White House Press Room To Be Closed For Makeover

[w8liftinglady]

The White House spokesman will spin on a new stage next summer.

With the administration moving ahead with plans to renovate the dirty and decaying press room off the West Wing of the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan -- or his replacement, if he steps aside before then -- intends to start briefing the world from historic Jackson Place, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, as early as July.

This means the television, print and radio reporters and crews will be booted from the White House for at least seven months as the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room is modernized. To the casual viewer of McClellan's briefings, the press room might look ready for prime time. It's not.

http://michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=5289

[wtbymark]

1. it's Ok, no "news" comes out of it anyways

tell snotty he can take a vacation - a long one, and when he feels like coming back - don't bother.

[liberal N proud]

2. So what sort of spying devices do you suspect they will install?

As part of the makeover, the government plans to rip up the wooden floor that covers the famous swimming pool built for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. In its place will be a steel-and-concrete floor designed to accommodate wiring and equipment below -- without the fear of setting the place on fire. The goal is to bring into the 21st century a room ordered by President Richard M. Nixon and opened in 1970.

Otherwise indicating: As part of the makeover, the bu$h regime plans to install electronic eavesdropping devices in the area to insure the government can track the reporters in the event one of them is preparing a story that might set the regime on fire. This is an initiative that was originally conceived by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970 and will be very beneficial in the spying of Americans by the bu$h regime.

[BOSSHOG]

3. It takes seven months to renovate a room?

So bush can ensure that all devices used for monitoring the press are well hidden? And no press access to the white house in the first half of 06? Is this life imitating art? Didn't they already do this on West Wing (the TV show)?

[Pam-Moby]

4. Yep the people has no

health care insurance because this administration need to renovate the press room. Poor people can not get food because the rich needs a big tax break.

[Botany]

5. 7 months to remodel the press room ?

In the 1930s the empire state building took 18 months start to finish.

Why do I smell rotting fish here?

[Cassandra]

7. Because they're stocking the old swimming pool...

with piranha.

[sandrakae]

6. Nice way to waste my tax dollars.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. The remodel is for the purpose of installing the trap doors...

over the ill-tempered sea bass tanks.

The laser-beam-equipped sharks are all being reserved for other tasks.