"Is that a surprise? No."

[avram]

Bush Loyalists Pack Iraq Press Office:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Inside the marble-floored palace hall that serves as the press office of the U.S.-led coalition, Republican Party operatives lead a team of Americans who promote mostly good news about Iraq.

Dan Senor, a former press secretary for Spencer Abraham, the Michigan Republican who's now Energy Secretary, heads the office packed with former Bush campaign workers, political appointees and ex-Capitol Hill staffers. [...] Earlier in his career, after Hebrew University and Harvard Business School, Senor was with the Carlyle Group, an investment firm with Bush family ties and big defense industry holdings.

Comments

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Hey, I wish they'd everybody in the Republican Party to Iraq.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

Didn't the administration make a lot of hay about how Hussein packed his appearances with paid supporters?

The right-wing spin

[jamiemccarthy.livejournal.com]

I actually first read this on Instapundit (http://www.instapundit.com/archives/014887.php), which apparently cannot tell the difference between "votes Republican" and "worked on the Bush campaign."

The right-wing blogger sneers that the office is only "one-third Republican," as if the rest is career Democrats. Somehow it misses the fact that the group's head worked with the Carlyle Group for crying out loud, 15% of them worked inside the Bush administration, 11% worked on the Bush campaign, etc.

And this, of course, proves that the media is biased! I love right-wing blogs.