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Email: Rich Lowry Offered To Help White House Spin Firings
Zachary Roth | August 11, 2009, 4:09PM
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Here's a fun nugget from the U.S. attorney documents (h/t reader B.M.):
It looks like Rich Lowry of National Review offered the White House his services in doing some positive P.R. on behalf of Rove protege Tim Griffin, who the administration had sought to muscle into the U.S. attorney job in Arkansas as a replacement for the fired Bud Cummins.
In a January 2007 email, White House political director Sara Taylor wrote:
Prior is going after Griffin. He's made this his cause.... We need to find some folks to defend Tim and his credentials, not to mention our policy.Your thoughts? Rich Lowry offered to help Tim
The best part? Taylor went on to ask: "Anyone better?"
Ouch.
Lowry didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about whether he felt dissed.
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blogenfreude
August 11, 2009 4:44 PM
Insert "liberal media" joke here.
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TheraP
August 11, 2009 4:46 PM
Remember this guy's starry-eyed post on SP??? OMG!
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Chabuka
August 11, 2009 5:01 PM
Gee..do you suppose this is why Marvin Milqtoast..the "new" Attorney General Holder is such a scaredy-cat...? Maybe he's being blackmailed?...There are so many of the "old" Bushies still in the DOJ, (he must be finding it difficult to maneuver through the minefields set up by the previous Administration)...some of them were "embedded" (wormed in) by the Bush Administration...it will take years to smoke them out....maybe Obama should just fire the whole lot, and start over..then stand back and watch the "righties" heads explode
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JoshQuasimoto
August 11, 2009 5:44 PM
It is just so appalling to see the level that these people have to go to just to tell a story with the facts. Is it always about framing? Are we as Americans merely pawns of marketing and advertisement? Does "framing" supersede factual analysis and reporting?
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NC Dem
August 11, 2009 5:53 PM in reply to JoshQuasimoto
"Does "framing" supersede factual analysis and reporting?"
Yes, and it preceeded the decision to take our country to war also!
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Agateman
August 11, 2009 5:46 PM
Do you think we'll see Rich on NEWS HOUR soon?
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biglith
August 12, 2009 7:29 PM in reply to Agateman
Yes, PBS thinks he is a legitimate commentator just as they think that David Brooks has something important to add. PBS sucks.
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Powkat
August 11, 2009 7:01 PM
Doesn't surprise me - Lowery is a skeezy little tool. He has that sleek, pampered egoism that so many of them do. And yes, I said 'them' as in skeezy little tools.
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tbhull
August 11, 2009 8:22 PM
Though Lowry coddles the secondary well, all in all power knows Lowry's technique is otherwise quite poor. Way too rough with the teeth.
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VexSmith
August 11, 2009 8:56 PM
When looking for a useful dupe I thought Fred Barnes is the name usually springing to the fore. Most operatives regard NR as irrelevant.
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RB_Johnson
August 12, 2009 11:21 AM
Vex, they didn't need to ask Barnes; his Bush hagiography meant he was already on the team. But BushCo was always looking to initiate new talent.
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thromulese
August 12, 2009 5:26 PM
Rich Lowry has penned his republiCON-approved propaganda in the LA Times, the NYT, and of course FIX’d “News”.
He spreads it around thick and plenty.
Why would anyone believe anything this tool writes when you know that it is all republiCON BS, and spin?
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