Who floated Bush the softball question on moveon.org? The new Jeff Gannon?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I'm with the DUers who have said this whole "press conference" was just a propaganda setup to reinforce the anti-moveon.org message. It's really amazing what a bunch of Orwellian pod people the Republicans are now. It seems Bush ducked the serious questions and was there really only to deliver his scripted response to this one question.

Who dealt the question? Anyone know? :shrug:

[Me.]

1. KO Says

it was a set-up with a guy from Faux

[Va Lefty]

2. According to Washington Post

It was "conservative journalist Bill Sammon of the Washington Examiner"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/20/AR2007092002290.html
4th paragraph from bottom

[Solly Mack]

4. Yes..Bush dubbed him "Super Stretch" and "Big Stretch" a long time ago

and Bush calls Gregory "Little Stretch"

[rodeodance]

5. HA HA -Dana Milbank mocks Bush's whole press conference

[malaise]

8. Washington Examiner and Fox n/t

[rodeodance]

3. THE PRESIDENT: Big Stretch, he's back. (Is it this guy?)

Q Mr. President, thank you.

THE PRESIDENT: Big Stretch, he's back.

Q What is your reaction to the MoveOn.org ad that mocked General Petraeus as General "Betrayus," and said that he cooked the books on Iraq? And secondly, would you like to see Democrats, including presidential candidates, repudiate that ad?

THE PRESIDENT: I thought the ad was disgusting. I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. military. And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org -- or more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal. It's one thing to attack me; it's another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus.

All right. Leavitt is going to answer some questions if you have any for him. Make sure they're -- tone them down a little bit, this is his first time in here. Martha, you and Gregory be polite on him. Thank you for your time.

END 11:21 A.M. EDT

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/20070920-2.html

[Va Lefty]

6. Seems he is also a literary giant

Having written 4 N.Y. Times bestsellers: At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election, Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House, Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, Media Bias and Bush Haters, and Strategery: How George W. Bush is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats and Confounding the Mainstream Media.

This from his Wikipedia page.

[rodeodance]

7. good bonfire fodder

[KharmaTrain]

9. Bill Sammon...Well Known Right Wing Pimp...

Here's his bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sammon

Bill Sammon is senior White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner (having left the same position at The Washington Times in February 2006), a political analyst for Fox News Channel, and the author of four New York Times bestsellers: At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election; Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House; Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, Media Bias and the Bush Haters; and Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media. He is a frequent guest on shows like Special Report with Brit Hume, Fox News Sunday and Hannity & Colmes.

He's part of the Repugnican welfare state...a paid hack who was planted with that question. I loved Olbermann's double-take when Milbanks told him who it was. He's not Gannon/Gunkert, but he's not far off.

[City Lights]

10. This guy:

[Orsino]

11. Not softball. Tee-ball.

This president is not equipped for the former.