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===White House Communications Director=== |
===White House Communications Director=== |
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As the [[White House Communications Director]], Anita Dunn appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources. She denounced the [[Fox News Channel]] as operating "almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party", as an outlet for Republican Party propaganda and opposition to the president. She stated "what you would have seen were that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named [[Bill Ayers]] and a something called [[ACORN]]." <ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/11/anita-dunn-fox-news-an-ou_n_316691.html Anita Dunn: Fox News An Outlet For GOP Propoganda]</ref> |
As the [[White House Communications Director]], Anita Dunn appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources. She denounced the [[Fox News Channel]] as operating "almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party", as an outlet for Republican Party propaganda and opposition to the president. She stated "what you would have seen were that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named [[Bill Ayers]] and a something called [[ACORN]]." <ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/11/anita-dunn-fox-news-an-ou_n_316691.html Anita Dunn: Fox News An Outlet For GOP Propoganda]</ref> |
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===Glenn Beck coverage=== |
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On Oct 15, 2009 [[Glenn Beck]]'s television program on the Fox New Network targeted Dunn by showing a video clip of her giving a speech to high school students on June 5, 2009.<ref>[http://mediamatters.org/research/200910150044 "Beck falsely claimed Anita Dunn "worships" "her hero" Mao Zedong"] [[Media Matters for America]] October 15, 2009 10:40 pm ET</ref> She stated "two of my favorite political philosophers, [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Mother Teresa]] -- not often coupled with each other -- but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, 'You're going to make choices, you're going to challenge, you're going to say, why not?, you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before." Beck was critical of Dunn as he continued to question what he alleged was a pattern of communist and Marxist sympathies of many in the Obama administration. Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune speculated that unlike the resignation of [[Van Jones]], Dunn would survive the controversy. |
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===Personal life=== |
===Personal life=== |
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Revision as of 20:05, 16 October 2009
Anita Dunn is the interim White House Communications Director.[1] Previously, she was a Democratic political consultant with a Washington-based consulting firm, Squier Knapp Dunn Communications, and was a top adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. [2] [3]
Biography
Dunn, began her career in the Carter White House, first as an intern for White House Communications Director Gerald Rafshoon and then worked for chief of staff Hamilton Jordan. She worked on the campaign of Senator John Glenn (D-OH), and on Capitol Hill before joining the firm founded by Bob Squier and Bill Knapp in 1993. She has been the top adviser to Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ), including serving as the chief strategist for his presidential campaign, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN), and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). She was hired by then-Senator Barack Obama in 2006 to direct communications and strategy for his political action committee, The Hopefund. This move signaled to many that Obama was nearing a run for the presidency. While advising Hopefund and Obama in 2006, she was instrumental in the preparations for the launch of Obama for America, and brought many key staffers to the Obama campaign with whom she had worked in Bayh or Daschle's offices.
Obama campaign
In April 2008, it was announced that Dunn, who had joined the Obama campaign in February, would be the director of communications, policy and research operations for Obama for America, where she held the title Senior Adviser and was one of the major decision makers of the Obama campaign. She was featured as one of four top advisers (along with David Axelrod, David Plouffe, and Robert Gibbs) in a 60 Minutes interview held after President-elect Obama's November 4, 2008 victory speech at Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois. She was described, in the 60 Minutes interview, as, "a relative newcomer who handled communications, research and policy."[4] During the presidential transition of 2008-09, Dunn trained White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
White House Communications Director
As the White House Communications Director, Anita Dunn appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources. She denounced the Fox News Channel as operating "almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party", as an outlet for Republican Party propaganda and opposition to the president. She stated "what you would have seen were that the biggest stories and the biggest threats facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and a something called ACORN." [5]
Personal life
She is married to the President's personal lawyer, Robert Bauer, a partner at Perkins Coie who has been the general counsel of Obama for America since January 2007. They reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Newsweek named Dunn and Bauer the new "power couple" in Washington, D.C. in 2008.
References
External links
- "Power 2009: The New Lineup in Washington". Newsweek. December 20, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-08.