Way Ahead of the Facts: Quote of the Day
July 9, 2007“Way ahead of the facts” said White House spokesman Tony Snow, on if there’s any internal White House debate on a U.S. troop pullback in Iraq.
It’s similar to the expression “future truth”, coined by an old boss of mine. No matter that the users he wanted me to write about were as figmentary as John Nash’s roommate in A Beautiful Mind. Say something often enough, he’d insist, and it will become truth.
But “way ahead of the facts” is also a non-denial denial, an acknowledgement that something not true now will eventually become so. It’s a a classic of crisis communications from a White House in crisis–or am I way ahead of the facts?