{"id":7175,"date":"2006-04-19T09:10:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2006-04-19T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T13:10:32","slug":"merging-wh-communications-with-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/merging-wh-communications-with-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Merging WH communications with Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s seen the [tag]Fox News Channel[\/tag] realizes that the conservative network already operates as a mouthpiece for the Bush administration. <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0604\/18\/sitroom.01.html\">CNN reported<\/a> yesterday, however, that the [tag]White House[\/tag] has considered making the arrangement a little more official.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suzanne Malveaux, CNN White House Correspondent: On Monday, his first full day, [new WH Chief of Staff Josh] [tag]Bolten[\/tag] announced he would be making personnel changes to refresh and reenergize the president&#8217;s team. As CNN first reported two weeks ago, some Republican strategists and Bush administration officials say Bolten is focusing on legislative affairs and White House communications, specifically the position of White House [tag]press secretary[\/tag].<\/p>\n<p>CNN has learned from multiple Republican sources that Bolten reached out to [tag]Fox News[\/tag] anchor and conservative radio talk show host [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] several weeks ago at the White House. Snow worked as a speech writer for the president&#8217;s father, and had no comment about the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It does make some sense. Snow can repeat White House talking points from Fox News&#8217; studios or he can repeat White House talking points from the podium in the briefing room. If [tag]FNC[\/tag] personalities are already practically part of Team [tag]Bush[\/tag], why not drop the pretense and put them on the payroll?<\/p>\n<p>The report also The Nation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/notion?pid=78284\">Ari Berman to consider<\/a> who <em>else<\/em> the White House may hire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lou Dobbs as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement?<\/p>\n<p>Geraldo Rivera as Secretary of Defense?<\/p>\n<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly as director of Faith-Based Initiatives?<\/p>\n<p>Why not call it a day and hire Roger Ailes as communications director?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point, I wouldn&#8217;t want to rule anything out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s seen the [tag]Fox News Channel[\/tag] realizes that the conservative network already operates as a mouthpiece for the Bush administration. CNN reported yesterday, however, that the [tag]White House[\/tag] has considered making the arrangement a little more official. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN White House Correspondent: On Monday, his first full day, [new WH Chief of Staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}