Talk:Dan Senor
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Language skills
"he was widely criticized in that role for his inability to speak Arabic [1] [2]." The offers of proof for this statement are links to a blog post written by and an interview of Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Two links to statements by the same person should not constitute or justify the "widely criticized" statement. I'm going to edit the page to say "some criticized" unless and until someone can find other instances of criticism. --Carl Von Clausewitz (talk) 19:29, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
Run for Senate?
I noticed a story on blogs today that Dan Senor is running for Senate, but there is no confirmation. I don't know if this is OK to add just yet, but I decided against it for now. If he does actually announce I don't think it will take long to be added then. --Stargat (talk) 04:18, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- Blogs, no - NYT (story yesterday) - yes; I'm adding some brief text and a link. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 02:29, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Was Dan Senor a White House deputy press secretary?
On 3/17 another reverted a change I had made to the Dan Senor Wikipedia page. This editor had added a mention that Senor was supposedly a deputy press secretary from the Washington Monthly, which stated: "Senor left Carlyle in 2003 for a brief stint as White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan's deputy before shipping off to Iraq."
But I am nearly certain this is incorrect, and that this is a reporting error by the Washington Monthly. First of all, the Senor article currently says Senor joined the White House under McClellan in "early 2003" but Scott McClellan did not become press secretary until July 2003, when Senor had then been in Iraq for several months. The Monthly also spells McClellan's name wrong, which casts some doubt on the carefulness of this report. The reason I mentioned the New York Times story is because that article is clearly the more-closely reported story, with access to Senor, and it does not mention a stint as White House press secretary. Wouldn't this be included there? Also, the only other mentions I can find of Senor at the White House are blogs and wikis like SourceWatch. How plausible is it that there would be no mention anywhere else?
I think the Washington Monthly is reputable but their reporting here is not very deep, and it is an outlier. So I think this should be considered poorly sourced, at least thinkly sourced and I believe it should be removed in line with BLP unless another source can be found. I found agreement with John Broughton here about this and so I will change it now. --Ten Thousand Bullets (talk) 15:21, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
