Word: stimson
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...been a magnificent season for gaffes. Consider just the past couple of weeks: Barbara Boxer ostensibly dissed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having an "immediate family." A hapless Pentagon official named Charles Stimson called on American corporations to fire any law firm that represented terrorist suspects. An actor on Grey's Anatomy used the word faggot at the Golden Globe awards in the course of denying that he had used this word about another member of the cast in October. French President Jacques Chirac said it wouldn't be so bad if Iran got a nuclear bomb...
...been a magnificent season for gaffes. Consider just the past couple of weeks, Barbara Boxer ostensibly dissed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having an " immediate family." A hapless Pentagon official named Charles Stimson called on American corporations to fire any law firm that represented terror suspects. An actor on Grey's Anatomy used the word "faggot" at the Golden Globe awards in the course of denying that he had used this word about another member of the cast last October. French president Jacques Chirac said that it wouldn't be so bad if Iran got a nuclear bomb...
...apology is almost inevitable. On the current list, only Boxer - whose alleged gaffe was truly a frame-up - has avoided one. And the first attempt is usually inadequate. They apologize "if" anyone took offense at their remarks, which were "misinterpreted." Stimson of the Pentagon took the false impression route: he is so sorry that some people might have inexplicably gotten the impression that he meant what he obviously did mean when he said what he said (it clearly wasn't the best strategy; late Friday the Pentagon announced that Stimson had resigned because ""the controversy surrounding him...was hampering...
...interview with Federal News Radio, Stimson listed the names of several major law firms with lawyers defending Guantánamo detainees, suggesting that they be boycotted. Though these lawyers—coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights—work pro bono, Stimson suggested that they were “receiving moneys from who knows where...
...think, quite honestly, when corporate CEOs see that those firms are representing the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001, those CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms,” Stimson said in the interview...