“Aside from being inarticulate and unpleasant on camera, perhaps the most consistent complaint made against former White House spokesman Scott McClellan was that he was not part of Bush’s inner circle and therefore was not privy to the top decision making. That instead, he was hired to recite robotic talking points. The arrival of Tony Snow was supposed to change all that. In fact Snow reportedly demanded that he enjoy unique access to Bush before he agreed to join the White House team. But already a couple of key examples suggest Snow and Bush are not reading from the script, which begs the question of how plugged in is Snow.” — Eric Boehlert (HuffPo)
In other words, Bush is inept at getting his story straight with his new spokesperson in important regards. Snow reported that the new treasury secretary was hired five days before Bush had stopped denying rumors that the old one was going. And even more serious discrepancies exist about the ‘party line’ on when Bush knew of the massacre at Haditha.
