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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (3253)	5/23/2005 12:24:34 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 9838

In a rare break, First Lady contradicts White House Nedra Pickler Associated Press Published May 21, 2005 AMMAN, JORDAN -- Laura Bush is showing her independent side and contradicting the White House. Newsweek magazine should not be solely blamed for deadly protests in the Middle East, the First Lady said Friday. And her husband should have been interrupted to be told about an airplane scare that sent her rushing to an underground bunker. Bush's candid remarks -- at the outset of a trip to the Middle East -- showed anew her willingness to step out more boldly in her husband's second term. Usually deferential to her husband and rarely controversial, she has veered off the White House message only rarely in the past. But there was no mistaking that her views were at odds with White House officials as she chatted with reporters while flying across the Atlantic. The White House has defended the decision not to stop President Bush on a bike ride last week to tell him of an emergency evacuation at the Capitol and the White House. The scare was triggered by a small plane flying into restricted airspace. The president was not informed until he finished his ride in Maryland, about 50 minutes after the evacuation began. "I think he should have been interrupted," the First Lady said, hastening to add, "but I'm not going to second-guess the Secret Service that were with him." Asked about her comment, presidential spokesman Trent Duffy said, "I think the president and the First Lady have both said they have full confidence in the Secret Service. He feels that the protocols were followed." The First Lady said she hoped her trip would help improve the U.S. image in the Arab world after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and the now-retracted Newsweek report that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Qur'an, the Muslim holy book. Bush said Newsweek can't be held solely responsible for the rioters' violence. "You can't excuse what they did because of the mistake -- you know, you can't blame it all on Newsweek," she said. © Copyright 2005 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.