maybe some people want an aggressive but ACCURATE press to let us know what our government is doing with all those tax dollars..
maybe it's good to scrutinize Clinton and Bush? Any "journalist" that uses Limbaugh or hannity or Al Franken or barbara streisand as a primary source should not have a white house press pass end of story.
Frankly, as a taxpayer I'd be more disturbed by my tax dollars going to armstrong williams and others and want to know why the PR budget under this group is double what it used to be?
What PR group? Why are you dragging Armstrong Williams into this?
He never said Limbaugh was his primary source but he did quote Limbaugh.
What PR group? source?
And yet you still can't answer me, can you?
The entire MSM, with the exception of FNC, was duped yesterday. Does that mean all of their WH press credentials should be revoked?
Rathers source was a memo typed in Microsoft word. He's credible.
You mean like yesterday's story that Karl Rove was going to be over the National Security Council? Is that what you call accurate?
Do you know it was reported as FACT by Peter Jennings and Terry Moran? Do you know the reporter who first reported it NEVER revised her story?
Why aren't you over on THOSE threads posting that boilerplate pap?
Try to remmeber where you are; we don't need YOU to tell us about accuracy in the media.
Link? Source?
And I am SURE that you realize that since you made such a big deal out of Jeff Gannon using a radio host as a source, you won't be telling us you "heard" it somewhere.
Back up your statement or stop wasting our time.
Have you bothered reading the transcript of the press conference in question? I saw it LIVE and I've read it and guess what topic came up?
Go ahead, you'll never guess.
excerpt:
Q Mr. President, do you think it's a proper use of government funds to pay commentators to promote your policies?
THE PRESIDENT: No.
Q Are you going to order that --
THE PRESIDENT: Therefore, I will not pay you to -- (laughter.)
Q Fair enough. Are you ordering that there be an end to that practice?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I am. I expect my Cabinet Secretaries to make sure that that practice doesn't go forward. There needs to be independence. And Mr. Armstrong Williams admitted he made a mistake. And we didn't know about this in the White House, and there needs to be a nice, independent relationship between the White House and the press, the administration and the press. So, no, we shouldn't be going for it.
Yes, sir.
Q Well, Mr. Williams made a mistake --
THE PRESIDENT: Who?
Q Mr. Williams made a mistake. Did the Department of Education make a mistake?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. They did.
Q What will happen to the people that made this decision?
THE PRESIDENT: We've got new leadership going to the Department of Education. But all our Cabinet Secretaries must realize that we will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet. I'm confident you'll be, over the course of the next four years, willing to give our different policies an objective look -- won't you? Yes, I can see that.
~snip~
I'll bet you'll never guess in a million years under whose administration the practice began, but I hope I set your mind at ease now that you know it will not continue.
Frankly I had no problem with the specific Williams or Gallagher situations and I can defend why, but you seem to be proceeding as if the status quo were still in effect. As you can see, it's not.