From the Air Force Times. Seems the leftist Carl Levin from Michigan is offended that Bush's appointee for Pentagon spokesman tells the truth and doesn't pull punches:
Dorrance Smith, an Emmy-award winning television news producer who worked in Baghdad as a media adviser to former Ambassador Paul Bremer, is nominated to become the new Pentagon spokesman.He would replace Larry Di Rita, who has been acting spokesman since the departure of Victoria Clarke in June 2003.
But if Smith is to become the new voice of the Pentagon, at least one senator doesn't like his tone.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, took Smith to task for a piece he wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal in which he linked major U.S. television news networks with al-Jazeera, saying the U.S. networks occasionally shared video and other feeds initially aired by the Qatar-based network.
Through that association, the American news networks were in collusion with terrorists, Smith argued in the piece.
"That's a very serious allegation," Levin said solemnly. "Did you really mean that there is a relationship?"
Smith responded that he had learned a great deal about the way television networks operate during his stint in Baghdad and how footage used by al-Jazeera often can be picked up by U.S. networks.
It is a "collaborative" relationship, said Smith, who has worked at ABC's "Nightline" and "This Week with David Brinkley" in his 30-year television career.
Is Smith going to run for President in 08?