Tuesday, May 18, 2004

When press aides get uppity

If you weren't watching Meet the Press Sunday, you may not have heard that one of Colin Powell's press aides tried to cut short Tim Russert's interview with Powell. (RP was, and he woke me up to tell me about it.) The aide, identified as Emily Miller, claimed it was because the interview was running long, but it's hard not to think that she was trying to shield her boss from a semi-tough question (which Powell, to his credit, answered and answered responsively).

Here's Wonkette on it: "...disrupting an interview with the nation's highest-ranking cabinet member on national television is not exactly a firing offense in this administration."

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