25 March 2008

ready, you know, on, you know, day you know

Hillary to the Philladelphia Daily News, in what should be a retraction of her account of a daring landing amid sniper fire and evasive maneuver's (when in reality it was a normal landing and she had a photo op with a kid on the tarmac):


"I went to 80 countries, you know. I gave contemporaneous accounts, I wrote about a lot of this in my book. You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement."


too bad "you" coupled with "know" have to be said so many thousand times a day. And has anyone noticed that quantity is now replacing experience? The number of blacked out pages of schedules, the number of warehouses that could enshrine her papers, now, you know, the, you know, number of, you know, words?