Monday, January 29, 2007

The Point of White House Press Briefings

Arianna Huffington has a post with some updates from the Libby trial and condemnation of the White House Press Corp that still accepts the lies of the administration.

If you didn't know last week former Cheney aide Cathie Martin said that the administration considered Meet the Press as their best venue to be able to control their message. Tim Russert must be so proud.

More recently Ari Fleischer admitted that he danced around the facts on the State of the Union reference to Saddam attempted to acquire yellow cake from Niger. "I had been told to be careful not to stand by the 16 words, that the ground might be shifting on that, You can't say yes. You can't say no. At that briefing, I basically punted. I said yes and no."

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