Earlier this week, Hotline pointed out that the WH press office has become a rapid response machine; they don't issue press releases, they issue rebuttals. This, plus the desperate mean-spiritedness of their attacks on war critics -- yesterday, Scott McClellan put 37-year Marine vet John Murtha in the "Michael Moore wing" of the Democratic party -- prompted a story in today's Washington Post cataloguing some the Bushie's more venal accusations. Especially eye-catching was a quote from a lengthy White House press release castigating The New York Times; the administration apologized for going on so with what might be called the "nanny-nanny boo-boo" defense: "as parents of young children and dog owners know, it takes longer to clean up a mess than to make one."
WH Puts WP Against NYT
WH Puts WP Against NYT
WH Puts WP Against NYT
Earlier this week, Hotline pointed out that the WH press office has become a rapid response machine; they don't issue press releases, they issue rebuttals. This, plus the desperate mean-spiritedness of their attacks on war critics -- yesterday, Scott McClellan put 37-year Marine vet John Murtha in the "Michael Moore wing" of the Democratic party -- prompted a story in today's Washington Post cataloguing some the Bushie's more venal accusations. Especially eye-catching was a quote from a lengthy White House press release castigating The New York Times; the administration apologized for going on so with what might be called the "nanny-nanny boo-boo" defense: "as parents of young children and dog owners know, it takes longer to clean up a mess than to make one."