A Hard Day For Managed News
In the same Friday edition of the Washington Post that detailed President Bush’s prime time news conference there were a couple of unfortunate cats let quietly out of the bag. Ann Tyson detailed the Pentagon response to the recent court opinion requiring the release of photos of caskets coming home from Iraq. Elsewhere, Carol Leonnig talks up Erik Saar’s book about how, when he was a translator for the Army at Guantanamo, he witnessed ‘staged interrogations’ run for the benefit of visiting congressional delegations.
The Ivory-Billed woodpecker seen in Arkansas wasn’t the only creature returning from extinct to endangered, as managed news came unmanaged. Much to the chagrin of an administration that put all its chips on black last night and spun the wheel. Like they say, timing is everything.
The president’s been on a losing streak of late, with a majority of voters opposed to his Social Security proposal, no matter that he’s been flying from managed town meeting to managed town meetin…