White House press reporters just feel so abused. Liberals criticize them for being too soft on the Bush administration and conservatives think that they're agenda-driven meanies out to get the President. And they just can't believe that the administration doesn't respect them as much as they feel they should be honored.
David Gregory, the NBC correspondent who has been among the most ardent questioners in the briefing room, apologized for yelling at Mr. McClellan over the Cheney incident but said the situation had become particularly frustrating.
"There is a desire by some, particularly on the right, to morph these situations into a different kind of debate — it's the vice president against an angry, left-wing, cynical, hate-filled press corps that wants to expose him as a liar," he said. "This is a false debate, stoked by a president and vice president who have made no bones about the fact that they don't have much respect for the press corps as an institution."
Poor boo.
They don't like the scrutiny and having people see the briefings on TV and then criticizing them. Hey, that's their job - to criticize the administration. It's really making them tense to have all this scrutiny and they resent that, whenever they go crazy on a story like the Cheney hunting story, there is a backlash against them when they're just trying, gosh darn it, to do their job as they perceive it. I know you're all just filled with sympathy for the poor boos. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:48 AM
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White House press reporters just feel so abused. Liberals criticize them for being too soft on the Bush administration and conservatives think that they're agenda-driven meanies out to get the President. And they just can't believe that the administration doesn't respect them as much as they feel they should be honored.
David Gregory, the NBC correspondent who has been among the most ardent questioners in the briefing room, apologized for yelling at Mr. McClellan over the Cheney incident but said the situation had become particularly frustrating.
"There is a desire by some, particularly on the right, to morph these situations into a different kind of debate — it's the vice president against an angry, left-wing, cynical, hate-filled press corps that wants to expose him as a liar," he said. "This is a false debate, stoked by a president and vice president who have made no bones about the fact that they don't have much respect for the press corps as an institution."
Poor boo.
They don't like the scrutiny and having people see the briefings on TV and then criticizing them. Hey, that's their job - to criticize the administration. It's really making them tense to have all this scrutiny and they resent that, whenever they go crazy on a story like the Cheney hunting story, there is a backlash against them when they're just trying, gosh darn it, to do their job as they perceive it. I know you're all just filled with sympathy for the poor boos. posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 6:48 AM
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