A few weeks back I gave my Doublespeak Quote of the Year Award for 2007. Now it's time to announce Man of the Year and without hesitation I'm giving the title to Soroush Shehabi, a reporter (?) from Washington Life Magazine. The following vignette was described on United Press International on-line.
At a farewell reception at Blair House for the retiring chief of protocol, Don Ensenat, who was President Bush's Yale roommate, the president shook hands with Washington Life Magazine's Soroush Shehabi. "I'm the grandson of one of the late Shah's ministers," said Soroush, "and I simply want to say one U.S. bomb on Iran and the regime we all despise will remain in power for another 20 or 30 years and 70 million Iranians will become radicalized.""I know," President Bush answered.
"But does Vice President Cheney know?" asked Soroush.
President Bush chuckled and walked away.
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