Last week’s Observer profiled Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag, who has an impeccable taste for majestic Victorian taunts. (He’s reacted to stories in the Wall Street Journal and its peers with phrases like “tittle-tattle,” “effluent,” and the iconic “chimera produced by a febrile mind.”) In an era when large portions of the country Read More
More from the Rather v. CBS docs.
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh sent an e-mail to Dan Bartlett, then the White House communications director.
At the time, Mr. Thornburgh was heading up an independent panel, established by CBS, to investigate the flawed 60 Minutes Wednesday story about President Read More
Paging Bill Moyers!
In an interview with editor Evan Smith in the current Texas Monthly, Dan Bartlett, who until this summer was a top communications adviser to President Bush, takes the slighly unfashionable position that the White House correspondents, in general, did a good job during the run up to the war in Read More
Last night, Chris Matthews greeted the new White House spokesman, Dan Bartlett, with a barrage of angry questions. Why did the Administration say that oil revenues would pay for the reconstruction of Iraq? Why did the Administration say that the war would bring oil prices down? Bartlett tried to smile when he wasn’t spluttering. Read More
