If your creepy old uncle w/ authority issues and an ego the size of Sweden held a press conference, it might look like this.
An Afternoon With Rummy: Liveblogging the Pentagon Briefing (Part 1).
Reporter: “Do you feel embattled at this point in your tenure? In a recent column, Maureen Dowd quoted an unidentified administration official who described you as an ‘eccentric old uncle who’s ignored.’ She claims that you don’t hold the same sway in meetings…”
Rumsfeld: “Did you get all that? You want to be on camera, right? That’s a sure way to get on the evening news. The answer to your question is no.”
Reporter: “Well, I’m asking about the facts reported in the column. Do you feel you hold the same sway in meetings?”
Rumsfeld: “I’m not going to comment on that.”
[Pause]
Rumsfeld: “If you believe everything you read in Maureen Dowd, you better get a life.”
No matter how much I detest that man and wish it were so, I am hard pressed to believe that he's totally ignored, which isn't to say that he may not be out of favor in this man-on-dog dog-eat-dog political climate. Whatever the reality, I hope to all that is righteous and just that he's not allowed to slink away under cover of "spending more time w/ his family." I'm talking trial at the Hague for Mr. Avuncular.
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