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Cable News Networks Give Pundits New Perk

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 04.09.2012

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For professional political talkers, a cable-news contract used to be the ultimate. The residuals were limousine rides, paychecks, e-mails from names n...

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I Hate What Limbaugh Said and Support His Right to Say It

Scott Blakeman | Posted 05.12.2012

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Rush Limbaugh's words were disgusting, vile, mean spirited, misogynistic, and inane. Yet I am opposed to the organized efforts of several organizations to urge advertisers to boycott Limbaugh's show, and to demand that his show be cancelled.

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Komen Insider Says Anti-Abortion VP Drove Planned Parenthood Cut-Off

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.06.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation's leading anti-breast-cancer charity, has insisted that its since-reversed decision to pull fund...

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GOP Candidate's Jab At Obama Draws Scrutiny

AP | By CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Ah, Christmas traditions: colored lights, mistletoe and criticisms of a president's vacation plans. Republican presidential candidate M...

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Republicans Reveal Strategy Against Obama On Private Call

Yahoo! News | Rachel Rose Hartman | Posted 12.06.2011

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Republicans on a private Republican National Committee conference call with allies Tuesday warned that party surrogates should refrain from personal a...

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Top 10 Best Moments From the GOP Debate

Katie Halper | Posted 12.19.2011

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Michele Bachmann vows, "I will build a double-walled fence." It is unclear whether she moonlights in construction or will have her 23 children build the fence.

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Bush's Former Spokesman Joins CNN

Posted 11.20.2011

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Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush's former press secretary, has joined CNN as a contributor, the network announced Tuesday. Fleischer was Bus...

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Robert Gibbs Blew it With the Shirley Sherrod Saga

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Gibbs failed when he allowed the media frame to shift quickly to the missteps of the administration rather than emphasizing the underhanded, contrived, and racist actions of Andrew Breitbart and his fellow travelers at Fox News.

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Retire Ari Fleischer! The Hypocrisy, Double Standards & Dishonesty Behind Helen Thomas's Retirement

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

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More people seemed more upset over Helen Thomas's gaffe than they were over the killing of nine people on board a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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Anti-Israeli Hysteria and Helen Thomas

Jawal Nga | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since when has Ari Fleisher's opinion on anything other than what President Bush caught fishing mattered to the global consensus?

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More Outrage Over Helen Thomas Comment Than Murder of US Citizen

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 05.25.2011

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It irks me that for an expedient cadre out there, a "few seconds" of emotional speech are seemingly enough to cancel out a 67 year long career of honorable service.

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Is Helen Thomas an Anti-Semite, or Are Her Critics?

Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.25.2011

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The real questions are for those who accuse Helen Thomas of anti-Semitism. Do these individuals believe anti-Semitism can ever be eradicated? If they do, how can they support Israel as a permanently Jewish state?

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From Serious to Silly

Sam Greenfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Fleischer said Helen Thomas should be fired because of her scurrilous comments about Israel. The same Fleischer who stood by while John Ashcroft held Bible meetings on government property...

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Helen Thomas

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the incident under discussion, Helen Thomas clearly misspoke. But Helen should be honored and revered for her decades of professionalism, not remembered for one mistake.

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Helen Thomas Dropped By Speaking Agency, Under Fire For Remarks On Middle East

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Under fire for controversial remarks she made (and apologized for) about the status of Jews in Israel, longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas was dr...

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Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas caused more than a few eyebrows to perk up when video surfaced on Friday of her declaring that Jews should "g...

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Tiger Woods, Ari Fleischer Part Ways

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Put yourself in Elin Nordegren's shoes. Tiger's being repped by Ari Fleischer, the person you hire when you want to keep right on lying, forever and ever and ever. What's a lady to think?

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Tiger Woods, Ari Fleischer Split After Short-Lived Partnership

Posted 05.25.2011

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Tiger Woods made news (again) earlier in March when he hired Ari Fleischer, the much-maligned former Bush Administration press secretary, to help hand...

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Tiger Woods and the Lesson of How Not to Manage an Image Crisis

Ira Kalb | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tiger's fall from public grace has been so great that it will take a Michelangelo of image consultants to restore his broken image. Ari Fleischer is no Michelangelo. He's got baggage.

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Tiger Woods Hires Ari Fleischer, Former Bush Press Secretary, To Rehabilitate Image: Report

Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Post reports that Tiger Woods has hired former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer to help rehabilitate him image. Two sources ...

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Karl Rove's Perversions of History, And His Media Enablers

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his new memoir, Karl Rove does what he does best. To explain away one lie, he comes up with another.

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The Perino Conundrum: PR's Expert Inexperts

Martin Luz | Posted 05.25.2011

Sometimes a story just sticks with you. Such is the crazy and amusing story of Dana Perino - Bush's White House House Press Secretary - who admitted she had no idea what the Cuban Missile Crisis was.

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Ari Fleischer's BCS Job: Stop A College Football Playoff

The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday, just after noon, I received a telephone call from Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to George W. Bush. In ordinary times, Fleischer...

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BCS Flack Fleischer Compares Hated Football System To Macy's Parade

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have to tell you, when I heard that former Bush flack Ari Fleischer had been engaged as the new face of shillery for the college football Bowl Champ...

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BCS Hires Ari Fleischer To Shore Up Image

Politico | ANDY BARR | | Posted 05.25.2011

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The college football Bowl Championship Series has hired Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush, to help improve its ima...

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