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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (169625)	6/1/2002 8:45:30 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Sorry for not responding earlier Terry, I'm trying to understand our administrations current mouthpiece but the fact is it's making my head hurt. -g/ng- THE PECULIAR DUPLICITY OF ARI FLEISCHER ...what Fleischer does, for the most part, is not really spin. It's a system of disinformation--blunter, more aggressive, and, in its own way, more impressive than spin. Much of the time Fleischer does not engage with the logic of a question at all. He simply denies its premises--or refuses to answer it on the grounds that it conflicts with a Byzantine set of rules governing what questions he deems appropriate. Fleischer has broken new ground in the dark art of flackdom: Rather than respond tendentiously to questions, he negates them altogether. thenewrepublic.com

To: Terry Maloney who wrote (169625)	6/1/2002 9:12:22 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Plop plop fizz fizz... When campaign finance reform moved through the Senate last year, he declined to explain Bush's position: "It's too early, yet, to say." After it passed, and went to the House, Fleischer continued to demur because "t hasn't even made its way through the House yet." After it passed the House, he still wouldn't express a view, because "you just don't know what the Senate is going to do.... There's a lot of talk about will the Senate try to amend it, will they be unsuccessful in amending it? Will the Senate basically take the House bill and put it in a photocopier, and, therefore, send it directly to the president?" Well, a reporter asked, what if they do photocopy it? Fleischer retorted--you guessed it--"I don't answer hypotheticals." The reporter tried, valiantly, to get an answer one more time, with a query that was clear, nonhypothetical, White House-related, and present tense: "Of the two bills that have been passed, is there any reason to veto either one?" Fleischer's answer? "We're going to go around in circles on this."