Via Raw Story:
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY TONY SNOW: Whether it passes or not, as you know, Terry, there have been a number of cases where civil rights matters have risen on a number of occasions, and they've been brought up for repeated consideration by the United States Senate and other legislative bodies...
Q You mentioned civil rights. Are you comparing this to various civil rights measures which have come to the Congress over the years?
MR. SNOW: Not -- well, these -- it --
Q Is this a civil right?
MR. SNOW: Marriage? It actually -- what we're really talking about here is an attempt to try to maintain the traditional meaning of an institution that has maintained one meeting for -- meaning for a period of centuries. And furthermore --
Q And you would equate that with civil rights?
MR. SNOW: No, I'm just saying that I think -- well, I don't know. How do you define civil rights?
Q It's not up to me. Up to you.
MR. SNOW: Okay. Well, no, it's your question. So I -- if I --
Q (Chuckles.)
MR. SNOW: I need to get a more precise definition.
It's time for the White House press corps' honeymoon with the new press secretary to end. Since he accepted this job, day after day he has been unable or unwilling to answer the most basic questions related not only to Bush's policies but to what ought to be common sense issues.
He doesn't know how to define civil rights? That's not really it, is it? He was asked a question for which he didn't have the proper right-wing talking point to answer with.
That is just pathetic and his daily show of ignorance is no longer cute. It's annoying.
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