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Dick Morris Has a New Perch

July 11, 2016 at 9:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The New York Times looks at the career trajectory of Dick Morris:

On the last day of the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mr. Morris resigned as chief campaign strategist for President Clinton’s re-election bid because The Star, the sister publication of The National Enquirer, revealed Mr. Morris’s affair with a prostitute who claimed he had a penchant for sucking her toes. The National Enquirer followed that bombshell with news of another mistress and a love child in Texas.

When he quit the Clinton campaign, Mr. Morris issued a statement: “I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.”

Now he is the chief political commentator and correspondent for The National Enquirer.

Filed Under: Media Buzz Tagged With: Dick Morris

Dick Morris Says He’s Advising Trump

June 27, 2016 at 7:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just published: Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary by Dick Morris.

Morris tells the Daily Caller that he sends “several” memos to Trump campaign staffers “each day” but has no interest in joining the campaign in any official capacity.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Dick Morris, Donald Trump

No One Has Given to Dick Morris’s Anti-Hillary PAC

January 12, 2015 at 4:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 21 Comments

Bloomberg: “Sixteen months ago, to some fanfare, Dick Morris re-entered the anti-Clinton fray with a new PAC. He launched Dick Morris’s Just Say No to Hillary PAC… But there is a rather glaring problem with adding Morris to this narrative: No one has been giving money to his PAC. Literally, no one.”

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign Tagged With: Dick Morris, Hillary Clinton


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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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