Carville coming to see about helping PR campaign

The Jerusalem Post ^ | November, 29 2001 | By Janine Zacharia

[Phil V.]

Carville coming to see about helping PR campaign

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By Janine Zacharia

November, 29 2001

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WASHINGTON (November 29) - James Carville, the Democratic strategist who helped Ehud Barak defeat Binyamin Netanyahu in the 1999 prime ministerial race, left for Israel yesterday, where he will meet with people who want him to help improve the country's image in the US, a source close to him said yesterday.

Carville is expected to stay only through the weekend. No contracts have been signed yet.

"He is talking to more people who are interested in helping Israel with its image here. Nothing has started yet," the source said.

Carville has recently been approached by Israelis and Americans to help launch a new public relations initiative. Public opinion polls conducted in the US since September 11 have shown American support for Israel remains strong.

But since the terrorist attacks, the perception that Osama bin Laden is somehow motivated by America's support for Israel has mounted, and many Jewish Americans have expressed concern about growing anti-Israel sentiment.

Carville came to prominence in the early 1990s when he ran Bill Clinton's campaign for the presidency. He was immortalized in a popular documentary film, The Boiler Room. Since, he has written books and appeared in commercials. He is married to Republican political strategist and media personality Mary Matalin.

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[VA Advogado]

LOL As I get older I do need the bigger font when people spell out the obvious to me. Thanks!

[Paul Atreides]

Israel wants to improve its image? Start by firing Carvile.

[Phil V.]

He is married to Republican political strategist and media personality Mary Matalin.

I know! I've got it!!!

The Mossad is going to shoot him up with sodium penathol and download all of James' & Mary's pillow talk pertaining to Mary's conversations vith Chenney!!!

[Paul Atreides]

What a nest of cockroaches that was loosed upon this nation in 1992!!

[lawnguy]

"He is talking to more people who are interested in helping Israel with its image here.

Funny these people aren't identified. This is a planted PR effort to get his name back in play. As someone mentioned earlier, he's not exactly a hot commodity domestically right now. I think the guy's trolling for work.

But, it's certainly possible that a few misguided souls think this guy may be useful. It would seem to me, however that Israel has more pressing concerns right now.

[malarski]

Public opinion polls conducted in the US since September 11 have shown American support for Israel remains strong.

But since the terrorist attacks, the perception that Osama bin Laden is somehow motivated by America's support for Israel has mounted, and many Jewish Americans have expressed concern about growing anti-Israel sentiment.

Higher mathematics at work.

[StormEye]

I expect that Carville will next try to improve Bin Laden's image in Amerca. After all the guy is one of the chief DemonRATS in America. (Note to Dick Cheney: Please watch what you say around Mary Matalin.)

[TLI]

Well... anyone standing NEXT to `ol Q-Ball is just bound to look good. Maybe there IS somthing to this....

[StormEye]

Correction: That should be America.

[Paul Atreides]

I just got Fox News on my cable service and when I saw Colmes of Hannity and Colmes my immediate thought was "James Carvile and Margaret Carlson have a son?"

[Former_russian]

By the end of his visit everybody will know that the entire conflict is just about sex.

[jmp702]

That, I say that, is my reaction whenever I think of the little rodent.

"He is talking to more people who are interested in helping Israel with its image here. Nothing has started yet," the source said.

Carville is not an image maker. He is a spinmeister.

[ILuvRonnieRaygun]

Any one of the 43 % of moronic Americans who voted for slick in 92 and 96, that's who!

[ladyinred]

Gee, you said what I was doing when I read this! LOL

Yes, Carville is just the epitome of the PR spokesman isn't he?

"This is war!"

[ILuvRonnieRaygun]

Not this American! Pound for pound The Baddest boys and girls on the planet are the Israelis. We're a close second!

[vbmoneyspender]

i hate to disagree with you. he is a jerk, he has no manners, is loudmouthed, is abrasive, is socially inept and bald. BUT he must be a genius because he got clinton elected. now tell me, who else could do that?

Ross Perot --- twice!

[jmp702]

Jewish Americans have expressed concern about growing anti-Israel sentiment.

Not anti-Israel sentiment, folks. Increasing sentiment that we should stay out of their war.

Even the dreaded ADL admits that 70% favor neutrality: Seventy percent (70%) of Americans said that the U.S. should take neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian side in the dispute.

[mlocher]

ross perot -- twice

touche and touche

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Do you really think the intelligence of the American electorate is declining? I sincerely doubt that it is. It's character, however, undoubtedly waned--The Toon's re-election can be explained no other way.

I work with a lot of Demonrats. They are not stupid. In fact, for eight years about the only response they had to all the corruption that was evident was, "They're all crooks!" In other words, they knew their guy was corrupt, but their character was so low, so weak, or so absent that they had to delude themselves into believing that their guy was no worse than any of our guys.

Admittedly, a fair amount of them are ignorant, being the captive slaves of the mainstream media. One of my colleagues, a frothing-at-the-mouth Goron who was absolutely venomous during the Floriduh circus last year, got turned on to conservative talk radio while driving back from a business trip after being stranded by the 9/11 attacks. He seems addicted now, and it's quite amusing when he stops in to tell me the latest he's heard from Rush. Of course, he regards conservative radio to be a form of entertainment, but what's got him hooked is that he's hearing things there that he doesn't hear elsewhere. Methinks his days as a liberal are numbered.

[mlocher]

do you really think the intelligence of the american voter is declining

you make some very valid points and i agree with them. character has declined! now, i don't know if the intelligence of the american electorate is declining, but i do not think it is being used on the first tuesday of every fourth november. i believe that people are voting more on emotion than than by using their heads.

i have had discussions with several women aged between 20 and 40 before and after the last election. before our conversation, they said they preferred bush and his policies and views, but were going to vote for gore. reason? abortion. gore for it and bush against it. for all intents and purposes the only way to do away with abortion is through the supreme court or with a constitutional amendment -- neither of which involves the pres. in short, voting for president because of an issue he has little, if any, say in. (those i got to before the election said they changed their minds.)

character is important. so is the ability to think logically through your emotions.