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Columnist Cal Thomas and out-going Sec Def Donald Rumsfeld:

MR. THOMAS: When you get things, you know, straightened out, come down and see a movie with us. I promise it won't be a war movie.

SEC. RUMSFELD: What kind of a movie?

...

MR. THOMAS: It'll be fun. I got one for you that'd you'd really love. You got it this Christmas. Get for her and watch it together. It's called "Akeelah and the Bee." Starbucks is involved in it. It's about a little African-American girl, 11-years-old, growing up in Crenshaw in LA... And they discover that she has this great gift of spelling. Laurence Fishburne is in it, Angela Basset. She goes out and redeems everybody... I'm sitting there I'm balling away. I'm cheering for the kid...

I guarantee you I'll give you your money back if you don't love this movie. You will absolutely love this. It's got everything. There's not a white guy -- the only white guy in it is the principal of the school. Everybody else is minority, everybody else gets along.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Did you like the "Sound of Music?"

MR. THOMAS: Of course I liked the "Sound of Music."

SEC. RUMSFELD: Well, so did I... People laugh at that.

MR. THOMAS: Well, I want to tell you something. I stalked Julie Andrews for 40 years before I finally got her.

SEC. RUMSFELD: Is that right.

MR. THOMAS: On our shelf, a picture of us having tea together in New York.

SEC. RUMSFELD: How long ago?

MR. THOMAS: Two years. But I --

SEC. RUMSFELD: She's showing her years.

MR. THOMAS: Yeah, well -- no, she looks great.

SEC. RUMSFELD: (Laughs.)

--Defense Tech: The Sound of Rummy

Harold Pinter, the gauntlet has been thrown.

[Via Wonkette]

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