As I said "he who has not raise your hand"
I did not notice you raising yours……
:Chuckle: I don't consider myself as having a canary brain, so the question/comment doesn't apply.
However the question as raised did remind me of
John 8:7 Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Clever. How does one respond to that?
We have all said goofy stuff from time time time. Yet how many have a media that tries their best to do everything they can to take you down day after day? As I said in a previous post I knew when he said it he was going to pay a heavy price. But lick my wounds? I wasn't wounded.
Absolutely! I do sometimes have a problem with engaging my mouth before my brain. Sometimes I can't take it back, sometimes trying to, just makes it worse. I can at times apologize.
Once upon a time, back when the dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, I was in a College Assembly being addressed by the College President during a weekly address. I was an upper class-man, and he made a ludicrous statement that I just couldn't let pass. I didn't want the underclass men think that was true. I raised my hand to point out his error. When he called on me, I stammered (it dawned on me, that I was about to correct the President in front of the entire student body). I had already started my sentence, and mid sentence, I couldn't think of a graceful way out. It went something like this: "You said, well, I think you said, well, I thought you said, what I think you meant to say..." He cut me off, and made fun of me. In front of the entire school.
I learned: Say what you mean, and mean what you say, or say nothing at all.
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While in College, each of us had to give a 5 minute speech on some health issue.
The doctor explained that we only had so many classes left, and therefore a limited amount of time for each of us (100) to give a speech.
We really need to get started, is anyone prepared?
I looked around, and figured, what the heck! I raised my hand.
Some of my brother students gave me a critical review.
The doctor gave me an "A" and said I was the "Best extemporaneous speaker she ever met"
LOL... I had to look that up.
I've lectured to colleagues, and given presentations, I've testified in court, and before State Assembly Committee meetings. The most dangerous people I have ever given interviews, or comments to, are the Media. They'll take your words out of context, and twist them, such that regardless of what you actually said, they will make it sound like you said, whatever they want for their report.
You have to be very careful, and precise when speaking to the media. IMO you need to word your statements so that they are perfectly clear and can not be twisted. Now... I have had little personal experience with the media. Nothing compared to a man who has been in the public eye for as long as I can remember. Because of the above, I listen to news reports with a jaundiced eye, but when I SEE the briefing LIVE I am stunned by the idiocy of feeding the media with such lunacy.
