Tony Snow’s first week on the job
Bill Sammon recounts an emerging offensive on the part of the White House press office in a series of emails sent out by the Snow regime:
“The New York Times continues to ignore America’s economic progress,” blared the headline of an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday by the White House press office.
Minutes earlier, another e-mail blasted CBS News, which has had an unusually rocky relationship with the White House since 2004, when CBS aired what turned out to be forged documents in a failed effort to question the president’s military service.
“CBS News misleadingly reports that only 8 million seniors have signed up for Medicare prescription drug coverage,” Wednesday’s missive said. “But 37 million seniors have coverage.” On Tuesday, the White House railed against “USA Today’s misleading Medicare story.”
“USA Today claims ‘poor, often minority’ Medicare beneficiaries are not enrolling in Medicare drug coverage,” the press office complained. “But by April, more than 70 percent of eligible African Americans, more than 70 percent of eligible Hispanics, and more than 75 percent of eligible Asian Americans are enrolled or have retiree drug coverage.”
Good for him. Nothing wrong with having two sides to an argument.
UPDATE
Newspaper readership continues its steady, sometimes disastrous decline. You can see March 2005′s numbers from the Newspaper Association of America in our previous post, and this year’s figures here. Highlights: San Francisco Chronicle down 15.6% and Boston Globe down 8.5%. (HT: Bruce Kesler)
May 11th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
The latest re-surfacing of the NSA “scandal” should make us at long last ask: “What other interpretation of these events is possible, other than that the media has declared an information war against the interests of the United States?”
GWB must get angry, very angry, and very visibly angry, and call out these bastards in front of the American people.
He must use every means available to bypass the MSM and deliver the message loud and clear: “I have a duty to defend you, and I will to the best of my ability to lead that effort, but there are people among us who are so misguided that they want me to fail at that, even if it ends up killing Americans. Thus, I have directed that a list of news organizations to be relaeased later today will no longer have access to members of the executive branch, or the military. I may reconsider that order when I see evidence of responsible behavior in helping us protect the country, but I cannot and will not allow the security of the United States to be compromised by the reckless disclosure of classified intelligence information.”
This is called “throwing down the gaunlet” and it is high time it was done!
Of course it will cause a furor – but we need a furor to force open issue of the media working for one party and against another, when that other is constitutionally duty-bound to protect us.