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</div><div>a campaign advisory firm that was hired to help elect Democratic presidential candidate <a href="https://www.salon.com/topic/joe_biden" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Joe Biden</a> was targeted by suspected <a href="https://www.salon.com/topic/russian-hackers" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Russian state-backed hackers</a>, according to a recent report.</div>Microsoft Corp. recently alerted the Washington-based firm SKDKnickerbocker that its staff had been targeted by individuals believed to have been affiliated with Russian hacking networks, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cyber-biden-exclusive/exclusive-russian-state-hackers-suspected-in-targeting-biden-campaign-firm-sources-idUSKBN2610I4" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">according to Reuters</a>. A person familiar with the hacking attempts told the wire agency that “they are well-defended, so there has been no breach.” Microsoft also <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/biden-app-voter-files/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANdTOeDgOFqbES-5RC6I96NHMUObT690ltOtZp30WEdunCgGjEAm5HkX84l5-Seqit5V0wyNdDwRZSz1ajcLNC-9eYpr7l5Yftjl4JsKb2hxTIhERJj9lriELb9NVJBWZgXS7X-67mFRL252b81PXC2KLni-pIuhBXvNzs-FY2d" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">warned</a> that both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns are being targeted by hackers backed by China, Iran and Russia.SKDKnickerbocker is a prominent Washington campaign firm whose partner, Anita Dunn, is a <a href="https://senior%20strategist%20for%20biden%27s%20campaign/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">senior strategist for Biden’s campaign</a>. It is responsible for efforts like “Vote Safe California,” a $35 million campaign to increase voter turnout in the upcoming presidential election.A spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, dismissed the accusations as “nonsense.""Over the past number of years, there’s been significant evidence documented in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report and numerous other places, including the 17 intelligence agencies, that Russia infiltrated our elections in the 2016 race and was continuing to do that throughout not only the 2018 elections, but also into the 2020 election,” Aaron Scherb, the director of legislative affairs at the government watchdog group Common Cause, told Salon. “And so it’s no surprise at all that this new evidence was revealed recently about their involvement in trying to hack the Biden campaign.”There is evidence that Russian state-sponsored hackers previously infiltrated prominent Democratic Party officials’ emails amid the 2016 election. While a special counsel report <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/03/22/robert-muellers-report-is-in-how-long-till-we-see-it/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">did not charge President Trump himself</a> with actively colluding with the Russian government, the investigation became politicized as a “<a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/07/22/trump-claims-he-wont-watch-mueller-testimony-because-its-a-ridiculous-witch-hunt/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">witch hunt</a>” by Republican Party officials and by the president himself.Lindsay Gorman, a fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, feared that this hacking attempt would become similarly politicized. “Politicization in this arena directly undermines our democracy,” Gorman told Salon.“Given the tactics we saw in 2016, it should come as no surprise that Russia would be interested in targeting a firm tied to a political campaign,” Gorman added. “It’s important to note though that for the foreign actors we worry about in the context of cyber-espionage and organizations relevant to US policymaking, a range of motives may be at play…. For example, we don’t know yet whether these cyber attempts on campaign-related infrastructure are part of a larger election interference plot or simply a means to gather intelligence on prospective future US policy should a particular candidate be elected in November.”While Russia’s attempts to meddle in US elections in the past four years have caused widespread political outrage and led to investigations such as <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/03/17/justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-against-russian-shell-companies-indicted-in-mueller-probe_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation</a>, the United States also has a long history of meddling in other countries’ elections. There were <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/the-us-has-a-long-history-of-election-meddling/565538/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">62 occasions</a> between 1946 and 1989, the height of the Cold War, when America intervened through direct or covert methods (or both) in other countries’ elections. In 1948, for instance, America’s foreign policy apparatus <a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/all-feasible-means" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">intervened</a> in Italy’s parliamentary elections to help Rome’s pro-Western government defeat the Popular Front, a leftist alliance of parties. American intelligence officials have freely <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/sunday-review/russia-isnt-the-only-one-meddling-in-elections-we-do-it-too.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">admitted</a> to influencing or even controlling media outlets, funding candidates and engaging in other electioneering activity in order to thwart politicians who were perceived as pro-Communist or simply not as friendly to perceived American interests.“If you ask an intelligence officer, did the Russians break the rules [in 2016] or do something bizarre, the answer is no, not at all,” Steven L. Hall, a retired CIA intelligence operative, previously <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/sunday-review/russia-isnt-the-only-one-meddling-in-elections-we-do-it-too.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">told the New York Times</a> in a 2018 interview. Hall said that he “hope[d]” that the United States would “keep doing it,” by which he meant carry out out “election influence operations.”<div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"></div></div><div>=<a href="https://foe.org/keystone-xl-pipeline-influence-scandal/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://foe.org/keystone-xl-pipeline-influence-scandal/</a>...OverviewThe State Department has the lead authority to determine whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline by conducting and environmental impact assessment. The law requires the State Department to act impartially and undertake an independent, rigorous, science-based analysis of the controversial pipeline’s risks. Unfortunately, it has become clear that the State Department’s review is deeply, irreparably flawed.First of all, the firm hired by the State Department to conduct the pipeline’s environmental review, Environmental Resources Management, has financial ties with TransCanada (the company seeking to build the pipeline). According to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/keystone-xl-contractor-ties-transcanada-state-department" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Mother Jones</a>, State Department employees clumsily edited the firm’s Conflict of Interest filings in order to hide ERM consultants’ previous work for TransCanada. Moreover, <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130306/keystone-xl-eis-state-department-transcanada-oil-tar-sands-industry-ensys-energy-koch-brothers-exxonmobil-bp-obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Inside Climate</a> has reported that ERM subcontracted crucial parts of its report to consulting firms with deep ties to oil and pipeline companies. As a result, this environmental review downplays the climate impacts of the pipeline. The EPA, like Friends of the Earth, has criticized the review for its inaccurate assessment of the oil sands crude market, understatement of climate impacts from tar sands extraction, and dismissal of the impact on communities along the pipeline route, including in the vicinity of the Texas refineries.Secondly, TransCanada and the Canadian province of Alberta have hired a web of former Obama and Kerry officials and campaigners to lobby for the pipeline. <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/91300bf0-c80e-11e2-be27-00144feab7de.html#axzz2WCjhN4GQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">The Financial Times</a> has found that Alberta made a point to hire former Obama officials and Kerry staff in order to win approval from the State Department instead of focusing on Congress like most lobby groups. TransCanada and Alberta’s lobbyists have been trying to convince the administration that the pipeline will create jobs and pose no threats to the environment, in the hopes that they can get the pipeline approved.Friends of the Earth’s recent <a href="https://foe.org/news/news-releases/2013-04-friends-of-the-earth-files-kxl-foia-request" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Freedom of Information Act request </a>to the State Department identifies more than two dozen of these lobbyists, lawyers and consultants helping to push the pipeline. Heading the list is Anita Dunn, a former White House communications director and senior advisor to the president’s re-election campaign and the former communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee under then-Senator Kerry. Dunn is now a principal with the lobbying firm SDKnickerbocker, which represents TransCanada. Other pipeline lobbyists include three former U.S. ambassadors to Canada, David Wilkins, Gordon Giffin and Jim Blanchard and three former members of John Kerry’s presidential campaign team, Brandon Pollak, Graham Shalgian and David Castagnetti.This is not the first time that the State Department has let TransCanada call the shots. Previously, the State Department hired the consulting firm CardnoEntrix, even though the firm listed TransCanada as a major client (a fact which should have <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/science/earth/08pipeline.html?r=3&hpw&" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">disqualified </a>it under the National Environmental Policy Act). Not surprisingly, CardnoEntrix’s review downplayed the climate impacts and potential risks of the pipeline. A <a href="https://foe.org/news/archives/keystone-xl-pipeline-influence-scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Freedom of Information Act request</a> by Friends of the Earth uncovered <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hillary-clinton-keystone-xl-lobbyists" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">close ties</a> between State Department officials and TransCanada and multiple e-mails showed State Department employees <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/science/earth/04pipeline.html?pagewanted=all" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">coaching</a> TransCanada lobbyist (and former Hillary Clinton campaign official) Paul Elliott in his efforts to build support for the pipeline.In his 2008 campaign, President Obama <a href="http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">promised</a> to tell lobbyists that “their days of setting the agenda are over.” Unfortunately, his State Department has failed to live up to this promise. The evidence is in: the State Department is again running a sham process, rigged in favor of dirty oil. It is up to President Obama to make things right.<h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; text-transform: capitalize; line-height: 43pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key Concerns</h3><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div></div><div>
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<div>The biggest rift separates the aides and advisers close to the campaign masterminds—Axelrod, Gibbs, and Plouffe—and those close to Anita Dunn, the de facto leader of the White House anti-boys-club faction, which also includes Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett...Members of the Axelrod-Gibbs-Plouffe axis chafe at the work Dunn’s firm, SKDKnickerbocker, has done for ex–Republican governor Charlie Crist and for a coalition of junk-food manufacturers. “We’re very sensitive about not working for anyone that … might reflect poorly on the president,” says one former Obama adviser. “Other firms haven’t concerned themselves with that. Anita Dunn and SKDK worked on the sugar campaign in direct competition with the first lady’s anti-obesity campaign.”</div><div>
<div>desmog: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ezra-levant" style="">Ezra Levant</a> [1] is the man behind an attempt to re-frame the Alberta tar sands as "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Oil:The_Case_for_Canada's_Oil_Sands" style="">ethical oil</a> [2]." "Ethical" - Levant's <a href="http://desmog.ca/2013/01/29/ethical-oil-doublespeak-polluting-canada-s-public-square" style="">deceptive public relations campaign</a> [3] argues of the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/the-worlds-biggest-carbon-bomb/blog/36923/" style="">tar sands "carbon bomb"</a> [4] - because it doesn't come from the war-ridden and human rights-abusing Middle East. </div>Now, the "ethical oil" campaign has a new backer: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/12551" style="">Anita Dunn</a> [5], former White House Communications Director for President Barack Obama and current Principal of <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/12552" style="">SKDKnickerbocker</a> [6], a public relations firm with offices in Washington, D.C.; New York City and Albany.SKDK - as <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/12552" style="">covered here on multiple occasions by DeSmogBlog </a> [6]- does PR for <a href="http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5420" style="">Transcanada</a> [7], the company behind the controversial <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5857" style="">Keystone XL</a> [8] tar sands <a href="http://priceofoil.org/2013/07/11/keystone-xl-the-key-to-crude-exports-new-report/" style="">export pipeline</a> [9]. Transcanada has paid SKDK - and by extension, Dunn - to place ads in <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/mideast-unrest-as-foil-to-promote-keystone-pipeline/?emc=edit_tnt_20131007&tntemail0=y&r=1" style="">strategic television</a> [10] and <a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/audio/politics/20131006_keystone/KXL-radio.mp3" style="">radio</a> [11] markets in the Washington, D.C. area. “America imports millions of barrels of oil from the Middle East every week,” a <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/mideast-unrest-as-foil-to-promote-keystone-pipeline/?emc=edit_tnt_20131007&tntemail0=y&r=1" style="">narrator says in an ominous tone in the most recent ad</a> [10], as images of violent protests in the Middle East blare across the screen. “But we don’t have to.”The T.V. ad then switches to serene music and landscape views with pipeline stretched across it, alluding to "ethical oil" coming from Canada if the northern half of Transcanada's Keystone XL pipeline is approved by both the U.S. State Department and President Barack Obama.<a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/audio/politics/20131006_keystone/KXL-radio.mp3" style="">The radio ad </a>[11]- also singing the "ethical oil" tune - claims that building the northern half of the Keystone XL will create "over 40,000 good American jobs." Independent studies point to it creating <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/17/1885621/keystone-pipeline-will-create-only-35-permanent-jobs-emit-51-coal-plants-worth-of-carbon/" style="">35 full-time jobs</a> [12] and <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/aswift/putting_keystone_xl_tar_sands.html" style="">3,950 temporary construction jobs</a> [13]. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/us/campaigning-again-for-obama-to-say-no.html?smid=tw-share" style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">The New York Times explained that Transcanada paid Dunn</a> [14] and SKDK to place the "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5599" style="">ethical oil</a> [15]"-style ad "to reach power players in Washington’s media market."Dunn's husband is <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/07/16/keystone-xl-scandal-obama-bauer-dunn-perkins-transcanada" style="">Robert "Bob" Bauer</a> [16], President Obama's personal attorney since he arrived in Washington, D.C. as a U.S. Senator in 2005; Obama's election law attorney for his 2008 and 2012 electoral campaigns; former Obama White House Counsel during his first term in office and former Counsel for the Democratic National Committee. A decision on the northern half of the pipeline is not expected for months, yet one thing remains certain: the deceptive "ethical oil" meme and theme will pollute the airwaves throughout that time period, and it just found a new promoter in Anita Dunn. <div>
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</div><div>anita dunn attacked gb, so she was proved a commie by hs speech (she contrasted mao to mo teresa)<div>
</div><div><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; line-height: 19.2px;">Fox News vs. Obama Administration</h2>A public feud between the Obama administration and Fox News began with former White House communications director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anita Dunn (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Anita Dunn</a> claiming that the news organization “often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party" (see October 11, 2009 interview on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AEt180Wnls" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" xmlns:data="data">here</a>).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fox_News#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a> Comments by top Obama officials continued throughout the month of October with White House senior adviser <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Axelrod" title="David Axelrod" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David Axelrod</a> and Chief of Staff <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rahm_Emanuel" title="Rahm Emanuel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Rahm Emanuel</a> criticizing Fox News as “not really news".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fox_News#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a>The White House went so far as to post a “reality check” <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Reality-Check-Turning-a-Point-of-Pride-into-a-Moment-of-Shame/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a> on its website, refuting various claims made by Fox talk show host <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Glenn Beck</a> regarding the failure to secure the 2016 Summer Olympics bid for Chicago. Similarly, a link to a truth-o-meter debunking even more Fox News false claims can be found at the bottom of the page.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fox_News#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a>In a sign that relations between the White House and Fox News are thawing, President Obama granted an extended interview to Fox senior White House correspondent <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Major_Garrett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Major Garrett (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Major Garrett</a>, covering a broad range of topics on Special Report with Bret Baier on November 17, 2009.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fox_News#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a>
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</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(230, 230, 250); text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director" title="White House Communications Director" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">White House Director of Communications</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; border-bottom-style: none; text-align: center;">In office
April 21, 2009 – November 30, 2009</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top;">President</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Barack Obama</a></td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top;">Preceded by</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Moran" title="Ellen Moran" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ellen Moran</a></td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top;">Succeeded by</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pfeiffer" title="Daniel Pfeiffer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Daniel Pfeiffer</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(230, 230, 250); text-align: center;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top;">Political party</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Democratic Party</a></td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top;">Spouse(s)</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauer" title="Robert Bauer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Robert Bauer</a></td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top;">Children</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">Steven</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Alma mater</a></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland" title="University of Maryland" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">University of Maryland</a></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#p-search" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Anita Dunn is an American </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_strategist" title="Political strategist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">political strategist</a> who served as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director" title="White House Communications Director" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">White House Communications Director</a> from April through November 2009. She is a senior partner at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKDKnickerbocker" title="SKDKnickerbocker" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">SKDKnickerbocker</a>, a strategic communications firm in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Washington, D.C.</a>, and has recently become a contributor for NBC News / MSNBC / CNBC.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">citation needed</a>]<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; display: inline-block; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#Life_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1 Life and career</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#Obama_campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.1 Obama campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#Controversies" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.2 Controversies</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#2012_Obama_campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.3 2012 Obama campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.4 Personal life</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">Life and career<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Life and career" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&veaction=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Life and career" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2>Dunn was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, the daughter of Albert E. Babbitt and Carol Hutto Babbitt. Her father's brother was the modernist composer, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Babbitt" title="Milton Babbitt" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Milton Babbitt</a>. She began her career in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Carter</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House" title="White House" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">White House</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-post-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a> first as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intern" title="Intern" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">intern</a> for White House Communications Director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Rafshoon" title="Gerald Rafshoon" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gerald Rafshoon</a> and then worked for<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_staff" title="Chief of staff" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">chief of staff</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Jordan" title="Hamilton Jordan" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Hamilton Jordan</a>. She worked on the campaign of Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn" title="John Glenn" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">John Glenn</a> (D-OH) in 1984,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-post-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a> and on Capitol Hill before joining the firm founded by Bob Squier and William Knapp in 1993. She has been the adviser to Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Bill Bradley</a> (D-NJ),<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a> including serving as the chief strategist for his presidential campaign, Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Bayh" title="Evan Bayh" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Evan Bayh</a> (D-IN), former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Majority_Leader" title="Senate Majority Leader" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Senate Majority Leader</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Daschle" title="Tom Daschle" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Tom Daschle</a> (D-SD). In 2004, Anita produced the media for Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Doggett#Political_career" title="Lloyd Doggett" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lloyd Doggett</a> (D-TX).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a> She was hired by then-Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Barack Obama</a> in 2006 to direct communications and strategy for his political action committee, The Hopefund. This move signaled to many that Obama was planning to run for the presidency. While advising Hopefund and Obama in 2006, she was instrumental in the preparations for the launch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_for_America" title="Obama for America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Obama for America</a>, and brought many key staffers to the Obama campaign with whom she had worked in Bayh's and Daschle's offices.<h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none;">Obama campaign<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Obama campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&veaction=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Obama campaign" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_for_America" title="Obama for America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Obama for America</a>, 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Axelrod" title="David Axelrod" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David Axelrod</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plouffe" title="David Plouffe" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">David Plouffe</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gibbs" title="Robert Gibbs" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Robert Gibbs</a>) in a 60 Minutes interview held after then <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President-elect" title="President-elect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">President-elect</a>Obama's November 4, 2008 victory speech at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Park(Chicago)" title="Grant Park (Chicago)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Grant Park</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,Illinois" title="Chicago, Illinois" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Chicago, Illinois</a>. She was described, in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">60 Minutes</a> interview, as, "a relative newcomer who handled communications, research and policy."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a> During the presidential transition of 2008-09, Dunn trained White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">citation needed</a>]<h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none;">Controversies<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Controversies" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&veaction=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Controversies" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>A veteran political operative, Dunn, as interim <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director" title="White House Communications Director" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">White House Communications Director</a>, took the lead in the Obama administration's criticism of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Fox News Channel</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a> On Sunday, October 11, 2009, she appeared on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">CNN</a>'s Reliable Sources and was asked to clarify a statement she made to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine" title="Time Magazine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Time</a>magazine regarding Fox News, "it's opinion journalism masquerading as news."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a> She responded by saying, "if you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election, what you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories and biggest threats facing America were a guy named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers_presidential_election_controversy" title="Bill Ayers presidential election controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Bill Ayers</a> and something called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now#2008:Presidential_campaign" title="Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">ACORN</a>. The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Republican_Party" title="U.S. Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Republican Party</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-White_House_Escalates-7" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a> She added, "And it's not ideological. Obviously, there are many commentators who have conservative, liberal, centrist, and everybody understands that. But I think what is fair to say about FOX and certainly the way we view it is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-reliable_sources-8" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a>Following her statements, Fox News host <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Glenn Beck</a> played on his show a portion of a speech Dunn gave at a high school graduation, during which she referenced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mao Zedong</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mother Teresa</a> as two of her "favorite political philosophers."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a> Beck stated that the speech revealed Dunn as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoist" title="Maoist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Maoist</a>, while Dunn stated that her reference was meant to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony" title="Irony" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">ironic</a>, and was a quote borrowed from Republican strategist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater" title="Lee Atwater" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lee Atwater</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a>Dunn left her interim post at the end of November 2009 and was replaced by her deputy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Pfeiffer" title="Dan Pfeiffer" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Dan Pfeiffer</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none;">2012 Obama campaign<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2012 Obama campaign" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&veaction=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: 2012 Obama campaign" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>During the 2012 Obama campaign, Dunn helped Obama prepare for the debates. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none;">Personal life<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&veaction=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>Dunn is married to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauer" title="Robert Bauer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Robert Bauer</a>, former partner at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Coie" title="Perkins Coie" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Perkins Coie</a> and current personal counsel to President Obama and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">White House Counsel</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-craig-departs-13" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a>Bauer has also been the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_counsel" title="General counsel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">general counsel</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_for_America" title="Obama for America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Obama for America</a> since January 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a> In 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Newsweek</a> named Dunn and Bauer the new "power couple" in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Washington, D.C.</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">See also<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&veaction=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: See also" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii=");" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign_staff_members,2008" title="List of Barack Obama presidential campaign staff members, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">List of Barack Obama presidential campaign staff members, 2008</a></li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);">References<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anita_Dunn&veaction=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><div class="reflist references-column-width" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-post-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-post_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-post_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">b</a> Horowitz, Jason (2009-10-14), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101403850.html?hpid=moreheadlines" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"Profile of Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director"</a>, The Washington Post, retrieved 2010-04-25<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.atitle=Profile+of+Anita+Dunn%2C+White+House+Communications+Director&rft.aufirst=Jason&rft.au=Horowitz%2C+Jason&rft.aulast=Horowitz&rft.date=2009-10-14&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2009%2F10%2F14%2FAR2009101403850.html%3Fhpid%3Dmoreheadlines&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Cook, Dave (October 22, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1022/who-is-anita-dunn" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"Who is Anita Dunn?"</a>. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved July 17, 2010.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.atitle=Who+is+Anita+Dunn%3F&rft.au=Cook%2C+Dave&rft.aufirst=Dave&rft.aulast=Cook&rft.date=October+22%2C+2009&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2FUSA%2FPolitics%2F2009%2F1022%2Fwho-is-anita-dunn&rft.jtitle=The+Christian+Science+Monitor&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.squiermedia.com/our-team/SquierKnappDunn/AnitaDunn.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Squier Knapp Dunn bio.</a> Company Web site. Retrieved 2010-03-09.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/07/60minutes/main4584507.shtml" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); 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padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"White House Escalates War of Words With Fox News"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel" title="Fox News Channel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Fox News</a>. 12 October 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091017000624/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/white-house-escalates-war-words-fox-news/?" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; 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Retrieved 2009-10-20.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.btitle=White+House+Escalates+War+of+Words+With+Fox+News&rft.date=12+October+2009&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2009%2F10%2F12%2Fwhite-house-escalates-war-words-fox-news%2F&rft.pub=Fox+News&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-reliable_sources-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-reliable_sources_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/11/rs.01.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"CNN Reliable Sources"</a>. CNN. 11 October 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091016053827/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/11/rs.01.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-01.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.btitle=CNN+Reliable+Sources&rft.date=11+October+2009&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftranscripts.cnn.com%2FTRANSCRIPTS%2F0910%2F11%2Frs.01.html&rft.pub=CNN&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }More complete quote from Dunn: "The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mao Zedong</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Mother Teresa</a> — not often coupled with each other, but the two people 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. But here's the deal: These are your choices, they are no one else's. In 1947, when Mao Zedong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Chiang Kai-shek</a> and the Nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army, they had the air force, they had everything on their side. And people said, 'How can you win? How can you do this? How can you do this, against all of the odds against you?' And Mao Zedong said, you know, 'You fight your war, and I'll fight mine.' And think about that for a second. You don't have to accept the definition of how to do things and you don't have to follow other peoples choices and paths. Ok? It is about your choices and your path. You fight your own war, you lay out your own path, you figure out what's right for you. You don't let external definition define how good you are internally, you fight your war, you let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path".</li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Malveaux, Suzanne; Hornick, Ed (16 October 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/16/beck.dunn/index.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"Obama aide fires back at Beck over Mao remarks"</a>. CNN. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091019111816/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/16/beck.dunn/index.html?" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on 19 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-19.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.aufirst=Suzanne&rft.au=Hornick%2C+Ed&rft.aulast=Malveaux&rft.au=Malveaux%2C+Suzanne&rft.btitle=Obama+aide+fires+back+at+Beck+over+Mao+remarks&rft.date=16+October+2009&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2009%2FPOLITICS%2F10%2F16%2Fbeck.dunn%2Findex.html&rft.pub=CNN&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }Cillizza, Chris (2009-11-10). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/white-house/dunn-leaving-white-house-pfeif.html?hpid=topnews" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Washington Post</a>. Retrieved 2009-11-10.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.atitle=Dunn+leaving+White+House%2C+Pfeiffer+takes+over&rft.au=Cillizza%2C+Chris&rft.aufirst=Chris&rft.aulast=Cillizza&rft.date=2009-11-10&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvoices.washingtonpost.com%2Fthefix%2Fwhite-house%2Fdunn-leaving-white-house-pfeif.html%3Fhpid%3Dtopnews&rft.jtitle=Washington+Post&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/us/politics/anita-dunn-both-insider-and-outsider-in-obama-camp.html?pagewanted=all&r=0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"Anita Dunn, Both Insider and Outsider in Obama camp"</a>.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.btitle=Anita+Dunn%2C+Both+Insider+and+Outsider+in+Obama+camp&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2012%2F10%2F20%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fanita-dunn-both-insider-and-outsider-in-obama-camp.html%3Fpagewanted%3Dall%26_r%3D0&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-craig-departs-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-craig-departs_13-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/after-months-of-denials-greg-craig-out-as-white-house-counsel.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"After Months of Denials, Greg Craig Out As White House Counsel"</a>. abcnews.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091115064847/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/after-months-of-denials-greg-craig-out-as-white-house-counsel.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Archived</a> from the original on 15 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-13.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.btitle=After+Months+of+Denials%2C+Greg+Craig+Out+As+White+House+Counsel&rft.date=abcnews.com&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.abcnews.com%2Fpoliticalpunch%2F2009%2F11%2Fafter-months-of-denials-greg-craig-out-as-white-house-counsel.html&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Anita_Dunn" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"Anita Dunn"</a>. Retrieved 2009-10-19.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.btitle=Anita+Dunn&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whorunsgov.com%2FProfiles%2FAnita_Dunn&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-15" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Bob_Bauer" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"Bob Bauer"</a>. Washington Post Company. Retrieved 2009-10-19.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnita+Dunn&rft.btitle=Bob+Bauer&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whorunsgov.com%2FProfiles%2FBob_Bauer&rft.pub=Washington+Post+Company&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_ref-16" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/176312" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"The D.C. 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