You cannot always do that. To reach the major markets, you have to invite in people who the white house feels are not favorably inclined to the president. You have to take that on and that is part of the job. For those who do not see the first part of this interview, you are deputy chief of staff of the Bush Administration during which years . Two years. I was the budget director in between. I was in the white house all eight years. Here is tony snow talking about how he was selected. Josh and i work in the bush white house. He would come into my radio show and we talked about getting together. Hes a great guy to work with. Hes is someone i really enjoyed. We finally made this. It was on a friday am a i think it was on a friday, i think. He ended up doing a sales pitch that i could not resist. He said, i know the numbers look bad, the fundamentals are good in the economy and things are going a certain way in iraq. I know you have a great job and you are making a lot of money. I underst
That is the natural state of affairs between the white house and the press corps because because that is the nature of what the press needs to do. They need to catch the white se on whatever is what whatever is going on. We came in with a press corps that was inclined to be unfriendly. They did a fair amount of work to warm up the relationship. It throughout the bush ministration, it was it was relatively tense. The view inside the white house werehat most of the media substantiallyy or biased against the ministration. The administration. We felt that we were swimming upstream. It,president , annoyed by said that his advice was to let it go off your back and do the best you can. Do not get fixated on it. Do not spend all your time riled up about how badly the press is treating you. How did he decide and who helped them decide who he would grant interviews to . That is the press secretarys job. Usually, under the supervision of the medications director. The communications director. And