ABC's Latest Hire: Former Bushie

Washington Post:

Matthew Dowd started out as a Democratic operative, then helped engineer George W. Bush's winning White House campaigns before growing disenchanted and publicly breaking with the president. Now he's reinventing himself once again.

ABC News will announce today that Dowd has been tapped as an on-air contributor and blogger, the latest member of the Bush team to embed himself in the media while their ex-boss still runs the country.

Read the whole story: Washington Post

Comments

[geobushono]

02:55 PM on 12/08/2007

Welcome to Oceania folks....don't be alarmed.
Sam Tannenhaus and
atthew Dowd will be in place, and credible, for the next peaceful transition of Power in our Great Nation.

[gala1]

06:54 PM on 12/07/2007

Dowd's post is why news stations should obviously know better than to hire this sort of person.

If the Founding Fathers were smart enough to separate church and state, why shouldn't the media be smart enough not to see that they are being manipulated to supercede that eminently sensible procedure by agendized religious zealots.

Before I go any further, I am a church-goer, and proud of it. I also treasure the separation of Church and state and see no reason for it to be anything but what it was intended.

So, where did this 90 percent believe in God statistic come from, exactly?

I could write blogs saying that 90 percent of America believes in The Tooth Fairy and not cite any one, either.

The vast majority of Americans don't attend mega-churches and don't like being told from the pulpit who to vote for.

Even Jesus happened to say that thing about rendering unto Caesar, so I can easily count Him in my camp.

I asm extremely disappointed in ABC being anachronisticly unwise enough to buy into this out-dated nonsense.

Evangelicals may be a slice of America, but so are nudists. And neither of their reasons should have anything to do with voting.

Let me remind us all that Thomas Jefferson was at the very least an agnostic, if not an outright atheist.
And who knows or cares about the rest of the two-score presidents who understood that publicly being religious has been shown repeatedly and relentlessly over the past eight years to be the last refuge of the craven.

gala

[loki]

05:13 PM on 12/07/2007

wonder if he will be like Fox's hire of Bush's relative who was the one that called the election won by Bush in Florida way before the votes were in and caused all the problems back in 2000?

It worked for the republicans then, why not now? After all, the Supreme court is all but theirs now.

[nofltwlt]

04:29 PM on 12/07/2007

Competent or not, why would anyone hire someone so instrumental in the damage Bush has done to the nation and the world?

[Justinpassing]

04:09 PM on 12/07/2007

Krongard, Embattled State Department Inspector General, Retires

By Lorraine Woellert

Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, who has been under investigation for possible conflicts of interest, said he will retire Jan. 15.

In a letter to President George W. Bush, Krongard said he is concerned about ``the grave threat to public service posed by the current rancor and distrust between and among the political parties, the legislative and executive branches of government, the media, and various interest groups.''

Representative Henry Waxman, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Panel, is investigating whether Krongard interfered with investigations into waste, fraud and abuse to protect the Bush administration from political embarrassment. He said Krongard's retirement removes ``an enormous distraction'' from the inspector general's office.

Krongard denied having a political agenda, saying he ``never had any political ties whatsoever,'' in a Nov. 8 letter to a lawmaker.

Krongard's position was undermined when he denied under oath to Waxman's committee Nov. 14 that his brother had a business relationship with a security contractor that Krongard's agency was probing, and later admitted that such a relationship existed.

As the State Department's chief watchdog since May 2005, Krongard oversees audits, inspections and investigations in the U.S. and abroad. Bush nominated him for the position when he was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Several top officials in his office have resigned, and subordinates said he showed ``contempt'' for career employees, according to Waxman.

To contact the reporter on this story: Lorraine Woellert in Washington at [e-mail] .

[demigod]

03:59 PM on 12/07/2007

Look - we don't have to watch these guys. Turn the channel whenever they appear. When the commercials come on and you see who's funding these shows, jot it down and DON'T BUY THESE PRODUCTS. When their sales go down, they might ask why, probably not, but they might. These shows are only shills to get you to buy these products, we KNOW that. It's horribly inefficient, I know, but the MONEY is all they care about. You can write letters all day, but if the money rolls in, are they going to change anything ? Hit them where it hurts. It's all smoke and mirrors anyway, we could get by on rice and beans if we had to, think about the Great Depression. We don't need all this overpriced crap.

[Kundera]

02:08 PM on 12/07/2007

I guess you were all as upset when ABC hired George Stephanopolous.
or when NBC hired Russert and Matthews, all Dem operatives.

[jazzman]

12:45 PM on 12/07/2007

This is not a surprise. Disney is totally aligned with both the neo-cons and this Republican administration. This fact has been apparent for a long time. What's so scary is just how much power these huge corporate right wing media organizations have throughout our 'so-called' democracy.

GE - NBC
Disney - ABC
Murdoch - FOX news
Westinghouse - CBS
Time Warner - AOL - CNN

Tell me where you find a liberal or even a moderate organization among that group.

[Driver125]

12:18 PM on 12/07/2007

Just another example of the revolving door between corporate America and the United States government. Why should the media be any different than say, the pharmaceutical industry. ABC is just another huge corporation, are they not?

[kittycago]

12:09 PM on 12/07/2007

Matthew Dowd the most insincere survivor of Bush scum.he is soo soo sorry he lied to get Bush elected and he has changed his ways.Bunk.He has followed the cash flow.He cliams he was young and caught up in the Bush band wagon.He was not that young at most he was old enough to know right from wrong .What he actually did is not forgivable.He helped imbed the lies for Bush and look what it has done for his fellow Americans.He is a personal supply sider in the truest sense.His side is where the supply is for his wallet.He is one person of many that deserve nothing and lots of it for the attack on the truth that created the diffulculties that average Americans suffer from today.On a good day we should spit on him and his mentor Rove on a bad day we should take him on a tour of an Emergency Room in any large American city or a state run nursing home so he can see his fine work firsthand.After it's on to the foreclosure lists in Michigan ,then on to Iraq and so it goes.....

[desertdweller]

12:06 PM on 12/07/2007

Oh great - more Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

[swift goat pet for truth]

12:05 PM on 12/07/2007

Hire an architect of a sinking ship.
Sure, that sounds like that will work.

[ErnestineBass]

11:16 AM on 12/07/2007

First "The View" hires that idiot Sherri Sheppard, and now this.

Why doesn't ABC/Disney just slap a little paintbrush moustache on Mickey and get it over with...?