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CHENEY SEEKS TO HIRE TAXPAYER-FUNDED PRESS CRITIC | |
BUSH MUST GO Offer Upgrade User ID: 105879 United States 07/22/2006 07:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The Press Assistant is responsible for monitoring media for various national security and domestic issues, informing the Press Secretary and Deputy Press Secretary of issues of note and factual inaccuracies in the media." [link to rawstory.com] Cheney Seeks To Hire Taxpaper-Funded Press Critic By Greg Sargent This is fun. It appears that Dick Cheney has been looking to hire a taxpayer-funded press critic. Over at The Daily Politics, Ben Smith has obtained [link to rawstory.com] a privately-circulated email looking for someone to fill the job of Cheney's press assistant. Here's how part of the email describes the gig: The Press Assistant is responsible for monitoring media for various national security and domestic issues, informing the Press Secretary and Deputy Press Secretary of issues of note and factual inaccuracies in the media. Full email text after the jump. Smith reports the job's been filled. Sounds like a great gig: Spending your day searching for evidence of non-existent liberal bias in the media and and non-existent anti-troops reporting. Here's the email: The Press Assistant to the Vice President is responsible for supporting the Press Secretary and the Deputy Press Secretary to the Vice President. This includes many substantive tasks, and also requires great attention to logistical details. The Press Assistant is responsible for monitoring media for various national security and domestic issues, informing the Press Secretary and Deputy Press Secretary of issues of note and factual inaccuracies in the media. The Press Assistant interacts daily with members of the White House press corps, speaking to the press regarding the Vice President's schedule. In addition, the Press Assistant arranges logistics for all Vice Presidential traveling press, working closely with the Advance team on sequence and presentation for all public Vice Presidential events. The Press Assistants (sic) also assists in the preparation and submission of event briefing papers for the Vice President's review, often serving as lead event contact for Vice Presidential events. Jul 21, 2006 -- 11:55:38 AM EST --- For the most recent articles shared search by 'user name' BUSH MUST GO in the Advanced GLP Search at www.godlikeproductions.com/searchhandle.php [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] 'Link, Copy, Paste, & Disseminate!' |
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