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Posted on 05/04/2011 6:08:26 PM PDT by kcvl
On top of the more than half a million dollars it spends on speechwriters, the White House is using tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a public relations firm headed by Democratic image maker Michael Sheehan — once dubbed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as an “extraordinary media coach” who helped her master the teleprompter.
Mr. Sheehan’s firm, Sheehan Associates, could receive more than $100,000 under a current contract and has been providing occasional speech and consulting services to the White House since 2009, federal purchasing records show.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Payoff for Cindy
The Sheehan effect refers to Michael Sheehan, the media-training guru who has served as the speech coach at every Democratic convention since 1988, laboring in a windowless room beneath the stage to tune up speakers before their podium turns, and has worked on countless campaigns. Among Sheehan’s most prominent clients have been Bill and Hillary Clinton, and also the current president—whom Sheehan prepped for his star-making 2004 convention keynote and last year’s nomination acceptance as well as his televised debates with John McCain. (At one point Sheehan told Obama that their goal was to make McCain come across like Mr. Wilson from “Dennis the Menace.”)
I see a red x in a box. I am getting very sleepy.
OK, there it is. There’s really nothing like seeing busy dung beetles and the president rolling their dung about.
Hmmmmmmmmmm?
Ah, I see others consider our septic tank bottom dwelling president as the Dung-Beetle-in-Chief.
Wonder what Jamie (the mythbuster who was - I believe - a SEAL in an earlier life) thinks of the low-rent piece of excrement standing in front of him.)
Perhaps thoughts like “this - thing - couldn’t lead a hungry dog to food...”
With the staged pictures at the podium after the speech, and the announcement of speech and teleprompter coaches, Barry’s Presidency sounds and looks more and more like the plot from “The King’s Speech”.
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