Aww, Howie is getting all gooshy, in that K-Lo stinky couche kinda way over Tony Snow getting job of being Scotty II, the Lying continues. Here's Howie:
Jody Powell was part of Jimmy Carter's inner circle. James Brady had been a spokeswoman for HUD, OMB and DOD before taking the White House job under Ronald Reagan. After Brady was wounded in the assassination attempt, Reagan tapped Larry Speakes, who had been a vice president of Hill & Knowlton. Marlin Fitzwater was an administration PR guy. Dee Dee Myers had been Bill Clinton's campaign spokeswoman. Her successor, Mike McCurry, was a political PR guy who worked for Bob Kerrey in the primaries and then became the State Department flack. Joe Lockhart, who had dabbled in television, was McCurry's deputy and Clinton's '96 campaign spokesman. Ari Fleischer was a Hill spokesman who became Bush's campaign mouthpiece. Scott McClellan was Fleischer's deputy and a Bush loyalist from Texas.
Notice a pattern here?
They're all PR pros. Not a real ex-journalist among them.
That of course leaves Howie somewhere outside of the loop...he's neither a Journalist nor a PR-flack. He's a second-rate hack, which means that he's perfectly suited to the job if there's an early spring and a winter melt in the pressroom.
