Posted on 08/11/2009 5:24:08 AM PDT by bestintxas
And the Arthur Sylvester Award for Lying in Service to the Government goes to…Linda Douglass, the Obama communications director for the White House Office of Health Care Reform.
Who was Arthur Sylvester and for what did Ms. Douglass, a former ABC News reporter, win this dubious award?
Arthur Sylvester was once the one-man Washington bureau for the Newark Evening News, a prominent New Jersey newspaper that folded in the early 1970s. He had the good fortune to be one of a handful of journalists covering an underdog presidential candidate in the early stages of a presidential race, when access to the candidate was free and easy -- long before the days of Secret Service coverage, mammoth staffs and 24/7 cable TV news cycles.
So it was possible for Arthur Sylvester in 1960 to get significant face time with the candidate, a Massachusetts senator named John F. Kennedy. JFK remembered, and as the New Frontier and its Band of Brothers gathered in Washington in 1961, Arthur Sylvester stepped up to glory wearing the new title of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. His new boss: the aptly named and now recently deceased Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara.
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That woman is an evil liar.
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Isn’t Linda Douglas married to another big Democrat? Who is he?
The thing to remember is that not too long ago this woman worked for ABC News. She very easily transitioned from a big-government shill in the media to a big-government shill working for the government. This is the kind of people in the media.
This does not surprise me in the slightest, nor do I think it will be a damaging as the author claims simply because liberals really do believe that the end justifies the means and that if it is necessary to lie to get the things they know are best for all of us, then lying is a noble act.
They are much like Muslims that way.
Kathleen Sebelius can resign as well. We don’t need Administration-endorsed thuggery.
No surprises, all Commies Lie.
Exactly. And we have no reason to expect her to make any changes in how she does her job now. She lied then, and lies now.
I think Linda Douglass and ABC News President David Westin should openly apologize to everyone who ever watched one of her “news” reports. She supposedly covered the Obama campaign for ABC before deciding to quit and join the fun, disgraceful.
Here is a great one
http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-video-from-nakedemperornews-mother.html
Wasn’t Linda Douglas leaving ABC News to join the Zero administration what is called a “lateral promotion”?
Yeah, she is married to John Phillips. He is a lawyer who also does fundraising for the RAT party.
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