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How Newsmax spread conspiracy theories about Smartmatic in 2020

Written by Helena Hind & Jane Lee

Published 09/26/24

Smartmatic’s defamation case against Newsmax, which accuses the right-wing cable channel of spreading conspiracy theories about the voting technology company for profit and consequently damaging its reputation, is slated to begin soon.

After right-wing media competitor Fox News unexpectedly but accurately called Arizona for Joe Biden during the 2020 election, Newsmax seized an opportunity to attract conservative viewers by spreading conspiracy theories about the vote, including about Smartmatic. Smartmatic alleges Newsmax knew these conspiracy theories were untrue but continued to circulate them for the sake of profit. (Fox is embroiled in a lawsuit over its own conspiracy theories about Smartmatic and settled with another voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, last year.)

Below are details about the case and some examples of the conspiracy theories Newsmax told about Smartmatic:

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mma Newsmax's Dick Morris urges viewers to buy shares of the network, saying Trump is “going to be working very closely with Newsmax because he has no choice”

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12 A Because he and I had talked about it previously, and I had looked at that

13 statute actually before the election. As I told you, I think that Federal Statute. 2 U.S.C.

14 Section 3, et al., I think that that statute is unconstitutional because it provides for a role

15 where the governor of a state, the chief executive officer and the chief elections official

16 to have a role in the transmittal of electors, and I think that's inappropriate and not

17 authorized under the Constitution. I think it's a separation of powers argument

18 concern.

19 And so I had -- I think I talked to John about it at some point and -- before the

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 to me or somebody else, but I think I ultimately received it. It's very well done, very

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In 2013, Fox News dropped Dick Morris after he confidently predicted that Mitt Romney would win in a “landslide,” among other comical prognostications. Newsmax has so little respect for its viewers that it’s now airing Morris’ hopium, including his wildly inaccurate predictions that Republicans would win the midterms in a “wipeout” and cause “the extinction” of the Democratic Party.

Morris is the host of the weekend Newsmax program Dick Morris Democracy and the network’s supposed elections expert. The right-wing network hired him despite his reputation as an unethical commentator who is widely known for being so bad at his job that not even Fox News wanted his pro-Republican commentaries. (Newsmax’s business model is partly predicated on hiring other disgraced or washed-up former Fox News commentators, including Eric Bolling, James Rosen, and Greg Kelly.)

During the 2012 election cycle, Morris predicted Romney would win in a “landslide”; wrote that “it’s very possible” that President Barack Obama would drop out of the race; and told viewers Republicans would “win 10 seats” in the Senate (Democrats actually gained two seats).

While his venue has changed, Morris’ wildly inaccurate prognostication has remained the same. Now that the 2022 election is officially over with Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-GA) victory — Morris called GOP nominee Herschel Walker “an excellent candidate,” something Walker’s own staff didn’t believe — here are some examples of Morris’ midterm forecasts for Newsmax in the lead-up to the November election:

Morris on October 17 said Walker “evolved into an excellent candidate.”

Morris on October 22 spoke about expected Republican gains with the chyron “The Red Wave Is Coming.”

Morris on October 28: “I'm predicting something more than a tsunami, more than a tidal wave, more than an earthquake. … Do you remember, in the history books, how the theory is that a meteorite hit the Earth right around where the Caribbean Sea is and that the resulting dust killed all the dinosaurs and made them extinct? Well, that's the magnitude of what I think is going to happen.”

Morris added: “I think they may go up to 270. … I think they may pick up 60 seats. That's why I likened it to that prehistoric event because what I think you're really dealing with, to a certain extent, is the extinction of an entire generation of Democratic wannabees, Democratic candidates, where they're basically going to lose their whole freshman and sophomore class.”

Morris on November 1: “We have most likely Arizona, and Georgia, and Nevada as victories, and possibly New Hampshire, and possibly some others. So I see a minimum at this point of 53 Republican senators.”

Morris on November 2: “I think there's going to be a wipeout, I think Republicans will win something in the neighborhood of 60 seats in the House, I think that they will win the Senate.”

Morris on November 3: “I think the Democrats will lose all 60. … I think the [Republicans] are going to win a solid 60 seats in the House.”

Morris on November 7: “I do feel that in Pennsylvania, [GOP Senate nominee Mehmet] Oz is going to win.… I believe that the Republicans are going to end tomorrow night with somewhere between 52-55 seats in the Senate.”

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Political operative Dick Morris claimed on Newsmax'sSaturday Report that the Democratic Party is abusing the American legal apparatus to prevent former President Donald Trump from seeking reelection in 2024 because they are upset about him having "incited a revolution" on January 6th, 2021.

Trump was impeached by the United States House of Representatives for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol after he exhausted all of his attempts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost in a landslide to President Joe Biden.

Morris, who worked in the administrations of Trump and ex-President Bill Clinton, believes that the more resistance Trump faces, the stronger he will become.

READ MORE: Legal experts believe Trump will soon 'get indicted' on criminal charges

"Trump derives energy from people who oppose him. And it fuels him. It orients him. He feels righteous. He feels that he's correct and it energizes him. And these raids and this persecution of Donald Trump is something that won't deter him from running. It'll accelerate him to run," said Morris.

He continued:

I think we have to understand the point I make in my book, 'The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback', Democrats have given up on the political process to keep Trump out of office. They've seen after primary, after primary, after primary, week after week, that Trump is winning everything; and they realized that they can't beat him in the Republican primary.

They had tried to get [Republican Florida Governor Ron] DeSantis and others into the race, but they see that they're not going to get in because Trump has a lock on this nomination. So what they're trying to do is to knock him off the ballot through the courts. And the vehicle they've chosen is to indict him for sedition, which is the crime that he allegedly committed when they claim that he incited a revolution against the United States on January 6th. In fact, it would be the only unarmed revolution in history. It's preposterous to say that this out-of-control mob was somehow a revolutionary army.

Morris then contradicted himself by stating that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's execution of a search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on August 8th was akin to prohibiting Southern Confederates from serving in elected office after the Civil War.

READ MORE: Donald Trump claims FBI is being 'used' against him by the director he appointed

"The Democrats are trying to manufacture the idea that January 6th was such a rebellion because — and the timing of this is very significant to the Mar-a-Lago raid — because it came after Trump had a winning streak in primaries, thereby debunking the notion that he could be defeated by the ballot box," Morris proclaimed, adding that the warrant "was executed precisely 90 days before the midterm elections, so it did not run afoul of the FBI rule that you can't do anything to affect the election within 90 days."

There was also a heavier dose of conspiracy on the new networks. Newsmax TV has aired "Roswell Top Secret," and it features Dick Morris, author of the 2012 bookHere Comes the Black Helicopters!. Fox was no longer the only place for the grassroots right to turn, nor the only channel where would-be conservative personalities could go to make a name for themselves.

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Trump's Journalistic Weapon Now Targets Hillary - Accuracy in Media

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:{The supermarket tabloid National Enquirer can’t be laughed at any more. It was Donald J. Trump’s effective weapon against Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and now it’s been unleashed against Hillary Clinton:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}::{. The issue currently on newsstands reveals “The Explosive 7-Step Plan to Destroy Hillary,” and predicts the demise of the Democratic candidate.:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:

:{Don’t laugh. In 2007, the National Enquirer :(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:broke the story of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards’ “love child.” Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child in a Los Angeles hotel. Edwards denied the affair, but the truth came out. The National Enquirer was vindicated.

The New York Times reported, “By being the first and, largely, the only publication pursuing the Edwards story through his denials of the affair and of fathering a child out of wedlock, The Enquirer is under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, and it has strong support for its bid from other journalists.” The Enquirer’s staff became eligible for the Pulitzer in two categories, “Investigative Reporting” and “National News Reporting.” It fell short, however.

The National Enquirer became Trump’s favorite media weapon to smear Cruz. Here is a list of assaults on the rival Republican from the tabloid:

The attacks on Cruz, especially the attack on his father, Rafael Cruz, took their toll. The Texas senator cited Trump’s use of the smear in explaining why he wouldn’t endorse the New York billionaire for president. “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father,” Cruz said. Trump had tweeted a bad photo of Cruz’s wife Heidi next to a flattering picture of Trump’s supermodel wife.

On “Fox & Friends,” Trump had cited the Enquirer story about Cruz’s father as believable. Trump said, “Nobody even brings it up. They don’t even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it.”

By the time the patriotic July 4 issue of the National Enquirer had appeared, Trump had won and the publication ran the story, “Trump: How I will Save America From Terror.”

The publication had really moved on from attacking Cruz to going after Hillary by the June 27 issue, with the story, “Hillary Will Never Be President,” citing an alleged indictment of the candidate over her use of emails. It didn’t pan out. The FBI director didn’t recommend an indictment.

But the August 1 story, “How Trump Will Win,” explains how lesbianism and lies will eventually cause the campaign collapse of the former secretary of state. Among the revelations:

Don’t think the National Enquirer doesn’t have high-level sources. The former Clinton aide Dick Morris, who once worked for Fox News, now has a regular column in the publication, under the headline, “The most feared voice in politics.” His most recent column, concerning the former secretary of state’s dealings with Russia and Vladimir Putin, is actually quite good. He notes that the emails released by Mrs. Clinton conveniently omit details about a deal Russia made to buy American uranium. The deal came after Bill Clinton was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by a Russian firm for speeches.

Morris did have a column in The Hill newspaper, which is distributed in Washington, D.C. But that paper dropped him when he signed on with The National Enquirer. Enquirer Editor-in-Chief Dylan Howard said his hiring was proof of the publication’s “commitment to investigative journalism.”

Morris told the New York Post, “I enjoyed writing for The Hill for 20 years and I had a wonderful relationship with them, but the Enquirer’s circulation is many times The Hill’s. I think this move makes sense.”

The National Enquirer is part of the American Media, Inc. (AMI) empire and also includes Star, OK!, Globe, National Examiner, Soap Opera Digest, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Flex and Muscle & Fitness Hers. Chairman and CEO David Pecker is considered a close friend of Trump.

Ironically, as The New York Times pointed out, The Star, the sister publication of The National Enquirer, revealed Morris’s affair with a prostitute who claimed he had a penchant for sucking her toes. “The National Enquirer followed that bombshell with news of another mistress and a love child in Texas,” it said.

At the time, the paper reported that Morris had responded, “I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.”

He later admitted the stories were true, the Times said.

His personal life aside, Morris is the author or co-author of some 20 books, includingCondi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race, about a match-up that did not occur in 2008.

In 2012, Morris, then a Fox News commentator, had predicted a Mitt Romney win. Morris’s prediction was Romney winning with 325 electoral votes, versus Obama’s 213. “That’s right,” Morris said. “A landslide for Romney approaching the magnitude of Obama’s against McCain.” Obama beat McCain 53-46 percent.

But Morris was not alone. Karl Rove, Fred Barnes, and Michael Barone had also predicted a Romney win.

This time, Morris has another book, Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary, described by Newsmax as “powerful and timely.”

But on the Dick Morris website, one person responded to the new book with the comment, “How Trump can beat Hillary? Well, the same way Romney and McCain beat Obama, I guess. Dick, you keep singing the same song over and over again.”

The trouble with the current anti-Clinton strategy, “The Explosive 7-Step Plan to Destroy Hillary,” is that people probably won’t believe it when they see it, since the information will be coming from a source that even Cruz has denounced.

However, in contrast to how the major media picked up the tabloid’s charges against Cruz, it’s doubtful that any controversial charges against Clinton, even with substantial evidence to back them up, would get the same kind of sympathetic coverage or traction.

In any case, Trump clearly has a journalistic weapon to use against Hillary. It would help, in his war against the Democrat, if he has what the tabloid had when it exposed John Edwards—eyewitnesses, photos and evidence.

Time will tell.

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When it comes to spotting political abuses and covert conspiracies designed to strip Americans of their rights and freedoms, no one is more vigilant than #1 New York Times bestselling authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann (Screwed!, Revolt!, Fleeced, Outrage). In their latest call-to-arms, Here Come the Black Helicopters!,Morris and McGann expose the most potent threat to date to our cherished way of life: the brazen and treacherous Liberal plan to circumvent our democratic processes by putting ultimate governing power in the hands of unaccountable international organizations. Filled with shocking, incontrovertible evidence as well as a concrete action plan, Here Come the Black Helicopters! is an essential read that will open the public’s eyes to the catastrophe that will surely occur if we allow our misguided politicians to hand the reins of government over to a devious and frighteningly inept United Nations.

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Fox News commentator Morris and his wife, McGann (co-authors: Screwed!: How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy--and How Our Leaders Help Them Do It, 2012, etc.), seize on the U.N. as the epitome of global government intrusion in this repetitive new work of unbridled paranoia. For the authors, globalization leads inevitably to a usurpation of the U.S. Constitution and the American democratic guarantees of freedom and liberty by assuming control of our economy and courts, imposing arbitrary taxes and nullifying the Second Amendment, among other horrors. Global governance, led by the pernicious environmental movement, which aims to tax our pollution of the air and seas and give the collective fees to corrupt, unworthy poor countries, is akin to the "black helicopters" of the importunate Fish and Wildlife Bureau hovering sanctimoniously over fields and streams to enforce EPA sanctions. The authors look at some of the impending treaties set forth by the Vienna Convention and promulgated by the Obama administration, which are sure to "cede vast swaths of our national sovereignty to the UN"--e.g., the Law of the Sea Treaty, control of the Internet, the Arms Trade Treaty and the International Criminal Court. The authors give a detailed breakdown of the most corrupt countries and how the "third world can't wait to steal the money." Ultimately, this over-the-top harangue might even be funny if Morris, who famously predicted a landslide victory for Mitt Romney just days before the election, and his partner weren't so spectacularly wrongheaded. More proof that biting conservative arguments have lost their teeth. harpercollins

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Humanix Books is a book publisher that focuses on health, personal finance, business, self-help, and political topics.

The company, originally called Humanics, was founded and has been continuously publishing since 1969, making it one of the oldest publishing houses in Southeastern United States.

Initially based in Georgia, the first titles were developed in response to the need from the education community for quality classroom materials to support parents as the prime educators of their children.

In the mid-1980s, Humanix expanded its focus to include titles specializing in personal development, philosophy, and management. Moving into the 21st century, the range of topics now includes health, religion, science, finance and politics. It published the best-selling book, The Tao of Leadership, by John Heider.

In 2012 the company was acquired by Newsmax Media, Inc., a private multimedia company, rebranded to the name Humanix Books and relocated to Boca Raton, Florida.

In 2012, the re-branded company published its first title, The ObamaCare Survival Guide,[1] by Nick J. Tate.[2] The book quickly became a number one New York Times Best Seller in the Advice, How-To & Misc. category for paperback books.[3] The company has sold more than 500,000 copies of the ObamaCare Survival Guide.

In 2013, Anthony Ziccardi, former vice president and associate publisher of Simon & Schuster, joined Humanix as publisher.[4]

Humanix Books operates the website, humanixbooks.com, and publishes approximately 8-10 new titles per year, still largely focused on the self-help and personal development genres.

Humanix Books authors include financial experts Andrew Packer and Bill Spetrino, acclaimed cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall, healthcare writer and specialist Nick J. Tate, Dr. Erika Schwartz,[5] Charlotte Libov, Dr. Gary Small, and Dr. Russell L. Blaylock.[6][7]

Former Clinton advisor and political commentator, Dick Morris,[8] has signed with Humanix for an upcoming book on the Obama administration due out in the fall of 2014.

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Tate, Nick J. ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What it Means for You and Your Healthcare. Boca Raton, FL. Humanix Books. ©2012. ISBN 9780893348625. LCCN 2013948550.

Packer, Andrew. Aftershock's High Income Guide. Boca Raton, FL. Humanix Books. ©2013. ISBN 9781630060046. LCCN 2012019073.

Crandall, Chauncey. The Simple Heart Cure: The 90-Day Program to Stop and Reverse Heart Disease. Boca Raton, Fl. Humanix Books ©2013. ISBN 9781630060084. LCCN 2013944532

Rosales, Luis and Olivera, Daniel. Francis: A Pope For Our Time. Boca Raton, FL. ©2013. ISBN 9781630060022. LCCN 2013941319

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by Dick Morris

The National Enquirer recently hired Dick Morris as its chief political commentator and correspondent.

There are so many ways a supermarket tabloid could trumpet this.

“HILLARY’S NIGHTMARE! FORMER SVENGALI TO REVEAL HER DARKEST SECRETS!”

“FLY ON CLINTONS’ WALL BECOMES FLY IN CLINTONS’ OINTMENT!”

“TOE-SUCKING CONSULTANT TURNS THUMB-SUCKING PUNDIT!”

Any of those headlines would befit The National Enquirer’s hiring of Dick Morris, a tabloid-worthy twist if ever there was one.

For one thing, Mr. Morris, a political strategist and commentator, was for the Clintons before he was against them. The man who began working for Bill Clinton in 1978, during his first run for governor of Arkansas, ended up eclipsing his boss’s sex scandals with one of his own.

On the last day of the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mr. Morris resigned as chief campaign strategist for President Clinton’s re-election bid because The Star, the sister publication of The National Enquirer, revealed Mr. Morris’s affair with a prostitute who claimed he had a penchant for sucking her toes. The National Enquirer followed that bombshell with news of another mistress and a love child in Texas.

When he quit the Clinton campaign, Mr. Morris issued a statement: “I will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.”

Now he is the chief political commentator and correspondent for The National Enquirer.

Mr. Morris said he didn’t bear ill will against either of the scandal sheets that brought him down. “Listen, the story was accurate,” he said quietly. “It changed my life completely, and it made my marriage much stronger.”

In a zigzag career, Mr. Morris has had many highs and lows and reboots. In recent years, he has had many foreign clients, including the nationalist Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary; in 2002 and 2004, he did media strategy in Britain for the party of Nigel Farage, a cheerleader for the so-called Brexit.

Mr. Morris has made a living denouncing Bill and Hillary Clinton in books, columns, blogs and television appearances. In a video on his website, Mr. Morris argues that Mrs. Clinton’s email scandal still has legs, saying “Indict Hillary for lying to Congress!”

His latest book about her foe in the presidential election, Donald J. Trump, “Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary,” is scathing. If Mrs. Clinton is elected, it would mean “the end of the America we know and love,” Mr. Morris writes.

Even now, when he is at the margin of politics, Mr. Morris is one of the more colorful characters in commentary land, a fervent self-promoter with formidable energy and considerable charm, a lighthearted Cassandra who weaves dark conspiracy theories and makes long-odds predictions.

Two decades ago, The Enquirer and its sister publication, The Star, revealed scandals involving Mr. Morris. Credit Evan Agostini/Liaison, via Getty Images

Mr. Morris for a while thought Ted Cruz would bag the nomination (his book’s subtitle was originally “How Ted Cruz or Donald Trump Can Beat Hillary”), and he admits he didn’t foresee the Trump surge.

“Trump represents a primal force in politics that neither I nor any other political consultant understood,” Mr. Morris said in a phone interview

Asked if Mr. Trump had hired him, he replied, “I don’t work for any campaign, but I am constantly sending ideas and thoughts to Trump and his people.”

Mr. Morris has been astute about many elections, but he was famously wrong about Mitt Romney on Fox News. After he predicted on the eve of the 2012 election a landslide victory for the former governor of Massachusetts, Fox did not renew his contract.

At the moment, The National Enquirer provides Mr. Morris with a more welcoming perch. “Not only is Dick our first political columnist, but he is the only one we could have turned to for such a role,” Dylan Howard, the editor of The National Enquirer, said in an email. “He knows where the bodies are buried.”

The headline to Mr. Morris’s June 27 column read, “HOW CROOKED FIRST LADY ESCAPED JUSTICE!” The next week, in a column entitled, “Hill & Bill, THE WORST SHAM MARRIAGE EVER!,” Mr. Morris reported that in 2012, “they were together less than one quarter of the time!”

David Pecker, the head of American Media, which owns The Star and The National Enquirer, is a friend and supporter of Mr. Trump, so perhaps not so shockingly a recent Enquirer headline screamed: “JOHN F. KENNEDY’S SECRET SON ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP!”

The National Enquirer may seem an unlikely workplace for a globe-trotting consultant who lives in a wealthy suburb outside Manhattan, went to Columbia University (class of ’67) and speaks French.

But Mr. Morris said the tabloid is a great platform to reach the masses. “I love it: I believe politics is increasingly not left versus right, but insider versus outsider,” he said. “The Enquirer gives me a marvelous opportunity to speak to that newly emerging force.”

Mr. Morris, who was an insider before he was an outsider, said he didn’t know that the newsstand price is $5, admitting he has never bought The National Enquirer, but saying he reads it online.

Compared with the tabloid’s news reports, Mr. Morris’s column seems almost tame.

While he writes about Mrs. Clinton’s hiring detectives to dig up dirt on her husband’s affairs, an adjacent “news” article suggests that she may have hired a hit man to have another woman killed.

That is one conspiracy that even Mr. Morris doesn’t subscribe to. “I don’t know anything about that,” he said.

Mr. Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, had been married almost 20 years when his scandal broke. Ms. McGann, a lawyer, stood by him in the immediate aftermath and even posed at his side for a damage-control Time cover story. A few months later, Ms. McGann announced that she would seek a divorce; instead, the couple reconciled and began a long collaboration on articles, blogs and books.

“We are constantly talking about politics,” Mr. Morris said. “As we talk back and forth, it’s like attaching a hose to a spigot that’s flowing anyway.”

Many of their books have apocalyptic titles: “Outrage,” “Catastrophe” and “Here Come the Black Helicopters!” They have also written three children’s books about their late dog, Dubs, a patriot who takes on enemies like Fido Castro and Vladimir Poodle.

Mr. Morris takes pride in what he says is an insider’s view of the Clinton marriage, which he analyzes with Gail Sheehy-like intimacy. He calls Mrs. Clinton an “enabler,” likening the former first lady to battered women who stay in abusive marriages.

“They put up with the abuse because of the rewards they get when it is over,” Mr. Morris said. “Hillary always wanted more of Bill’s time and attention; by putting up with his behavior, she got more of his attention than she would normally get and more power than she would normally get.”

Some psychologists may quibble with his description of why women put up with domestic abuse; others may wonder if projection plays a role in the couple’s hostility to the Clinton marriage. Ms. McGann, after all, forgave her husband’s trespasses and is now constantly at his side.

She declined to discuss the decades-old scandal, dismissing any parallel between the Clintons’ marriage and her own. She noted that she didn’t deal with the scandal “by lying about it and attacking the women.”

And it’s the cover-up as much as the crime that seems to goad Mr. Morris and his wife. Their books and articles focus on the Clintons’ denials, deceit and what they see as their behind-the-scenes efforts to discredit the women who said they had sexual relationships with Mr. Clinton.

David Brock, formerly a conservative journalist, is the bizarro version of Mr. Morris — he wrote an unflattering biography of Mrs. Clinton, later recanted, and now runs a PAC that counters attacks on Mrs. Clinton. He said Mr. Morris’s firsthand observations are far from credible. “His experience is 20 years out of date,” Mr. Brock said. “Whatever he knew, he mortgaged long ago.”

There are conservatives who are just as dismissive. “I think mostly people think he’s a charlatan and self-promoter (though an intelligent one),” is how William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, described Mr. Morris in an email. “Perfect for the age of Trump!”

There are plenty of former colleagues, especially overseas, who speak highly of Mr. Morris. Fredo Arias-King, a campaign aide to former President Vicente Fox of Mexico, recalled that Mr. Morris was brought into Mr. Fox’s 2000 presidential campaign in secret, so as to not rile nationalist pride, and masterminded a victory.

Mr. Arias-King remains friendly with Mr. Morris but was taken aback when informed of Mr. Morris’s new job.

“The Enquirer? You mean the one with the aliens?” he said, startled.

There was a pause.

“Well, we don’t know what Dick is thinking,” Mr. Arias-King said. “This could be marketing brilliance.”

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Revolution on the Hill.  That was the name of the first event held on the Capitol Hill lawn on Monday, April 16 and sponsored by former presidential candidate Herman Cain.  The purpose of the rally was to draw attention to tax reform, fiscal responsibility and the importance of electing true conservatives in government and included such speakers as Dick Morris, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist.  Also taking part were some important talk show hosts.  Pictured here at the event are (from l-r): Cox Media’sNeal Boortz; Talk Radio Network and WGST, Atlanta’s Rusty Humphries; and WLAC, Nashville-based Radio America-syndicated host Steve Gill.

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Dick Morris' Terrible 2012

Blog››› December 26, 2012 9:24 AM EST ››› BEN DIMIERO

In May, O'Reilly Factor host Bill O'Reilly told Fox News political analyst Dick Morris that because he was "so far out on the limb" predicting a Romney win in the presidential election, if Obama were to be re-elected Morris would be "through" and "selling refrigerators in Topeka." Seven months later, following Obama's comfortable re-election, Morris isn't selling appliances in Kansas (that we know of), but he's the laughingstock of the political pundit class and has temporarily been benched at Fox News.

Like most other years of Morris' media career, 2012 was marked by terribly inaccurate election predictions, habitual dishonesty, and questionable ethical conflicts. Unlike most other years, however, Morris appears to actually be facing consequences and backlash for his role as America's Worst Political Pundit.

After Morris made more than fifteen appearances on Fox News'O'Reilly Factor, Hannity,andOn the Recordin October and early November, he's been absent from the network's primetime lineup since November 12 following**reports**that producers now have to get special permission to book him (or Karl Rove) on their shows. He has also been publicly criticized by numerous media ethicists from prominent newspapers and universities, countless political writers and reporters in the U.S. (and abroad), donors to his shady super PAC, and his colleagues at The Hill newspaper.

Appearing on Fox & Friends the day before the election to discuss his prediction of a "landslide" Romney victory, Morris said of the various people predicting an Obama win, "either I'm gonna have to go through a big reckoning, or they are. And you know what? They are."

It was another prediction that wouldn't shake out.

"Here Comes The Landslide"

For months, Morris used all of his various media platforms -- his frequent Fox News appearances, weekly Hill column, daily "Lunch Alert" videos, and a steady stream of fundraising emails for his shady super PAC -- to assure his audience that Mitt Romney was well on his way to a "landslide" victory over Barack Obama.

Even though it was clear that Morris' lofty predictions were based on little more than wishful thinking and shoddy "skewed polls" analysis, Fox News still trotted him out regularly before the election because he was pushing the myth they wanted to sell to their viewers. 

In various Fox appearances throughout the year, Morris exuded confidence in his prognostications, going so far as totell a skeptical Sean Hannity that there was "no chance that Obama will get re-elected.... zilch, none, zip, nada."

Morris' now-infamous final electoral projection, which contradicted most available polling data, predicted Romney taking 325 electoral votes with wins in Florida, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Romney lost all of those states.

And that's just the general election. Morris fared no better during the Republican primaries. In August 2011, he told Sean Hannity that Michele Bachmann would "probably" win January's Iowa caucuses. Just a month before the caucuses, Morris said Bachmann would end up with a "strong second place finish." Instead, Bachmann came in sixth, winning support from only 5 percent of Iowans. She ended her presidential campaign the next morning.

Morris also repeatedly defended former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain amid allegations of sexual harassment during his business career. During a November 30, 2011, appearance on Fox & Friends,Morris told the hosts, "I don't think he's going any place very quickly." Cain suspended his presidential campaign less than a week later.  

Morris' failed predictions about the presidential election got the most attention, but he was equally inept at calling state-level races. Morris repeatedly predicted that Republicans would not only take over control of the Senate, but do so by a comfortable margin. "We are also, by the way, going to win ten seats in the Senate," he told Sean Hannity in February. The GOP ended up losing two seats. At various points, Morris predicted that Republicans Connie Mack (Florida), Pete Hoekstra (Michigan), Duane Sand (North Dakota), Josh Mandel (Ohio), Tom Smith (Pennsylvania), and George Allen (Virginia) would win election to the Senate. They all lost.

"A Sleazy Operative"

On top of his extravagantly wrong electoral projections, Morris spent much of 2012 cultivating a vast array of ethical conflicts.

As Media Mattersdocumented, Super PAC for America, where Morris serves as chief strategist, paid conservative news outlet Newsmax Media roughly $1.7 million in October and November, according to FEC data.A portion of that money surely went to renting Morris' own email list, which is managed by Newsmax. According to a Media Matters review, Morris sent at least 21 emails to his list featuring fundraising pitches "paid for by Super PAC for America."

Super PAC for America paid more money to Newsmax Media than it spent on all other independent expenditures combined.

The emails from Morris and Super PAC for America regularly hyped Morris' outlandish predictions of Romney's supposedly impending victory, as well as promises that the money Super PAC for America had invested in political ads was "paying off." A representative fundraising pitch from Morris declared that his group's "powerful" ads had "made a huge difference in key swing states like Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Virginia." After Romney lost all of those states, Morris explained in a post-election column that political ads are actually no longer effective because people fast forward through them. 

In March, Morris was "reprimanded" by Fox News for auctioning off a tour of Fox News at a Republican fundraiser, prompting harsh criticism from Zurawik and other media experts. (Morris apparently also treated a group of GOP donors to a tour of Fox News and a taping of Hannity in late 2011.) Baltimore Sun television and media critic David Zurawik labeled Morris a "sleazy operative" over this arrangement, and asked: "Is there anybody in the media you can think of who has less of an ethical compass?" 

2012 also saw Morris continue his long-running tradition of using his media platforms to discuss (without disclosure) political races in which he has a financial interest.

In the run-up to the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, Morris routinely went on Fox News to praise Republican incumbent Scott Walker. According to Morris, Walker's actions limiting union rights in the state were "pivotal,"and Fox viewers should "do everything they can tosupport Scott Walker." Unmentioned by Morris was the fact that the Walker campaign had**rented**Morris' email list at least three times and "paid for" a blog post featuring a video of Morris urging people to donate to Walker.

In a February column for The Hill, Morris attacked "RINO Sen. Richard Lugar" during his senatorial primary against Richard Mourdock. The Mourdock campaign had previously rented Morris' email list and featured him as a speaker at a 2011 fundraiser. 

On the upside for Morris, 2013 should prove to be a much better year for him than 2012. After all, there are only a handful of off-year elections for him to wrongly predict.

Network/OutletFox News Channel, The Hill

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fox effect:

Dick Morris worked for Trent lott and jesse helm, then BC but quit b/ cof prost scandal, 180 on BC, paid contrib on fox  DM said bo was gen'l counsel for acorn, and voter fraud, and akked fox viewers to go to a PC that paid him 77 Nat'l Rep Trust

his book fleeced predicted stock mkt crash after bo elected.  Fox blamed BO for recession, and "forgot" that bailout started under b2 80

Dick M death panels 135

Morris suggest BO is sleeper agent // Rev Wright

raised $ for his pac?! (as did cands)

http://mediamatters.org/research/201010140039

FoxPAC: Morris uses Fox platform to fundraise for new pro-GOP PAC

October 14, 2010 4:30 pm ET — 8 Comments

Earlier this month, Fox News political analyst Dick Morris announced the creation of Super PAC for America, whose goal is to raise $20 million to help Republicans win 100 House seats in this year's election. As he has numerous times before, Dick Morris is using his Fox News platform to promote and raise money for the group.

Morris: "There is no limit to how much you can donate" to help GOP "win 100 new seats"

Goal of PAC is Republican majority that will "repeal Obamacare." In a letter posted on the Super PAC website (a version of which was also posted to Morris' personal website on October 5), Morris states that his goal for the PAC is to raise $20 million in order to target and win 100 House seats. According to Morris, the resulting "very large" Republican majority will be able to "repeal Obamacare" and "put in the reforms that will put our country back on a proper financial footing and deal with the staggering debt our nation faces." Morris also touts how a recent Supreme Court decision "took the cap off of the $5,000 limit that individuals can give to such political action committees":

As long as our Super PAC never donates to an individual campaign and solely engages in independent expenditures on behalf of candidates, we have no limit on the amount individuals or corporations can donate.

The Super PAC of America is in a unique position. With your help we can act as the guardian angel for this second-tier of 50 congressional seats that are up for grabs and give support to these candidates by taking commercials across television, engaging in direct-mail and online efforts, and setting up phone call banks across America.

Our goal is very simple. In the next four weeks we are seeking to raise $20 million for Project 100.

[...]

As I said, there is no limit to how much you can donate. A $400,000 donation will give us one more Republican in Congress. A $100,000 will make a huge difference in our media efforts, even $50,000.

Most Americans can't afford such large donations. Even $1,000 or $500 will help. A donation of $250 can buy a TV ad in many districts reaching hundreds of thousands. Anything you can give will help.

Morris' pitch for PAC called "iffy at best, if not exploitative." Mother Jones' David Corn reported that "none of the established House-watchers are predicting a 100-seat gain for the GOP" and questioned whether Morris is "taking conservative contributors for a ride." Corn added that Morris is "using a sales pitch -- 100 GOP House pick-ups -- that appears to be iffy at best, if not exploitative."

Morris uses Fox News platform to raise money for PAC

Morris touted PAC on Fox at least three times this month. Morris has promoted his new PAC on Fox News at least three times this month: on the October 4 and October 11 editions of Hannity, and the October 7 edition of Fox & Friends. On the October 11 Hannity, Morris said after referencing the PAC's website, "Don't watch this show without a pencil and paper."

Morris regularly promotes his projects on Fox. Morris regularly uses his Fox News appearances to promote his numerous projects, whether they be candidates, political groups, his own website, or some combination of the above, though he has a record of failing to disclose his associations with the campaigns and groups he promotes. Morris has claimed that he campaigns for Republicans and then brings "these opinions back through Fox."

PAC has links to Newsmax

Newsmax apparently hosts PAC's website. The WHOIS file (screenshot) for the superpacforamerica.com domain posted at the domain registrar, GoDaddy.com, shows an email address for administrative and technical purposes that goes to the right-wing website Newsmax, and the phone number listed as a contact is registered to Newsmax. The person listed as the administrative and technical contact, Cleta Mitchell, is an attorney representing numerous conservative groups and candidates, including Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle. Further, the PAC's website displays the same blue "N" favicon (icon that appears in the browser's URL line) that Newsmax's main website also displays.

Morris has repeatedly shilled for Newsmax. Morris has appeared in numerous videos and promotions to help sell Newsmax's financial products, engaging in anti-Obama rhetoric and inflammatory language.

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Dick Morris, now a Republican, was political consultant for 20 years to Democratic President Bill Clinton. Morris, who resigned his position in 1996 due to allegations that he had engaged the services of a prostitute, was again the subject of similar circumstances in April 2007.

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Tobacco issues

According to a PBS Frontline interview, Dick Morris worked with Dick Scruggs on asbestos litigation. When Scruggs told Morris about his intent to sue the major tobacco companies, Morris surveyed Mississippians to gauge public reaction to such a suit. The interview also claims that Morris had personal reasons for wanting to sue the tobacco companies: he was born premature, weighing only 2 pounds 11 ounces, as a result of this mother's chainsmoking during her pregnancy. Morris also lost his mother, a lifelong smokers, to cancer.

Morris helped convince President Bill Clinton to bring a federal lawsuit against the major American tobacco companies.[1]

Sex Scandals

On August 29, 1996, Morris announced his resignation "hours before President Clinton delivered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention after The New York Post and the Star[2], "a supermarket tabloid, published allegations" by "suddenly famous Virginia call girl" Sherry Rowland, a $200-an-hour prostitute, who said "that she had a long-running relationship with Morris." Rowland said that "Republicans had nothing to do with it."

"As for Morris's downfall, Rowlands said: 'Someone as intelligent as he is should have kept his lip buttoned when he unzipped his pants. I mean, how can you maneuver worlds, and he can't even control what he's doing in his own room with a paid lady?'" At the time, Morris "declined to address the allegations". [3]

In April 2007, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the D.C. Madam, named Randall L. Tobias, "the top foreign aid adviser in the State Department", who "became the most prominent person on the list to be publicly identified when he resigned after acknowledging to ABC News that he was among Ms. Palfrey’s clients," Eric Lipton reported April 27, 2007, in the New York Times.

Palfrey "included in a court filing and posted on her Web site the man's photo and tax records. Dick Morris, the television commentator and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, who resigned in 1996 after reports that he was seeing a prostitute, was also a customer, Ms. Palfrey’s lawyer has said in court. Mr. Morris has denied the accusation," Lipton wrote.

Additionally, on April 27, 2007, Palfrey's attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, said that he "filed notice that he intends to depose political consultant Dick Morris in a separate civil proceeding. Morris would not comment." [4]

Morris on Hillary Clinton

Morris has "spent much of the past decade writing and speaking out against" Democratic 2008 presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). [5]

"Morris managed Bill Clinton's successful 1996 reelection campaign until he was embroiled in a toe-sucking sex scandal with a prostitute. Since then, he has broken ties with the Clintons, and created a cottage industry out of critiquing them in his column in the New York Post and on Fox News. His Hillary hating has even included writing a book-length rebuttal of her memoir Living History, as well as another book imagining a presidential election matchup between her and Condoleezza Rice," Katharine Mieszkowski wrote for the December 19, 2006, issue of Salon's War Room.

According to Morris, "'Hillary will be the next president, and she’ll be the worst president we’ve ever seen.' No matter what happens, the situation in Iraq will 'assure that the GOP gets massacred in 2008 congressional elections.' In 2010, the Republicans will take back the Congress — 'Hillary will give Republicans the same gift she gave them in 1994' — and they’ll win the presidency in 2012, but thanks to demographic shifts favoring Democrats (namely the rising Hispanic and African-American populations), 'that will be the last Republican president we'll ever see.'" [6]

Also see The Presidential Coalition.

Articles by Dick Morris

Morris's articles are published online on his websites *DickMorris.com* and VOTE.com, as well as by Fox News (link); FrontPageMag.com (link); Jewish World Review (link); NewsMax (link); *RealClearPolitics.com*; The New York Post; and *The Hill* News.com.

Additionally, Morris's articles can be found at:

Published Works

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In 2004, there were two incidents involving Arlen Specter’s campaign which felt eerily similar to those long ago Nixon dirty tricks. Specter was facing a hard fight in the Republican primary against a more conservative challenger, Pat Toomey. Snyder assembled a PAC called Pennsylvanians for Honest Politics, which put together a radio ad that attacked Toomey for failing, during an interview onHardball with Chris Matthews, to call for criminal sanctions against a woman who gets an abortion. “Somebody who claims to be on our side had the opportunity to say abortion is murder,” screeched the ad. “Instead of showing the nation real pro-life leadership, Toomey shrunk like a frightened turtle.” Specter would pull off a narrow win, doing far better in conservative counties than expected. Then, in the general state election, yard signs began appearing that declared “Kerry & Specter: for Working Families.” Pennsylvania is a majority democratic state, Specter was a Republican (though a moderate one, who would, in his last term in office switch party affiliation), and Kerry had not endorsed Specter. The signs were set up by a group called the Philadelphia Education Project. A number of the people involved in the Philadelphia Education Project – a New York consultant named Steve Pigeon, a lawyer named Paul Rolf Jensen who would also work on a Barack Obama birth certificate lawsuit – were Stone associates. Stone would be described as a former partner in Ikon, though Snyder would say that he and Stone hadn’t worked together in three years. Specter’s campaign manager would deny knowing about either effort^116.

The most interesting piece of reading related to Ikon isn’t journalism, but a lawsuit. It was Mattie Lolavar versus Fernando de Santibanes (*Lolavar v. de Santibanes*), along with Roger Stone, other Ikon associates, and another infamous consultant, Dick Morris. According to the suit, Lolavar and her own firm, Triumph Communications, were brought in to work with Ikon on two contracts. The first involved Argentine President Fernando de la Rua’s visit to the United States in June 2000. The second was a year long contract to improve the image of Fernando de Santibañes, the Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina. The following is an excerpt from the suit alleging the nature of the contract work, and what would cause the rupture between Lolavar and Ikon:

Pursuant to this second contract, Miss Lolavar went to Argentina in August 2000 to assist de Santibañes with preparations for his testimony in Argentine congressional hearings inquiring into allegations that he and the Argentine intelligence agency, known as SIDE, were responsible for bribing various Argentine senators in exchange for political support.

Morris and Stone assigned other tasks to Miss Lolavar while she was in Argentina. Among other acts, they instructed her to contact SIDE and obtain a list of journalists who accepted bribes from that organization in order to harm the credibility of those same journalists in reporting on a bribery scandal surrounding de Santibañes and President de la Rua, as well as requiring her to spread false information to the press concerning de la Rua’s political opponent, Dr. Carlos Menem.

A request that occasioned controversy between Miss Lolavar and the defendants was Morris and Stone’s request that she serve as an intermediary in an anonymous wire transfer of funds to an official in Israel. These funds were to be paid to secure intelligence files from the Israeli government to assist de la Rua’s political domestic disputes with Menem, and to imply a corrupt relationship between Menem and George W. Bush, who was then running against Albert Gore for the United States presidency. These files were to be altered by Miss Lolavar to appear to be SIDE documents.

When the defendants became concerned that this plot would be discovered and traced back to them, they ordered Miss Lolavar to orchestrate a press response to blame Vice President Gore for the dissemination of the documents, since it was known to them that the Gore campaign had been attempting to connect Menem with the Bush campaign.

When Miss Lolavar refused to cooperate with these demands, the defendants undertook a series of reprisals. First, they refused to pay her fees under the contract until she executed the wire transfers. Additionally, they made a number of false defamatory statements concerning her, including that she was anti-Semitic, that her efforts to disclose these transactions were the result of a political bribe by Menem’s Peronist Party, and that she forged the correspondence that was evidence of the defendants’ wrongdoing.

The suit would be dismissed on grounds of jurisdiction – that Santibanes had insufficient contacts in Virginia to subject him to a lawsuit filed in Virginia. Judgement would be upheld on appeal. In an affidavit, Santibanes would deny ever having met Lolavar except on a single social occasion^117.

Lolavar was herself one of the fascinating shadow characters of politics. There she is, in a MarketWatch story, “Chavez ouster bodes well for oil: Venezuela exports likely to rise as strike ends” by Carolyn Pritchard, on the overthrow of Hugo Chavez by the country’s military, as a “president of international business communications and strategies firm Triumph Communications Group and former consultant to the government of Argentina.” Says Lolavar: “Politically, this was bound to happen. I think Chavez was losing ground not only internationally but within his own constituency.” Her statements are the usual empty pro-free market easy reading quotes that you expect from this kind of business story. “This is going to refocus the verticalization of trade toward Latin America, especially in oil and energy,” she says. And: “Knowing the situation in Middle East and looking at Iraq,” she says. “I think the U.S. will do everything possible to help Venezuela, if need be.” How could they do this? Well, by helping Venezuela privatize its oil companies^118. More interesting was the editorial in the Washington Times from June 30, 2007, “A new strategy for Iran”. “A new strategy is needed to effectuate regime change in Iran,” it began:

Success is plausible through one of two means: Either hope for an internal rupture fueled by economic hardship; or, encourage an indigenous revolt with a covert promise of military support. Skeptics of regime change in Iran based on the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan are wrong. In contrast to the latter, Iran’s history, culture, and constitutional experience provide fertile soil for a regime change in 2007.

The editorial was not under the name of Mattie Lolavar, but Mattie Fein. The editorial listed Mattie Fein as founder and president of the Institute for Persian Studies. “New Iran Regime-Change Think Tank Opens in DC” by Spencer Ackerman had an interview with Mattie Lolavar, but now she was Mahtaub Hojjati, a well-connected government and business consultant trying out for the role of revolutionary provocateur. The Institute for Persian Studies only had a humble web site, but its goals weren’t humble at all. They wished to shape the government of Iran after regime change. Hojjati wanted to put forth a constitution, a blueprint, to have people say “this is the plan”, and the planwould be Lolavar’s, I mean, Hojjati’s:

“We have to be able to have people say, ‘this is the plan.’ They don’t know what happens in Iran after the regime falls,” Hojjati says. That’s where the IPS comes in. Over the next few months, Hojjati intends to unveil a constitution promising democracy and the total separation of Islam from the public sphere, so that Iranians will have a blueprint for what comes after the mullahs. “It’s going to fill a void,” she says. “Right now, no one’s saying anything further than ‘regime change.’” It’s a deliberate response to the compounded mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which suffered from uncertainty over what political structure followed the destruction of the Saddam and Taliban regimes.

The Institute for Persian Studies would soon disappear. Hojjati would run, as Mattie Fein, against Jane Harman. She would lose badly. Her campaign ad would place great emphasis on Harman’s supposed appeasement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The ad, a take-off on Young Frankenstein with Harman as Frau Blucher, ends with Harman declaring Ahmadinejad her boyfriend^119.

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