Linda Douglass, the former ABC News and CBS News Washington
correspondent who signed aboard the Obama campaign in May of 2008, is
resigning next week from her post as Communications Director for the
White House's Health Reform Office, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported Thursday afternoon [1] on the
paper's "44" blog (which I saw plugged on DCRTV.com [2]). Kurtz
described her as "a top pitchwoman for President Obama's health care
plan."
Is another media gig in the offing? No word yet. Kurtz quoted her
statement, which only said she wants "to step off the treadmill for
awhile and rediscover the experience of dining with my husband on a
regular basis."
Douglass, who appeared frequently on MSNBC's The Ed Show to disparage
conservative criticism and champion ObamaCare, "said she will be
'cheering with pride from the sidelines as this historic law takes
effect,'" Kurtz relayed. And maybe not really making a full break: "Communications
Director Dan Pfeiffer says Douglass 'will continue to be a valued
adviser to this President and this White House.'"
Douglass left ABC News in 2006,
after spending much of the 1990s with CBS, and in 2008 became senior
strategist and senior campaign spokesperson on the road for the Obama
campaign. Her first stint in the new administration was as Assistant
Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Health and Human
Services.
Complete Obama-Media Revolving Door list [3].
May of 2008: "ABC
and CBS Veteran Linda Douglass Joins Obama's Campaign [4]"
-- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at
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