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Harry Qua Harry

January 14, 2010 – 7:19 am

As any PR flak knows, the best way to knock your client’s bad news off the front pages is for worse news to catch reporters’ attention. Less scrupulous hucksters will fabricate rumors and stories to help move the media. But sometimes events just fall into place.
So it’s been for Harry Reid. When news broke over [...]

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Newsflash: Presidents Work on Vacation

January 4, 2010 – 2:43 pm

If there’s one storyline about President Bush I’ve never had any patience for, it’s the idea that he was on an endless holiday during his time in office. Reporters loved to bandy about the number of days the president spent at his ranch in Crawford or at Camp David. The “vacations” fed the notion that [...]

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