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Showing Original Post only (View all)MOTHER JONES Chief Goes On A Tear Against 'LOW CLASS' Former Bush Press Secretary [View all]
Republican operatives beware: If you come at Mother Jones, you might face the wrath of David Corn. Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, learned that lesson on Wednesday after he spoke dismissively of a tough piece on New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez ®. The piece, authored by Andy Kroll of Mother Jones, contained audio recordings, text messages and emails in which Martinez and her staffers made derisive, profane remarks. Martinez has already tried to raise money off the piece and conservatives have done their best to discredit Mother Jones. Fleischer took the latter approach in an interview with US News & World Report. Any time Mother Jones attacks, Republicans will rally around the victim. It's hard to imagine a more reviled outlet than Mother Jones, Fleischer said. Tell me the worst thing she said not her aides, but her. Those comments left Corn incensed. The Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones lashed out at Fleischer in a series of tweets, highlighting the former Bush spokesman's insistence throughout 2002 and 2003 that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Here's a sample of Corn's tweets.
Hey, @AriFleischer, get lost. http://t.co/b5U4lzZeLQ (BTW, let's not forget the Iraq war & your defense of the 47% remarks.)
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
.@AriFleischer: "We know for a fact that there are weapons there." January 9, 2003
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
.@JohnJHarwood It sure takes chutzpah for @AriFleischer to call anyone else "reviled."
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
Last word: I don't think @AriFleischer should call anyone else "reviled" until the W gang shows regret for the 100K+ Iraqi civilians killed
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
.@AriFleischer: "We know for a fact that there are weapons there." January 9, 2003
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
.@JohnJHarwood It sure takes chutzpah for @AriFleischer to call anyone else "reviled."
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
Last word: I don't think @AriFleischer should call anyone else "reviled" until the W gang shows regret for the 100K+ Iraqi civilians killed
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 16, 2014
Corn wasn't done there. He told TPM in a Wednesday phone interview he finds it "interesting that [Fleischer] is not taking issue with the accuracy of our reporting." He also noted that Fleischer's embarrassing pronouncements aren't limited to the Iraq War. "This is the same guy who defended Mitt Romney's '47 percent' remarks and also believed that Mitt Romney was going to win by three or four points," Corn said. It was Corn who broke the '47 percent' story in the fall of 2012 and Mother Jones has continued to haunt conservatives with several notable scoops ever since.
Mother Jones reported last year that Chris McDaniel, the Mississippi tea partier running for Senate, once addressed a neo-Confederate conference host by a group of present-day secessionists. Earlier this month, the outlet revealed that Hobby Lobby, the company waging a legal challenge against Obamacare's contraception mandate, actually invests in contraception makers.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-corn-mother-jones-ari-fleischer
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MOTHER JONES Chief Goes On A Tear Against 'LOW CLASS' Former Bush Press Secretary [View all]
Segami
Apr 2014
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Donna Brazile has never been a good political voice. She's too easily reduced to stammering.
7962
Apr 2014
#39
they're not that smart, so they keep doing the same jab, over and over and over, from only
Voice for Peace
Apr 2014
#41
Rank the Bewsh Admin's loathsome press Secs from worst to "I give a new MEANING to the word":
HughBeaumont
Apr 2014
#22
Remember when Ari Fleischer accused Obama of getting extra characters for his tweets?
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2014
#36
Corn forgot Fleishcer's role in the Plame affair apparently. A despicable COWARD when he though he
sabrina 1
Apr 2014
#37