Plain English Awards - Rumsfeld Honoured

[junediamanti]

Today in London, the Plain English Campaign host their annual awards.

Donald Rumsfeld sadly is unable to attend to receive in person 
the "Foot in Mouth" trophy, despite having beaten off strong 
competition from George W Bush and Britain's own Deputy Prime 
Minister, John Prescott.  

The award, for the single most confusing piece of public gobbledegook 
is for the following cryptic remarks made to baffled journalists:

"Reports that say 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."

Well deserved I say.

June