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--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Editor & Publisher - January 26, 2005
>
> Krauthammer Consulted on Inaugural, Then Praised It
> By Dave Astor
>
> NEW YORK Liberal watchdog group Media Matters for
> America says
> columnist Charles Krauthammer praised President
> Bush's Jan. 20
> inauguration speech on TV without disclosing his
> role consulting on
> the speech. Krauthammer's syndicate responded this
> morning.
>
> When Krauthammer was among a group of people invited
> to the White
> House Jan. 10, "he did not get the sense that this
> was an exercise in
> speech preparation," Alan Shearer, editorial
> director/general manager
> of the Washington Post Writers Group, told E&P. "If
> he had, he would
> very likely have mentioned on television that he was
> present for
> these discussions. Hearing the inaugural address did
> nothing to
> change his impression. The speech was news to him,
> just as it was to
> all of us."
>
> Among Krauthammer's Fox News comments praising
> Bush's inauguration
> remarks: "It was a revolutionary speech. ... To
> speak, essentially,
> about the abolition of tyranny, which has been a
> constant in human
> history for thousands of years, can only be spoken
> of as radical."
>
> Two days later, on Jan. 22, The Washington Post
> reported: "The
> planning of Bush's second inaugural address began a
> few days after
> the Nov. 2 election with the president telling
> advisers he wanted a
> speech about 'freedom' and 'liberty.' That led to
> the broadly
> ambitious speech that has ignited a vigorous debate.
> The process
> included consultation with a number of outside
> experts. ... One
> meeting ... included military historian Victor Davis
> Hanson,
> columnist Charles Krauthammer, and Yale professor
> John Lewis Gaddis,
> according to one Republican close to the White
> House."
>
> Shearer said Krauthammer -- who began the year with
> 143 newspaper
> clients -- was invited to the White House Jan. 10
> along with a group
> of historians "for informal, off-the-record
> discussions on American
> Middle East policy. Charles was included in this
> group because he is
> one of the most knowledgeable people on the region,
> which he has been
> writing about for nearly 25 years. The discussions,
> with several
> below-Cabinet-level officials attending, centered on
> the United
> States' standing in the region and what needs to be
> done to help the
> peace process. Clearly, these officials were
> interested in divergent
> views."
>
> Krauthammer didn't mention the inauguration speech
> in his Jan. 21
> newspaper column. He writes weekly, so his next
> column is scheduled
> for Jan. 28.
>
> Media Matters also cited Weekly Standard editor
> William Kristol as a
> consultant on Bush's speech who didn't disclose that
> information when
> praising it.
>
> -- Dave Astor is a senior editor at E&P.
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