Bush Taps Ex-NBC Broadcaster for Top Post (WH communications director)

[DeepModem Mom]

Broadcasting&Cable: Bush Taps Ex-Broadcaster For Top Post
By John Eggerton
Broadcasting & Cable, 7/17/2006

The White House is calling on another broadcaster to help get its message out. Kevin Sullivan, former senior VP of corporate communications and media relations for NBC Universal, has been named White House communications director. That puts him in the West Wing and makes him the real-life counterpart to Toby Ziegler from Sullivan’s favorite show, NBC’s just ended The West Wing.

Sullivan’s tenure will begin July 24, but, "I won’t be bouncing a tennis ball off the wall," he tells B&C, referring to Ziegler’s nervous habit on the show. He replaces Nicolle Wallace, who left at the end of June.

Sullivan left the Peacock in April 2005, appointed by the president to be assistant secretary of education, communications and outreach. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is a Sullivan fan and goes back a long way with President Bush. He was approached about the job by Dan Bartlett, former communications director and now counselor to the president .

Sullivan will be overseeing strategic communications and long-range planning, handling contacts with regional press while Press Secretary Tony Snow deals with the White House press corps and their daily briefing.

Sullivan can also talk Texas sports with the president, who once owned a piece of the Texas Rangers. Before joining NBC in 2000, Sullivan spent 17 years with the Dallas Mavericks, leaving as VP of communications....

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6353618.html

[xxqqqzme]

1. wow - I don't think I've ever seen a

bigger incestuous ass kissing fest in such a short space!

Amazing!

[saigon68]

7. Get out its Message of Hate, Murder, Intolerance and Racism

Sounds about right

[Benhurst]

2. Gosh, he's from NBC, General Electric's house organ. Who

would have ever thought?

:puke:

[blm]

3. Big surprise - broadcast media types getting rewarded for propping Bush

up for all those years. So what did the other media decisionmakers get for not airing or reporting on Kerry's speech to the Firefighters Convention attacking the swifts and Bush in 2004?

[Demeter]

4. Some Reward--Invitation to a Future Indictment!

I wouldn't work for those crooks no matter how much they paid. Life is too short to spend it in court or jail.

[orwell]

5. Is he part...

...of the "liberal" MSM?

[flordehinojos]

6. everything with bush is a fantasy ... the fantasy of lies or how to make a

lie look and sound like the truth.