[Newspoetry] Ari not ruling anything in or out

[Joe Futrelle]

Hats off to Nicky for noting this most Ariesque of Ariisms.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:24:24PM -0600, Joe Futrelle wrote:
> "On the question of whether there's any terrorism, as I indicated at
> the beginning, first information is always subject to change. We have
> not ruled anything in, not ruled anything out.  But as I mentioned,
> the investigation is being headed by the National Transportation
> Safety Board to try to determine the cause of it."
> -- Ari Fleischer, White House Press Briefing, 12 November 2001
> 
> There once was a spokesman named Ari,
> whose informativeness was a sorry
>  excuse for a joke, he
>  just played hokey-pokey
> ruling in, ruling out, pro tempore
> 
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