When A Lamb Roars Like A Lion
February 23, 2007 at 11:26 am
Lousy day for Walter Reed Army Medical Center PR.
First, Dana Milbank skewers the operation in today’s Post. An excerpt:
The base’s public-affairs crew arrived 25 minutes late for the tour but got right to work. “Some of these people are not on our list and are not coming in,” announced Lori Calvillo, Walter Reed’s chief spokeswoman. “C-SPAN, you’re not on the list. You’re not coming in.”
Then, Brian Lamb reads that excerpt on the air during this morning’s “Washington Journal” on C-SPAN.
And he asks this of his guest, the Army Times’ Kelly Kennedy:
What kind of public relations organization would want to withhold, in our case, a network that showed this entire tour? What’s that attitude about?
For the mild-mannered Lamb, you can’t get a stronger slap than that. Viewers might have even detected a bit of irritation on Lamb’s normally poker face, but only if you have high definition TV.
Kelly’s response, by the way: “ I have no idea why they would do that.”
Ken Bazinet said,
February 26, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
This is great Howard! I must confess that I’m just spying it for the first time. You are doing a heck of a job. Best, Ken