Palin brings aboard two Bush veterans

[radfringe]

Source: MSNBC

Palin brings aboard two Bush veterans
Posted: Saturday, September 06, 2008 3:16 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Palin
From NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- The McCain campaign is bringing two Bush administration communication veterans on board to beef up the team that will travel with Palin.

Tucker Eskew has joined the Palin team as a senior advisor, and campaign officials said he will play a role akin to chief of staff. Eskew served as director of the White House Office of Global Communications and as director of media affairs.

The campaign also confirmed Friday that Tracey Schmitt is joining as deputy communications director and national spokesperson. She is a former Republican National Committee spokesperson.


Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/06/1358093.aspx

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this is change???? how stupid do they think we are

Palin-mccain=more of the same

[gratefultobelib]

1. It's not stupidity. It's simply most people don't know and don't care what is happening.

[rwheeler31]

2. Same people same crap

[Olney Blue]

3. Bringing out the heavy handlers to insulate their unvetted maverick.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Bringing in some big guns for merely the VP.

[Mind_your_head]

5. Where's the beef?

Who the hell are Tucker Eskew and Tracey Smidt?

I knew 'Eskew' sounded familiar:


Main Entry: es·chew
Pronunciation: \e-ˈshü, i-; es-ˈchü, is-; also e-ˈskyü\
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French eschiver (3d present eschiu) of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German sciuhen to frighten off — more at shy
Date: 14th century
: to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds

[BlueInPhilly]

6. Are they on the White House Payroll?

I don't want to pay for them to become Professor Higgins to their Eliza Doolitle! (At least, Eliza Doolitle was likeable!)

[bleever]

7. Tucker Eskew, Tucker Bounds, Tucker Carlson...

Coincidence...or evil curse?

[corkhead]

9. rhyming with fucker is no coincidence

[bleever]

10. Next appointment: Hugh Jassole.

[Patsy Stone]

8. Keep 'em coming...

Bring as many Bush people as you can bring on to help her. Nothing says change like the last administration's personnel.

[girl gone mad]

11. That's not change we can believe in...

as McCain would say.

[starroute]

12. Tucker Eskew is a high-level Bush propagandist

Running push polls against McCain in the 2000 primaries -- check. Florida recount -- check. Coordinating pre-Iraq War propaganda with the British -- check. Pretending to be improving America's image abroad as a cover for feeding psyops to the American public to get Bush elected in 2004 -- check.

Anything more you want to know?


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tucker_Eskew

Eskew's "Keppler Speakers" profile states that he "has been at the center of every high-stakes political battle of the new century. From George W. Bush's come-from-behind 2000 primary win in South Carolina to the Florida recount, from 9/11 at the White House to the global war on terror, Eskew has been a 'close aide' and 'super surrogate.'


http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?forum=8&topic_id=522&az=show_topic

Bush Campaign Accused of Using Push Polls Against McCain.

College of Charleston student Suzette Latsko said she received a telephone call from a woman who identified herself as an employee of Voter/Consumer Research, and that the caller misrepresented McCain’s positions and asked if Latsko knew McCain had been reprimanded for interfering with federal regulators in the savings and loan scandal. Voter/Consumer Research is listed as a polling contractor on Bush’s Federal Election Commission filings; the Bush campaign has paid Voter/Consumer Research $93,000 through December 31, 1999. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer denied the call was a push poll, but said it was important that the Republican Party remember McCain’s role in the S&L crisis.

Bush Campaign Acknowledged Making Phone Calls.
Tucker Eskew, Bush’s South Carolina spokesman, acknowledged the Bush campaign made such calls, but claimed they were not “push polls.” Eskew added, “Show me a baseless comment in those questions.”


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/palmbeach.html

November 10, 2000

BETTY ANN BOWSER: Tomorrow, election officials will conduct another recount. This one will be a random sample of about one percent of the votes. The ballots in three precincts will be hand counted in their entirety. But Republicans aren't happy about this arrangement. Tucker Eskew is spokesman for the Bush campaign in the Palm Beach County.

TUCKER ESKEW: Not only did the process not allow for us to provide some sort of protest or objection before they agreed to request the manual recount, it's done in a county with strong Gore vote and Democrat control of the voting board. It is not coincidental that the manual recounts being conducted in other Florida counties are all counties controlled by Democrats with strong Gore votes and with voting boards governed by Democrats. That suggests a sharply partisan motive in this manual recount.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tucker-eskew-american-spin-doctor-in-london-654660.html

Tucker Eskew: American spin doctor in London

A key aide of George Bush, has been in England, helping Alastair Campbell to spin the war. That has meant five months with a close-up view of the UK press, and, he tells Donald Macintyre, it hasn't always been pretty

Tuesday, 19 March 2002

If anyone still doubts how closely the Bush and Blair administrations have worked together since 11 September, the past five months of Tucker Eskew's career should be the clincher. ... And since November he has been working not in Washington but in the Foreign Office in London. His name is barely known here. But he has met with Alastair Campbell every morning to plan media strategy and a good deal more besides for the war against terrorism. Until he returned to Washington last week, as unobtrusively as he arrived her in the first week of November, this Bush trusty had the kind of access to the heart of the UK government that most British civil servants only dream about. ...

What brought him to London was a joint media and propaganda operation, little publicised in Britain and unprecedented, even in the Second World War.


http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2006/3/schulman.asp

The Defense Department’s Information Operations Task Force, created shortly after September 11, was to focus on “developing, coordinating, deconflicting, and monitoring the delivery of timely, relevant, and effective messages to targeted international audiences.”

The Office of Global Communications, under Tucker Eskew, a deputy assistant to the president and a longtime Republican communications consultant, touted a similar mission. A government organizational chart, dated July 2003, places this office at the nexus of the government’s strategic communications apparatus. But Daniel Kuehl, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who directs the Information Strategies Concentration Program at the National Defense University, believes the global communications office never lived up to its mandate.

Nor, perhaps, did it ever intend to. “In my opinion, the global issue wasn’t the reason why they were created,” he told me. “They clearly had a completely domestic focus. They were part of the effort to re-elect the president . . . . I’m going to be real pejorative here: Their goal was psychological operations on the American voting public. That was part of the political arm doing that.” He added, “You’ll notice that not long after the election, the Office of Global Communications no longer existed.”

[pinto]

13. Catapulting the propaganda.

With a hint of desperation.

[LynnTheDem]

14. Oh now isn't that oine huge fucking surprise not.

[scarface2004]

15. shake up washington?

oh yeah...he s been dead over 200 years.

[mitchum]

16. I have known that lowlife motherfucker Tucker Eskew's work since his days in SC

he is unscrupulous scum

[libnnc]

17. Maverick? Reformer? Monkeyballs!

McLAME/Palin = Bush/DarthCheney