Subject: [big campaign] The Quotable Charlie Black
From: "Ari Rabin-Havt" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:26:25 -0400
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http://www.mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0016
The Quotable Charlie Black *Yesterday, McCain senior adviser Charlie Black
caused a firestorm because of his candied comments that he thinks a
terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be helpful to the candidacy of John
McCain.  Black is a GOP operative with a long history in negative, hardball
tactics and with a lucrative career in lobbying.  Here is a collection of
the most quotable quotes by or about Charlie Black.
*
"Certainly it would be a big advantage to him."
-- Charlie Black on the impact of a terrorist attack on US soil during the
campaign on John McCain's candidacy [Fortune, 6/23/08]

"I'm proud of the record of many of my advisers. One small example, Charlie
Black. Charlie Black was involved in the first Reagan campaign, and he's
been involved in every national presidential campaign since."
-- John McCain [Associated Press, 2/22/08]

"I've got access to just about anybody in the government."
-- Charlie Black [Washington Post, 8/12/89]

"Black is a master media manipulator, or 'spin doctor,' as it is called in
the political trade.  He seems able to put a 'spin' on almost any event, no
matter how unfavorable, to cast his client in a favorable light."
-- [Washington Post, 12/1/86]

"As long as you comply with all the rules and regulations, your past
activities shouldn't be criticized."
-- Charlie Black [Associated Press, 9/29/93]

"Black said he does a lot of his work by telephone from McCain's Straight
Talk Express bus."
-- Washington Post [2/22/08]

"Charlie will pat you on the back one moment, stab you in the back the
next."
-- Former Black associate [Los Angeles Times, 10/7/90]

"I don't see a problem in the world with it. … People are entitled to
exercise their First Amendment right to work in any particular campaign they
want."
-- Charlie Black, on the "revolving door" between lobbying and government
[Washington Post, 10/8/92]

"You can always tell when the Democrats are about to have a bad political
year because the weekend before the election they start acting like martyrs
and screaming racism and voter intimidation."
-- Charlie Black [Associated Press, 11/5/90]

"The technical term for what we do – and law firms, associations and
professional groups do – is lobby … For the purposes of today, I will
stipulate that, in a narrow sense, some people may term it
influence-peddling."
-- Paul Manafort, Charlie Black's partner [Washington Post, 6/21/89]

"'There was a general feeling of resistance or rebellion among white
southerners to LBJ Lyndon B. Johnson [sic], to the things he was doing,'
Black said.  'I wasn't conversant with the policies, or why the civil rights
act was bad, but it caused me to focus on it.'"
-- Charlie Black [Washington Post, 4/7/85]

"The most egregious examples of influence-peddling lobbyists."
-- Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity, on Bush '92 advisers Charlie
Black and James Lake's role on the campaign. [Star Tribune, 10/22/92]

"'I think there is a great advantage in dealing with people who you
personally know and trust … most importantly, can they [officials] trust you
[the lobbyist] to tell the truth. … I think there is an advantage to the
client and to the person in position of authority to deal with someone they
know and trust,'"
-- Charlie Black on lobbying [Washington Post, 8/12/89, ellipses original]

"Doggett got the endorsement of the big gay PAC in San Antonio.  That wasn't
unusual, but then we got onto the fact that the gays had a male strip show
at some bar and Doggett takes that money.  That became a matter of his
judgment, so we rolled it out there."
-- Charlie Black on his role during Phil Gramm's campaign against Democrat
Lloyd Doggett
[Washington Post, 4/7/85]

"In terms of being able to distort or mislead people, you're never running
in the clear … Back in the 1970s, you could say all kinds of outrageous
things.  Now, in almost any state you go into, you've got at least one,
maybe four or five state newspapers that will call your hand.  Some of these
state capital press corps are tougher than the national guys."
-- Charlie Black [Washington Post, 1/17/89]

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