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EX-CLINTON AIDE: DC Renaissance Hotel's'S Sports Bar is Deification of Bush, Anti-Clinton
USNewswire via Bloomberg, no url | 2/14/03

Posted on 02/14/2003 12:24:48 PM PST by NativeNewYorker

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ex-Clinton political aide

Bob Weiner is slamming the D.C. downtown Renaissance Hotel's new

presidential photo sports bar as a ''deification of Bush,

anti-Clinton, and thereby partisan.''

   Weiner, who served as Public Affairs Director for the White House

Drug Czar and was a White House Athletic Center board member while

Clinton was President, visited the new bar yesterday in advance of

today's (Friday) opening to see how the presidential sports pictures

looked and to offer a photo of Clinton leading a group of runners,

including DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. ''I expected to join in

the celebration,'' Weiner stated.

   Instead, Weiner said, ''I saw an entrance corridor of four dramatic

George W. Bush photos, another Bush photo on a wall, and one Clinton

photo -- buried in a corner inside the actual bar, of him playing

pool. To me, and to several hotel employees with whom I spoke, the

Bush photos were disproportionate considering that Clinton is our most

recent and an eight-year president. The one Clinton photo denigrates

the spirit of enthusiastic leadership he conveyed, and the photos of

everyone else -- including Reagan and Bush I both riding horses over

fencesshow vitality and high adventure.''

   ''Clinton's sports love, as everyone knows, was running -- he told

me himself that he ran 25-30 miles a week. We offered the Renaissance

a beautiful picture -- free -- of him running, poster sized, and even

offered to quickly get a comparable outstanding frame from the

National Gallery so it would match the other quite wonderful photos of

the many other presidents the exhibit has. The exhibit manager, Bill

Englar, the hotel's Food and Beverage Manager, responded, 'I paid a

contractor, they organized it, and there's no space.' I responded with

what I felt was obvious -- 'We are not charging anything, doesn't your

contractor work for you, and here or here or here (pointing) there is

lots of space.' He then asked for a better quality photo, and I showed

him a clear original, which could be quickly re-poster-sized. But it

was clear no response by me would be adequate, especially since he

would not even look at our photo when asked several times, until I

physically held it up in front of him.''

   ''My worst fear is that because of Renaissance being a Marriott

hotel and Marriott owners' history of strong Republic allegiance,

there is a strong partisan and anti-Clinton bent in an exhibit that is

open to all DC. I know that the hotel does not only want Republican

patrons, so it is my hope they will balance the exhibit and include

photos like the one we've suggested to show Clinton's genuine

enthusiasm and the mantle of leadership he epitomized in available

sports photos,'' Weiner concluded.

(Source: Robert Weiner Associates 301-283-0821/202-329-1700)




TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: clinton; dirtxpotus
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1 posted on 02/14/2003 12:24:48 PM PST by NativeNewYorker
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To: NativeNewYorker
Wanna picture to remember Clinton?

Monica's stained dress. End of story.
2 posted on 02/14/2003 12:25:55 PM PST by Keith
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To: NativeNewYorker
I've seen several pictures of Clinton "running" in his little shorts. The hotel is right in not posting a large copy - it's enough to make a normal person puke.
3 posted on 02/14/2003 12:26:59 PM PST by astounded
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To: NativeNewYorker
Weiner is, well, a weiner.
4 posted on 02/14/2003 12:27:01 PM PST by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: NativeNewYorker
weiner, um, roasts.

dep

5 posted on 02/14/2003 12:27:48 PM PST by dep
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To: NativeNewYorker
he told me himself that he ran 25-30 miles a week.

And I think we could make a point of asking Bob Weiner why he believes Clinton, a noted perjuror, was telling the truth when he said this?

6 posted on 02/14/2003 12:28:28 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: NativeNewYorker
You don't like, don't go there...problem solved (where's my Nobel Prize?)
7 posted on 02/14/2003 12:28:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Keith
...ran 25-30 miles a week...

Maybe he should have hired slower interns.

8 posted on 02/14/2003 12:29:02 PM PST by Zathras
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To: piasa
Not to mention that there is no supporting physical evidence to back up Clinton's claim. Those flabby white thighs don't look like those of a runner.
9 posted on 02/14/2003 12:30:06 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: astounded
They could put the pic on the floor of the men's room..
10 posted on 02/14/2003 12:30:33 PM PST by ken5050
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To: NativeNewYorker
Next trip to Washington I'll make a point of stopping by and have a drink ... hell, maybe two or three! ;)
11 posted on 02/14/2003 12:30:58 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: NativeNewYorker
Weiner Associates

bun, relish, chili, mustard, and kraut.

no cheese, though. and i like cheese.

dep

12 posted on 02/14/2003 12:31:10 PM PST by dep
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To: piasa
No, the photos of clinton engaging in his "favorite sport" couldn't be posted in public, but perhaps over the urinal in the Mens Room.
13 posted on 02/14/2003 12:31:40 PM PST by laconic
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To: NativeNewYorker
Wouldn't Bill Cinton pictures be best suited to hang over a sink?
14 posted on 02/14/2003 12:31:41 PM PST by Bernard
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To: laconic
why would you want people to hurl into the urinal?

dep

15 posted on 02/14/2003 12:32:36 PM PST by dep
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To: NativeNewYorker; aristeides
What a Weiner!

Here's a true story. When Weiner worked in the Drug Czar's office under the Clintonista regime, he had his walls plastered with probably 25+ pictures of himself with 'famous' Dims. When Bush came into office, Weiner cleared his walls and put up about the only three pictures he had of himself with prominent Republicans.

So, he does know about political photo displays.

16 posted on 02/14/2003 12:32:36 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: NativeNewYorker
THIS IS NOT AN ATHLETE. LET'S SEE THESE IN THE BAR


17 posted on 02/14/2003 12:32:41 PM PST by finnman69 (!)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Instead, Weiner said, ''I saw an entrance corridor of four dramatic George W. Bush photos, another Bush photo on a wall, and one Clinton photo -- buried in a corner inside the actual bar, of him playing pool.

WHAAAAAAAWHAAAAAAAWHAWHAWHAWHAAAAAAAAAA

18 posted on 02/14/2003 12:32:55 PM PST by bmwcyle (Semper Gumby - Always Flexable)
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To: NativeNewYorker
Heres a pic to remember the commie by....
19 posted on 02/14/2003 12:33:26 PM PST by cardinal4 (Get the UN out of the US and get the US out of the UN!!)
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To: NativeNewYorker
I Love it....there are ways certain entities CAN be discriminatory....and it looks like this place has figured out how to thumb their noses at certain elitists....More time at the Marriott from now on!
20 posted on 02/14/2003 12:33:41 PM PST by goodnesswins (Thank the Military for your freedom and security....and thank a Rich person for jobs.)
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