Scott McClellan’s Disillusionment

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2008 Scott McClellan appeared on the "Today" show Thursday to discuss his memoir, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," and the "two defining moments" that caused him to become "increasingly dismayed and disillusioned with the way things were going in Washington, DC". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rev. Wright and the Press

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2008 After laying low for some time, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been speaking out about the controversy that has tarnished his name. The minister seemed to enjoy this encounter with the media, too many elements of which relied on YouTube to lay out the facts of their stories. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

N.Y.’s New Governor Admits to Affair

Staff / Truthdig Mar 18, 2008 Before the media barracuda had time to really start swarming, Eliot Spitzer's successor, Gov. David Paterson, preempted scurrilous investigations into his skeleton closet by tossing a big one out for all to see. As Paterson told the New York Daily News on Monday, he had a long-standing affair years ago during a rocky period in his marriage. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Shrub and the Rocket

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig Feb 23, 2008 Of all the voices in Washington recently, who could be better equipped to speak for this president than Roger Clemens? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Strike Derails Golden Globes Show

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2008 With top-tier talent unwilling to cross picket lines for the sake of a gala awards ceremony, the folks who put together the Golden Globes (the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, NBC and Dick Clark Productions) scrambled to work around the whole no-actors-showing-up issue but had to settle for a newscast announcing the winners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Public Relations Disaster Management

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Oct 30, 2007 Though time will certainly tell, the Bush administration so far has not yet surpassed that of Richard Nixon's in its contempt for a free press and its unrelenting war on the truth. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

FEMA Apologizes for Make-Believe Press Conference

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2007 FEMA has admitted that it was probably a mistake to hold a press conference without members of the press. On Tuesday the agency, perhaps trying to get a jump on the kind of negative publicity it received after Hurricane Katrina, stuffed a press briefing with its own employees, who lobbed softballs such as "Are you happy with FEMA's response so far?" Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Is the White House Whitewashing History?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 12, 2007 Margie Burns, reporting for the Brad Blog, says the White House may be up to some old, unsavory tactics, deleting unfavorable material from its website in potential violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978. At issue are briefing references to Jeff Gannon, the faux journalist whose non-questions helped deflect criticism during press briefings. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How the Press Can Prevent Another Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Feb 6, 2007 Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin has put together a 10-point checklist to help journalists avoid drinking Bush's Iranian-flavored Kool-Aid. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

McCain Wants More Troops in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2006 To all of you harboring warm, squishy feelings left over from McCain's 2000 presidential run, keep in mind that the Arizona senator is an unabashed hawk on Iraq. (Watch it) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Admits Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ to Do With 9/11

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2006 At his press conference today, the president came refreshingly (although just a tad belatedly) clean about the fact that Iraq played no part whatsoever in the Sept. 11 attacks. Watch it. A howler from Bush: "Nobody?s ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack." OK, maybe not in those words, but how 'bout in these? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Column: Press Ignores Role of Fundamentalism in Bush’s Policies

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2006 The media has grossly underreported the extent to which Bush's Christian fundamentalism informs his policies on Israel, Iraq, stem cells and abortion, argues a former Newsday and Knight Ridder White House correspondent. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )