Word: fleischered
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...problem is one of perception, not substance. She is so loyal that during the campaign she frustrated reporters who felt her single-minded determination to stay on message often kept her from saying anything useful or interesting. She has overseen a White House communications shop--including press secretary Ari Fleischer's office--that since January has operated largely on the principle that the less information given the press, the better. Since the Jeffords crisis, however, Hughes' team has become more helpful--both to reporters and to Republican staff on Capitol Hill. And the team has begun to rethink its habit...
...been-there sort of way. Barbara found a middle ground between where Bill Clinton would be--calling Jesse Jackson in to pray and harking back to his alcoholic father--and the total silence of her son George. Calling it a "private matter," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer scolded reporters. "Do you want the American people to know that you're asking about private conversations that took place between the President of the U.S. and his child...
...been-there sort of way. Barbara found a middle ground between where Bill Clinton would be - calling Jesse Jackson in to pray and harking back to his alcoholic father - and the total silence of her son George. Calling it a "private matter," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer scolded reporters. "Do you want the American people to know that you're asking about private conversations that took place between the President of the U.S. and his child...
...Moments later, Fleischer noted that "by... focusing on a COMPREHENSIVE solution, the President is confident that markets will see that more supply is on the way." For good measure, a few sentences later, Fleischer added that "Many of the other steps have an effect on prices over time, and that's why the President has had this focus on a COMPREHENSIVE plan." Fleischer went on to use the word "comprehensive" twelve more times before the briefing was over. (In Thursday's briefing, Fleischer was less profligate, referring to the President's "comprehensive" plan a mere 10 times...
...both Fleischer and Abraham and a host of others went out of their way to remind reporters and viewers, again and again and again, that, as Abraham put it, "If we continue down the road of the LAST EIGHT YEARS, Americans can expect higher energy prices well into the future." Fleischer did it five times on Wednesday. But when he was asked how long it would be politically effective to blame Bill Clinton for today's "energy crisis", Fleischer pretended to be shocked at the suggestion. "It's not a question of blame," the spokesman insisted earnestly, twice, before casting...