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  • Aberystwyth UNI

    Business and Management

    Thumb up if you watched this video

  • What he's saying is a law of logic, it's undebatable fact.

    Also, there's no much thing as unknown knowns (in the literal sense!), you cannot not know what you know.

  • what he's saying actually makes a lot of sense...if you're not too stupid to understand it

  • What a clown...why isn't he in jail? The biggest war criminals in the world walk around freely in the u.s., britain, france, and germany. Who builds and pushes the weapons of war on humanity? The CORPORATIONS that are owned by the elite families in the "developed" countries of the world. Do you really think Arabic people are a threat to you? They just want to live like anyone else. How many of bush's, clinton's, and congresspeople's kids ever pick up a gun or fight? YOU DIE while they party!

  • thumbs up if gim rummy from boondocks brought you to this

  • Say what AGAIN I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU MUTHAF**KER!

  • what about things that are unknown not to be knowns yet are still somehow known by those who don't know unknown knowns? His speech didn't meet satisfactory levels of confusion. :D

  • Froot in toots big booty

  • Donald Rumsfeld is great!

  • 0:16 I almost choked on my crumpets laughing at the "joke" the officer made. 

  • I know! He is cyborg with AI.

  • The hilarious thing here is that he actually does make sense. Think about it. Oh the irony.

  • can there be unkown knowns?

  • @wildhias thats unknown for now

  • so he know now ?!

  • Look into 'Meno's Paradox' and you will understand exactly what Rumsfeld means. It makes perfect sense when you actually take the time to consider it.

  • its RUMSFELD not RUMSFLED

  • What?

  • war criminal??? thumps up?

  • @whodares2000 That is similar to what is, in psychology, called the Johari window (can be googled).

  • well the only Know knowns I KNOW is I don't KNOW what the fuck you're talking about...

  • And the existence of aliens would fall in the "yeah we know all about that" category.. rummy your a pile of shite and an evil one at that..

  • 1984 Double Speak! it's finally here! Yay!

  • "Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." -George Orwell

  • pure evil

  • Which gnomes does he know?

  • I encourage everyone to watch "Yes Minister" This is exactly something that the civil servant Sir Humfrey would say to the minister to confuse him. The similarity is uncanny.

  • what about unknown knowns? he missed that one out

  • @SlicedBeefNWotNot Like, someone saw something suspicious and didn't notice it, and now he or she knows subconsciously that something bad's going on but isn't aware of this knowledge? lol

  • @SlicedBeefNWotNot you mean not realising i'm gay, even though i like boys?

  • @mahlstadt that's definitely a known unknown if you haven't tried both.

  • An irrefutable known known: It took the Obama administration two years to accomplish what your incompetent ass couldn't get done in six. Fuck you Rummy, your mother owes us an apology.

  • WHAT?

  • WAR CRIMINAL>>>>>>>Rumsfeld<<<<<<<­WAR CRIMINAL

  • The Boondocks brought me here

    I forgot this funny shit!

  • I don't know what he's talking about...... maybe I do but i just don't know that I do...... perhaps I think I do but I really don't........ it could be possible that I don't give a fuck, but I'm not sure about that.

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  • @WhatDaThing I don't think he wanted confusion on anyone's part. I think that whether or not he was speaking the truth, or rather whether or not what he was saying came from a place of honesty, he certainly wanted us to believe him.

  • Hey TRUEPRIDE (in what your sexuality),

    You leftwing weirdos are too stupid to know or admit what you don't know and too stupid to even know how to figure it out. At least there was a leader who made decisions based on his love of country. You wouldn't know anything about that. The only one in leadership today who even comes close to wanting to make a decision based the love of country in Hillary Clinton and that is suspect. Certainly the thing you call president does not.

  • @hcderksen being left wing is far better than being right wing.........

  • This is the biggest line of bullshit you will ever here on national television. maybe not, but he deserves a public execution of the lives hes cost

  • @WhatDaThing Ps. There`s no such thing as unknown knowns.

  • @WhatDaThing UFO`s are not unknown unknowns. They are known unknowns. Unknown unknowns are things such as the following :

  • I remember the fuss that was kicked up when Rumsfeld said this. I don`t know why he got the piss taken out of him. It`s as plain as day to me. The most he can be accused of - vis a vis - this press interview clip, is stating the obvious !

  • comment first to midgety1, Yes!, and either you have been in psychoanalysis, evidently don't need it or are a researcher in one of the sciences and doing well at it. imadaboutguitar, when someone offers me a good day or any singular unit of time, I always reply "Can I have 2?" and 2 their doubletake: "I don't know why you're so cheap, I always wish folks a great life, it usually lasts longer & doesn't cost any more, but folks hate thinking, tells them all kinds of things they don't want to know.

  • we know one thing for sure, he's a fuckin lizard

  • Is he high during this ?

  • Well said!

  • Rumsfeld should be in jail. Not only for lying to take us to war, but also for the Aspartame thing.

  • Of course it makes perfect sense to people that want a slow drawn out answer, that most americans will not understand because their education systems are shithouse therefore running around the question asked instead of answering it directly like a man of truth.

  • It was so simple, he even explained. He fuckiing explained to stupid people and yet people didn0t understand

  • Of course it makes perfects sense. The fact that there are things that we don't know and don't know we don't know them is so blindingly obvious that it makes the Secretary of Defense look like a bleeding moron for having to explain it methodically like a child reciting a simple dictum like 2+2 = 4 as if it requires careful explanation in the manner of the the theory of relativity. He is a moron for thinking we don't know this known, and taking up the time of the press core with his explanation.

  • war is always propaganda. that fucker at the end knows nothing about war and yet he is a commander. #LOL

  • Donald Rumsfeld as just plain stupid they used Gen. Powell because no one would believe Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld all three of these idiots should be charged for war crimes but it seems like our country lawmakers have no balls to do so. Maybe we should have the UN and I'll love the world leaders charge them for war crimes George W. Bush wanted a war sold damn bad he did not care who died as long as him and Dick Cheney made money. They screwed up the whole world economy but that ok.

  • There are known knowns - for example we know that the earth is round

    There are known unknowns - for example: are there other planets with human-like beings? (we have aknoledged the question but don't know the answer)

    There are unknown unknowns - life if you asked a cave man if the earth was round, he wouldn't know what the earth was and even if you explained what it was he would still not know if it was round or not... (you are not aware of either the question or the answer)

  • how much ground could a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?

  • @WhatDaThing lol

  • You have to wonder how much blow he did before this debacle...

  • You can prove his argument false in Dynamic Epistemic Logic.

  • @AndyD89 the epistemic logic, is basically the logic of knowledge change yes? But if you consider knowledge changing, obviously the knows, the known unknowns, and the unknown unknowns, can also change. Its a never ending cycle so long as there is always knowledge to be had.

  • english motherf@#er, do you speak it?

  • When an IDIOT speaks he confuse himself and persuade non intelligent humans.Intelligent and Smart Humans can see from miles away,the shits coming out of his mouth...

  • Where are the knowns? If the known knowns are unknown, then the unknowns are knowns. And if the knowns are are unknowns, then the knowns are unknown. Then if the known is unknown, then the unknowns are unknown.

  • @Aliendear What if the known unknowns are unknown knowns ?

  • @zip68 Then the known knowns are known.

  • so tell me this lol how can there be an unknown unknown if you know it is unknown :P shouldn't it be a known unknown unknown

  • @cumchaser Nobody knows....................P.S have you caught up with your ejeculations yet?

  • so in other words, we're fucked..

  • Absolute bastard.

  • hahahahahahaha 

  • this is a very complicated way to say that: some things we know - somethings we kinda know( or know a little bit about, and somethings we have know idea about.

  • He forgot the fourth category, there are unknown knowns, things we think we know but don't know. Like the WMDs.

  • there are known knowns and there are known unknowns and there are unknown knowns and there are known unknown knowns

  • where can I find this sick fuck..............He needs a bullet in each eye

  • That was the biggest line of bullshit I've ever heard. And the audience just ate it up. What a tool

  • ENGLISH MOTHA FUCKA DO YOU SPEAK IT?!

  • Great logic. Poor delivery. 

  • Rumsfeld is no saint but he's not the worst.

  • a war criminal!

  • I hate patronising ppl, I know exactly what he is trying to convey but shit is still funny

  • @whodares2000 Unconscious Incompetence , Conscious Incompetence , Conscious Competence , Unconscious Competence , stolen from NLP

  • you got to give him credit for this twisted logic.

  • @JXjohn your failure to understand the logic does not make it unsound. convolution does not make a statement any less logical than a statement dumbed down to your level.

  • LOL white power!

  • Reporter : Mr Secretary, What about the knowns we know but dont realise we know. These are clearly unknowns . . .

    No wonder Bush couldnt understand anything!

  • They don't know that we know, and furthermore we know more than they know.

  • @talltom1973 lol, we COULD know more than they know :p

  • He misses one point:

    unknown knowns (things we don't know we know)

    We know them, they are part of our identity and act upon them, but we don't know that we know them

  • @jorgisdenaam

    Probably the most crucial one with regards to his intellectual and rhetorical prowess.

  • And you know who you were then, girls were girls and men were men.

  • this was quoted in one of my project planning classes and it makes total sense. so if you are knocking what he is saying go and get educated first, never mind what you think oh him personally.

  • @powerinvader

    The man is a fool and you the bigger fool for supporting him...he took the USA into war with nonsense talk like that above.

    Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are gangsters in suits. Come to you with smiles and cunning.

  • @powerinvader

    I am asuming you have never taken a course in Descriete math or Logic.

  • The man is an arse

  • What?

  • Man, the press even laughed at his bullshit.

  • This makes sense. Watch the boondocks. Sam Jackson says this best.

  • how does this crap his talking make any sense? If he so smart why is America so fucked up

  • @zip68 Because the world is run by banks. These people are puppets.

  • The only unknown is why hasn't anyone shot this bastard in the head. Fucking cunt.

  • Boondocks FTW,

    Fuck the american/israeli attack on the world.

  • Pile of traitorous shit. Someday I hope to see this fucking subhuman swinging from a lamp post.

  • How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

  • How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? any takers?

  • i dont get the confusion. im not a supporter of the past administration, but its scary that there are people not smart enough to understand what he was talking about.

  • @johnkerry7 It's not that people don't understand what he's trying to say. It's the way he said it that makes him seem like a complete idiot.

  • lol He missed unknown knowns

    things we didn't know we knew

  • Gin Rummy!

  • What he is saying makes perfect sense. I don't see what people don't understand about it.

  • @Jareth1981 yes…it makes sense…but this EXPLANATIONS is not appropriate at a press conference. Plus he's not exactly the source of all clarity anyway

  • @Jareth1981 Sure.

  • @Jareth1981 you miss the point thats not the point

  • @ashtweth What's the point then?

  • @Jareth1981 The point is he is bullshitting get a clue, the whole war was just initiated by a corpocracy, if it makes sense to you you might find a corpocracy is ramming a cock fair up your behind, the scary part is you trust your government

  • @ashtweth You still haven't made any point apart from your belief in conspiracy theories. I bet you think the moon landing was faked too don't you. What's your answer to getting rid of Saddam? Just leave him in power? Do you also agree to just leaving the Taliban in power. Corpocracy?????? What a load of shit.

  • @Jareth1981 I made 2 points the third is your a fucking dumb ass :) waste my time

  • @ashtweth Haha. Typical. You don't even know what your talking about. You haven't even answered my questions. Obviously you can't. Go back to school mate your class is probably starting soon.

  • @Jareth1981 Here is a fourth point your a sheeple- dumb ass. nighty night

  • @ashtweth Nice argument. Touche'. Thankyou for making my point.

  • @Jareth1981 Perfect sense, are you having a fuckin laugh. He could have condensed it down to a few simple words. He choose to explain it this way because most people dont want to think and to be quite honest, have forgotten how to think, so they will switch off. Thats why America is in so much trouble now... and the rest of the world to be honest. The guys a fuckin war criminal

  • @1madaboutguitar How is it complicated at all? Forget about the 'war criminal' horse shit and just listen to what he's saying.

  • @Jareth1981 "Forget about the 'war criminal' horse shit and just listen to what he's saying. " You sound like a perfect sheep mate.

    It is a specific linguistic technique to create confusion through the use of the reptition of the same words close to eachother. Therrefore it is not strange that MANY people instinstively find this confusing to listen to ( thats the puropse). However, when you analyze it, it is logical, but most people wont, thats the point. Deepak Chopra is a master of this

  • @1madaboutguitar

    Jareth makes perfect sense.

    Hahaha, 1madaboutguitar, you're a fucking clown, mate. Next time quote Anthony Robbins, cunt, and after that, you might wanna quote Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus.

  • @zephyrgrim Why would I need to quote Anthony Robbins or Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus?

    Blimey, youtube can be a place for thick cunts and you are a good example.

  • @1madaboutguitar

    It's funny, you call people sheep to distance yourself from being one, to convince yourself of it, yet everything you've said has shown you to be one more than any of us. Your supercilious act doesn't fool anybody but yourself.

    Pretty shit linguistic technique, in his case, when most people would look at it and think he's talking out of his ass. Thankfully, there are people out there who can listen and get what he's saying.

  • @1madaboutguitar

    Oh, and it's quite funny how you blurt out that Jareth is a sheep just because he understands what Rumsfeld is talking about. There's no merit in what you're saying. You're clearly a fucking idiot.

  • @zephyrgrim Look, why dont you and Jareth just get a room your so far up his ass at the moment you might as well finish the job.

    Geeez... Its all down to what you want to believe mate. If you want to believe that the guy standing in front of you cares about you and your country you'll find ways to justify that belief. All Im saying is, his use of language is with deliberate attempt to confuse and be easily forgotten. Ive explained why, now deal with it truth.

  • @1madaboutguitar

    So that's all you're saying? By calling people sheep in the process? Can't see how that was remotely relevant. Maybe you needed to boost your own confidence. Looks like you're trying to say more than what you claim. What you're saying to me is, "My name is 1madaboutguitar and I'm a fucking DICKHEAD." You've proved that point nicely.

  • @zephyrgrim OK, all you've done is insult. Just another youtube bigot with a big mouth.

  • @1madaboutguitar

    OK, Sheep Man. No worries.

  • Test Time!

    Please formulate what you have just heard in an algebraic expression.

  • @9mmparadox @9mmparadox We divide the Univers in 3 Parts: A,B,C. a in A, b in B, c in C k is know w is we kw(kwa) kw-(kwb) -(kw-(kwc)) A is we know B is we do not know C is we can not know
  • Rumsfeld gave me a Challenge Coin in Tikrit Iraq 2003

  • You No0bs! ofCourse u wont understand it- this is Nt a fun show at all - its the principle Used for Designers such as game makerds, and the "Levels" Of user's So- called stupididty (AkA unawareness0

  • lol wut

  • Omg

  • This was in the boondocks

  • Gosh dude from Boondocks

  • Murderous piece of trash.

  • WTF?! You need a friggin' heroin-laced dobbie-wah to understand this shit...

  • I haven't known the term 'unknown unknowns' until now.

    There's a lot of things we don't know that we don't know which are called unknown unknowns.

  • his statement makes sense, but he couldn't have said it in a dumber way. he should have taken an extra second to get his thoughts together. 1) We have solved certain mysteries. 2) There are still a lot of mysteries left unsolved. 3) There are mysteries that humans have not even begun to fathom

  • He's telling the truth and I respect him for that.

    5/5 !!!

  • He is not dumb, he is trying to explain a complex part of law enforcement/military intelligence to the common public. Basicly there are three aspects. There are things we known, things we know about but dont know details, and things we have no idea about.

  • @gonatego2 I agree. You can call Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz a lot of things (such as war criminals), but they certainly are not dumb.

  • @gonatego2 No hes trying to use double think to befuddle the public into thinking that they know alot more about whats going on in society that they do. When they simply want to manipulate certain truths or bend the truth or control information. What hes saying here is simply obvious but they want the general public to think there god when it comes to the control of information and what the government knows. which is very little about how to run a government.

  • @gonatego2 He's still a lying murderer that needs to be hung for his biddings!

  • @gonatego2 Yeah i get it.But no matter how hard you try to explain it theres always a dumb nigga

  • @gonatego2 no he is not dumb he just didn't speak it clearly.

  • @gonatego2 well 2,800 people dies over a something he thought he knew.

  • Am I the only one that thinks when politiicians say stupid thing like this, that they say them on purpose? I dont believe Bush was as stupid as he made out, i think that there were reasons for his ridiculous speaches and behaviour. Someone from such a high class background and a good education couldnt be as stupid as he made out.

  • @cityflyguy He isnt stupid. Some of the smartest people in the world dont have the ability to speak off the cuff and infront of large crowds. At the same time there are people who can and who dont know much. Rumsfeld too is far from stupid

  • Romantic Brothers - FLOWERS - ! Great hilarious real situation song in youtube! About war, politics, economy! Real amazon smash and i-pod rude killer:)! Dance for the world!

  • He's describing a JOHARI WINDOW MODEL!!!-

    It makes PERFECT SENSE!!!!!!

  • it's his poem.

  • haha that was very Sara Palinish, Mr Dumbsfled.

  • @vincevince801 if you think rumsfeld is dumb you should compare your bank account and career serving this country with his

  • So, do we know the unknowns yet or are they still unknown knowns?

  • I`ve never known what the hell he`s talking about !!!!!

  • That is because you know that you don't know that he knows he doesn't know what he is talking about.

    =D

  • genious