Time: Operation Oprah (WH PR campaign)

Every line in this is good but I can only post a few.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101031006-490597,00.html


Wondering how the president plans to spend the $87 billion he asked for to rebuild Iraq? You could have tuned in to David Letterman last week to hear Colin Powell try to ease the country's sticker shock. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will soon be appearing on Oprah to do a version of the same. The Administration's plan to bypass the traditional media has got so creative that someone in the White House suggested the Secretary of Defense should appear on the Imus in the Morning radio show. Donald Rumsfeld declined.


The Administration may not be communicating well, or Americans may just not be buying what the White House is selling. For months, the President has been trying to convince Americans that the sacrifices in Iraq are as necessary a response to the attacks of 9/11 as the campaign in Afghanistan. Bush's prime-time Sunday-night speech three weeks ago used the soaring rhetoric that had worked in the past to rally the country to the cause, but it didn't work. By a margin of 51% to 41%, Americans oppose the President's request for the money, according to an nbc/Wall Street Journal poll.

.. like she did with Ahnold.

for this service, she ought to at least ask
for a large contribution from the Bushes'
personal checkbook for the Angel Network.

You think Oprah might grant some interviews to those skeletons lurking in the closets?