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	William Safire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter.
		Safire is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, an elite public school in New York City.
		Before he became a journalist, Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew; he coined Agnew's phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism." From 1955 to 1960, he was a public relations executive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Safire (819 words)

	William Safire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Safire, who called himself a "vituperative right-wing scandalmonger," told audience members that the "study of personalities is what makes news interesting." He then offered his take on what he called "the cast of characters" in Washington, D.C., today.
		Safire said he thought it was interesting that Bush, who "didn't really have a world view as of a few months ago," is president at a time when foreign relations is the most important issue facing the United States.
		Safire said Bush's strengths are that "he admits when he doesn't know something" and that he has surrounded himself with competent, knowledgeable advisers on foreign affairs.
	www.jomc.unc.edu /carolinacommunicator/archives/july2002/safire.html (623 words)

	William Safire: An Old Hen in the Fox House
		Safire wants us to believe that it's illegal for political parties to use soft money for advocacy ads, even though it is perfectly legal and has been done for decades by both parties.
		Safire tells us that recently released White House videotapes (He actually calls the videotapes an "indesputable source" yet he whispers they were "doctored.") shows (1) that a "conspiracy" was underway to raise soft money, and; (2) that the conspiracy was to do it for an "unlawful" purpose.
		Safire shamefully asserts that the "we" in the President's remarks means "he and his White House staff," but the truth is that the "we" refers to Democrats and the Democratic National Committee of which Bill Clinton is the titular head and which can legally produce ads which feature the President as standing for its principals.
	www.americanpolitics.com /102197SafiresAlzheimers.html (1144 words)

	ipedia.com: William Safire Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Before he became a journalist, Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew; he wrote Agnew's phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism." Earlier still, he was a public relations executive.
		Safire was one of the most insistent supporters of the preemptive strike on Iraq in 2003.
		Safire also insinuated that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, his evidence being the supposed meeting in Prague between Mohammed Atta and an officer of Iraqi intelligence.
	www.ipedia.com /william_safire.html (423 words)

	Alibris: William Safire
		William Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon from 1968 to 1973.
		Safire was able to observe the thirty-seventh president in his entirety: as noble and mean-spirited: as good and bad; as a man desirous of greatness.
		Safire, a political columnist for The New York Times and the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, is one of the nation's premier essayists on the English language.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Safire,William (1070 words)

	William Safire gives Olin Lecture at Reunion
		In his introduction to Safire's address, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings pointed out that it was Safire who, as speech writer for Richard Nixon, crafted the legendary alliteration "nattering nabobs of negativism" aimed at the media and delivered with spirited emphasis by the late Spiro T. Agnew.
		Safire savored the laughs, casually arriving at the substance of his talk: a political forecast -- steeped in his own observations and opinions, of course.
		Safire reduced the upcoming Gore-Bush debate on social security to a matter of "greed vs. fear" -- Bush appealing to the idea of making a sound market investment and Gore imploring Americans not to let the Republicans gamble with their benefits.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/00/6.15.00/Safire_coverage.html (888 words)

	The Times' William Safire: an old Nixon hand covers for Bush's WMD lies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Safire was with the Nixon administration as it was planning the military coup that brought Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to power, overthrowing the democratically elected regime of leftist Salvador Allende.
		Safire was also a key figure in the New York Times’s participation in the Republican right’s campaign to unseat the Clinton administration in the 1990s, helping publicize Kathleen Willey’s allegations that Clinton had sexually harassed her.
		Safire’s reaction to the September 11 attacks themselves was quite revealing, showing both his awareness of the Bush administration’s deceptiveness and, despite this, his strong support for a US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jul2003/saf-j05_prn.shtml (1179 words)

	William Safire And Art That's Good for You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Safire was aware of the potentially awkward situation of his appearance (and joked about it several times).
		Safire, who came to discuss work he has sponsored through the Dana Foundation, espoused a view of art's role in society that is essentially mainstream.
		Safire's speech was ostensibly to share results of what his Dana Foundation research can tell us about the effects of arts education on cognitive development.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031401961.html (793 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Analysis of Mark Shields and William Saffire -- July 16, 2004
		WILLIAM SAFIRE: He played it cool, but what really turns me on, both about the Senate Intelligence Committee Report and the Butler Report in Britain is the yellow cake myth.
		WILLIAM SAFIRE: Well, you see where John Kerry just today and recently has been talking about there may be a time for preemptive war.
		WILLIAM SAFIRE: -- the report you just asked us about -- argued just the opposite, that they were acting on the basis of the best information they had.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec04/ss_7-16.html (1929 words)

	Discourse.net: William Safire: Tactics Over Truth
		You can see the famous picture Safire took of the debate here.) The book reads like it started out as a piece of puffery, and then took a sharp turn when Safire discovered that Nixon’s Kissinger had bugged his phone.
		Safire bought me a nice lunch at the Army-Navy club, he never wrote the column I was trying to interest him in.
		Safire was a Nixon apologist when Watergate hit the fan, and now he's an apologist for Bush.
	www.discourse.net /archives/2003/11/william_safire_tactics_over_truth.html (737 words)

	William Safire Biography / Biography of William Safire Biography
		The American journalist William Safire (born 1929) was one of the most influential political columnists in the United States into the 1990s.
		Born December 17, 1929, in New York City, William Safire was the youngest of three sons of Oliver C. and Ida (Panish) Safir.
		(Safire later changed the spelling of the family name while in the army to ensure correct pronunciation.) His father, a successful thread manufacturer, died when Safire was four, and he was raised by his mother in Los Angeles and New York.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-safire (248 words)

	Online NewsHour: Shields & Safire -- October 10, 2003
		WILLIAM SAFIRE: Well I think he was more comfortable not being the focus of everybody's attack.
		WILLIAM SAFIRE: At the same time we're seeing on television all the violence and all the terrible things happening -- that's what television covers.
		WILLIAM SAFIRE: You can't interpret this as good news for the Democrats, there is no way you can do that.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec03/ss_10-10.html (1890 words)

	William Safire - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
		William Safire is a man of many careers: reporter; public relations executive; politician; historian; novelist; lexicographer; columnist; and television commentator.
		Safire was a senior White House speechwriter for President Nixon.
		He is also the author of Safire's New Political Dictionary, a half-million-word study of the words that have inspired and inflamed the electorate.
	www.leadingauthorities.com /3839/William_Safire.htm (281 words)

	Miami University: News & Public Information Office
		William Safire, the political columnist who was the conservative voice on The New York Times op-ed page for 30 years, will be featured speaker at Miami University's commencement at 3 p.m.
		Safire, who stopped writing his syndicated political column in early 2005, continues to write his Sunday New York Times Magazine “On Language” column.
		Safire began his career in 1949 as a profile writer for The New York Herald, shifting from journalism to public relations in the 1950s.
	newsinfo.muohio.edu /news_display.cfm?mu_un_id=40150286 (201 words)

	William Safire to End Op-Ed Run at N.Y. Times (washingtonpost.com)
		When William Safire left the Nixon White House to hold forth on the op-ed page of the New York Times, many readers reacted with disbelief, as if an intruder were defiling their liberal temple.
		But Safire later soured on the 42nd president, and when he called Hillary Rodham Clinton a "congenital liar," her husband said he wanted to punch the columnist in the nose.
		Safire said the late columnist Stewart Alsop offered advice on the art of writing, including "Never sell out, except for a really good anecdote." Safire's passion on privacy and civil liberties issues stems from his discovery that Nixon had him wiretapped during his White House tenure.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A52678-2004Nov15.html (907 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bert Lance to the war in Iraq, Safire has been wrong more times than you can count, yet the instances in which he has acknowledged his errors in print can probably be calculated on two hands.
		Nonetheless, Safire is regarded as a newspaper giant of his generation.
		Safire also struck an independent note in arguing against media consolidation: He's attacked Bush-appointed FCC chairman Michael Powell for pushing it forward.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/11/22/safire/index_np.html (660 words)

	PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN :WILLIAM SAFIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Safire is incapable of objectivity and supports whatever cause he embraces without much regard for facts or truth.
		Safire called me soon after the article and after announcing who he was (as if I didn't know) He said "You know that we could destroy you.
		Don't ever read any column of Safire for accuracy but read it for amusement because he is not one to worry about accuracy, objectivity or integrity.
	www.parida.com /bs.html (585 words)

	William Safire - SourceWatch
		William Safire was a a political columnist for the New York Times from 1973 until late January, 2005.
		Safire's columns have been against Clinton while he was President, strongly supportive of Israeli government policy and critical of the Homeland Security Act.
		The Propaganda of William Safire (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-08.htm), The Nation, February 25, 2004.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=William_Safire (318 words)

	WASHINGTONIAN - William Safire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Safire won a Pulitzer, but the Lance affair is important in understanding Safire for two other reasons: It established him as a muckraker who was not slavish toward the White House, and it proved that he was a reporter by training.
		Safire describes “a wall of separation between the editorial and op-ed side and the news side.” Yet for Safire, that wall is porous.
		Safire points to stories and columns in January 1989 describing Germany’s direct support to construction of a poison-gas plant in Libya, then seen as one of the most menacing nations in the Middle East.
	www.washingtonian.com /people/safire.html (3925 words)

	American Prospect Online - ViewWeb
		William Safire’s paean to himself left out the smears he sold and the reputations he ruined.
		In at least 10 columns between October of 2001 and June of 2004, Safire pushed the claim that there was conclusive evidence of Mohammed Atta, suspected leader of the 9-11 hijackers, having met with a high-level Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001.
		Safire’s disregard for the truth was never more in evidence than in his treatment of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
	www.prospect.org /web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9137 (689 words)

	N.Y. Times’ William Safire to retire - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		Sulzberger that I wanted the next campaign to be my last hurrah,” Safire told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his Washington office.
		Safire won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1978; he has served on the Pulitzer board since 1995.
		Safire is chairman of the Dana Foundation, a philanthropy supporting brain science, immunology and arts education.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6496255 (535 words)

	Language Log: To pass into a certain condition, chiefly implying deterioration
		Safire starts with a question from a reader, Daniel Baldwin of New York: ''My intuition tells me that the term goes missing is grammatically incorrect,'' he writes.
		Safire goes on to say "This is a tale told by an idiom that leaves many of its users vaguely uncomfortable", and I think this is correct, if a bit compressed.
		The difference between Bill Safire and that poor woman is that he has the power to spread his misconceptions thru the world, she hasn't.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001142.html (1944 words)

	After Safire By Jack Shafer
		Safire's impending departure prompted New York magazine to handicap the field for his replacement, tossing out the names of David Frum, Charles Krauthammer, Christopher Caldwell, Richard Brookhiser, Fred Barnes, and Robert Kagan.
		This is how the newsroom and the public should greet Safire's replacement—with howling and self-righteous rage, the sound of broken glass and sheared metal—and not the namby-pamby protests about inaccuracy and bias that David Brock's Media Matters for America Web site tossed at heir-apparent Tierney two weeks ago.
		Unlike Safire, she isn't on a first-name basis with Ariel Sharon and doesn't write about foreign policy, so we wouldn't be getting a one-for-one replacement.
	www.slate.com /id/2110912 (1883 words)

	Salon Directory
		What is particularly outrageous is that Safire and his sources were allowed to continue their campaign using the Times and the International Herald Tribune as their podium -- even though the editors of both papers had been advised that the charges didn't hold water.
		Safire's main accusation was that French companies, with the knowledge of French intelligence services, helped supply vital rocket fuel components to Saddam.
		Safire also noted that Pertriaux claimed the deal with Qilo Chemicals was never consummated, but there was no way that denial would blunt his attack.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/feature/2004/02/21/safire/index.html (1042 words)

	Finding Safire's Keepers By Jack Shafer
		William Safire asserted in his Nov. 1 New York Times column that journalists have a special name for stories they deliberately withhold from publication until they can do the most political damage.
		In an interview, Safire defended his use of the word as "absolutely accurate," although he couldn't cite a published example outside of his own work.
		We know, for example, that William Randolph Hearst, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, and the other press moguls who roamed the land while Krock was in his prime loved to bludgeon their personal and ideological enemies with newsprint.
	slate.com /id/2110203 (952 words)

	Amazon.com: Spread the Word: Books: William Safire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Safire's "On Language" column, 20 years old with the publication of this collection, is one of Sunday morning's great pleasures: Where else can one turn for a timely linguistic assessment of a president's inaugural speech, a corporation's annual report, or the use of terms such as stud muffin and horny?
		Safire and Wallraff cover some of the same ground and sometimes differ, one notable example being the use of the article an before words that start with h such as historian.
		Safire has a splendid sense of humor, making this book a wonderful selection, even for those who are not interested in words/english usage for their own sake.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812932536?v=glance (878 words)

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