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	Ari Fleischer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fleischer worked as press secretary for Congressmen Norman Lent From 1985 to 1988 he was the field director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
		However, Fleischer is mentioned in Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of Cheney aide Scooter Libby: The indictment states that Libby told Fleischer (referred to as the White House press secretary in the indictment) that Plame worked for the CIA and that this fact was not well-known.
		Fleischer is an avid fan of baseball and the New York Yankees, and could be seen from time to time playing catch with President Bush on the White House lawn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ari_Fleischer (1000 words)

	Ari & I: White House Briefing - January 21, 2003
		Ari, one of your predecessors, Jerald terHorst, resigned as President Ford's press secretary, he said, as a matter of conscience - because he couldn't defend President Ford's pardon of President Nixon.
		Ari, you said on April 10th, about weapons of mass destruction, "That is what this war was about." On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that the group directing U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof...
		Ari, a 21-year-old British peace activist, Thomas Hurndall, was shot by an Israeli sharp shooter and killed on Friday.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0121-09.htm (945 words)

	CNN.com - Fleischer resigning White House post - May. 20, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fleischer, in an earlier telephone interview with CNN, said he informed Bush Friday that after 21 years of working in government and politics, it was time for him to move on.
		Fleischer said he decided that this period of time was the "last off-ramp" for senior staffers -- meaning those who stayed beyond the summer should also be committed to staying on through the campaign year.
		Fleischer had consistently said Bush was flying out to the aircraft carrier on a Navy jet because the carrier was too far out at sea for a helicopter landing.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/19/fleischer.resigns (893 words)

	The resignation of Ari Fleischer: Bush's official liar goes for the gold
		Fleischer, 42, was born and raised in the town of Pound Ridge, an exclusive enclave in West Chester County, some 60 miles north of New York City.
		Fleischer issued this absurd lie in the face of demands for a revote in Palm Beach, where thousands of Gore voters had been misled by an improper ballot to register votes for the Republican right-winger and anti-Semite, Buchanan.
		Fleischer used his press briefing to directly attack Maher and anyone else who dared to challenge the patriotic and militaristic hysteria that was being whipped up in the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/may2003/flei-m27.shtml (1755 words)

	Online NewsHour: Ari Fleischer -- April 10, 2001
		ARI FLEISCHER: The megaphone is so much bigger; the amount of press coverage, the intensity and the importance of it, is completely out of comparison with Capitol Hill.
		ARI FLEISCHER: Well, you know, I leave those judgments up to others about what works and what doesn’t work, but, of course, the president wants his message to be well received; he wants to be able to say something and have people hear it.
		ARI FLEISCHER: Well, I think there are three essential skills for the White House press secretary to have, and I guess we’ll find out if I have any of them.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/media/100days/fleischer.html (2255 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Bush Spokesman Ari Fleischer to Resign
		Fleischer, a New Yorker and Capitol Hill veteran, told friends he plans to work in the private sector and wants "a quieter life." He said that when he told Bush of the decision on Friday, the president kissed his bald pate.
		Fleischer, responding to the wishes of Bush and his fellow members of the senior staff, was known for sticking tenaciously to a narrow set of facts, no matter how many ways reporters sought to probe.
		Fleischer worked for Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and then was communications director of the Republican majority on the House Ways and Means Committee, where he was often seen on the floor advising the chairman, former representative Bill Archer of Texas.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A9731-2003May19?language=printer (518 words)

	The Raw Story \| Ex-White House aide Fleischer eyed over potential role in CIA outing
		Fleischer has been caught up in the investigation of who supplied that information to the columnist and whether it was a crime.
		Fleischer to appear before the grand jury that is investigating the leak.
		Fleischer was in the middle of the rapid-fire developments that surrounded the White House's response to the criticism leveled at it by Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat, who on July 6, 2003, publicly said the administration had "twisted" intelligence about the nuclear ambitions of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
	rawstory.com /news/2005/ExWhite_House_aide_Fleischer_eyed_over_potential_role_in_CI_0726.html (396 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fleischer, 42, in the White House briefing room where the bald, bespectacled Bush-backer has been a controversial figure; by one account, the applause greeting Fleischer at his morning gaggle with reporters fit the very definition of "smattering." Some were sympathetic.
		Fleischer was merely one of many campaign spokesmen at that point, but after Election Day, he was tapped for the big job behind the podium.
		At the beginning of the Florida recount mess Fleischer disputed the notion that any voters were confused by the butterfly ballot, asserting that "Palm Beach County is a Pat Buchanan stronghold," a claim disputed by Buchanan, his Florida coordinator Jim McConnell, and Jim Cunningham, chairman of the executive committee of Palm Beach County's Reform Party.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/05/19/ari/index_np.html (708 words)

	Ari Fleischer - dKosopedia
		Fleischer first attmepted to introduce a new GOP talking point, homicide bombing, to denote suicide bombing, on April 12, 2002, in an attempt to emphasize the negative connotations of the tactic.
		During a press briefing on February 25, 2003, Ari was in effect laughed off the stage after his remarks with regards to the Bush administration's "buying" of votes on the UN Security Council.
		Fleischer is suspected as being one of he leakers in the Valerie Plame affair, in which one or more members of the White House staff leaked Plame's identity to the press.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Ari_Fleischer (933 words)

	Fleischer tells the truth! By Timothy Noah
		Fleischer was, in his prime, an energetic teller of lies on behalf of the Bush administration, responsible for no fewer than three entries in Chatterbox's "Whopper of the Week" archives.
		Recently, however, Chatterbox weakened and composed a Fleischer Whopper built around Fleischer's obviously false claim that President Bush had flown by military jet to the carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln (thereby creating a gorgeous photo op) because the Lincoln was too far offshore to accommodate travel by helicopter.
		Fleischer said, in essence, that circumstances had changed, and that Bush was told the costly flight by military jet could no longer be justified on the grounds of necessity.
	www.slate.com /id/2083117 (821 words)

	TheBostonChannel.com - Helen Thomas - Ari Fleischer Will Be Missed As Sparring Partner
		Fleischer, on a final trip with the president in Africa, said in a farewell interview that he would work in the Bush reelection campaign wherever he is needed.
		Fleischer has served in the high-profile stressful role for 2 1/2 tumultuous years during which he had to field hard questions on terrorism; the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. challenges at the United Nations and the lead up to the Iraqi invasion and the war.
		Fleischer said he gets a "ton of mail, mostly kindly support" telling him he is doing a "nice job" and wondering how he keeps his patience in the presence of an irascible press corps, including yours truly.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /helenthomas/2322189/detail.html (866 words)

	AlterNet: Ari & I
		Ari Fleischer: Obviously, if money is received -- both parties from people who are later found out to be people who shouldn't be giving money -- then it gets returned.
		Ari Fleischer: I don't know what information you have where you can say this corporation is a criminal.
		Ari Fleischer: And the titular head of the party refers you to the party.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16415 (549 words)

	Washington Speakers Bureau: Ari Fleischer
		Ari Fleischer explores the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, focusing on what it means to the people living in that region as well as how its ripple effects can be felt around the globe.
		Fleischer’s overview of current events is informed by President Bush's focus on the responsibility that the Israelis, the Palestinians and the Arab nations have to establish peace and stability in the Middle East.
		Today Fleischer explores the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, focusing on what it means to the people living in that region as well as how its ripple effects can be felt around the globe.
	www.washspkrs.com /speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=4445 (674 words)

	Ari Fleischer quits as White House press secretary - theage.com.au
		Ari Fleischer, left, the presidential press secretary who was the public face of the White House through the September 11 attacks, two wars and the Enron scandal, is quitting to write, lecture and spend more time with his new wife.
		White House officials said Mr Fleischer was leaving voluntarily after an exhausting 21/2 years of nearly non-stop major news stories that were carried around the world.
		Mr Fleischer has been one of the best known, most recognisable White House press secretaries, largely because so many of his midday briefings after September 11 and during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were carried by the cable networks.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/20/1053196582955.html (314 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Tone Deaf. by Michael Tomasky. May 21, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I don't remember seeing Ari Fleischer there that day, but he was at that point in her employ.
		And fiction it is. Fleischer hadn't even taken up residency in the capital before he started telling the most laughable whoppers you could imagine.
		Fleischer's impenetrable whoppers have stymied even those journalists who are really trying to do their jobs and get actual information (there aren't many, but they do exist), and the rest of the propaganda machinery makes enemies of the state out of anyone who disputes the party line.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/05/tomasky-m-05-21.html (1211 words)

	Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer [TRANSCRIPT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		FLEISCHER: Well, I think that anybody who made insinuations or suggestions that this President had information that could have prevented the attacks and did not act on them is asking questions in such a way as to create an impression that the President could have and should have done something that he didn't do.
		FLEISCHER: Rewind the tape to the other night, when a leaked document was selectively provided to a news organization that covered one snapshot in a misleading way, that left out other information such as the information that was shared with security officials at carriers alerting them, notifying them of the generalized notion of hijacking.
		FLEISCHER: No, as Dr. Rice indicated yesterday, and as the President said in his interview with The Washington Post, that the reporting that we had over the summer, in the early moments of the summer, did show that there was something building, mostly focused on somewhere foreign.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/685113/posts (11441 words)

	Ari Fleischer 'Taking Heat' - CBS News
		Fleischer agrees with Chen that it is the job of the press to be the watchdog, no matter what party is in the White House.
		Prior to resigning his post in 2003, Fleischer served as the official liaison between the White House and members of the press, acting as the primary spokesperson for the president and delivering the daily White House briefing.
		Fleischer served as press secretary for Sen. Pete Domenici from 1989 to 1994, and later, spent five years as spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/03/earlyshow/leisure/books/main677835.shtml (929 words)

	Welcome to the Ari Fan Club
		Fleischer: I appreciate your command of the multitude of serious subjects/details which you must have a moment's notice both when delivering information and when fielding spontaneous questions from the Press core.
		I think Ari Fleischer should be commended for the professional manner in which he handles white house press releases.
		Ari is witty, wise and sharp as a tack!
	www.probush.com /arifanclub.htm (4198 words)

	Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal: Is the press in awe of Ari Fleischer?...
		He demonstrates that Fleischer manipulates reporters in several "audacious" ways: 1) lying by denying facts or past statements, 2) telling "process non sequiturs," and 3) refusing to answer based on a shifting set of rules.
		Chait differentiates between spin--putting the best face on facts--and the "fairly blunt propaganda" Fleischer hands the press (also see the entry for propaganda in the Rhetorica Critical Meter).
		Fleischer has broken new ground in the dark art of flackdom: Rather than respond tendentiously to questions, he negates them altogether.
	rhetorica.net /archives/000506.html (427 words)

	The Anonymous Liberal: Who Framed Ari Fleischer?
		Second, as Jeralyn reminds us, Fleischer testified that Libby told him the information about Plame was "hush-hush" and "on the qt.'" This testimony tends to undermine Libby's claim that he had no idea Plame's affiliation with the CIA was classified.
		Fleischer, who has apparently been cooperating from the beginning, testified that he never read the INR memo (and it's hard to see why he would lie about that point given that he testified Libby told him all the same information the day before).
		Fleischer has told the grand jury that he never saw the document, according to the person familiar with his testimony.
	www.anonymousliberal.com /2006/04/who-framed-ari-fleischer.html (1360 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thus spake Ari Fleischer in Pretoria, South Africa, beguiling the traveling White House press corps with his trademark pretzel logic.
		Fleischer is still trying to spin both ways on "Yellowcakegate," the Niger uranium story foisted on the public by the president in his State of the Union address last January.
		Had Fleischer read Wilson's report -- or were he capable of comprehending it -- he would know that isn't what the former diplomat did at all.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/conason/2003/07/09/pretzel/index_np.html (508 words)

	Fleischer To Speak at Republican National Convention 2004
		Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer speaking at a gathering sponsored by the New York Chapter of the Republican Jewish Coalition, at the landmark East Park Synagogue 164 E 68 Street NYC, confirms he will speak in support of President George Bush at this summer's Republican National Convention.
		Fleischer speak in support of President Bush, and the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies; particularly as they relate to Israel, the war in Iraq, and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
		Fleischer [who's remarks were interrupted several times with applause] received multiple introductions from RJC president Michael Sharp, RJC leadership council member Lori Trantz, RJC executive director Greg Menken, and reknowned scholar, diplomat and Holocaust survivor Rabbi Arthur Schneier.
	www.suite101.com /topic_page.cfm/9806/4937 (271 words)

	Wisconsin Radio Network: Ari Fleischer keynotes GOP convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ari Fleischer served as Communications Director for Elizabeth Dole's presidential campaign in 2000 until she dropped out of that race at which time joined then Governor George W. Bush's presidential campaign.
		Attached is streaming audio of Fleischer's entire speech from the State GOP Convention in Sheboygan at the Blue Harbor Resort on May 6, 2005.
		Fleischer told the story of how one of his first tasks in the White House was to play catch with the President in preparation for Bush's throwing out the first pitch at the Milwaukee Brewer's new stadium, Miller Park, in 2001.
	www.wrn.com /gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=A2C0542A-A023-43B2-BF262EBB806D08C8&dbtranslator=local.cfm (262 words)

	On the Media
		Ari Fleischer, probably the least liked White House spokesman since the late Ron Ziegler, announced his resignation this week, and like Ziegler who was Nixon's mouthpiece, Fleischer has served a president who famously loathes the press.
		ARI FLEISCHER: During the campaign the president did not express, as you put it, disdain for nation building.
		Now Fleischer said the landing was necessary because the carrier was going to be hundreds of miles away when in reality it was only maybe a few dozen miles away, but you say it's all right!
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_052303_arifleish_resigns.html (1147 words)

	KnoxNews.com: America Remembers
		FLEISCHER: No, and I'm not sure that I'm going to be in a position to share that information as the White House and the intelligence team develop it.
		FLEISCHER: Well, obviously, there has been a heightened state of alert throughout the government and I'll try to keep you updated to the best degree I can on the status of that.
		FLEISCHER: Let me know what your request is and I mean, I think today is the day we try to help everybody, so let me know.
	web.knoxnews.com /web/kns/news/breaking/attack/texts/0911_0813pm.shtml (2431 words)

	Buzzflash Unearths National Baseball Hall Of Fame News ReleaseAnnouncing Ari Fleischer Lecture - BuzzFlash News Analysis
		Fleischer is the primary spokesperson for the President and delivers the daily White House briefing.
		Fleischer was hired by the House Committee on Ways and Means after Republicans took control of the Congress in November 1994.
		Fleischer was the House of Representative’s principal staff spokesman on issues relating to taxes, Medicare, Social Security, welfare and international trade.
	www.buzzflash.com /analysis/03/04/12_baseball.html (868 words)

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