‘Former Clinton adviser’ clings to his 15 minutes

Apparently Fox News tele-pundit and GOP cheerleader, Dick Morris, thinks the only way people will consider him relevant is if he tells everyone that he was once an adviser to President Bill Clinton. What Morris—or anyone introducing him at Fox News—fails to mention, is the reason his stint as a top Clinton adviser ended so abruptly; he was involved with a D.C. prostitute and even (allegedly) let her listen-in on private conversations he was having with President Clinton.

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I am not denying that Morris at one time held a very important position and had a tremendous amount of influence. Rather, I am suggesting that Mr. Morris should stick to what he knows best; bashing Bill and Hillary Clinton. In stead, Morris has now transposed his hatred of the Clintons and his apparent need for retribution onto President Obama, whom he attacks in his new book, Catastrophe (a book that is being sold at Amazon for almost half-off its cover price just one week after being published).

With some apparent insight into the current political machinations in the Democratic Party, Morris told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “The number who voted for it [Waxman-Markey] is a pre-ordained conclusion.” Morris then made use of now-familiar GOP fear-mongering tactics and rehashed the overblown estimates of the cost of the climate bill. The only “expert” Morris sites in his McCarthy-esque incitation was former United Nations representative in the George W. Bush administration, John Bolton. Bolton, though he was the de-facto representative to the U.N., despises the institution and warns that any climate policy (national or international) is really only a mechanism for the transfer of wealth from the countries of the industrialized North to the less-developed South.

There are lots of reasons not to take Dick Morris seriously, not the least of which are that he has big trouble interpreting data and that he apparently has the ability to see into the future. I get it; the guy wants to sell books. But I can’t take Morris seriously because he cannot separate his emotional bias from his (in)ability to tell the truth.

Mr. Morris, I know you’re dying to stay relevant, however, I think your fifteen minutes are up.

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