Get some rest, Scott.
| 15:59 UK time, Wednesday, 19 April 2006
I think we're about to lose a listener.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told the Washington Post recently that he listens to the Â鶹Éç at 5am to get his day going.
Who else could he mean but us?
It'd be nice to think he's grown addicted.
But maybe he'd rather .
Comments
Like President, like staff. President Bush gets going early, starting, like all Presidents with the Secret Daily Briefing. President Calvin Coolidge (Silent Cal) was reputed to be a great sleeper, putting in as much as 12 hours a day. He deliberately slept his way through prosperity, for he was in the White House in the Roaring Twenties, declaring, "The business of America is business". During my 20 years in England my day always began with Radio 4, as it now does with World Update. I am sure the President's Press Secretary values its wide-angled perpective.
Scott's internal clock will probably still wake him at the same time so he can hear the news from the other side. And for a while he will have knee jerk reactions to news events that he does not now have to comment upon - publically. It takes special people to do those White House jobs 24/7 for so long. Whether you agree with them or not. The best of British luck to Scott!