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  Dick Morris on Hillary Clinton & Living History on National review Online
In your new book, Living History, you correctly note that when you asked me to help you and Bill avert defeat in the congressional election of 1994 I was reluctant to do so.
That, and not the invented conversation in your memoir, was the reason that I was reluctant to work for Bill again.
Dick Morris, an adviser to Bill Clinton for 20 years, is author, most recently, of Off with Their Heads : Traitors, Crooks and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media and Business.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-morris061203.asp   (374 words)

  
  Dick Morris: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dick Morris first worked with Bill and Hillary Clinton[Click link for more facts about this topic] during Bill Clinton's successful 1978 bid for Governor of Arkansas[Click link for more facts about this topic].
Morris was featured on two consecutive covers of Time Magazine[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
Morris insisted on the use of exit polls as a means of potentially exposing ballot tampering.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/dick_morris.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Belmont Club
Dick Morris describes the divisions in Democratic Party platforms over national security issues in an NY Post article.
Morris examines the question from the vantage of a pollster and political adviser, which is his profession.
But however that may be, as Dick Morris demonstrates, America has entered the 21st century with two parties: one with a remarkably united vision of what it wants and the other searching for an answer -- after it searches for the question.
belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004/09/form-follows-function-dick-morris.html   (900 words)

  
 Articles - Dick Morris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dick Morris (born November 28, 1948 in New York City) is a political author and commentator who was once a successful pollster and campaign consultant.
Morris did not have a role in Clinton´s successful 1992 presidential campaign, which instead was headed by James Carville and Paul Begala.
Morris is well-known as a political commentator who appears regularly on The O´Reilly Factor and Fox News to predict candidates´ chances of winning elections.
www.zdiamond.net /articles/Dick_Morris   (1540 words)

  
 Dick Morris' New, Improved, Low Calorie Testament - With the right kind of spin, God's favorable ratings could go ...
Morris' real focus, as he lets you know before you have a chance to ask, is the Higher Realms.
Morris wants to set up a series of redemption centers where ex-cons could get a certificate proving they are redeemed and therefore employable.
Morris' ambitions are all on the surface, and you could see that he wanted to crack into Slate and control the piece.
www.slate.com /id/2498   (1661 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Dick Morris: Bill Clinton assaulted me
Bill Clinton's former adviser Dick Morris claims the ex-president physically assaulted him and was prepared to throw a punch before Hillary Clinton intervened during a confrontation in the Arkansas governor's mansion in May 1990.
Morris doesn't explain in his letter why he later was willing to become Bill Clinton's chief strategist, helping the president win re-election in 1996.
Morris was forced to resign shortly after the Democratic convention that year, however, after media reported his extramarital affair with a prostitute with whom he allegedly shared White House secrets.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33047   (480 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Off with Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks & Obstructionists in American Politics, Media ...
Morris is mad as hell: liberals, led by the New York Times (which is as biased as Radio Moscow, he says), are trying to prevent the Bush administration from effectively fighting the war on terror.
Morris has written a fascinating book that carefully documents the liberal bias of the media, the roles of Senators Dodd and Gramm in making the Enron scandal possible, and Clinton's failure to prepare us for the war on terror.
Dick Morris is a ruthless, clever creature of the political jungle.
search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=18WCB5K4D1&isbn=0060559284&itm=12   (878 words)

  
 Dick Morris personal appearances, dick morris
Dick Morris began his relationship with Clinton in 1977 when he handled the Arkansas Attorney General's successful campaign to become the youngest Governor in the nation.
Morris did not work on Clinton's defeat for re-election in 1980 but did oversee his comeback victory in 1982 as well as his Arkansas re-election victories in 1984, 86, and 1990.
In recent years, Dick Morris has turned to foreign campaigns and served as chief strategist for Mexico's reformer Vicente Fox in his upset victory in July 2000 over the PRI after the party had ruled the nation for over 71 years.
www.barberusa.com /politics/morris_dick.html   (561 words)

  
 Lying All the Way to the Bank - Dick Morris' ridiculous memoirs. By Jacob Weisberg
Morris discusses right and wrong as if those concepts were as remote from his own experience as lunar geology.
You may not have known that it was Morris who had suggested Al Gore for vice president in 1992, and that it was Morris who had recommended James Carville as strategist in that campaign.
Among the Morris microinitiatives that didn't quite make it were a 33-cent postage stamp, with a penny going to your favorite charity, and a plan to force banks to meet new anti-mugging standards for ATM machines.
www.slate.com /id/2261   (1350 words)

  
 A Little Toe-Sucking Among Friends
NewsMax is actually proud of its snaring of extremely ex-Clinton adviser Dick Morris as a columnist for its magazine (you know, the one with the the questionable circulation figures).
One has to wonder if Morris' alleged "sharp-eyed political savvy" is really just about seeing where his bread can be buttered most lucratively these days, and being a Clinton-basher for a Scaife-backed "news" organization is certainly one way to accomplish that.
Dick Morris' work for NewsMax is an indicator of the kind of person Morris is, as well as the kind of company NewsMax is, and shame or remorse have nothing to do with it.
conwebwatch.tripod.com /stories/2002/morris.html   (639 words)

  
 Salon Politics2000 | The blundering pundit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dick Morris with his wife, Eileen McGann, at the Metropolitan Opera in 1997.
Morris was wrong all last spring, summer and fall when he confidently declared Hillary would never enter the race for Senate.
Morris, of course, is President Clinton's former advisor, the triangulation-loving political guru who was tossed overboard in 1996 after a tabloid revealed Morris' affair with a prostitute.
archive.salon.com /politics2000/feature/2000/05/16/morris   (594 words)

  
 Correspondents Report - Bush almost unbeatable in 2004 election: Dick Morris
Dick Morris, the architect of President Clinton's 1996 campaign victory, says it's all a bit academic, because George W. Bush is in an almost unbeatable position.
Dick Morris told our Washington Correspondent John Shovelan that despite the apprehension of the party hierarchy at the prospect of Howard Dean winning the Democratic nomination, there's nothing that can stop him now.
DICK MORRIS: It's very important to understand how he is getting that nomination, because it is a revolution in American politics.
www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2003/s1004824.htm   (1337 words)

  
 Conservative Book Club: Rewriting History by Dick Morris
Dick sure fills one in on all the lies that Hillary said in the press but the liberal media was quick to omit.
Dick Morris has written an excellent book about just how ridiculous HILLARY Clinton really is. You might think you know her, but you have no idea.
Morris offers the American public a small glance in to the world of the woman who would be the Democratic nominee in '08.
www.conservativebookclub.com /Join/JoinBookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6503   (852 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Dick Morris
Political consultant extraordinaire Dick Morris, former Clinton adviser and confidant, turns his sharp-eyed gaze on Hillary Clinton--whose appetite for power, he argues, has only increased since her husband's checkered presidency.
Morris draws on his own extensive interactions with the Clintons, as well as his trademark deep research, to create a rebuttal to Hillary's bestselling autobiography, Living History.
As long-time strategists Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal in Condi vs. Hillary, however, Hillary's plans for higher office are vulnerable to a challenge from a most unexpected quarter: the Bush administration's secretary of state and former national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/DickMorriseBooks.htm   (883 words)

  
 Dick Morris Forced to Resign
Morris was able to weather these storms, and continue to exert influence over some of the President's campaign and policy decisions, until the LaRouche-led public campaign for his ouster took off.
However, in July, Morris apparently was sufficiently stung by the exposés of his dirty background, that he made the fatal mistake of launching his own self-promotional public relations offensive.
First, Morris virtually admitted that he had been behind the surfacing of the Gennifer Flowers scandal, back in February 1992, when Clinton was in the midst of his primary election campaign in New Hampshire.
www.larouchepub.com /pr/1996/morris_resigns.html   (679 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: dick morris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dick Morris informed cable television viewers recently during an appearance on the O’Reilly Factor (reference this NewsMax report) that “Bill Clinton...
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www.technorati.com /tag/dick+morris   (516 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Condi vs. Hillary by Jamie Glazov
We both feel that she is a lock for the Democratic nomination and that the demographics of the race militate for her election as president.
Morris: Hillary has been planning to run for president ever since her husband was elected.
Morris: They would value a woman who made it on her own over someone whose success is entirely derivative.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20317   (1511 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Dick Vitale - Morris' suspension tough, but a lesson for others
Thursday's announcement of a one-year suspension by the NCAA means Morris will have to sit out the entire 2005-06 season, leaving his future up in the air.
Kentucky plans to appeal the ruling, so it is still possible that Morris could be reinstated at some point down the line.
The bottom line is Morris did not take the advice from some of the people that cared about him, like Wildcats coach Tubby Smith.
espn.go.com /dickvitale/051208morrissuspensiontough.html   (419 words)

  
 NewsMax.com: America's News Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Morris began his relationship with Clinton in 1977 when he handled the Arkansas Attorney General's successful campaign to become the youngest Governor in the nation.
Morris did not work on Clinton's defeat for re-election in 1980 but did oversee his comeback victory in 1982 as well as his Arkansas re-election victories in 1984, 1986 and 1990.
In recent years, Morris has turned to foreign campaigns and served as chief strategist for Mexico's reformer Vicente Fox in his upset victory in July, 2000 over the PRI after the party had ruled the nation for 71 years.
www.newsmax.com /pundits/bios/Morris-bio.shtml   (551 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: A panel of Reporters discuss Dick Morris -- August 29, 1996
Dick Morris figured out a way for Democrats to play on this field that they'd ceded to the Republicans for 30 years.
Now when the President's faith in Morris, when his decision to override what had to be nagging doubts about this man was proved to be a mistake and this blew up in his face on the day of his acceptance speech, there is no way on earth that Bill Clinton takes this with equanimity.
Morris obviously has a very particular and special relationship with President Clinton, and now he's not going to be able to play that role that he has played off and on for 20 years.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/august96/panel_morris_8-29.html   (1891 words)

  
 Narco News: U.S. Political Consultants Dick Morris and Rob Allyn Are the Virtual Rapists of Atenco
Morris was the top political advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton until August of 1996, when Morris, a married man, was caught with a $200-dollar-an-hour prostitute and had to leave the Clinton campaign in disgrace.
Dick Morris and Rob Allyn set to work feeding red meat to the corrupt Commercial Media in Mexico: incendiary television spots, falsified public opinion polls, and “reports” based on rumor and innuendo, to sow fear and loathing into the election campaign.
Morris is the guy who claims to have written the “campaign book” for Fox in 1999-2000, and is now spreading tail feathers about his role in the Felipe Calderón campaign…;.
www.narconews.com /Issue41/article1817.html   (4243 words)

  
 ESR | September 1, 2003 | Dick Morris opines on the Clintons
Dick Morris, who also worked for Bill Clinton in a prior gubernatorial race, is somewhat of an authority on how the Clinton couple thinks and operates politically.
Morris maintains that Hillary cannot allow another Democrat to win the presidency in 2004, because she would then have to postpone her White House bid until 2012.
Morris particularly snipes at Bill Clinton's failure to adequately address terrorism, which was a major dereliction of his responsibilities.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0903/0903morris.htm   (1216 words)

  
 Washington Monthly: Friend & Foe: Dick Morris's unreliable, intoxicating tale of Clinton
Morris, once the former president's closest confidant and advisor, his poll-wielding Svengali, and now a FOX News commentator and New York Post columnist, is keeping busy of late with his own cottage industry: Clinton-trashing.
According to Morris, it was only his own wise counsel that made Clinton the success he was.
Morris sees Clinton's autobiography as a metaphor for his personality--ambitious, but undisciplined and chaotic.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_12_36/ai_n8640873   (444 words)

  
 Christopher Lydon Interviews... :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dick Morris: "an entirely new age in American politics"
In conversation he got right to the point about the end of the Media Age (Lyndon Johnson and later Richard Nixon bombing the grassrootsy politics of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern with TV spots) and the start of the Internet Era.
And though some pols will triple their TV buys to make up the difference, "it's the last gasp of a dying system." The pull, Morris says, is the fact that one quarter of the country is on a computer during prime time; 70 percent of Americans have regular Internet access.
blogs.law.harvard.edu /lydon/2003/12/11   (740 words)

  
 Joe Conason's Journal - Salon
Setting Dick Morris straight Conservatives can be quite gullible on the subject of the Clintons, as long as you're telling them the kind of nasty gossip they want to hear.
Among the most tireless exploiters of this Clinton-hating credulity is Dick Morris, the political consultant and commentator who has ceaselessly prostituted himself to Fox News and other right-wing outlets for several years now.
In this "open letter to Hillary Clinton," Morris purports to tell the "real reason" why he was reluctant to help them avert a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterm elections.
dir.salon.com /story/opinion/conason/2003/06/12/morris/index.html   (721 words)

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