On her way out, Bumiller's dishing

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Laura Bush once excoriated me during an interview for something I had written in the last paragraph of a story that you needed a St. Bernard to find in the paper. Scott McClellan, the former press secretary, was after me every day for a week to get my editors to correct a factual error. The mild-mannered Mr. McClellan was acting like a terrier because one of his superiors was on his case.

More recently, Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, got so mad about an article that he told me he was putting my e-mail address in his spam filter.
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Actually, most regular White House reporters have a friendly, towel-snapping relationship with Mr. Bush, but like just about everyone, he can be short-tempered, impatient and brusque. When I asked Mark McKinnon, the president's friend and campaign media adviser, if he ever openly disagreed with Mr. Bush, his response was that "I prefer for others to go into the propeller first." One time I had my own little encounter. I was leaving the Rose Garden in May 2002 when I turned around in a corner of the colonnade and found myself face to face with Mr. Bush. Startled, I blurted out: "Hi, Mr. President. What are you doing here?"

This was not a good question to put to the actual occupant of the White House. Mr. Bush testily shot back, "What are you doing here?".......

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/weekinreview/04bumiller.html

"Nope... not under here. Those WMDs have gotta be somewhere."

:eyes:

micro-managed by the WH, and the reporters are puppy dog eager to help.

It is so revolting to see all those white house reporters being so needy of bush approval. But the really, really revolting fact is that as soon as a Democrat becomes president, they will be back to their regular old attack-dog tone. I cannot figure it out. Maybe it's the old "Mama said there'd be days like this" syndrome. :crazy:

Won't miss her at all.

Coulter? Noonan?

Now Judy Miller & Bumiller are gone, I just want David Brooks out of there and I'll have my trifecta. Maybe then I'd resubscribe.

Then he'd be writing columns which people locked out by the Op-Ed Pay Wall can read.

I like it!

This is all double-speak from Karl's favorite streetwalker.

Screw her (with somebody else's unit).

I'm sure it has made them the awesomely diligent and ethical group of reporters they are today!

At least I'm glad to know Helen wouldn't be towel snapping, because she is one of the very few who actually respects the job she has and understands her responsibility to the country as a member of the press.

I recall after the Selection, that was the press's fondest term for describing bush's personality: he's a "towel-snapper." I found it nauseating then and I find it nauseating now.

He's a prick. A self-aggrandizing, tactless prick with an abrasive personality who likes to put others on the defensive because he knows he's a nothing. How best to disguise that fact than with an offense. Not a good offense--just an offense.

The New York Times in particular must have used the description a couple dozen times the first year he was disgracing the office.




Cher

Did she happen to mention that? And did she mention all the social engagements where she was together with the Bushes as a social equal, and not as a reporter?

Her status, like Dana Milbank's, colors her reporting.

What are Milbank's connections?

A member of Yale's most secret and notorious society, along with George. I assume that you know about the history of S&B and the oath its members take.