[Eight Ace]

Originally Posted by ninty9

This award, which we first gave in 1993, is for a truly baffling comment.
The 2003 winner is United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for comments in a press briefing.

'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.'

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/footinmouth.html

I thought to "put your foot in your mouth" was to blow it/contradict
yourself/compromise yourself/give away too much information etc
...that statement is more Waffle aka Twaddle