Alpha Delta Bush: The towel-snapping press conference

[DeepModem Mom]

mediabistro.com: Alpha Delta Bush



It's too bad the White House pool cameras don't pan more to reporters during presidential news conferences, because--apparently--we missed an all out fraternity party during President Bush's conference....

***

Dana Milbank: "...simply his old Delta Kappa Epsilon roots showing..."

David Shuster: "The president does excel at fraternity style teasing, like when he towel-snapped a 'New York Times' reporter."

Chris Matthews: "Did his P.R. people warn the president, when you go out and fight with the press and towel-snap like he was with Elisabeth Bumiller, you're going to face people that have videotape in their hands and notebooks?"

and

"Pat, you don't believe the president, who is a smart fellow in many ways, especially as a politician, didn't know what he was doing today when he did the towel snap at Elisabeth Bumiller"

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/alpha_delta_bush_34196.asp