# Maybe we should schedule more photo ops for that putz in the White House? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 21, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495 "2006-02-21T17:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Satyagrahi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Satyagrahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyagrahi)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495/21 "2006-02-22T03:17:30Z")
As others have commented above, my prediction in the OP was absolutely a sarcastic comment for rhetorical effect. **Bricker** , this is the fucking Pit, not the copulational GD. So call me a goat-felcher; you’ll feel better. That said, however, I think it’s not better than a fifty-fifty chance that the research lab will retain that funding beyond a month. If they do indeed retain the funding and I can find a solid citation for that, I will issue an apology as follows: “I do acknowledge my error and completely and whole-heartedly apologize to the administration: They’re not _quite_ as stupid and hypocritical as I had thought. Wow. You could have knocked me over with a feather.” Will that help? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495/22 "2006-02-22T05:49:12Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Absolutely not. I am not an employee of the federal government. Contractor? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495/23 "2006-02-22T17:01:08Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > How are the two tied together? My question is to you: will you 'fess up to error? You have excoriated the administration for its actions, saying that they’ll cut the funding again by this week’s end. > > If you’re unwilling to admit error after it happens, you cast yourself as a critic who simply remains silent when wrong; someone who will speak loudly about the administration’s errors but refuse to praise them when they do well. That’s hardly a bastion of intellectual honesty. > > Why is your admission contingent on anything else? Never, ever going to happen. That would require the Bush Bashers™ to actually apply critical thinking to an issue rather than just chanting “Bush is teh suxx0r!!!”. You’d have a better chance of getting blood from a turnip. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495/24 "2006-02-22T17:15:16Z")
> [@Weirddave](#): > > Never, ever going to happen. That would require the Bush Bashers™ to actually apply critical thinking to an issue rather than just chanting “Bush is teh suxx0r!!!”. Pot, meet kettle. Discuss pigmentation. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495/25 "2006-02-22T18:00:59Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Contractor? > > 😃 You’re not a whore if you \*give \* it away. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495/26 "2006-02-22T18:19:35Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > If it is not, do you plan to return here and confess your error? :dubious: You know **Bricker** , after you predicted that Democrats in the Gang of Fourteen would find “extraordinary circumstances” and filibuster the replacement for O’Connor, I was unable to find any such confession. I know, I know, the last time I asked you about this, you claimed to have done so in several places. But upon review of your posts following the Alito confirmation, I have been unable to find any confession of error. Several times prior to the confirmation, you said you would have no problem making such a confession, but as far as I can find, you never actually did. The time has come to either cite your post confessing your error, or do so prominently and publicly, preferably in the original thread. Of course, if I am mistaken, I will confess my error. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-we-should-schedule-more-photo-ops-for-that-putz-in-the-white-house/345495.md?page=1)