ABC News's The Note says that the press is getting tired of being told that black-is-white and chocolate-is-vanilla by Ari Fleischer. I'm not sure that the general press is, but it's clear that The Note is getting tired of it:
Posted by DeLong at September 03, 2002 09:41 AM | TrackbackABCNEWS.com : Political News Summary: Home Stretch (September 3, 2002): The sidebar story on this topic today is Ari Fleischer's chocolate-is-vanilla insistence yesterday that the Vice President and the Secretary of State are of a like mind on Iraq. This goes right to the credibility of the administration. The Bush team has always had a credibility problem with some reporters because of their insistence on saying "up is down" and "black is white." While the public doesn't necessarily see or pay attention to all of this, there has been a corrosive effect on the filter through which media and political elites view Administration statements and actions. The Brent Bozells of the world would like to see this as simply liberal media bias, but there are plenty of people on the right who will at least quietly agree they share this view, based on past Bush decisions such as steel tariffs...
I can't wait until the term "Bushadministrationesque" enters the media lexicon.
Posted by: Nick on September 3, 2002 05:38 PM