Word: fleischer
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...When Ari Fleischer was press secretary for the Bush administration, he had a measurable effect on the behavior of the White House press corps. Not just on what we wrote-that was his job of course. But you could see it in the actions of the correspondents after a briefing: Lots of kicking of trash cans or spontaneous verbal eruptions to no one in particular. The Bush team promised to crimp the flow of information from the White House and Fleischer executed that policy masterfully...
...December 2002, I had a spell of the Ari Agitation. We were returning on Air Force One from St. Petersburg, Russia. I was trying to get Fleischer to explain how the President's hope that Saddam Hussein would peaceably disarm was consistent with his earlier view that the Iraqi leader should be removed from office. Fleischer insisted that Bush's policy was "regime change," a term the Administration used to muddle the less diplomatic but real goal of removing Saddam from office. It was a familiar dodge, but a little clarity from the plainspoken Texan's administration about going...
...Couldn't the press secretary help us reconcile the President's public comments? Fleischer would not acknowledge what the President had said, but repeatedly retreated to the safety and meaninglessness of the "regime change" language. We talked in circles in the aisle of the press cabin. He didn't budge. I soon felt like hurling myself through any opening I could find in the fuselage...
...prompted by two years of Guckert's asking outrageously slanted questions--by drawing attention to his dubious credentials as an employee of the G.O.P.-aligned Talon News site. Blogs like AMERICABLOG last week gleefully dug up gay-escort sites that feature Guckert, and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer admitted off-line that he looked into Guckert's partisanship as far back as two years...
...here, but who has left. Gone is Ivy Player of the Year Jewel Clark and head coach Kelly Greenberg. After 18 years in D.C., Pat Knapp left Georgetown to take the helm of the Quakers, and will have a solid, if lackluster, backcourt at his disposal. Junior Jennifer Fleischer was featured in the Nov. 11 issue of SI On Campus as a “glue gal,” or a player that does the little things to bind her team. She may be a “glue gal,” but at this point it?...