Lies! All Lies!
Bush went right to N.O. for the rest of his vacation!
::smiles::
Posted on 09/12/2005 9:07:40 AM PDT by minerboy
It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington. The president's chief of staff, Andrew Card; his deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin; his counselor, Dan Bartlett, and his spokesman, Scott McClellan, held a conference call to discuss the question of the president's early return and the delicate task of telling him. Hagin, it was decided, as senior aide on the ground, would do the deed.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
"The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, Aug. 30, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington."
Can they possibly be more petty and snippish.
oh puleeze
Oh, for God's sake! Isn't anyone in the administration able to talk straight to someone? Get some backbone people! Oh, never mind. It's Newsweek.
Newsweak!
where is the barf alert on this duplicate post?
Doubleplusungood article from Newspeak.
"Isn't anyone in the administration able to talk straight to someone?"
The America we live in is not the America of fifty years ago. If someone dared tell the truth people would faint with shock or get their panties in such a wad they would never straighten them out. PC is killing us.
....ah I mean the sveral hundred, oh wait no, I mean....
Also the news of how none of the oil platforms can be found...
I mean several of the ah, UM, I mean with the news of all the ports being shutdown, oh wait, I mean...
Yep bringing the bad news to the POTUS could be tricky, especialy if you used NEWSWEEK as your source.
Newspeak Magazine is totally useless ... the paper is too glossy and stiff.
"We HATE all the people on the right side of the plane. We just HATE them!"
Lies! All Lies!
Bush went right to N.O. for the rest of his vacation!
::smiles::
You're right - it's not absorbent enough.
I'd be more than cold and snappish if I had had to deal with what this president has. I'm disappointed in Evan Thomas. He can be a reasonable writer. Sounds to me like he's the one getting snappish. Too bad. He's intelligent and can be fair.
Evan Thomas has admitted, in public, that the MSM has a liberal bias.
I like the guy, but he sure is an ankle-biter.
Already posted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482426/posts
Why would anyone pay attention to the same outfit that wrote the phony "Koran Flush" story? You might as well be posting for the Nation Enquirer
The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president
This is code for “I made the following up.”
Thanks for the reminder of why I don't read the sixth-grade drivel produced by Newsweek’s typists.
Have you noticed that, in this story, and on TV news you now hear the phrase "on the ground" all the time? Well, Hells bells, where else would people be? After all, people aren't storks.
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