Word: rnc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Republican National Committee is selling three photographs of President Bush, including one taken hours after the September 11 terror attacks, to donors for $150. Top Democrats are outraged - outraged, I tell you! - at the audacity of the RNC move. The White House, meanwhile, defends the use of the photos. Why anyone should care is a mystery...
...chattering class is abuzz over Photogate. Whether excoriating the White House for "using that dark and sacred day to divide and conquer" (Maureen Dowd) or cheerfully reporting fund-raising success with studied disregard for any negative implications (the Washington Times headline was "Bush Helps Raise $30 Million for RNC"), members of the media are having an awfully good time thumbing noses either at the White House or at each other. And the other 99.99 percent of Americans? How do they feel about this political fracas...
...Bush is also expected to announce the appointment of Virginia governor James Gilmore to head up the RNC. Gilmore, a good soldier, a great fund-raiser and a tax-cutting conservative to boot, is meant to further assuage GOP righties who have found Bush's appointments a little unsettling thus far: The party machinery is in reliable hands. (Gilmore will stay as governor but step down as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association, which means vice-chairman Tom Ridge may finally get a promotion after...
...Behind Griffin in the RNC Oppo Room, the BBC camera captures a large sign he has erected. "On my command - unleash hell...
...Moments later the topic is the Balkans. Gore speaks of how World War I started there and says "my uncle was a victim of poison gas there." The RNC oppo staff giggles at this and Griffin bellows: "This family stuff is killing me... let's check his uncle!" There is a flurry of activity - and then palpable disappointment that Gore's uncle really was a gas victim. "OK, so that is not a lie..." Griffin grimaces, and phones the bad news to a waiting colleague: "Hey... we confirmed the uncle tear-gas story...