Patti SOLIS DOYLE continues her screwing-up. Can a job with Faux be far behind?!1

[UTUSN]

Well, Faux specializes in hiring F-ups like Dick MORRIS, Billy "William" KRISTOL, and Pat CADDELL and whassername (the one who screwed up for DUKAKIS). Seems like Patti would fit right in.


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http://www.nypost.com/seven/04012009/gossip/pagesix/hillary_pals_e_mail_error_162342.htm

HILLARY PAL'S E-MAIL ERROR

PATTI Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton's former presidential campaign manager whom some blame for her loss, finally found a job after she was denied a position in the Barack Obama administration, and wanted to let all her friends know about it. Unfortunately, she forgot to blind-copy them, so they (and we) now have each other's personal e-mail addresses. Stephen Bing, Wendy Williams, Kate Moss, Q-Tip, Tina Brown, Newt Gingrich, Madeleine Albright, Vice President Joe Biden, Ron Howard and Tom Daschle were among hundreds e-mailed about Solis Doyle's new position at law firm Utrecht & Phillips, which "counsels clients on campaign-finance and election law." Ironically, her old pal Norman Hsu, a one-time fund-raiser who's in jail for campaign-financing fraud, was also on the list. Solis Doyle told us, "It was an honest mistake. Believe me, I've heard it from my friends."


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THE PROBLEM WITH A DISCLAIMER is its coming off as defensive, especially when it's preemptive. Trouble is, it's damned if do/don't: NOT including it first results in the predictable problems.

DISCLAIMER re: linking to the NY Post (for to head-off highly predictable, OT/hijacking posts):: Yes, it is a RAG. Yes, it is owned by NewsCorp/Faux's MURDOCH. No, he doesn't Dictaphone content to his gossip columnists. No, "gossip" does NOT equate to "UNtruth" (OR with "triviality" for that matter). These old time gossipers are more journalistically reliable than Tweety and such ilk. Frequently, political tidbits are here first, later to show up in more "respectable" venues. Keep friends close, enemies closer. Cherrypicking intel results in self-fulfilling FALSENESS. I got hooked on these gossipers when they were on the E!1 network and, when they were cancelled, tracked them down and they happened to be at the RAG (NY Post). ALL I read at the RAG are the gossip and the horoscope.

[MADem]

1. Whassername--that would be Susan Estrich, I believe.

Initially, wasn't PSD supposed to get a White House job? She was offered one, at some point. Was the offer withdrawn?

FWIW, I agree with the points you raise in the disclaimer. Of course, to some, it won't matter what you say. They won't read down that far. I often put "Don't shoot the messenger" or "This is not my personal view, but this is what the other side is saying" and I STILL get the "You must think..." or "You're one of THOSE..." kinds of retorts.

There are days when I think making people take a logic course before they are permitted to join this forum isn't a half bad idea!

[UTUSN]

2. It is a pleasure to read your clear-headed post. Thank you for that. n/t