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[edit] False predictions

Dick has so far predicted Hillary would lose New Hampshire, fail on Super Tuesday, and more recently lose both Texas and Ohio primaries. He now says the race is over and Obama is the Democratic nominee. Should we now ask Hillary to write her concession speech then? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.12.122.59 (talk) 08:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


To do: FahrenHYPE 9/11, criticism of Morris. Rhobite 22:54, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)

I decided to include something about 1992 in the article. -Amit June 4, 2005

[edit] Why Did Morris Turn Against The Clintons?

This is a good article but it does not elaborate on why Morris turned against the Clintons. What happened-- what was the reason?

I have persnally speculated but have no idea-- is he really a Republican with a mercenary streak who regrets having served a Democratic president? Or is he a legitimate Centrist and were there other reasons?

    • One thing is-- as far as Hillary goes-- it seems very personal. Like he has a grudge against her. If so, I don't trust him. Politics should be based on principles and should not be personal.
    • Sean Hannity seems to have come to dislike Morris. I have seen Hannity get very annoyed with him on FOX. Hannity does not like the Clintons-- but doesn't seem to like Morris anymore either.

If anyone knows why Morris turned on the Clintons-- that should be a key part of this article I would think.

67.42.240.96 19:22, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I see Dick Morris a lot and he seems very focused on Hillary Clinton, not Bill. Just because he worked as an advisor and whatnot to Bill does not mean in any way he would support Hillary. So the idea that he "turned" on the Clintons wouldn't necessarily be accurate. I doubt he has a "mercenary streak," you can work for the president for a few days and return to the private sector with an incredible job and pay... if you wanted to make baseless speculations it could be that he used to support Bill, maybe he wanted to win ("I'm the guy who got Bill to win") maybe he thought of Bill as a friend, and wanted to help someone who he knew would listen to him as an advisor, who knows- doesn't really matter I guess though.
As to Sean Hannity- I see the two together a lot, I don't get that vibe really at all. Maybe a mild annoyance at times, but that might very simply be Morris' love of Alan. Most conservatives pander to Sean, and liberals to Alan- Morris loves Alan because he clearly loves to annoy him and give him a hard time. Other than that Sean has a much more moderate (not politically, but he's not "fantastic," or over the top) approach while Morris has a very intense nature. Just a few moments ago I saw Morris talk about how Michigan is going to be the most crucial state for republicans, if Romney loses it's over for him yadda yadda- Sean tried to interject (interupted by commercial break) that it isn't that simple and clear cut. Again, for wikipedia unimportant, but hopefully this can shed a little more light on the question(s).--67.185.245.221 (talk) 08:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
My speculation is that the Clintons cut him off completely after the scandal in 1996. They did not want to be associated with him in an election year. Morris probably thought that his access would never be cut off. Hillary Clinton and Dick Morris probably also have some policy disagreements with Dick Morris arguing that Hillary Clinton's policy agenda was politically unviable. Jmegill (talk) 12:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
I wanted to add to my comments before, I remember Karl Rove in an interview talked about how like he just loved politics, in the beginning it wasn't about an ideology, it was just the republicans (in college maybe) that "took him in." Maybe Dick Morris just likes politics, back then it was about helping Clinton, maybe today he decided he doesn't like Clinton or he sees attacking the Clintons as his ticket to stay in politics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.29.0.100 (talk) 23:13, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gay?

Irrelevant. 67.42.240.96 19:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Is Dick Morris gay? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.132.185.169 (talk • contribs) 22:39, 17 January 2006

Why are you asking us? -Will Beback 09:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Why would a gay man pay to have sex with a female prostitute?
It doesn't say the prostitute was a female, therefore it could have been a male. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.79.229 (talk) 14:28, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

It is actually something of an open secret that the reason Dick hates Hillary so much is that he has always been in love with Bill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.12.122.59 (talk) 05:01, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wedlock?

Under the "Scandal" section, it says that Morris has a child in Texas, whom he fathered out of wedlock. Since this is a pretty big charge and no citation given, should this temporarily be removed until a citation can be found? Tmblweed 18:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't have it in front of me, but Morris admited this in "Behind The Oval Office." He also said that he paid $4,000 per month in child support. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.170.121.81 (talk) 05:18, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Autistic?

"In the book "Behind the Oval Office" Morris relates he may have had some autistic tendencies as a child, such as assortive behavior and a desire to socialize with adults." There are only 8 google hits for "assortive behavior" in Google, half of them referening Morris. I would expect many more hits if it were a term of art asociated with autism. The term means wanting to associate with one's own kind (other children in this context), which contradicts the meaning of the sentance. 12.10.223.247 02:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Learn about topics you purport to edit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

"shows unusual attachments to toys, objects, or schedules (i.e., always holding a string or having to put socks on before pants). spends a lot of time stacking objects, lining things up or putting things in a certain order."

also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

If you do not believe assortive behavior and a lack of socail interaction with age appropriate peers is not a sign of autism, then you don;t get out much, do you?

It could also be OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Behavior).

128.138.230.147 00:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe. Do OCD kids find it difficult to relate to age appropriate peers? In any event, Morris himself made the point. As the father of a child on the spectrum I'm inclined to think he was right

[edit] Dick Morris Named Customer by Madam

From The New York Times.

"Mr. Tobias is the third prominent Washington figure to be identified as among Ms. Palfrey’s clients. This month, she identified an adviser to the Pentagon as “one of the regular customers” of her service. She 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."

[1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sonaro (talk • contribs) 16:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato

I removed "Morris has been criticized for his failed predictions by University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato". We don't need to add every comment here. Also, don't need to add the commentary about non subject of article. --Tom 12:50, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] paragraph on Century of the Self Part 4 in "Other Work" section

this paragraph should be either drastically improved or removed.--Rich Peterson130.86.14.90 (talk) 01:51, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Videos he made

He is he not involved in the making of 'Hillary: The Movie'? Contralya (talk) 15:05, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Citation on Dick Morris' article, Guest commentator and political prognosticator section

If you go to any blog where someone has responded to Dick Morris' statement on Edward's voters you will see multiple people saying what Dick Morris said is Dick Morris is saying what he is thinking rather than basing his statement on fact.

This is, as I mentioned in the article, public opinion and I do not know how to correctly cite it. Do we have to cite every public reaction to show consensus? Adding multiple citations at the end of the paragraph from different sources would be just as ridiculous as trying to show one response from a single group responding to a single blog post.

Would it be all right to write one article that points to public reaction over a host of different places and then cite that article? I want to prevent clutter.

For the time being I am going to move the current citation on the event after the second to last sentence in the paragraph I edited because the transcripts there will show that Morris did offer a vague answer to Colmes question. I would like someone to help me figure out how to best show a citation about public reaction before correcting the citation at the end of the paragraph.--Docjay8406 (talk) 00:45, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

My objection is to the sentence, "Public response in blogs and news comments is that his comment is not observation of others as much as it is personal projection." because the sentence criticizes Dick Morris with an ill-defined,unnamed attackers "public response". Who is -specifically- are these people? I am uneasy about it because the criticism is ad hominem criticism of Dick Morris. If you don't know already, ad hominem criticism is highly objectionable because it does not answer the point, but rather attacks the person making the point. The sentence should be rewritten, Person A commented about the incident, " blah, blah, blah" cite. Where Person A is famous enough to already have his own wiki page, and thus, is notable. Moreover, using Person A's exact words means that whomever comes later will be less likely to quarrel with the interpretation of the event. Just pick one person who makes the attack and use their words rather than making generalized statements.RobRedactor (talk) 05:01, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Good point. I see that no blogger who commented on Dick Morris' comment and wrote a main article said anything about projection. John Amato did insinuate that Dick Morris says controversial things for money's sake. It is also ad hominem attack though. I'm striking the last line. I see John Amato's blog is in Wikipedia but Amato does not have an entry himself. So I'm not sure it would be ok to include Amato's comment about Morris and money. I'm a little irked now that the paragraph has only two sentences lol. Do you think it's ok to add one last line quoted from Amato or should the last line just be removed. -Docjay8406 (talk) 20:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please avoid putting personal opinions into articles

Look at this sentence currently in the article "Many[attribution needed] perceived this as a move to the center of the political spectrum, and it disappointed some[attribution needed] who had hoped Clinton would pursue a more liberal policy.[citation needed]"

Note the things wrong with it:

  • Use of vague actors. Often the "people think" is just a way to get around saying "I think". Change the wording here: I saw this as a move to the center and it dissapointed me because I wanted Clinton to be more liberal." Who wants to lay betting odds that the original author feels this way?
  • Change in subject: Is the article about Morris or Clinton or what (liberal) people think of Clinton?
  • Placement of concernt: The author apparently thinks it's noteworthy what liberals think, but not conservatives!

(For last two, given, that the article is about MORRIS, if we have ANY of this tripe, it might be more pertinent to say how disappointed conservatives were that Morris was helping the enemy.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by TCO (talk • contribs) 18:43, 26 April 2008 (UTC)