7 Responses to “My Fox Column…”

1. #1 |  Dave Krueger |  June 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 am

   Wow! Imagine getting paid $165,000 a year to bullshit people. I need to re-evaluate my daily ritual of coming on here and doing it for free.

2. #2 |  Josh |  June 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 am

   Get yourself 3 ex-wives, an oxycodone addiction, a discovery of privacy rights after claiming for years such a right doesn’t exist, and approximately 600 affiliates, and you can bullshit people on the radio for $31.25 million a year.

3. #3 |  Skip Oliva |  June 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am

   Radley’s column is fine, but we need to think bigger. The problem is the growth of presidential staff itself. The Executive Office of the President has supplanted the cabinet-level departments in prestige and power, yet there’s little to no accountability because of the misguided notion of “executive privilege.”

4. #4 |  Chance |  June 3rd, 2008 at 11:29 am

   If you make lawmakers pay for this office out of their own pocket, they’ll just give themselves a pay raise in order to afford it. The problem simply shifts.

5. #5 |  jwh |  June 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm

   …..and Dee Dee Meyer really wasn’t a source for her husband’s Vanity Fair hatchet job on the Clintons……honest……..

6. #6 |  asscore |  June 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 pm

   So agreed!

   Why cant the president speak for himself?

7. #7 |  Against Stupidity |  June 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm

   Radley,

   Your analysis is right on the mark. A press secretary is nothing more than P.R. for the politicians, so how do they communicate with there constituents without something analogous to a press secretary? Would they have time to communicate directly with the press themselves?

   Then there’s the problem of getting these weasels to relinquish a clear benefit to themselves. Have we ever heard of a politician giving up something they didn’t have to?

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