Shrub trying to "Wellstone" WH Press Corps?

[Kinkistyle]

From this Dana Milbank piece in the Wash. Post (which also nicely show how Bush distorts, manipulates and takes Kerry's quotes out of context):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26935-2004Aug23?language=printer

"Now for an update on the White House's ongoing effort to kill the press corps. The White House travel office signed a contract last week with an airline called Primaris to fly the press corps to Bush events. The two-month-old company has only one airplane. True, media representatives gave their blessing to the deal. But that was before they learned that the company's president twice had his pilot's license revoked related to his flying of an "unairworthy" aircraft, that the chief executive flopped in his last attempt to start an airline and that the 15-year-old plane itself was damaged in a hailstorm a decade ago and spent most of the past two years mothballed in France. "

Its incredible. He treats them like dogs and they comply and wag their little tails for him.

[senseandsensibility]

1. But why would he

want to "Wellstone" his little lapdaogs? They're not exactly a threat.

[Kinkistyle]

4. Well, I think he couldn't care less.

He probably found the cheapest scamjob airline service he could find and signed the press corp up for it. he really might as well ship them around in the cargo-bin of a UPS airplane.

[kikiek]

2. Pathetic. They aren't the press corps. They're the propaganda

disseminators.

[Liberal Gramma]

3. I have a better idea

Let's put Bush on that plane.

[AlFrankenFan]

5. STOP COMPARING WELLSTONE'S DEATH TO THINGS LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is insulting to his memory and is absolutely sickening. Call it anything else but "trying to "Wellstone"". Please!

[Pallas180]

Oops sorry dupe

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[Pallas180]

16. What happened has become synonymous with the word assassination -

it is not meant as an insult but as a frightful warning.

[Pallas180]

17. Sorry , DUPE

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[SOS]

6. Google "Primaris"

and follow the connections. Very strange.
Putting the WH press corps on this "airline" in outrageous.
Also interesting is how this "airline" could get a contract with the White House travel office. Didn't Clinton face years of investigation for alleged improprieties in the travel office?

[Eloriel]

7. I was just going to ask -- so which Bush cronies are in the pink

on THIS deal.

Since you apparently googled it, why not share the info with us?

[SOS]

9. There's alot

there. I got caught up doing this and spent about two hours on it.
Some highlights:
The "airline" operates out of an office in Las Vegas.
The web site (very poor quality) is registered via proxy to hide the registrant.
Registrant: domainsbyproxy.com
The interviews for hiring were bizarre. See:
http://www.flightattendants.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/75019
The CEO designate is Jake Garn former Republican senator from Utah.
They refer to luxurious first-class planes (plural) yet have only one old wreck.
Their route map is quite amusing: see web site.
The web site links to the State Dept.
The President was the pilot for the Sultan of Brunei and the Saudi Oil Minister.
Chairman is a partner in Patton Boggs:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Patton_Boggs
This page will get you started:
http://www.primarisairlines.com/about/man/

This is a scandal! We need to find out the details of the White House contract with this phony airline. How much money did they get? Haven't found that yet.....

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. sweet mother of God, that's bizarre

not surprising, mind you, given the other atrocities that our Asshole King of Ignorant Beer-Induced Vomitus Evil has perpetrated, but bizarre nonetheless.

[MallRat]

10. Would that be abbreviated AKIBIVE?

Doesn't quite have the same ring as "chimp," but it's a start.

-MR

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Sounds good to me!

:hi: Mallrat!

[progressivebydesign]

11. I thought this was from The ONION!!!

I read that paragraph you posted, without looking at the link source. I honestly thought this was a joke! I see that someone here has done a great job researchng HOW these amateurs got the gig. I'd be scared if I were the journalists....

[Cat Atomic]

12. Sounds more like the good old boy club in action to me.

You know, like Arbusto. Competence doesn't matter. It's just a chance to hand tax money to some fellow drunken son of priveledge.

[ElementaryPenguin]

13. Yikes! Unfreakingbelievable!! Of course, Milbank puts at the very end.

He certainly wouldn't dare lead off with it - though it's clear to me that this was the REAL news here!

[Pallas180]

15. If I were on that PressCorps - I'd stop writing about the dumbass

as payback and that would fix dumbass and his showing them what he thinks of them.

He needs the presscorps more than they need him.

HA.

[bobbieinok]

18. it affects press directly........you'd think they'd all be FURIOUS