{"id":7257,"date":"2006-04-27T12:59:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7257"},"modified":"2006-04-27T12:59:27","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:59:27","slug":"fred-barnes-advice-for-tony-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fred-barnes-advice-for-tony-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Barnes’ advice for Tony Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

[tag]Fred Barnes[\/tag], the executive editor of The Weekly Standard, seems anxious to help advise the Bush White House. A few weeks ago, he offered a four-part “keys to a successful comeback<\/a>” strategy. This week, Barnes published a new list<\/a> — a five-part plan for new press secretary [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] to help [tag]Bush[\/tag] turn his presidency around.<\/p>\n

Barnes acknowledges, right up front, that Snow has put himself in a “dire” position, not because he’ll be the public face of a failing White House, but because reporters are mean. Never fear, Barnes explains, he has a plan.<\/p>\n

* “Ban TV cameras from the daily [tag]White House[\/tag] briefings for the press.” Barnes says reporters “grandstand and showboat,” leading to a fight the press secretary loses.<\/p>\n

* “Be willing to be disliked.” Barnes advises Snow to listen to reporters and then “put them in their place.”<\/p>\n

* “Don’t address old columns.” Snow hasn’t always been kind, so he should ignore his previous comments.<\/p>\n

* “Promote the president’s policies.” Apparently, Barnes isn’t sure Snow already knows to do this.<\/p>\n

* “Don’t fall for the old advice that the key to recovery is giving the press more access to president.” Barnes recommends more access is a “waste of time.”<\/p>\n

Let’s review. Barnes, the head of the leading conservative political magazine in the country and a Fox News contributor, believes the new, telegenic press secretary shouldn’t be on TV, should intentionally annoy reporters, and should deny them access as much as possible.<\/p>\n

In other words, Barnes wants the White House to operate just as it’s been operating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[tag]Fred Barnes[\/tag], the executive editor of The Weekly Standard, seems anxious to help advise the Bush White House. A few weeks ago, he offered a four-part “keys to a successful comeback” strategy. This week, Barnes published a new list — a five-part plan for new press secretary [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] to help [tag]Bush[\/tag] turn his presidency […]<\/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-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257","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=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}