{"id":2502,"date":"2004-09-10T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T17:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2502.html"},"modified":"2004-09-10T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T17:46:20","slug":"does-the-terry-holt-move-show-a-bush-campaign-in-disarray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/does-the-terry-holt-move-show-a-bush-campaign-in-disarray\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Terry Holt move show a Bush campaign in ‘disarray’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt, just a few days after describing political reporters as “the scum of the earth<\/a>,” seems to have been fired<\/a> and shipped off to the RNC.<\/p>\n

In light of the move, Kevin Drum had an interesting observation<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n

Does this shakeup indicate a campaign that’s about to implode? You know, like Kerry’s after he hired a couple of new guys? No, really, does it? Let’s discuss ad nauseum, OK?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good point. In fact, I checked the print press this morning to see if Drum was right. No surprise; he was. Not one<\/a> newspaper or major news website (CNN.com, MSNBC, etc.) even mentioned Bush’s staffing change.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, however, when Kerry made a similar staffing change, it was literally on the front page<\/i><\/a> of the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, campaign officials said John Sasso, who has been running the general election operations at the Democratic National Committee, will shift roles to become Kerry’s senior adviser aboard the candidate’s campaign plane. Michael Whouley, who helped rescue Kerry’s campaign in Iowa during the nomination battle, will take over Sasso’s responsibilities at the DNC, reprising the role he played for Al Gore four years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was also in every major paper and played up as a sign that the Kerry campaign is in “disarray.”<\/p>\n

Bush makes a staff change, nothing. Kerry makes a staff change, huge coverage. One standard for the Dems, another (lower) standard for the GOP. Liberal media? Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt, just a few days after describing political reporters as “the scum of the earth,” seems to have been fired and shipped off to the RNC. In light of the move, Kevin Drum had an interesting observation yesterday: Does this shakeup indicate a campaign that’s about to implode? You know, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}