{"id":516,"date":"2007-07-11T16:09:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T23:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=516"},"modified":"2007-07-12T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T16:10:18","slug":"white-house-propaganda-center-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"White House Propaganda Center Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleven months ago, I wrote about plans<\/a> for the renovation of the White House Press Briefing Room. It was originally projected to take a month, then three months, then nine months. So today’s announcement that the new facility is finally opening<\/a> means that they were only two months or ten months over schedule depending on which projection you use.<\/p>\n

But this ribbon cutting ceremony for the new hub of Official Mendacity has already set the symbolic course for a future of coloring and\/or dodging the truth.<\/p>\n

First, as the AP reports, the entire affair was a sham that excluded much of the press for whom it was intended.<\/p>\n

“Bush’s appearance was timed for network morning shows, though media attendance in the room was severely limited to make space for White House staff and construction workers.”<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/object>Then, in this room where the White House is expected to answer reporter’s questions, the President appeared briefly and flippantly refused to answer any questions:<\/p>\n

“I’ll, like, listen, internalize, play like I’m going to answer the question, and then smile at you and just say, gosh thanks, thanks for such a solid, sound question.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s a pretty good start, and tells us much about what we might expect to take place here in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleven months ago, I wrote about plans for the renovation of the White House Press Briefing Room. It was originally projected to take a month, then three months, then nine months. So today’s announcement that the new facility is finally opening means that they were only two months or ten months over schedule depending on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":206,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=206","url_meta":{"origin":516,"position":0},"title":"Bush Runs From The Media","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/14\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"war president\" reveals his cowardly side by taking extraordinary steps to protect himself from the scary reporters. 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