I think we all know that talking to the press is a boring, thankless job, especially if you're a mid-level political figure. You're expected to deliver every bit of news with a straight, serious face, sometimes boiling it down to easier-to-digest sound bites, and then answer questions from a throng of reporters eager to get answers. So I suppose every once in a while, you're looking to work a joke in there to lighten the mood, even if it's the stiffest, most forced joke ever, and even if it's not exactly in a very appropriate spot.
Take it away,
Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill:
Piracy is "is a very serious security problem on the African coast. These are not pirates who will remind you of Johnny Depp. These are quite different kinds of pirates," Hill told reporters in Seoul, South Korea.
He'll be here all week, folks! Here all week for six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, that is, but I hear he's going to be moonlighting at the Seoul Zanies.
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