George Bush Can’t Deny BBC’s Nick Robinson
THE BBC’s likeable political editor Nick Robinson stands out from the press pack.
As he writes of the press conference between Bush and Brown:
If you watched the news conference, you may have noticed Mr Bush’s warm greeting to me… He said to me, clearly remembering our last encounter, “you still hanging around?”.
At a news conference in Washington last year, the day after the Iraq study group report was published, I suggested that his response would lead some to believe that he was in ‘denial’ about Iraq.
At the end of today’s briefing, the president looked at me, sweating in the swampy conditions, and said, “next time you should cover your bald head”. I made the fatal error of answering a quip with a quip: “I didn’t know you cared”. To which the president said, quick as a flash, “I don’t”.
Robinson is not shy in telling us about the first meeting. He links to a story on how it played out in the US media:
“Long live the British press!”declared Dan Froomkin in his White House Watch column for The Washington Post. ”In contrast to the small-bore questions American reporters posed,”wrote Froomkin, Robinson and another British correspondent had both ”cut right to the central issue of the president’s credibility.”
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August 24th, 2007 at 7:48 am
I agree with you Reich … he will flush everyone in the world if necessary (except “the base”) we will see very shortly if he gives up the office as he recently commented that
the office “was not for sale” . I think he means he has no plans to vacate the office.
August 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Not only does Bush not care about any non-neocon, he doesn’t care about anybody, non-neocon or not. It’s a psychological condition. He will USE a neocon, but when the neocon is no longer of use to this maniacoid, he will flush him like used toilet paper: Rumsfeld, for instance.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Mr Bush was telling the truth he does’nt care about Robinson or for that matter any non neocon since he has renamed the US “the Homeland” . Does that remind you Brits of any other country of the recent past……..US uber alles!! Get used to the New World Order
Read my Lips- were all F*cked.
July 31st, 2007 at 3:51 pm
“likeable political editor”?
I don’t like him; I don’t like what he says. If I want to hear spin, I listen to the spin doctor, not the witless regurgitator…
July 31st, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Ah well Bush is so our fave American