WP Dana Milbank Claims Bush LITERALLY Trying To KILL THE PRESS CORPS!!

[Beetwasher]

"Now for an update on the White House's ongoing effort to kill the press corps. The White House travel office signed a contract last week with an airline called Primaris to fly the press corps to Bush events. The two-month-old company has only one airplane. True, media representatives gave their blessing to the deal. But that was before they learned that the company's president twice had his pilot's license revoked related to his flying of an "unairworthy" aircraft, that the chief executive flopped in his last attempt to start an airline and that the 15-year-old plane itself was damaged in a hailstorm a decade ago and spent most of the past two years mothballed in France."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26935-2004Aug23.html

[zbdent]

1. Is there any truth to the rumor that Bush was trying to get the

company to buy some of those airplanes that crashed this morning in Russia?

[Wickerman]

2. hmm, major campaign donations?

Bush helps a failed businessman who contributed a ton of cash - that is my bet.

[CBHagman]

3. Dana's just having fun, but...

...he does get under their collective skin at the Shite House. I understand that several of his columns have resulted in banishment of one sort or another. You know, the oft-threatened lack of access.

But Milbank keeps cranking these things out, including columns on Bush's verbal gaffes. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Barbara Bush Sr. has some sort of voodoo doll of him.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Kill the Press Corps! Oh Heaven forfend!

:nopity:

[madrchsod]

5. listening to wall street radio

this morning-two smaller airline companies may not make it thru this year..but bush is contracting a brand new airline company with a really bad history and no markets..hmmm-

[donsu]

6. bushgang is having success in killing the media in Iraq and Afgan.

if they are not killed outright, they are kept to certain areas and away from others, or jailed or bullied, bribed, blackmailed or threatened.

[aquart]

7. So, did Dana get on the plane?