Robert Gibbs, Obama's chief spokesman and a seasoned press operative, knows how to maneuver around prickly issues.
On Meet the Press, McCain operative Steve Schmidt declared that his candidate "called for the firing of Don Rumsfeld".
As is often the case in press manipulation, White House operatives did not make the initial contacts with reporters.
Posing as reporters for the black and gay press, right-wing operatives made and taped phone calls to gay Hunt supporters around the country.
Both Broadway and politics are deeply insular: The same directors, designers, press agents and campaign operatives are hired over and over again; far fewer people really know what's going on with a show or a campaign than pretend to (a handful of talent agents and producers, a candidate's consigliere).
The U.S. and U.K. marched to the U.N. Security Council to demand the arrest of the Libyan operatives, and pressed that they be extradited for prosecution for at the time, and even now, there were no international criminal courts with jurisdiction.
Since 1941, when the U.S. became involved in the war, Stalin and his operatives had pressed the U.S. and the UK to open a second front in Europe to take some of the pressure off the Soviet Union.
It also speaks to an unfortunate habit among political operatives and the press of describing foreign policy, and relations with Putin in particular, in the way one might describe a boxing match.
He made no mention of any penalties for the press if they remain unco-operative or refuse to join a recognised regulator.
In sharp contrast to the Bush administration's efforts to keep valuable information about the workings of our government secret, we now learn that Karl Rove, a key presidential adviser, apparently shared potentially classified information about a C.I.A. operative with the press.
