W and aides broadcast media hate

[TacticalPeek]

W & aides broadcast media hate

Lowdown
by Lloyd Grove

He didn't even - like his father - preside over the
destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Yet George W. Bush tells New Yorker writer Ken
Auletta: "No President has ever done more for
human rights than I have."

With stunners like that, no wonder he spends so
little time with journalists.

The President's eyebrow-raising assertion comes during some Oval Office chitchat
after Auletta - writing about the testy relations between the Bush White House and
the news media - sits in on an interview with a British newspaper reporter.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/153985p-135485c.html

[Hobarticus]

1. If dying and unemployment are basic human rights...

Then yes, he's done a bang-up job.

Remember, he's appointed by God, he honestly believes himself.

[NoPasaran]

2. Maybe he means he's done more for rites

Shoving his invisible friend down our throats.

Or maybe he's just a pathological lier.

[w4rma]

3. A narcissistic pathological liar, (n/t)

[Palacsinta]

4. When is he going to announce his divinity?

After a statement like "No president has done more for human rights.........", what's left?

[Stephanie]

5. I can't wait til they're all in handcuffs

Those arrogant pricks.

And Chief of Staff Andy Card scoffs: " don't represent the public any more than other people do. In our democracy, the people who represent the public stood for election."

Card argues that it's not the responsibility of top White House policymakers to provide reporters with facts.

"It's not our job to be sources. The taxpayers don't pay us to leak!" Card tells Auletta. "Our job is not to make your job easy."

[Stephanie]

6. Looks like the New Yorker will post the story tomorrow

http://www.newyorker.com/

PLUS:
New fiction from George Saunders.
Coming tomorrow: Ken Auletta on the White House press pool.

[young_at_heart]

7. Please someone, wake me up from this nightmare!

I subscribe to the New Yorker and the thought of reading this craziness has me crazy........will it ever end?

[0rganism]

8. Hitler: "no one has ever done more for war crimes tribunals than I have"

How many good 'uns can you invent?

Ronald McD: "No one has ever done more for health food coops than I have."

GMC: "No car has ever done more for automobile safety than the Pinto."

Sauron: "No one has ever done more for the heirloom jewelry scene than I have."

Come on! This is a gold mine!

[Nevernose]

9. Your title is insulting to dictators everywhere

What about Pol Pot (who managed to get off under house arrest), that Romanian guy (Colceascu or something like that?), Napolean Bonaparte, or that guy who killed all the Serbs (another one whose name escaped my fragile cranium)?

[nolabels]

10. That is pretty funny ,come to think of it

Even though I don't know how to spell moran too well, it looks even funnier with that back-ward's common sense of * applied to it. Sort of like the non-quote from Al Gore of him saying he invented the INTERNET

[kskiska]

11. Good post

I thought it was important, and posted it here in LBN this aftgernoon, but the mods moved it to Editorials. Good to see it here.

[grasswire]

13. it's been around for a few days tho

I saw the author on cable earlier in the week. I don't know if the story is as juicy as we hope.

[Th1onein]

12. Yeah, RIGHT!

And I've got some land in the Florida everglades to sell you, too. What a liar!

[Doc_Technical]

14. I beg to differ...

about * spending little time with journalists.
No one in the White House Press Corps (except perhaps one) is
worthy of the title "journalist".ü