Need proof of a disconnect from reality?

try this...

Nearly three weeks before seven US attorneys were asked to submit their resignations, the top spokesperson for the Department of Justice expressed little concern and told a senior White House official that the firings probably wouldn't even become a "national story."

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The communications between Tasia Scolinos, Director of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, and Catherine J. Martin (pictured above), Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Communications Director for Policy and Planning, transpired on Friday, November 17, 2006, twenty days before the dismissals were carried out on December 7.

that's the same tasia scolinos, by the way, who said...

“He did not participate in the selection of the U.S. attorneys to be fired. He did sign off on the final list.”

to be completely fair to tasia, had it been left to the traditional media, it WOULDN'T have been a national story... fortunately, we have utterly invaluable resources like TPMmuckraker and many, many thousands of indefatigable citizens who no longer trust the traditional media to tell them what's news and what isn't...

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