The Face Behind Powell's Palm Tree in Jordan...

[mgarretson]

Hey All,
I'm just catching up on my newspaper reading because I didn't have access to a computer yesterday and I thought I'd pass this article along in case people hadn't seen it... She looks kind of cute, in a crazy Republican attack dog sort of way... :evilgrin:

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Ever Consider A Career in Diplomacy?

By Richard Leiby
Tuesday, May 18, 2004; Page C03

Despite an outcry among media types, the State Department yesterday offered its full support for controversial press aide Emily J. Miller, who shocked both her boss, Colin Powell, and "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert when she ordered a cameraman to stop filming an interview with Powell that ran a few minutes over schedule Sunday in Jordan.

"I think she's great and she's doing a good job for us," Richard Boucher, State's top spokesman, told us. "Russert went on and on and on. We asked the cameraman to help us cut it off. He did and moved the camera."

After NBC's Jordanian cameraman proceeded to film palm trees instead of Powell, Russert called it "attempted news management gone berserk." He said nothing like it had ever happened in his 13 years as the show's host.

In just six months on the job, Miller, 33, who controls access to Powell, seems to have made more enemies than usual among the reporters who cover the State Department. "Her manner is brusque, abrasive, demeaning," said one, asking to remain anonymous so as not to be frozen out of interviews with Powell. "She's not doing the secretary a service; she's doing him a disservice."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34743-2004May17.html

[zydeco]

1. Thank you.

It is good to put a face to Powell's minder.

[mrgorth]

2. "Train's running on time"

Oh the irony.

[Spazito]

3. She seems to have learned well from Delay...

same arrogance, abrasiveness and bully-like tactics.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Sounds like a psycho

"In 2001 Miller was working as press secretary to then-Majority Whip Tom DeLay when she lashed into Post Magazine writer Peter Perl while he was doing a profile of her boss, screaming: "You lied! . . . You betrayed him! You twisted his words! . . . We don't know you. You don't exist. . . . You are dead to us."

[Nlighten1]

5. Notice her middle finger?

[Poiuyt]

6. I find that hard to believe

No camerman would make a camera move without direction from the director. That's who he takes orders from.

[rocktivity]

7. Miller responded: "This is much ado about nothing

and overshadows the successful meetings on Mideast peace that the secretary was having. My job was to keep the trains moving so that five interviews could get done."

Duh--what train dispatchers actually DO is allow enough time between trains so they don't rear-end each other if one comes in a little late! The interview went three minutes over--SO WHAT??? Three minutes shouldn't have been enough to turn her schedule inside out!

:headbang:
rocknation

[peekaloo]

8. so Emily's the official in charge of "pulling trains" at State?

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All aboard!

[andino]

9. She looks French....

:P

[kentuck]

10. delete

couldn't get her photo to download??