Lie To Me, Please! (Guess who Matt Cooper's Wife Is?)

Opinion Editorials.com ^ | July 17, 2005 | R.V.Tucker

[kcvl]

Katherine Kersten Commentary

Star Tribune, February 11, 1998

...Gross Moral Turpitude.


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Since the Hill/Thomas hearings, feminists have exercised this role with relish. They forced the Secretary of the Navy to resign over Tailhook, and called loudly for scalps at Aberdeen. They deep-sixed Republican Senator Bob Packwood over sexual harassment allegations. (Regarding Packwood, Clinton advisor Mandy Grunwald wrote an ad for the "Washington Post" demanding, "If your boss stuck his tongue in your mouth, would he keep his job? Only in the U.S. Senate." "When I read [the accusations]," she explained, "I got so angry that I just wrote up the ad without anyone asking me to. ... I just got outraged.")

And yet -- as we know -- feminist crusaders are silent about Bill Clinton. Instead of outrage, we get Solon-like counsel against "rushing to judgment."

[lainie]

I'm reading that Slick fired Mandy after 1992?

[kcvl]

In September 1993, just days after a remarkably unctuous interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dan Rather gave a speech complaining that reporters have learned a new commercial formula: "Do powder puff, not probing interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Kiss ass, move with the mass and for heaven and ratings' sake don't make anybody mad — certainly not anybody you're covering, and especially not the Mayor, the Governor, the Senator, the President or the Vice-President or anybody in a position of power. Make nice, not news." That is exactly Rather's formula with Gary Condit. He'd rather make nice than make news.

Rather's show wasn't always this distracted when members of Congress were the targets of sex-scandal stories. CBS's promos in June of 1995 made the case that Sen. Bob Packwood should not be allowed to serve:

Announcer: "If Senator Bob Packwood really did what all those women say he did, it probably would have cost him his job long ago in corporate America. So why not in Washington?" Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald: "You not only keep your job, you become the most powerful chairman of the most powerful committee in the United States Senate." Announcer: "Is Packwood too powerful to punish? A touchy subject on Eye on America, tomorrow on the CBS Evening News."

Dan Rather didn't use his strictest standard of evidence before pushing Packwood toward the door — notice the "if Packwood did what they said" disclaimer. CBS no doubt felt proud that they were striking a blow for women, sending a message to sex-addled solons that there would be watchdogs on their tail. But that was then and this is now.


http://tinyurl.com/7d9gf

[kcvl]

The Gang of Four Is Back

Feb. 15, 1993
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, THEY WERE AT THE HEART OF WHAT was known as the War Room, the pressurized chamber in Little Rock famed for formulating rapid political parries and thrusts: James Carville, the raging Cajun strategist; his partner, Paul Begala; media maven Mandy Grunwald; and pollster Stanley Greenberg. When they failed to follow Clinton to the White House, their laser-sharp populist instincts were soon missed. Now Clinton has called them back, though just how much he relies on them remains a question. In room 160 of the Executive Office Building, aides have re-created the War Room. Around a giant table with a dozen or so phones and six television sets (as well as around the West Wing), the four spend time with top Administration aides, helping plot strategy. As one of the quartet explains it, "Room 160 is an organizing force."


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Cooper, who has worked for all three newsweeklies, is a soft-spoken politics junkie and a dead-on impressionist who has worked the comedy-club circuit. He is married to Democratic consultant Mandy Grunwald, whose father, former Time Inc. boss Henry Grunwald, died in February.


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Matt Cooper is married to Mandy Grunwald, and Mandy Grunwald is one of these high ranking Democratic Party operatives, and she currently is on Hillary's staff.



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Time magazine's Matthew Cooper married longtime Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald in November 1997. Hillary Clinton even threw Grunwald a baby shower at the White House in July 1998. At the time Cooper was covering presidential politics for Newsweek.

[lainie]

'Is Packwood too powerful to punish.' Sheesh, he was just a fricken senator, people. He put his pants on one leg at a time, just like Sen. Clinton does today.

So, um. What's Mandy been doing between 1995 and 2005? I see she married Matt Cooper in 1997.

I worked at a trade assn in D.C. in the early-mid 90's which rented a floor to the PR firm that had Slick as a client (and Mandy as a...partner?). As I recall, the gossip about her had something to do with her father pulling strings.

[Mo1]

Katrina Van Witch is married to Stephen Cohen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel

A 1981 summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Heuvel resides in New York City with her husband, history professor Stephen Cohen and daughter


http://www.answers.com/Katrina%20vanden%20Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel (born 1960) is the editor of the famed magazine The Nation, known for its liberal political leanings regarding both foreign and domestic matters. She has been the magazine's editor since 1995.


http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/bio.mhtml?id=1
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Katrina vanden Heuvel has been The Nation's editor since 1995.

She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right (NationBooks, 2004).

She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001.


http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1029&IssueNum=56

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The Nation editor herself writes against “FOXified and Clear Channelized” media and in favor of “building a bolder presence in the media,” proposing “a roster of progressive talk-show guests and pundits.” Vanden Heuvel, who is also the granddaughter of a major Hollywood power broker, lives in Manhattan with her husband and 13-year-old daughter.

–Ed Rampell

CityBeat: What is your family’s entertainment industry connection?

Katrina vanden Heuvel: My grandfather, Jules Stein, founded MCA, one of the first conglomerates. It owned Universal, the theme park, was a huge talent agency before antitrust laws worked, as they should work. It was busted up by Bobby Kennedy, when he was attorney general. It went out of the talent agency business. Ronald Reagan was one of MCA’s major – but least talented – clients.

[kcvl]

Mandy Grunwald, whose father, former Time Inc. boss Henry Grunwald, died in February.

[lainie]

Mandy Grunwald is the daughter of Henry Grunwald.

Henry Grunwald (who died in February [2005] at the age of 82), retired as editor in chief of Time Magazine, and later became U.S. ambassador to Austria.

As managing editor of Time, Henry Grunwald directed coverage of ...

you guessed it...

Watergate.

Henry Grunwald personally wrote the TIME editorial calling for President Richard Nixon to resign.

(from The Daily Belch)

[kcvl]

Matt Cooper is married to Mandy Grunwald, who was Bill Clinton's media advisor in the 1992 campaign and daughter of Henry Grunwald, who was editor-in-chief of Time, Inc. until his death earlier this year.

[lainie]

(It is very hard to believe she is married..to anybody.)

[lainie]

Yeah, I know. I thought it was common knowledge, but, let's spread the word.

[Mo1]

She is the ice princess

[kcvl]

Date of issue: Friday, 23 July 1999

Guess Who Came to Dinner -- The White House List for Barak's Banquet

The following is a list provided by the White House of the guests at Sunday night's dinner for Prime Minister Barak, with some additional descriptions provided by the Forward:

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Mandy Grunwald, Grunwald Communications, and Matthew Cooper, reporter, Time Magazine

[lainie]

9/23/99, Slate, 'Smoke This' column -- "The WP front runs a story observing that the Hillary Clinton almost-a-campaign harbors three people who used to work for President Clinton before being squeezed out: Harold Ickes, Mandy Grunwald, and Bernard Nussbaum."

Scott Shuger said that those three are "squeezed out." Obviously that wasn't true in Mandy's case.

[kcvl]

Lisa Grunwald, a freelance journalist, is a former Contributing Editor for Life magazine and former Features Editor of Esquire.

Lisa Grunwald's husband, Stephen J. Adler is an Assistant Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal.

[kcvl]

Check this out...

[kcvl]

Stephen J. Adler Selected Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek; Appointment Effective April 1, 2005

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stephen J. Adler, deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and editorial director of its online edition, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek, effective April 1, 2005. For the past four years, Mr. Adler has helped direct the news coverage of the Wall Street Journal, extended the reach of its new media offerings and managed its books imprint.

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With his wife, novelist Lisa Grunwald, he edited the best-selling Letters of the Century in 1999 and the forthcoming Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present, to be published next year.

Born in New York City, Mr. Adler received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1977 and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1983.

[lainie]

Working Woman magazine, November 1999

Mandy Grunwald, 41, entered the national consciousness as one of Bill Clinton’s wunderkinder in the 1992 presidential race. She worked in the White House as a presidential adviser until 1995, when she left to work on other campaigns, such as the successful 1996 gubernatorial bid of Jeanne Shaheen, the first female to hold that job in New Hampshire. The daughter of Time magazine’s former managing editor, she grew up surrounded by A-list journalists and politicians. Today, she represents a new breed of career woman—the political professional.

Because she is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s media strategist and all-purpose political counselor, everyone wants a few words from Grunwald. But Mandy’s not talking. As her a question about Clinton’s policy positions for New York, and here’s what you get: “Well, I can’t talk about the future because she isn’t talking about it yet…She is listening to people; she’s not laying out an agenda. I can talk retrospectively about the kinds of issues she’s been involved with for 30 years.”

There’s little doubt among the scribes that this “listening” thing (in which the First Lady asserts no official positions for a campaign that at press time, isn’t yet a campaign) bears all the markings of a Grunwald/Clinton style “rollout,” a long tease of support-building for a controversial political personality.

Grunwald’s ascendancy in politics is mirrored by the growing number of female campaign professionals populating the political landscape—the women behind the women and men who seek to lead the nation. Just look at the presidential campaigns. Bill Bradley’s senior pollster and finance director are both women. Al Gore has appointed women to several key posts in his campaign: deputy chair, chief of staff, and director of policy coordination. And George W. Bush’s deputy finance manager, chief foreign policy adviser, and political director are all women.

[Daaave]

"I smell a conspiracy!"

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" James Carville, the raging Cajun strategist; his partner, Paul Begala; media maven Mandy Grunwald; and pollster Stanley Greenberg."

These people are thick as thieves.
Greenberg is married to Rosa DeLauro- (Shrill Dem- Ct ) coincidentally, a buddy of one Hillary Rodham Clinton .
Carville, Greenberg and Bob Shrum run Democracy Corps , a 501 c.
I don't buy for one minute the fable that Cooper did not know that Wilson's wife was Valerie Flame or what she did.