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Promising Signs As Obama's Cabinet Shapes Up

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: James Baker III, Michael Copps, Fcc, Obama Transition, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Donald Rumsfeld, Ari Fleischer, Robert McChesney, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Bill Richardson, Lawrence Summers, Obama Cabinet, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Obama's Cabinet, Timother Geithner, Janet Napolitano, Tom Daschle, Obama's Economic Team, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton could play the heavy with the Israeli government (for once) and demand that it makes serious concessions toward creating an independent Palestinian state.

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The Obama Administration vs. Political Comedy

Tina Dupuy | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Valerie Plame, Political Comedy, Karl Rove, Bob Novack, Barack Obama, Satire, Obama's Cabinet, Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush, Comedy, Bill Maher, Media News
Tina Dupuy

Comedy -- or at least political satire -- speaks truth to power. It's much better when that power isn't tapping your phone without a warrant and suspending habeas corpus. The Bill of Rights: Good for Comedy.

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Obama's Growing Pro-Israel Cabinet Should Not Worry Allies of Just Peace

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Obama's Cabinet, George W. Bush, Palestine, Ari Fleischer, Israel, Richard Perle, Joe Biden, Peace, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Obama's heart is one of fairness, justice and understanding. That he must surround himself with high profile and controversial pro-Israel champions is not a real concern.

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Ari Fleischer Defends Press Coverage of Iraq -- Wrong Again!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Ari Fleischer, Warwire, Iraq, Mcclellan, Scott Mcclellan, Bush, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

No one disputes that many reporters asked hard questions about the buildup to the Iraq war, but few were posed to the president in primetime, and the "toughness" rarely carried over to print or airtime.

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Dickipedia: Scott McClellan

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Scott McClellan Memoirs, Scott Mcclellan Dick, Scott Mcclellan Jerk, Press Secretary Memoirs, Scott McClellan Book, Scott Mcclellan, Dickipedia, Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary Memoir, Dana Perino, Press Secretary Book, White House Press Secretary, Politics News

Scott McClellan (born February 14, 1968) is a former White House Press Secretary, a current best selling author, a future blackballed politician, and ...

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FOX Launches Coordinated Assault on McClellan

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Ari Fleischer, Fox News, Steve Doocy, Newt Gingrich, Scott Mcclellan, Bill O'Reilly, Trent Duffy, Media News
Jonathan Kim

Wait a minute, FOX -- are you actually claiming that a publisher might hire an editor to edit a book? My stars! I also heard a rumor that McClellan typed the book on a liberal Mac laptop, too.

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McClellan's Inconvenient Truths: Media And GOP Flacks Pile-On

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Bill Clinton, Abc, White House, Gop, John McCain, Karl Rove, The New Yorker, Matt Lauer, Scott Mcclellan, Ari Fleischer, Nbc, Dan Bartlett, Cbs, Seymour Hersh, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, Bush, Mcclellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong With Washington, Katie Couric, Iraq War, Today Show, Hillary Clinton, Kael Kransy, Kqed, Charles Gibson, Press White House Iraq, Press White House, Mcclellan Press, Media Iraq, Home News
Beverly Davis

As we are reminded again this week: you don't get in trouble in D.C. for lying, covering up and stonewalling, but you catch hell for telling the truth-- even if it's the least-surprising truth ever.

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Jason Linkins

Chris Matthews Has Awkward Interview With Ari Fleischer On McClellan Book

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, McCLellan Press Secretary, Scott Mcclellan, Scott McClellan Book, Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan George Bush, Mcclellan Revelation, Scott McClellan Karl Rove, Chris Matthews, Scott Mcclellan What Happened, Politics News

Chris Matthews had former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer on for a lengthy interview tonight on the matter of Scott McClellan's tell-all, Wh...

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Freedom's Watch Beset By Internal Problems

NY Times | Michael Luo | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Freedom's Watch Ad Campaign, Freedom's Watch, Ari Fleischer, Freedom's Watch Internal Problems, Ari Fleisher Freedom's Watch, Freedom's Watch Spending, Politics News

The conservative group Freedom's Watch, headlined by two former senior White House officials, had been expected to be a deep-pocketed juggernaut in th...

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Allen Raymond: Confessions of a Republican Smear Artist

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Frum, Ari Fleischer, David Brock, Karl Rove, Allen Raymond, Haley Barbour, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Raymond's experience inside the bowels of the RNC and his expertise in smear tactics, racist push polls and robo-calls, voter suppression, and other Republican mainstays give him a useful perspective.

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Barack Obama: "We're In This Together"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ari Fleischer, Hillary Clinton, Karl Rove, Peggy Noonan, Jon Stewart, Barack Obama, Wolf Blitzer, Super Tuesday, Barack Obama Super Tuesday, Super Tuesday Results, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A social movement is brewing the likes of which this country hasn't seen in decades and Barack Obama is trying to lead it, and channel it into electoral gain for the Democratic Party.

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Full Frontal Scrutiny: exposing front groups

Craig Newmark | Posted 01.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Freedom's Watch, Ari Fleischer, Front Groups, Telecoms, Media News
Craig Newmark

Front gropus are sometimes called "astroturf," since they're the opposite of honest grassroots efforts. More bluntly, the purpose of a front group is to deceive consumers or voters.

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From the People Who Brought You the War in Iraq Comes War With Iran

Tom Andrews | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Freedom's Watch, Richard J. Fox, Dr. John Templeton, Howard Leach, Win Without War, Ari Fleischer, Bush Iran, Gary Erlbaum, Robert Gard, Anthony Gioia, Kevin Moley, Edward Snider, Sheldon Adelson, Jr, Mel Sembler, Larry Wilkerson, Kyl-Lieberman Iran, Politics News
Tom Andrews

As far as President Bush and Vice President Cheney are concerned, Congress has the green light permanently lit if and when they decide it is time to "shock and awe" Iran.

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More on Posterizing the Modern Republican Party

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.24.2007 | Politics

Read More: Steve Clemons, Robert Zoellick, Richard Armitage, John Bolton, George Tenet, Brent Scowcroft, Ari Fleischer, Rita Hauser, David Addington, Politics News
Steve Clemons

There are 17 names on my favorite poster. If the Bush administration had not taken this country on the disastrous course it has, just think about the GOP names the poster could have had.

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In McClellan's Own Words...*

Steve Young | Posted 11.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Lies, Bush Cheney Lies, Scott Mcclellan, Helen Thomas, Ari Fleischer, Scott Mcclellan What Happened, Scott McClellan Book, Politics News
Steve Young

But it was the seven fateful words President Bush said when he introduced me as his new Press Secretary that I'll never forget: "I've known Scott for a long time."

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Hail to the Punchline-in-Chief: An All-Star Panel of Pundits Weighs in on America's Most Comical Presidents

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jon Stewart, George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer, Presidential Satire, Stephen Colbert, Humor, Graydon Carte, Mark Twain, Presidential Humor, Bill Maher, Paul Slansky, Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Danielle Crittenden, Richard Belzer, Gore Vidal, Presidents, Harry Shearer, Conrad Black, Richard Nixon, Nora Ephron, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, David Frum, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

We asked political observers -- including Nora Ephron, Peggy Noonan, Harry Shearer, Conrad Black, Richard Belzer, David Frum, Paul Slansky, and Joe and Jerry Long -- to weigh in on the question: Who was our most comical president?

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