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White House, Fox News Claim Truce
According to Fishbowl DC, Mediaite, and Hot Air, The White House and Fox News have agreed to end their public feud and call a “truce”.
I’m not sure how Fox News can agree to a truce when all they were guilty of doing was reporting on this White House.
Here’s the real kicker:
One drawback, which even Obama aides concede, is that Fox is using the quarrel with the White House as a public-relations tool to stir up its own support among conservatives and to boost ratings. “They’re still at it,” says a senior Obama aide, who adds that White House officials don’t expect to fire another shot in the battle unless Fox strikes first.
I take that to mean The WH won’t fire another shot unless Fox starts telling the public what’s really going on again. Somehow I don’t think Glenn Beck is in on this truce. I don’t think he’s going to shy away from informing the public when he uncovers yet another Mao-loving Marxist in this administration.
What The White House wants is for Fox News to get in line with the rest of the Obama media and keep quiet. I don’t see that happening and I don’t see this so-called “truce” lasting very long either. This administration can’t handle criticism of any kind. The only way they can pass their destructive legislation is in the dark of night without anyone knowing the details.
Glenn Beck Installing Red Phone Hotline Directly To White House
This is hilarious. After the unprecedented White House attacks on Fox News, Glenn Beck is taking action. He says he’s having Fox News install a red phone in his studio with a direct line to White House Communications Director Anita Dumb Dunn. According to Beck, she’ll be the only one with the number and she can call anytime she has a problem. He says The White House should have a direct line to its enemies.
Video: Fox News Responds To White House Attacks
(hat tip Breitbart TV)
Obama Finds The Perfect White House Art
President Obama honest to God has this hanging in The White House. Does it get any better than that?
(hat tip NRO)
ACORN’s White House ‘Political Director’
This via Big Government:
Newly discovered evidence shows the radical advocacy group ACORN has a man in the Obama White House.This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush’s White House.
Evidence shows that years before he joined the Obama administration, Gaspard was ACORN boss Bertha Lewis’s political director in New York.
And the plot thickens…
Trent Duffy Says Scott McClellan Is A Damn Liar
Here’s what Trent Duffy says about Scott McClellan and his ridiculous book. Duffy worked for McClellan as Deputy Press Secretary.
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me, during a series of personal discussions in your West Wing office in late 2005 and early 2006 (at the apex of what you now call your period of “disillusionment” and “dismay”), that you were happy in your job and proud to serve President Bush and that you had no intention of leaving soon? What about in April 2006, when rumors swirled about a change at the podium, and you again told me you wanted to stay?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me around Christmas that the excerpts released by your publisher were being “taken out of context” and that your book wasn’t going to be a hatchet job?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you assured your former deputies that you wanted our “full participation” in the book?
· Was it the truth or a lie when, after countless briefings, you complained that the White House press corps was too tough, unfair, over the top and didn’t get it? ….
When the first “teaser” excerpts of your book hit the press in December, my phone lighted up with calls from reporters. Before responding, I called you; you said the publisher had taken liberties, you didn’t mean to attack the president and to point reporters to your 2006 interview with Larry King as your genuine take on things. You told me that your book was still about the poisonous partisan atmosphere in Washington and didn’t breathe a hint about Iraq or Hurricane Katrina. This was long after you were outside the White House bubble, amigo.
You also assured me, when we’ve talked the past two years, that you wanted your deputies to review the book and share our thoughts. Thinking you actually meant what you said, I reached out to you two months ago to take you up on your offer. Radio silence. Why didn’t you keep your promise to me and the other professionals who gave years of their lives working for you?
It certainly looks like Scott McClellan’s version of events during his time at the White House are completely different everyone else’s.
It’s so painfully obvious that Scott and his publisher sexed up his book by adding every single liberal talking point ever uttered by a Bush-hating blogger.
Scott McClellan Lashes Out At Bush White House In New Book
We’ve heard rumors about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new book titled, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” for some time now.
Just last November McClellan’s publisher released an excerpt from the book that seemed to implicate the Bush Administration in the Valerie Flame Plame leak case.
Just a few days after the controversy erupted that same publisher told the media that McClellan’s statements were being taken out of context and misinterpreted.
Today we learn a very different story. This according to The Politico, which managed to get a copy of the book ahead of its Sunday release.
It seems that excerpts released last year about McClellan’s book were indeed accurate after all.
Here are some of the highlights:
- McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war.
- He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
- He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
- The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
- McClellan asserts that the aides — Karl Rove, the president’s senior adviser, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff — “had at best misled” him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
I’m actually pretty surprised McClellan came out with such strong allegations given his long friendship with President Bush. Some of his assertions are standard liberal talking points which is odd coming from a long time Republican.
We now know that the Plame leak originated from Richard Armitage who leaked it to Robert Novak, so that pretty much kills McClellan’s credibility on that issue.
I’m going to read the entire book before I make any judgments, but it sounds like he may be a bitter ex-White House insider with an ax to grind.
You can buy Scott’s book HERE
-Chris Jones
Video: Pope Benedict XVI Speaks At The White House
Fran Townsend, White House Homeland Security Advisor, Resigns
Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism advisor who gave public updates on the extent of the threat to U.S. security, is stepping down after 4-1/2 years.
Her departure continues an exodus of key Bush aides and confidants, with his two-term presidency in the final 15 months. Top aide Karl Rove, along with press secretary Tony Snow and senior presidential advisor Dan Bartlett, left earlier this year.
Bush in his statement early today noted that Townsend had served in the position for more than 4-1/2 years.
“Fran always has provided wise counsel on how best to protect the American people from the threat of terrorism,” the president said. “She has been a steady leader in the effort to prevent and disrupt attacks and to better respond to natural disasters.”
In her resignation to Bush, Townsend indicated she was ready to take a break from public service and return to the private sector.
Judge Orders White House to Hold E-Mails
A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails today.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy directed the Executive Office of the President to safeguard the material in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether the White House has destroyed e-mails in violation of federal law.
The White House is seeking dismissal of the lawsuits brought by two private groups—Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government and the National Security Archive.
-Samantha Giles
Welcome Back France, We Missed You!!
France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, burst onto the Washington scene on Tuesday, in his first official visit to the White House and asking the United States to embrace him as a friend.
Mr. Sarkozy backslapped and hugged his way through the day. He also proclaimed his determination to be a reliable partner of the United States.
“I come to Washington to bear a very simple message, a message that I bear on behalf of all Frenchmen,” he said in a toast at a formal White House dinner in his honor. “I want to reconquer the heart of America.”
“Sarko l’Américain,” as he is called, is considered the most pro-American French president in decades. Mr. Sarkozy’s relationship with Mr. Bush is said to be warm, and his stance on Iran tough.
That’s not the attitude Bush would have ever heard from former French President Jacques Chirac who publicly lobbied against the United States at the U.N. and everywhere else. In electing Sarkozy the French people have clearly rejected Chirac’s socialist policies that have damaged the economy in France in recent years.
In his remarks in the State Dining Room, he spoke with passion about freedom and liberty and the need for U.S.-French cooperation in addressing terrorism, nuclear proliferation, poverty and religious fanaticism.
The U.S. and France back tough diplomacy to keep Iran from having nuclear weapons. They have jointly sponsored U.N. resolutions supporting Lebanese sovereignty. And while France opposed the war in Iraq, Sarkozy sent his foreign minister on a surprise three-day trek to Baghdad in August to enhance France’s role in Iraq’s future.
“I never quite understood why we had to fight with the United States,” Sarkozy said earlier in the day at a meeting of the French-American Business Council.
Sarkozy has wasted no time in his bid to modernize France, in part by trying to inject an American-style work ethic. As a sign of his pro-American tendencies, he even took a summer vacation in the United States.
Many Americans who have been apart of the widespread “Boycott France” campaign can finally in turn begin vacationing in France again.
Bush: Iraqis Are ‘Taking Back’ Iraq
President Bush said Friday that U.S. military deaths have fallen to their lowest levels in 19 months and the Iraqi people are slowly “taking back their country” amid the American troop build up there.
Bush said corruption remains a problem and unemployment remains high, but that Iraqi forces have now assumed responsibility in security in eight of Iraq’s 18 provinces.
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