Avram Grumer ([info]agrumer) wrote,
@ 2004-04-05 00:25:00
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Entry tags:iraq, news, politics

"Is that a surprise? No."
Bush Loyalists Pack Iraq Press Office:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Inside the marble-floored palace hall that serves as the press office of the U.S.-led coalition, Republican Party operatives lead a team of Americans who promote mostly good news about Iraq.

Dan Senor, a former press secretary for Spencer Abraham, the Michigan Republican who's now Energy Secretary, heads the office packed with former Bush campaign workers, political appointees and ex-Capitol Hill staffers. [...] Earlier in his career, after Hebrew University and Harvard Business School, Senor was with the Carlyle Group, an investment firm with Bush family ties and big defense industry holdings.

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[info]kent_allard_jr
2004-04-05 05:23 am UTC (link)
Hey, I wish they'd everybody in the Republican Party to Iraq.

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[info]stormsweeper
2004-04-05 05:31 am UTC (link)
Didn't the administration make a lot of hay about how Hussein packed his appearances with paid supporters?

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The right-wing spin
[info]jamiemccarthy
2004-04-05 01:01 pm UTC (link)
I actually first read this on Instapundit, which apparently cannot tell the difference between "votes Republican" and "worked on the Bush campaign."

The right-wing blogger sneers that the office is only "one-third Republican," as if the rest is career Democrats. Somehow it misses the fact that the group's head worked with the Carlyle Group for crying out loud, 15% of them worked inside the Bush administration, 11% worked on the Bush campaign, etc.

And this, of course, proves that the media is biased! I love right-wing blogs.

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