Reply #19: Have you wondered how NBC now has gotten 3 inside interviews? [View All]

Brokaw did two now Williams gets an all day all access pass.

You are right about the response to the bubble question. Bush tried to sound like Mr.everydayguy shopping guy. HE was clearly prepped for that.

Did you notice how Williams was dismissed from the oval office. I know that it is THE oval office and all that but W just stood there until Williams was gone -maybe it was just poorly shot by NBC- and W looked like he had something dirty to do so he waited for the coast to be clear. It was odd looking whatever was actually going on there.

The "talked to a world leader" thing is constantly used by this White House. Ari used to outline W's day something like this "He arose then received his national security brief made some calls to world leaders (as opposed to county administrators I guess) and answered some phone calls"

Gee does that sound anywhere near a full day to you? No probably not. The "talked to world leaders" is simply something that they must think really impresses everyone OOOOHH WORLD LEADERS. BTW- we now know that much of what W was doing the first four years was making phone calls to religious leaders in the US basically in a constant get out the vote/campaign operation.
One more thing-getting a security briefing is not any great thing or new thing that only W does. Everyone has started their day with that and truth be told it usually isn't anything that major. Of course we also now know that the PDB was boiled down to 1 1/2 pages (to recap the entire world sitrep) and no one paid any attention to it.

Basically W does nothing but campaign by phone, read a teleprompter, and collect checks.