bush says no peaceful fix, page-16

re: iran crisis: next steps Bomb the cra p out of it?

Why else would they bother, its the iraq technique part 2, look at the newmedia its full of the same spin


These guys are nutcases, just read this article from cnn


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It wasn't the price of gasoline, Darfur or the
rebuilding effort in New Orleans that preoccupied the White House press
corps Thursday aboard a flight on Air Force One.

It was what channel they could watch on the White House televisions,
Fox or CNN.

During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as
President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington
Post's Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed
to be tuned to Fox News and if it was possible to have them tuned
instead to CNN.

"It's come to my attention that there's been requests -- this is a
serious question -- to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox,
and that those have been denied," VandeHei told McClellan, who is soon
to be replaced by former Fox anchor and self-described conservative
Tony Snow.

"My question would be, is there a White House policy that all
government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?" VandeHei asked.

"Never heard of any such thing," McClellan responded. "My TVs are on
four different channels at all times."

VandeHei noted that McClellan has four televisions in his office, and
clarified that he was referring to the ones that reporters can see.

"They're always turned to Fox, which a lot of people consider a
Republican-leaning network."

VandeHei noted that the televisions are paid for with taxpayer dollars.

"And my understanding is that you guys have to watch Fox on Air Force
One. Is that true?"

McClellan said it was the first he had heard such a claim, and that it
was not true.

"In fact, I've watched other channels on here," he said.

"I've never known anyone that's raised a complaint about a request from
back here to watch a different channel," McClellan added.

VandeHei replied, "I'm officially raising it, and officially
complaining about it."

McClellan then asked whether VandeHei had tried to have the change
made.

"I was told -- the quote was, 'No,' when I asked for CNN," the reporter
said.

McClellan asked him with whom he had spoken, but VandeHei said he did
not know.

"Well, the magic people at the other end of the phone ... I was told,
'We don't watch CNN here, you can only watch Fox,' " VandeHei said.

McClellan said he found the question "quite amusing," and left to see
about making the change.

Eighteen minutes after VandeHei raised the issue, McClellan had
resolved it.

"We just called up. They're going to be changing it, at your all's
request, to the channel that you requested, which is CNN -- from the
press corps."

Fox News is popular with at least one highly placed person in the White
House. According to the Web site "The Smoking Gun," whenever Vice
President Dic k Cheney stays in a hotel room, he requests extra lights,
copies of five newspapers and the television tuned to Fox. (Full story)