Watergate's Deep Throat Revealed

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Oh he makes decisions all right, but the decisions are between 2 or three options that are carefully groomed and presented so he'll choose the ones his keepers want.
I seriously doubt, he knows the background or fully understands the consequences, of any decisions.

Emphasis mine.

From Bruce Almighty:

The newscaster is reading the script and the teleprompter, despite the obvious fact that it is utter crap.

EVAN
Ah, there we go. Sorry about that.
The Prime Minister of Sweden
visited Washington today as my
little tiny nipples moved to France-
Evan stops cold, staring at the teleprompter.
INT. TV STUDIO - CONTINUOUS
The Director in the booth reacts.
DIRECTOR
What did he just say? Check the
prompter.
The Console Operator checks the text being fed to Evan.
CONSOLE OPERATOR
It's fine.
DIRECTOR
Well, signal for him to keep going.

65.



-^ The Stage Manager motions to Evan, he reluctantly continues
/ reading.

INTERCUT TV STUDIO AND NEWSROOM MONITOR

EVAN
The White House reception committee
greeted the Prime Rib Roast
Minister and I do the cha cha like
a sissy girl...
(urged to keep going, so
continues slowly)
I lika do da cha cha...
In desperation, Evan shifts from the prompter to the paper
script on his desk.
EVAN
Sorry, we're having a few technical
difficulties, here...
(reading) *
In other n-n-n-n....n-n-n-n...

From the news yesterday:

“We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,” Bush said.

Life imitating art.

If you're not mining the data, what the *fuck* are you doing with it? What do you call traffic analysis if it's not data mining?