Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Bush-Cheney campaign's aptly named advertising team, Maverick Media, understands that this year's presidential election is much different than the previous one: "The environment in 2000 was peace and prosperity. Everything was going fine and the question was what to do next.
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
When the White House released the sure-to-be-controversial Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief (PDB) on the terrorist threat against the U.S., its timing could not have been accidental," reports Greg Mitchell.
Submitted by Laura Miller on
One year after the staged toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Firdos Square, the bloody violence in Iraq is reaching new peaks.
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
As violence escalates in Iraq, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, testifies today before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, following a recent, highly public clash with Richard A.
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Anna Perez, until recently the National Security Council's director of communications and Condoleezza Rice's "counselor of communications," will become NBC's chief communications executive in May.
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"With the White House weathering allegations from its former anti-terrorism adviser, revelations about the health of Medicare and unrelenting turmoil in Iraq," George Bush is trying to recapture a "compassionate conservative" image to boost his campaign.
Submitted by Laura Miller on
George W. Bush's long-time advisor Karen Hughes hits the book circuit promoting her new autobiography Ten Minutes From Normal. While she's plugging her book, she's also plugging the president's re-election. The New York Times writes, "Ms. Hughes is the smiling, media-savvy White House representative whose book now wraps her -- and, by implication, the president -- in the heroism of motherhood.
Submitted by Laura Miller on
In a discussion with former U.S. propaganda Czar Charlotte Beers on whether U.S.
Submitted by Laura Miller on
Former navy public affairs office Lt. John Oliveira told Democracy Now! that he didn't realize how stressful his military oath would be for him when aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt last year. "I had to get on television every day to talk to the American people and the international public and continue to sell them on the administration's policies, which I did not believe in," Oliveira said. He oversaw embedded journalists on the aircraft carrier, which at the time was in the eastern Mediterranean. "I'm [now] doing what I can to support our troops.
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Condoleezza Rice is the White House official whose testimony is desired the most by the congressional panel probing the Bush administration's handling of Al Qaeda before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, but the Bush administration refuses to have her testify publicly. She hasn't exactly been invisible, though.
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