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July 26, 2005
John Roberts frustrated by White House over John Roberts
Howard Kurtz reported this in last week's Washington Post:
The other John Roberts -- the CBS man -- has this to say on covering his namesake's nomination:
"It was a bit of an 'Alice In Wonderland' moment last night, watching President Bush in the State Dining Room lauding the accomplishments and character of one 'John Roberts.' After my four and a half years covering the Bush White House, I couldn't imagine the name 'John Roberts' and the phrase 'widely admired for his intellect, his sound judgment and his personal decency' being used in the same time zone, let alone the same sentence. More likely would have been 'John Roberts' and 'should join Judith Miller in jail'; or 'frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs'; or, 'Oh yeah, we've got a dossier on him'. I'll tell you, it was all a bit disorienting.
"But it could work to my advantage. Now, every time I telephone a White House official and say that it's 'John Roberts' calling, I'm certain that I'll hear a heart skip a beat on the other end of the line. I imagine that it won't take long for aides who answer the phone to soon pick up the query 'Is this Judge Roberts?' And I'll be relegated (through my innate sense of fairness) to say, 'No, it's the CBS correspondent' -- which, no doubt, will be met with a sigh of relief and a disparaging 'Oh.' "
Roberts adds: "I don't want to say that the swirl of speculation surrounding names like Edith Clement, Edith Jones and others was an elaborate head fake to keep us off the scent of the real nominee, but a lot of people who were in the 'initial loop' of selecting a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor were pushing those names pretty hard. Of course, we bear some responsibility for that, as well. We are so determined to crack the nut of this uber-disciplined White House that any dribble of information is lapped up like mother's milk. And, I must admit, we created a media echo chamber Tuesday. Eventually, we began to hear back rumors that were prompted by our own inquiries. I'm certain that there was no end of glee at the White House as officials watched us chase our tails all day. And I'll bet they chuckled to themselves as they let their telephones ring and ring as their caller IDs flashed up the numbers of White House reporters."
Just think of how frustrated the White House must have been with a network that acted as a political operative for the Kerry campaign with phony documents, promotion of Bush-bashing books and an 18-month-old story about stolen explosives recycled as a breaking news story days before the November election.
Posted by jeffgannon at July 26, 2005 07:30 AM
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