{"id":131,"date":"2006-04-19T00:07:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T07:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=131"},"modified":"2008-05-29T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T21:44:04","slug":"wanted-white-house-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: White House Mouthpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, is rumored to be amongst the next wave of administration officials to be spending more time with family. The Washington Times already has an ad for his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Click to view full size ad<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/press_sec.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/press_sec.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This skill set describes a a vast pool of potential successors. At the top of that list you might expect to find the likes of Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. And you would be correct. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/19\/washington\/19budget.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">The White House&#8217;s actual list<\/a> begins with Fox News anchor Tony Snow. Other candidate names that have been floated include Rob Nichols, former Treasury spokesman, Victoria Clarke, former Pentagon spokeswoman, Dana M. Perino, Deputy Press Secretary, and Dan Senor, former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Any other right-wing media shills might want to get their resumes in as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060419\/ts_nm\/bush_mcclellan_dc_3\">McClellan resigns as White House press secretary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, is rumored to be amongst the next wave of administration officials to be spending more time with family. The Washington Times already has an ad for his replacement. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Click to view full size ad This skill set describes a a vast pool of potential successors. At the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[18,76],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-graphix","tag-scott-mcclellan","tag-tony-snow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-27","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":670,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=670","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":0},"title":"A White House Awash In Lies","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/21\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, is joining the ranks of castoff Bushies to belatedly embrace truthfulness in advance of the publication of a new book. This is a disturbing pattern amongst public figures who lie while in office and then recant their deception, after they've been ejected from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=137","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":1},"title":"The Tony Snow Job","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/26\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I suppose it was inevitable. Former Poppa Bush speechwriter, current Fox News commentator and Fox Radio talk show host, Tony Snow, been appointed White House Press Secretary. Since Snow has been shilling for the president for years in his current job, a guest on Keith Olbermann's Countdown recently asked if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":973,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=973","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":2},"title":"On The Passing Of Tony Snow","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/12\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tony Snow, former Fox News anchor, radio talk show host, and press secretary to George W. Bush, has succumbed to the cancer that he has been battling for many years. He was 53 years old. I have written about Snow extensively over the years, with little positive to say. But\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":928,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=928","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":3},"title":"The Scott McClellan Confessional","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/28\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Former White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, has joined the ranks of Bush administration castoffs to write a tell-all book illuminating their role in degrading our Democracy. While this book is a particularly damning reminiscence, it is also a stab at absolution. Here a few of the atrocities that McClellan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":929,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=929","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":4},"title":"Jessica Yellin: Press Succumbs To Patriotic Fever","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/29\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a discussion on CNN of the book by former White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, Anderson Cooper quoted a passage that criticized the press for not being sufficiently aggressive in their coverage of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. 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