If
today's White House Press Briefing is any indication, the political Viagra the Press Corp took a couple of weeks ago shows no signs of disappearing.
Because of this, Scott McLellan is taking it in the pants.
The briefings over the last three years of Bushism have tended to be merely a festival of talking points and meaningless platitudes. What remains to be seen now is if the Bush Administration is going to change their tactics now that the press have, well, returned. McLellan is forced to go on the defensive now, and from this you can see clearly the themes Bush wants to take on for this year's election
The briefings over the last three years of Bushism have tended to be merely a festival of talking points and meaningless platitudes. These platitudes and talking points remain, but are forced to be repeated over and over again (using the exact same phrasing) in a way which, rather than drive the point home, seems to make such phrases as "activist judges" seem all the more trite.
What remains to be seen now is if the Bush Administration is going to change their tactic now that the press have for the most part, well, returned. McLellan is forced to go on the defensive now, and does a fine job at not answering any questions. Whereas two years ago that would have been fine, for some reason now the press keeps asking.
How will the relationship between the Administration and the press change in the coming months? The lockout manuevers that the White House previously employed to keep the corp under control are dissolving rapidly. The myth of the "Liberal Media" seems to have been debunked (but if you know of places this is still rampant, let me know), but now with such a politically stratified nation and such a blurry line between truth and muckraking, where does this leave the average citizen?
