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Mike Allen on Message: Pick and Stick
I knew there was a moral to this story.
Here's the Politico's Mike Allen on MSNBC last night discussing the Justice Department's various (many false) explanations for why the administration fired a group of federal prosecutors.
"The problem is," Allen said, "you have to pick something you can say that you can stick to."
I think that's his way of saying that you should tell the truth?
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Comments (7)
aflounder wrote on March 14, 2007 11:28 AM:As we've seen, the Bush Admnistration does not excel at picking something they can say and sticking to it, especially at the inception of something like this, call it (yet another) scandal majoris, with inception here meaning the point at which the scope or nature of their actions becomes clear to the public.
Peter Principle wrote on March 14, 2007 11:45 AM:"I think that's his way of saying that you should tell the truth?"
No, I think he's saying Abu G and company should have been consistent in their lies. It makes things easier for the stenographers in the corporate media.
linda wrote on March 14, 2007 12:08 PM:mike allen is truly the whirling dervish of the wdc press corps. this is his rewrite of the infamous katrina/video briefing for dim son:
"On the question of whether—of the U.S. push to arrest everybody, we‘re told that from the very beginning, you know, Keith, on your air, you showed the video of the president with his Katrina briefings, internalizing them, not asking questions."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14375526/
bibimimi wrote on March 14, 2007 12:27 PM:I can't stand Mike Allen, another obsequious WH stenoboy.
elrapierwit wrote on March 14, 2007 2:40 PM:This is the most inarticulate white male I have ever seen portrayed as some type of political analyst. It appears the man cannot form a coherent thought based on how his words do not EVER make a coherent sentence.
Was he one of the ones Rove turned into a turdblossomtoo or what?
Just who IS this stutter, stammer, hestitant and pause guy?
Jeany wrote on March 14, 2007 5:17 PM:I was raised with the admonition that when you tell the truth, you don't have to remember what you said to whom. Later in life, doing in-home sales, those who were successful learned how to tell when no meant no, and anyone who kept changing the reason for saying no might very well mean yes.
With that background, I just take for granted that anyone who keeps changing the story is lying. Just a couple of weeks ago, Prof. Pat Fitzgerald was teaching that the whole system depends on a commitment to the truth, to telling the truth. This is a good time to take the lesson.
hibiscus wrote on March 14, 2007 5:19 PM:we should send them a thousand tons of flypaper, if they're looking for something to stick to.