Word: rafshooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday, the lawyer for the students, 10 of whom are members of the conservative periodical The Dartmouth Review, filed an appeal on the grounds that there were a series of procedural errors, lack of evidence, and little explanation for the suspensions, said Scott Rafshoon, the executive editor of The Daily Dartmouth...
Mondale's interest-group politics makes many nontraditional Democrats cringe. "A winning party has to have a vision and a message," says Gerald Rafshoon, former media adviser to Jimmy Carter. "Mondale's message is Hubert Humphrey." The emerging neoliberal wing of the party believes that the days of Big Government are over. Says Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut: "Ronald Reagan has convinced people that the Democrats think Government is the solution. The new Democrats operate on the assumption that Government is a solution...
...door, lavishly contributed by the taxpayer. Here parody news was made to look like the real thing, whether in carefully chosen snippets of a candidate looking good in a public appearance or in "negative commercials" about an opponent-an unfortunate specialty of Carter's adman Gerald Rafshoon, though hardly exclusive to him. It is a corruption of the political process to photograph a hundred voters, in an imitation of random man-in-the-street sampling, and use only the ones who say they fear that Reagan would blow up the world. Even if the viewer knows...
...believe he would do more in a second term. He invited 100 prominent Americans to Camp David a year ago, when he was trying to resolve the national "malaise" crisis, but he seemed to be following a script drawn up by Pollster Patrick Caddell. When Media Adviser Gerald Rafshoon urged Carter to fire Cabinet members days later as a means of attracting attention, the President acceded, an egregious exercise that seemed to make a mockery of his search for wise advice...
...Whatever happened to Joe Pepitone? When a heckler shouted this at President Carter during a rally outside Chicago's Wrigley Field, media expert Jerry Rafshoon ended Carter's speech and rushed him away by taxi. The truth is that Pepitone, a Commoner supporter, lives in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury section as a hairdresser for retired secret service agents...