can't play it smart

just act dumb.

He's a master of oscillating between "brilliance" and complete ignorance, and knows exactly when each will benefit him.

Ya see, there are knowns in this business - and then there are knowns that Rummy knows and knowns that he doesn't know - alongside knowns that he's having his technical staff "Ask the Internet" about. So give him a little time, and he'll find out for you.

[riverwalker]

4. The "digital cameras" statement

he said it about 47 times today "we never imagined the digital cameras". He was just astonished. He also seemed unaware of the reports from human rights organizations available since last spring.

[librechik]

5. once again, more regret about getting caught than doing the deed.

Rummy is just plain evil. And stupid. And yet arrogant. Oh, yeah, that's the definition of a Republican!

[stopbush]

9. OMG! Digital cameras on hijacked planes being used as missles!

Who coulda imagined it!!!!

[Speck Tater]

6. Well, the Internet was invented by a Democrat after all ;)

[candy]

7. I'm 71 and have many of the technical goodies.Don't generalize.

[Jacobin]

8. You are right. However, I suspect his mindset is that

"computers and word processers and the internet is for 'staff' to 'do' for him"

Which, of course puts him at a huge disadvantage at keeping up. He probably has his email printed out for him to read.

He's a dunderhead.

[0007]

21. 'Tis not a He it is a She Jacobin

[0007]

20. I'm Rummy age and have kept up with the technology of the time

apparently this young lady is as ignorant as Rumsfeld, in fact she is, and yes she does like to generalize much like a Tokyo Rose type. She thinks she's some kind of special queen bee.

[stopbush]

10. Gives one a whole new perspective on Condi *demoting* Clarke

to cyber-terrorism.

"Cyber terrorism? How important can that be? Cyber terrorists don't even have an office or a phone number, let alone a staff of clerks!"

[demnan]

11. He's a glib-faced liar.

Don't you believe that old guy shit for a minute!

[KoKo]

12. I know so many folks Repug Friends who can't use the Internet, even for

e-mail! Really. I don't understand them, but I know they don't understand why I CAN DO e-mail and spend time posting on "political internet sites."

There's more of a gap between "internet savy folks" and those who can't deal with it than our very "With It" DU crowd can imagine. I ask some DU'ers to look at their Parents and tell me where it all falls in the "line" of folks who are "internet savy" and those who aren't.

I think Rummy and Bush fall into the "Non-Internet savy Crowd." They don't even know that their "Clericals" have the ability to "download pic's of what our troops did!" :shrug:

[pearl]

13. It's a world

divided up between typists and non typists.

Although this kind of willful ignorance and arrogant incompetence is
breathtaking.

[Eurobabe]

15. yeah if you can't blame it on

Clinton's penis, blame it on technology?! What a crew...

[Unknown Known]

16. Henny Penny! Did I say that?

Glass Box
You know, it's the old glass box at the—
At the gas station,
Where you're using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize,
And you can't find it.
It's—

And it's all these arms are going down in there,
And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it,
But—

Some of you are probably too young to remember those—
Those glass boxes,
But—

But they used to have them
At all the gas stations
When I was a kid.

—Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing

http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042

[Beam Me Up]

22. The man should do us all a favor

and retire from public "service" and write his damn poetry to his hearts content.

What a detestable excuse for a human being.

[randr]

17. By his account it was the baaadddd digital cameras that are to blame

[Emboldened Chimp]

18. Wait, did the DoD invent the Internet?

Serious question; no Al Gore jokes, please...

[no_arbusto]

24. Yep.

DARPAnet. The Internet has never been "free".

[Emboldened Chimp]

19. dupe

[no_arbusto]

23. I wish that were actually the case.

It's a ruse. Rummy knows about technology. These guys invented the internet (DARPAnet) for Christ's sake.

[playahata1]

25. That is just as bad as Poppy Bush's never having seen

a grocery scanner, for crissakes.

[JanMichael]

26. The grey evil men of history have no need for email!

A nice girl Friday or a good...can't do it...

[KoKo]

27. The "evil grey men" always have someone to do it for them...

and that's one of their problems, it seems. How could they be so clueless as to not know that these soldiers have digitals and don't need to wait til they get home and go to the Walgreens or Eckards to get the stuff developed!

But, I have many friends who won't deal with a digital camera and don't use e-mail. I'm old enough to have really fond memories of typewriters, so some of it I understand. That's why I posted. I had to learn how to use a computer to keep a job. I have friends who didn't need to....I love having the information the net provides. They prefer to get it from TV and Magazines. :shrug: to each his own.

[AgadorSparticus]

28. if the sec. of defense doesn't know what a dig. camera is, then he is

beyond incompetent. he has no business being the sec. of defense.
that is a colossal admission of incompetence if I've ever heard one.

but i agree with the above poster: he is playing dumb to avoid accountability. and he's not very creative in his LIES, either.

[Kinkistyle]

29. Ridiculous! Considering the Internet was once a DoD military network

The Internet (or the TCP/IP protocol) was originally called ARPANET, a communications network developed for the Department of Defense. It eventually grew into the Internet. If Rummy is saying he doesn't know what the Internet is, he is probably LYING.

[bobthedrummer]

30. Yet some GI's used torture pics on their computers as screen savers.