No one disputes that many reporters asked hard questions about the buildup to the Iraq war, but few were posed to the president in primetime, and the "toughness" rarely carried over to print or airtime.
236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Scott McClellan (born February 14, 1968) is a former White House Press Secretary, a current best selling author, a future blackballed politician, and ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
Wait a minute, FOX -- are you actually claiming that a publisher might hire an editor to edit a book? My stars! I also heard a rumor that McClellan typed the book on a liberal Mac laptop, too.
Beverly Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home
As we are reminded again this week: you don't get in trouble in D.C. for lying, covering up and stonewalling, but you catch hell for telling the truth-- even if it's the least-surprising truth ever.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Chris Matthews had former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer on for a lengthy interview tonight on the matter of Scott McClellan's tell-all, Wh...
NY Times | Michael Luo | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
The conservative group Freedom's Watch, headlined by two former senior White House officials, had been expected to be a deep-pocketed juggernaut in th...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
Raymond's experience inside the bowels of the RNC and his expertise in smear tactics, racist push polls and robo-calls, voter suppression, and other Republican mainstays give him a useful perspective.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
A social movement is brewing the likes of which this country hasn't seen in decades and Barack Obama is trying to lead it, and channel it into electoral gain for the Democratic Party.
Craig Newmark | Posted 01.29.2008 | Media
Front gropus are sometimes called "astroturf," since they're the opposite of honest grassroots efforts. More bluntly, the purpose of a front group is to deceive consumers or voters.
Tom Andrews | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
As far as President Bush and Vice President Cheney are concerned, Congress has the green light permanently lit if and when they decide it is time to "shock and awe" Iran.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics
There are 17 names on my favorite poster. If the Bush administration had not taken this country on the disastrous course it has, just think about the GOP names the poster could have had.
Steve Young | Posted 11.23.2007 | Politics
But it was the seven fateful words President Bush said when he introduced me as his new Press Secretary that I'll never forget: "I've known Scott for a long time."
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
We asked political observers -- including Nora Ephron, Peggy Noonan, Harry Shearer, Conrad Black, Richard Belzer, David Frum, Paul Slansky, and Joe and Jerry Long -- to weigh in on the question: Who was our most comical president?
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Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics