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Obama's Next Singing Gig: Inauguration Day?

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:36:10 CST

President Obama has been singing a lot lately—first soul , then the blues —so when can we expect him to bust out in song again? White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has one cheeky theory, USA Today reports: "at the inauguration next year." Of course, that drew a quick response...

Pro-Life Komen VP Pushed Defunding

Matt Cantor — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:16:16 CST

Susan G. Komen Foundation leaders have given several reasons for the charity's now-reversed cuts to Planned Parenthood funding —but here's one they didn't mention. Komen's VP for public policy, abortion-rights opponent Karen Handel, fueled the decision, an insider with the group tells the Huffington Post . Handel worked to paint the...

Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas

John Johnson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:28:02 CDT

Helen Thomas continues to draw serious heat for a YouTube interview (see it in the gallery) in which she tells Israelis to "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to where they came from. Former Bush press chief Ari Fleischer has joined the chorus, calling for Thomas to...

Woods, Spin Doc Fleischer Part Ways

Will McCahill — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:39:00 CDT

Tiger Woods is getting ready to get back on the golf course, but he won’t have Ari Fleischer to help spin off-the-course happenings any more. The former Bush press secretary confirmed last night’s Golf Channel report that he and Woods have parted company, but wouldn’t elaborate in an email to...

Tiger Woods Hires Ari Fleischer, Plans Return

Kevin Spak — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:04:29 CST

Tiger Woods is expected to return to golf at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25, and he’s hired none other than former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer to help him plan the comeback. “They were in his living room this week going over a strategy for how to...

He Can't Say It Like He Wants to Anymore

Harry Kimball — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:00:00 CDT

President Obama has backed off a bit on his “acted stupidly” comments concerning the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates, saying they were not properly “calibrated.” But, aides say, it “was not a slip of the tongue,” Peter Baker writes in the New York Times . “Obama said what he...

Bush Press Flak Fleischer Now Coaches Jocks

Matt Cantor — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:25:00 CDT

President Bush’s onetime press secretary has embraced another passion: sports, the Washington Post reports. Helping athletes from the NFL, Major League Baseball, and elsewhere deal with the media blitz was an easy transition, Ari Fleischer says: “The only two institutions in our society that have their events covered live and...

Fleischer: Subpoena Me —I Dare You

Gabriel Winant — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:07:20 CDT

Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer doesn’t think there should be an investigation of his boss’s torture program. But “I’ll be proud to testify if I get a subpoena,” he said during a panel discussion yesterday. “I’m proud of what we did to protect this country.” When a fellow panelist suggested...

20 Years Later, Young MC Still Busts a Move

Harry Kimball — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:35:21 CDT

It’s been 20 years since self-described “1 Hit Wonder” Young MC released Bust a Move , but the rapper is happy the song has held up as well as it has, he tells Rolling Stone. People aren’t “going to get a babysitter to go to a club and hear about you...