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Scrapbook Best Washington Press Release Ever We're not making this up. We couldn't make this up. It moved on the PR wire last Friday, February 14. And with its deft combination of...
...To me, and to several hotel employees with whom I spoke, the Bush photos were disproportionate considering that Clinton is our most recent and an eight-year president...
...I expected to join in the celebration," Weiner stated...
...RENAISSANCE HOTEL'S NEW SPORTS BAR AS DEIFICATION OF BUSH, ANTI-CLINTON WASHINGTON, Feb...
...The finest of the lot was the Google parody, reproduced at left...
...And with its deft combination of inside-Washington tropes—from the paranoid, penny-ante partisanship to the hey-look-at-me self-promotion—we think this may qualify as, yes, the best Washington press release ever...
...Our very favorite parts (it's hard to choose) are the tag line at the end, where you learn which PR firm has undertaken the task of publicizing the obsessions of a third-tier Clintonite (namely, his own firm...
...Nevertheless, not having a game plan for addressing that crisis shouldn't mean that we do stupid things in the meantime...
...The first was $5 million to keep alive the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO...
...They weren't always subtle, but then, neither are the French these days...
...Apparently not...
...Instead, Weiner said, "I saw an entrance corridor of four dramatic George W. Bush photos, another Bush photo on a wall, and one Clinton photo—buried in a corner inside the actual bar, of him playing pool...
...But it was clear no response by me would be adequate, especially since he would not even look at our photo when asked several times, until I physically held it up in front of him.'' "My worst fear is that because of Renaissance being a Marriott hotel and Marriott owners' history of strong Republican allegiance, there is a strong partisan and anti-Clinton bent in an exhibit that is open to all DC...
...Without further ado: EX-CLINTON AIDE SLAMS D.C...
...Joe Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee...
...At State Department insistence, KEDO is being kept alive—presumably because the folks in Foggy Bottom believe they will be cutting another 1994-like deal...
...Unfortunately, some of my supporters in the Hispanic community who helped us to produce this commercial misinterpreted my neutrality as a statement of support," she said...
...The one Clinton photo denigrates the spirit of enthusiastic leadership he conveyed, and the photos of everyone else— including Reagan and Bush I both riding horses over fences—show vitality and high adventure...
...Apparently, it's better to offer aid and comfort to a petty bureaucratic entity whose function is to facilitate a failed policy than to impoverished and starving individuals fleeing from the world's last outpost of unreconstructed Stalinism...
...Last week, Congress finished work on the omnibus appropriations act...
...Now it's gone...
...We offered the Renaissance a beautiful picture— free—of him running, poster sized, and even offered to quickly get a comparable outstanding frame from the National Gallery so it would match the other quite wonderful photos of the many other presidents the exhibit has...
...and that line about how Clinton claimed to run 25-30 miles per week...
...Mary Landrieu has worked close to the Hispanic Community...
...our emphasis] —from an ad on Spanish-language radio, supporting the reelection of Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, in Louisiana's December 2002 runoff "My campaign ran an ad that was intended to convey only that I did not oppose his nomination...
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...Also of note is the $10 million "earmarked" for assistance for North Korean refugees, which was in the bill when it went to the conference...
...to visit Honduras and involve herself with the relief effort for those affected by the hurricane and she obtained 11 million dollars in support of the affected families...
...Buried in the conference report were two matters of no small import when it comes to North Korea...
...With North Korea having torn that agreement to shreds, you might think the only money KEDO needs would be enough to close its offices...
...I take personal responsibility for the error and I apologize to anyone who was misled by these ads...
...Great Moments in Backpedaling We need a senator that understands the needs of our community, economy, culture and society...
...The exhibit manager, Bill Englar, the hotel's Food and Beverage Manager, responded, 'I paid a contractor, they organized it, and there's no space.' I responded with what I felt was obvious— 'We are not charging anything, doesn't your contractor work for you, and here or here or here (pointing) there is lots of space.' He then asked for a better quality photo, and I showed him a clear original, which could be quickly re-poster-sized...
...Weiner, who served as Public Affairs Director for the White House Drug Czar and was a White House Athletic Center board member while Clinton was President, visited the new bar yesterday in advance of today's (Friday) opening to see how the presidential sports pictures looked and to offer a photo of Clinton leading a group of runners, including DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton...
...Source: Robert Weiner Associates) Frog Mocking Thanks to all the readers who X e-mailed us anti-French jokes last week...
...Instead, it read as if I had already decided to support him...
...Immediately following the destruction of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua and Honduras, Mary Landrieu was the first representative of the U.S...
...downtown Renaissance Hotel's new presidential photo sports bar as a "deification of Bush, anti-Clinton, and thereby partisan...
...Clinton's sports love, as everyone knows, was running—he told me himself that he ran 25-30 miles a week...
...But KEDO's only job was to manage the construction of two new nuclear reactors in North Korea and the delivery of crude oil as part of the Clinton-era arrangement under which Pyongyang agreed to stop its illicit nuclear weapons activities...
...Landrieu, last week, explaining how she's ended up supporting her party's anti-Estrada filibuster...
...So it's probably no surprise that Washington hasn't gotten its act together when it comes to North Korea...
...I know that the hotel does not only want Republican patrons, so it is my hope they will balance the exhibit and include photos like the one we've suggested to show Clinton's genuine enthusiasm and the mantle of leadership he epitomized in available sports photos,'' Weiner concluded...
...Korea Budget Mysteries Dealing with the war on terrorism, the upcoming conflict with iraq, and French perfidy is plenty for any country to handle at one time...
...Mary Landrieu also supported the candidacy of the Hon-duran Miguel Estrada for the federal court of appeals...
...Newswire/—Ex-Clinton political aide Bob Weiner is slamming the D.C...
...According to Hill staffers, the money was stripped from the bill at the request of Sen...
Vol. 8 • February 2003 • No. 23
