The War on Terror is raging in Iraq, gas prices are skyrocketing, and illegal aliens are invading the country; so guess what the White House Press Corps is concerned with:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — It wasn’t the price of gasoline, Darfur or the rebuilding effort in New Orleans that preoccupied the White House press corps Thursday aboard a flight on Air Force One.
It was what channel they could watch on the White House televisions, Fox or CNN.
During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington Post’s Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed to be tuned to Fox News and if it was possible to have them tuned instead to CNN.
“It’s come to my attention that there’s been requests — this is a serious question — to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied,” VandeHei told McClellan, who is soon to be replaced by former Fox anchor and self-described conservative Tony Snow.
“My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?” VandeHei asked.
In what has to be one of the pettiest complaints from the pettiest group of people in the country, a White House reporter is upset because the TV is tuned to Fox News on Air Force One. Even the guy who made the complaint knows this; why else would he preface his complaint with “this is a serious question”?
This whole episode reminds me of the Borg from Star Trek. Whenever one of the Borg were prevented from communicating with the rest of the Borg Collective, it would freak out and not know what to do. In this case, the reporter was cut off from his daily diet of liberal talking points from the Liberal Collective (CNN), and all he can do is squawk about it.
Maybe Tony Snow should reconsider his decision to deal with these people on a daily basis.
April 29th, 2006 at 7:09 am
We should drill in the ANWR and screw the eco-freaks at GREENPEACE and the SIERRA CLUB they are lying