The White House has apologized for distributing a political briefing to G8 reporters describing Italian PM Berlusconi as a political “amateur” who is “hated by many.”
The “insulting” biography was included in a press kit distributed to reporters travelling with President George W Bush to a meeting of world leaders in Japan. [It continues, reading] he [...]
If you only read corporatist media or have been kidnapped and illegally detained and tortured by the American government you’ve
likely missed this story. If the Globe and Mail or any of the dozens of CanWest media outlets mentioned this, it was not readily available today.
Here’s a summary of what you’ve missed from a legitimate [...]
Dana Perino, the mouthpiece of the of the Bush administration has, unquestionably, one of the most difficult jobs.
Not because skills it requires you to possess or risks to assume but rather because what it requires you lack. Self-respect, decency, humanity, a sense of shame are unneeded as White House Press Secretary. She’s made absurd, [...]
Q Thank you, sir. A simple question.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It may require a simple answer.
Q What’s your definition of the word “torture”?
THE PRESIDENT: Of what?
Q The word “torture.” What’s your definition?
THE PRESIDENT: That’s defined in U.S. law, and we don’t torture.
Q Can you give me your version of it, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Whatever the law says.
October 17, 2007 Press Conference [...]