"An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted." - Arthur Miller

Friday, January 28, 2005

Talon News

As show on Daily Show (1/27/05) and elsewhere, a member of the Press Corps asked the following question of George Bush:

Thank you. Senate Democratic leaders have painted a very bleak picture of the U.S. economy. [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid [D-NV] was talking about soup lines. And [Senator] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet in the same breath they say that Social Security is rock solid and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work -- you've said you are going to reach out to these people -- how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?


Little background. The person that asked the question, Jeff Gannon, is a member of Talon News. Which if go to your site wastes little time in linking to its main parent site, www.gopusa.com, a clearly pro-Bush site.

How is this person a member of the White House press corps?
How in the world did he pass muster to get there?
Has the White House just said to hell with pretending to communicate with the press?
Why is the press in general and other people not questioning his prescence? Has the press gone so far that they don't even bother to question something that reflects poorly on them? Do they not care anymore?
Hell, how can you call this person a reporter? That kind of question is just gross incompetence even if wasn't clearly meant to pander.
Doesn't the Bush Admin know that allowing such a pandering fool into the press corps does little to help him? Its not a plus but a minus to him and his attempt to pretend he is open with the press.

Just a sad state of affairs.

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