Zinsmeister is a Spinmeister (Bush adviser altered newspaper quotes)

[Roland99]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900834.html

Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush's new domestic policy adviser, acknowledged he did something wrong when he took a newspaper profile of himself, altered quotes and text, and then posted it on a Web site without noting the changes.

"Looking back, this is foolish," he said in a telephone interview Friday evening. Zinsmeister said he did it to correct the record while protecting a young journalist who had made mistakes.

This admission came about because on Friday morning the New York Sun's Josh Gerstein disclosed that shortly after the weekly Syracuse New Times published a profile of Zinsmeister in August 2004, Zinsmeister posted an altered copy of the profile on the Web site of the American Enterprise Institute's magazine, which he edits.

The Syracuse paper had requested to interview Zinsmeister, who lives near Syracuse, because of his writings about the Iraq war. The article quoted him saying critical things about ordinary Iraqis, Washington elites and upper-class parents. It also contained a quote questioning the Bush administration's execution of the war.

An entire administration of liars, cheats, and thieves.

[rodeodance]

1. and Tony Snow called it 'colorful' at the press conference!---dismissing

it as OK!

[Roland99]

2. Snow is worse than McClellan, imo.

[Cocoa]

3. that's how he got the job

he included this incident in his resume, and the White House loved it.