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Helen Thomas: Her 5 Most Outrageous Moments
By David Knowles - Politics DailyExpressing her opinion that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" was enough to cost Helen Thomas her longtime seat in the White House briefing room, but observers of the last decade of her career know that it was not entirely a break from form. Once the dean of the Oval Office press gaggle, Thomas switched gears back in 2000 from traditional reporter for the United Press International to opinion columnist for Hearst News Service, and spent the following years tossing her own opinionated brand of Molotov cocktails at presidents and their press secretaries. Often, her broadsides came ...
Drama Builds in 'When Will Tiger Woods Return?' Soap Opera
By Mick Elliott - AOL NewsDORAL, Fla. -- If you were not already suffering from Tiger Woods overload, worn out by excessive speculation supported by hardly a shred of fact, then the last 24 hours more than likely changed that. The annoyance level reached new heights Friday with dueling news stories reporting Woods' plans for returning to golf, both quoting unnamed sources and each contradicting the other. One report has the sex-scandal plagued golfer making his comeback at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, scheduled for March 25-28 at the Bay Hill Lodge and Club in Orlando, Fla. The other says Woods will return at ...
Tiger Woods Taking Reentry Advice From Former Bush Aide Fleischer
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTiger Woods is looking for advice from former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer as he seeks to put a sex scandal behind him and re-enter the world of tournament golf, the New York Post reports. Fleischer knows something about dealing with crises that go way beyond sex and golf. He served President George W. Bush between January 2001 and July 2003 -- when the nation was in the midst of responding to the 9/11 attacks. Since leaving the White House, he has formed Fleischer Sports Communications and advised former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, who recently admitted to steroid ...
Biden, Rove, Former Bush Officials in War of Words Over WH Meetings
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFormer members of the Bush Administration are disputing Vice President Joe Biden's version of events concerning comments the vice president says he delivered to President Bush in the Oval Office. Biden says that he delivered some sharply worded retorts to Bush on the subject of the Iraq War. On Tuesday, Biden said, "I remember Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office, 'Well, Joe, I'm a leader.' And I said, 'Mr. President, turn around and look behind you, no one is following.'"But former Bush Administration officials are challenging the veracity of Biden's remarks, most notably Karl Rove. ...
White House Press Briefing: Gibbs Doesn't Watch Hardball
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAt today's White House press briefing, I asked Robert Gibbs about a comment that Ari Fleischer had made about the economy, hoping to draw him out about the rest of the Hardball interview. I tried to follow up by asking what conclusion, then, should people draw from the talk of a second stimulus, but I'm no Helen Thomas. Yet. I didn't get it out fast enough.He also doesn't read Politico, apparently, since he hadn't seen the last thing I asked him about. I should probably stop asking questions that require study materials. Tommy on: Daily Dose I I TwitterOrder The Audacity of Democracy Starring ...
Ari Fleischer Strikes Out While Defending Bush Legacy
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn Hardball yesterday, there was a considerable amount of give and take between host Chris Matthews and former Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. While Fleischer stayed in the game by splitting hairs between stupidity and dishonesty, and by painting himself as Chris Matthews' victim, he strikes out with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.It's a long clip, full of thrusts and parries, but Fleischer gives himself away in the interview's closing seconds: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; ...
Green Bay Packers Hire Ari Fleischer to Spin Brett Favre Mess
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsThe Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre have made such a mess of this off-season -- with the Packers alienating the most popular player in team history Favre tarnishing his legacy by waffling about retirement -- that they're now entering the season engaged in a PR battle.Girding for that battle, the Packers have brought on a hired gun: Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. For the next month -- the duration of training camp and the preseason-- Fleischer will serve as a PR consultant for the Packers.Fleischer now runs Ari Fleischer Sports Communications, whose motto is, "Ari Fleischer ...
Wexler Wants McClellan to Testify
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyRep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., is calling on former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to testify under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration's "deliberate efforts to mislead" the public heading into the Iraq war. If you've heard a shred of news today, you know that McClellan is making made tidal waves with his tell-all book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception."McClellan, who said on the morning talk-show circuit today that the White House wanted him to keep quiet about his experiences, maintains that President ...
McClellan Slams Bush
By David Knowles - Politics DailyComing to a bookstore near you, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will be dishing the dirt on his old boss, George W. Bush. Of all the jobs in Washington DC, none is more synonymous with a brown nose than that of the Press Secretary. It's a tough gig, really: a never-ending spin parade to make the president's every decision seem justified to a room full of reporters hell-bent on proving just the opposite. Attributes required to perform the duties of Press Secretary are: staunch loyalty (see Ari Fleischer), deer in the headlights calm (see Dana Perino), combative obfuscation ...
935 Reasons to Impeach
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Center for Public Integrity has released a report detailing at least 935 false statements made publicly by President George W. Bush and seven of his top officials in the two years following the attacks of September 11, 2001. Those 935 false statements, made by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House Press Secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, are in addition to many more misleading statements by the administration ...
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