All Press Conferences Are Stages And The Press Are Merely Players

The first "White House Press Secretary" as history rewrote his role, George B. Cortelyou, first invited the press into the White House, to report on President McKinley's condition, who had been shot at the Panamerican Exposition in Buffalo, NY. A Republican Chairman from NYC, a shorthand teacher, and Cabinet member (would be 4 posts today, 3 under McKinley and Roosevelt, historians could look into this guy, early CEO of ConEd), he was the first in wartime too, the Spanish-American War and helped Roosevelt start the conservation movement (National Archives). The President appears persnickety again using Helen Thomas this way. I would have asked him why Canada did not go into Iraq with us and why it took so long to acknowledge the mistakes the US made in bombings in Afghanistan: 1) same hospital, twice 2) bombing Canadian troops, 3) using "daisy cutters" and "propane bombs" (like the "oxygen bomb" in Godzilla) and why he thinks the public is so enamoured with this technology when the "connection" to 9/11/01 (in effect re-establishing the heroin "French Connections" and $110 million cash reported missing out of the WTC) to either Afghanistan or Iraq was not solidly made. What the U.S. provided in evidence, has not been beyond the taunt of "politics". Posted by georgejmyers at 2:03 PM : March 21, 2006