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You get jaded living in New York but still, it is not every day that the President of Iran comes to your neighborhood. This is the holocaust-denying, America hating, nuke bomb building, evil, despicable madman who was denied entrance to ground zero (“Access of Evil” decried the NY Post ) and should rot in hell, [...]

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bin Looney & beheadings - titanic PR flare-ups in high chatter week
Although the New York Post dismissed him as “bin Looney,” Osama bin Laden managed to hijack the global political agenda last week with a rant against America that was calculated and effective PR. Republicans were ecstatic dissecting bin Looney’s psycho-political analysis and rambling exhortations [...]

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Fred Thompson, the actor, former Senator, and kindly Uncle who you would love to have regale the grand kids for the holidays, threw his hat in the Presidential ring last night in a way you would expect - he announced on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. While the other Republican candidates were debating in [...]

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Love him, hate him, wish he would go away. Whatever your feelings about George Bush, he is a PR master. He is on message, unbendable, and he demands the same of everybody around him. Bush took the PR of war to a higher level with his Labor Day surprise visit to Iraq and he is [...]

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“I am not gay,” this week became an infamous, desperate, failed attempt at political self-preservation akin to “I am not a crook” (Richard Nixon) and “I never had sex with that woman” (Bill Clinton). The moralistic Republicans swiftly and mercilessly eviscerated Idaho Senator Larry Craig, himself a relentless gay basher, as the heathen Democrats silently [...]

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The black arts infiltrated Strumpette last week with a fascinating posting on the “Dark Side of PR 2.0” – nefarious activity that uses Web 2.0 tools to warp the minds of the masses. The day that appeared the mainstream media (MSM) reported that the CIA is now using Facebook in its operations. Later in the [...]

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Darren Dopp, the beleaguered and suspended-without-pay former Communications Director for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is in the media cross hairs. 
David Weidner at Dow Jones is glad that Dopp is is getting his comeuppance because Dopp apparently didn’t think Weidner was important enough to feed news to. That’s how it seems from Weidner’s petulant post “Sayonara [...]

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