Bartlett: WH reporters are too tough on Bush.

[babylonsister]

:nopity:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/05/bartlett-wh-reporters-are-too-tough-on-bush/

Bartlett: WH reporters are too tough on Bush.

In an interview with the Texas Monthly, former Bush counselor Dan Bartlett said the White House press corps is too “critical” of Bush:

I think White House correspondents have been tagged, unfairly, with not being tough enough on the administration and President Bush in the run-up to the war. If you go back and look, they asked all the right questions. The problem is, they’re acting now like they have to be five times more critical, and I think they’ve gone overboard.

Like Karl Rove, Bartlett also claimed that “Iraq is not going to be the front-burner issue in the way that everybody initially predicted.”

UPDATE: TPM and Kevin Drum note that Bartlett also said the White House enjoyed communicating with right-wing bloggers because “they regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them.”

[C_U_L8R]

1. Can we have a big collective DU

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Dukkha]

2. waaaah you need to play nice!

:nopity:

[flakey_foont]

3. really???

we need more reporters like, say, Jeff Gannon, asking the Prez those 'fair' questions

[monmouth]

4. Not even trying anymore are they?...n/t

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. Is it even possible to be "too hard?"

If Bush feels they're being too tough, well too damn bad- they have to uncover the truth, even when it comes to the shmuch standing up behind the podium.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. If they were any tougher on Bush, they'd have permanent scar tissue on their lips

from kissing Bush's butt.

[HughMoran]

7. Cry me a yellow river

Ass holes.

[TwilightGardener]

8. I think I see a WAAAAHHHMBULANCE headed up Pennsylvania Avenue with its lights flashing.

[tridim]

9. Overboard? I think the press should be physically punching him in his monkey face every damn day. nt

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

10. Ha!

It's the hardest damned job in the frikkin' world! The questions ought to be a hell of a lot harder!