Thursday, November 10, 2005

A BIT OF HUMOR: Remedial Ethics - New York Times

CLICK TO READ: Remedial Ethics by Christopher Buckley - New York Times

"Bush Orders Staff to Attend Ethics Briefings; White House Counsel to Give 'Refresher' Course"
- The Washington Post, Nov. 5

GOOD morning, everyone."

"Good morning, Mr. Bonhoeffer."

"I hope everyone had an ethical weekend. I thought we'd start this morning with a situational exercise. Karl, suppose a reporter called you and said, 'I will write a very favorable article for my paper and make you look really good if you will tell me a super-duper classified national secret.' What would the correct thing to do be?"

Bush Orders Staff to Attend Ethics Briefings The Washington Post, Nov. 5
"Tell him, 'Let me get back to you on that?'"

(Laughter)

"All right, settle down, everyone. This is no laughing matter. Anyone?" ....

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