Dick Morris was an adviser to the Clinton administration after Clinton
was elected president in 1992. Dick encouraged Clinton to pursue so-called
third way policies of triangulation that merged traditional Republican and
Democratic proposals, rhetoric, and issues to achieve maximum political gain
and popularity. He worked as a Republican strategist before joining the
Clinton administration, where he helped Clinton recover from the 1994
midterm elections by convincing the President to adopt Republican policies.
Dick went on to become Campaign manager of Bill Clinton's successful 1996
bid for re-election to the office of President. His tenure on that campaign
was cut short two months before the election when it was revealed that he
had allowed a prostitute to listen in on conversations with the President.
Since leaving the Clintons' employ in 1996,
Dick has said he has become profoundly "disillusioned" with the actions of
the Clintons in the late 1990s. He has reinvented himself as a political
commentator and critic of the Clintons (particularly towards Hillary),
primarily appearing on Fox News programs. Dick once said that he would
leave the United States if Hillary Clinton were elected president in 2008.
Dick was featured on cover of the September 9, 1996 issue of Time
The firing was detailed in an article titled "Skunk at the Family
Picnic." A week earlier, Eric Pooley took deadly aim at Morris in the Time
article "Who us Dick Morris?" in which he described Morris as ""a
gleeful genius who preaches what he's paid to preach, who can teach it round
or teach it flat. He is someone lost so far inside the game that he breaks
its most basic rules--Don't leak to the other side, Don't sell out your
clients--and doesn't seem to notice."
Dick subsequently become better known as one of
the regular commentators on the Fox Network until his hatred for the
Clintons and eventually all things Democratic severely colored his political
commentary and prognostications even beyond those of Fox's other nutty
commentators such as Glen Beck. So as with Beck and Sarah Palin, Fox
finally pulled the plug on Dick's contact after a series of what Media
Matters called a “vast array of ethical
conflicts,” such as the time when he auctioned a tour of the Fox News
headquarters at a Republican fund-raiser. But the final straw that
broke the Fox's back was Dick's predication the night before the 2012 US
Presidential election that,
“We’re going to win by a landslide. It will be the biggest surprise in
recent American political history. It will rekindle a whole question as to
why the media played this race as a nail-biter, where in fact I think that
Romney is going to win by quite a bit. My own view is that Romney is going
to carry 325 electoral votes.” For those with an Alzheimer's-tinged memory,
Mitt Romney won 206 electoral votes; President Obama 332.
Ee suggestserving Spotted Dick
when you invite Dick over for dinner on his birthday, a dish that
perfectly mirrors his career.
Spotted dick is a steamed
pudding with raisins or currants which give it a spotted appearance.
It is a popular dessert in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Another ingredient in spotted dick is
beef suet which is raw fat found around the loins and kidneys.
Specialty butcher shops often carry it, and it can occasionally be found in
the freezers of some upscale grocery stores. One can always ask a butcher to
order it. Store the suet in the freezer until ready to use.
According to
The Times of London, sales of canned Spotted Dick have
plummeted in recent years. In 1991, the British Tesco supermarket chain
conducted a survey and found that shoppers were embarrassed to be seen
purchasing the product or asking for it by name. Efforts to change it's
name to Spotted Richard failed Although there are several brands
of canned Spotted Dick, Heinz apparently has cornered most of the
British dick market and the pudding may be one of the more infamous
members of the Heinz 57 family. It has also become one of the more
popular items in the Amazon.com Grocery & Gourmet Food division. |