The White House Is 1-1 In Media Softball 35175

When seeking out a journalist to discuss race relations with, who else would Bush want but the guy who listened intently to Bill O???Reilly???s realization that black restaurant patrons were polite?

The White House offered a Bush interview with NPR???s senior correspondent and sometimes Fox News contributor, Juan Williams. NPR wasn???t interested in having Williams do the piece; Bush was only interested in speaking with Williams. So NPR, which never had an exclusive with Bush, let the piece pass.

Bush still got his Williams interview???on Fox news. Along with talking about race, Bush got to opine about the 2008 election and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

While Fox may play softball with the President, they threw a curveball at NPR. A Fox spokeswoman said, “NPR’s lack of news judgment is astonishing, and their treatment of a respected journalist like Juan Williams is appalling.”

Though to be fair, Fox???s sense of news judgment and idea of who is a respected journalist are insane.