Issue:TIME.com: Vladimir Putin, CBS News Loyalist -- Mar. 07, 2005:

Specific: " If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. 'Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather,' says a senior Administration official. 'It was like something out of 1984.' "

Comment:Shall I point out that Jeb's "Big Brother" is the President? But this response from the White House is consistent with the disconnected nature of the administration with the effects of their policies. The are good at manipulating the image to fit their reality.