If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say....

To illustrate the obvious contempt that Bush has for the press, he hires this guy as his chief domestic adviser, who had this to say about reporters that are embedded in Iraq:

Karl Zinsmeister, the new chief domestic adviser to President Bush, while embedded as a reporter with the 82nd Airborne in Kuwait in 2003, declared that "many of the journalists observable in this war theater are bursting with knee-jerk suspicions and antagonisms for the warriors all around them. A significant number are whiny and appallingly soft."

Zinsmeister, editor-in-chief of the American Enterprise Institute's magazine, wrote the article for the National Review, and it appeared on March 28, 2003. He was appointed to the top adviser post last week.

In another article, this one at the American Enterprise Institute's Web site on June 20, 2005, Zinsmeister, after another period as an embed, wrote, "What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over....Contrary to the impression given by most newspaper headlines, the United States has won the day in Iraq.... the battle of Iraq is no longer one of war fighting—but of policing and politics."

This guy's got some set of balls criticizing these reporters when they're literally dying by the dozens over there to get the story. What a huge prick!

Once again I have to give kudos to Helen Thomas for this mornings White House press briefing. Why? Cause she kicked Tony Snow's ass on this issue, that's why! Oh, Helen...I really do love ya lady! Please come to L.A. so I can buy you dinner.