Posted on 11/22/2004 11:01:04 AM PST by crushelits
Laurie Dhue
How about Ann Coulter as Press Secretary?
Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Laurie Dhue, or Monica Crowley. At least the male populataion would pay more attention.
I agree whole-heartedly with this. I think the current team has not done very well in getting the Prez' message out, or in responding rapidly and forcefully enough to events. If anything, the press is going to be even more hostile in the second term.
Candidates, anyone?
This President's word is good, even when we think it would be helpful for him to lash out, fight back, and attack his attackers, especially those in the White House Press Corps. He ain't gonna do it. He promised to restore civility to Washington, and he's doing his part.
It's true, Bush is rather low key. Although he seems to have become more aggressive lately, I've noticed.
Still, I think a good press secretary should be sort of an attack dog, ready to sally forth and bite the reporters before they bite his boss. Or her boss? Has there ever been a female press secretary?
Just one.
Right on-the President's press corp. are absolutely worthless....there is plenty of good news and none coming from that group.
I should add this is probably a result of Rove's Compassionate Conservatism and playing Nice Nice
Let's hope he and Bush come to their senses
Mark Levin
"Has there ever been a female press secretary?" LOL that you don't remember Dee Dee Myers. She was canned pretty quick.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/myers3.html
I couldn't agree with Deroy Murdock more.
This has been the most incompetent press office in modern history. At times they were so bad I felt ashamed to be a Bush supporter.
Murdock's PR suggestions were pitch perfect, and I would like to add one of my own.
When Cuban refugees showed up off the coast of Florida in a boat fashioned from a 51 Chevy in July of 2003, President Bush should have immediately granted them amnesty and brought them and their Chevy to the White house for a rose garden press conference. He could have used the opportunity to denounce Castro and speak more broadly about his belief that all people desire to live in freedom.
Too bad Don Rumsfeld has other plans.
Affirmative on this NRO article. Bush's initial Press Secretary (?) was first-class; but after his departure, things weren't the same. McClellan is a good man, but he lacked the assertiveness needed to respond to the media's daily attacks.
Yer right! A bad one! Of course, with a boss like Clinton...
I nominate counterpunch (see post just above yours).
"Candidates, anyone?"
We need a Mary Matalin-type person who can handle the press. As much as I detest the Clintonistas, they sure knew how to run a War Room. Bush's people are too "nice". They need to learn to play hardball with the press and learn to get out in front of stories. Unfortunately, they now issue statements after the Prez has been bashed for about a week or so.
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