Posted on 05/18/2004 12:40:32 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
Clintonista Boucher Backs Powell's 'Demeaning' Aide
Top spokesman Richard Boucher, one of many Clintonista leftovers afflicting the Bush (more accurately, anti-Bush) State Department, has only positive spin on Secretary Colin Powell's controversial underling Emily J. Miller.
"I think she's great, and she's doing a good job for us," Boucher is quoted as saying in the Washington Post today.
"Meet the Press" host Tim Russert is said to be still seething that Miller ordered a cameraman to stop filming an interview with Powell that ran late.
"Russert went on and on and on. We asked the cameraman to help us cut it off. He did and moved the camera," Boucher said.
After NBC's cameraman in Jordan filmed palms instead of Powell, Russert decried "attempted news management gone berserk."
The Post reported: "Miller, 33, who controls access to Powell, seems to have made more enemies than usual among the reporters who cover the State Department. 'Her manner is brusque, abrasive, demeaning,' said one, asking to remain anonymous so as not to be frozen out of interviews with Powell. 'She's not doing the secretary a service; she's doing him a disservice.'"
LOL. I can't understand why a reporter, of ALL people, would have a problem with this.
For some reason, I couldn't remember exactly when this nitwit was hired as a flack for Foggy Bottom. I figured that I was just having one of those "recovered memories" because I believed that this guy was a retread from the Clinton administration. But now I know that I was right all along!
Why didn't Boucher follow the lead of Martin Indyk-who also should have been replaced a lot sooner-and become one of the many useless Clinton era talking-heads now polluting our television screens on a regular basis?
I just don't understand why this man is still imperiling our national security and undermining our foreign policy.
I just don't get it.
Richard "Bobby" Boucher - Waterboy for Hillary Rodham.
Bush's number one problem is that he fails to get his message out. Clinton sent his people out every week to flood the TV talk shows with their message. Bush doesn't. Now staff like this lady are trying to silence the conservative message. She's a RINO.
Typical gatekeeper. They're almost always women (why?). They're self-important and humorless; and they're employed expressly for the purpose of making it hard for us common zhlubs to talk to some Very Important Person -- like our child's allergy doctor, our child's school principal, or our congressman.
I've had many run-ins with these types. They drive me nuts; but it's their employers who are responsible for hiring them. So a pox on them both.
Emily sounds like a rules-based control freak without an ability to think outside the box.
Oh like you can't look her in the eye, or if you see her walking down a corridor you MUST scurry into a cubbyhole and hide and let her pass. Nope, but one had to do that with Hitlery, now THAT's 'Brusque, abrasive, demeaning'!
Plus as it's now reported Russert was taking time promised to OTHER news outlets, the gas-bag. One reporter got cut to five minutes from ten.
Richard Boucher was with the State Department during Bush I's presidency, before the Toon was elected.
I heard him talking on Hannity yesterday, and he said it turned out to be a miscommunication between Emily and the producer at the site, but ultimately not a big deal.
It wasn't a big deal but Russert made it into a big deal on the show. He could have edited the interview but made a point of showing the unedited tape and commenting about the interruption after playing it. His implied point being that the Bush administration is controlling the media's access. Anything to score points.
EMILY WAS RIGHT! RUSSERT, THE POTATO HEAD, WAS WRONG WRONG WRONG.
He'd rather make a mountain out of a mole-hill. He sounds like a drama queen. We know why he doesn't mention that this was pre-taped in the interviews he's given about the incident.Dirty leftist tricks!
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