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Clintonista Boucher Backs Powell's 'Demeaning' Aide
News Max ^ | 5/18/04

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.'"


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonholdovers; clintonistas; mtp; powell; richardboucher

1 posted on 05/18/2004 12:40:35 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
'Her manner is brusque, abrasive, demeaning,'

LOL. I can't understand why a reporter, of ALL people, would have a problem with this.

2 posted on 05/18/2004 12:48:17 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
I knew I wasn't imagining things!

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.

3 posted on 05/18/2004 12:50:27 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("She's not ugly! She's not ugly! She wouldn't even sour our milk...she's almost pretty...")
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

Richard "Bobby" Boucher - Waterboy for Hillary Rodham.


4 posted on 05/18/2004 12:54:08 PM PDT by Old Sarge
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

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.


5 posted on 05/18/2004 12:54:26 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
"Miller, 33, who controls access to Powell...is brusque, abrasive, demeaning.."

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.

6 posted on 05/18/2004 12:57:23 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

Emily sounds like a rules-based control freak without an ability to think outside the box.


7 posted on 05/18/2004 1:02:29 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
'Her manner is brusque, abrasive, demeaning,' said one,

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.

8 posted on 05/18/2004 1:05:58 PM PDT by Condor51 ("Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." -- Frederick the Great)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy

Richard Boucher was with the State Department during Bush I's presidency, before the Toon was elected.


9 posted on 05/18/2004 1:06:07 PM PDT by ought-six
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
"Meet the Press" host Tim Russert is said to be still seething...

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.

10 posted on 05/18/2004 1:13:39 PM PDT by theDentist (John Kerry never saw a TAX he wouldn't HIKE !!!)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
Read thru some of the responses ... many of you are dumping on Powell's aid that cut the interview.
Fact is, I watched MTP on Sunday AM and Russert was being his usual self when he interviews a member of the Bush team or some other hapless Republican ... playing hardball. He went over the allocated time, Powell frankly wasn't doing that well, and his staff were getting hot about the tone of the questions being leveled ... almost like accusations. Russert, sensing blood was becoming even more obnoxious, thus the cut off ... and this was after the allocated time limit.
When this happened, Russert went into full whine mode accusing the Powell contingent of obstructing his interview. Russert is a full blown clymer folks ... don't forget it.
11 posted on 05/18/2004 1:26:10 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: theDentist
...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.

12 posted on 05/18/2004 1:34:34 PM PDT by eggman (Do you suffer from painful, irritating liberoids? FreeRepublic – for fast relief.)
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
Here's the truth behind this sorry story. Russert was given 10 minutes on the satellite. As were other TV stations. He learned that Stuffingitupallofus was given 15 minutes and Russert was determined to get his 15 min. too. There was actually a call made to his producer to get him OFF the satellite. Clearly he decided he was more important than everyone else and pulled his little crapola.

EMILY WAS RIGHT! RUSSERT, THE POTATO HEAD, WAS WRONG WRONG WRONG.

13 posted on 05/18/2004 1:52:46 PM PDT by OldFriend (LOSERS quit when they are tired/WINNERS quit when they have won)
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To: eggman
"He could have edited the interview but made a point of showing the unedited tape and commenting about the interruption after playing it."

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!

14 posted on 05/18/2004 2:11:33 PM PDT by LADY J
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To: theDentist
He must have read all his bad press and now he's backtracking because he's pushing that stupid book about his father and trying to portray himself as a man of the people. Failing to edit out the little mishap on MTP inadvertently let us see him for the self absorbed bully that he really is.
15 posted on 05/18/2004 2:26:41 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: theDentist
He must have read all his bad press and now he's backtracking because he's pushing that stupid book about his father and trying to portray himself as a man of the people. Failing to edit out the little mishap on MTP inadvertently let us see him for the self absorbed bully that he really is.
16 posted on 05/18/2004 2:26:44 PM PDT by CaptainK
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