Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Ari Fleischer, Willing to Defend Anything

The BCS has hired Ari Fleischer's PR firm. Why do they need such a sneaky, accomplished bullshitter? Here's why, from the AP (on ESPN's site):

"BCS executive director Bill Hancock...said in a statement the goal of the hiring was to help highlight the positive aspects of the BCS, which he called the best way to match college football's top two teams, while preserving the bowl system."

Clearly, if that's your starting point, you are going to need a hell of a bullshitter. And Ari is one of the best. Remember how cool he was, compared to the sweaty fumblings of Scott McClellan? How he'd always say, "I think your facts are wrong, and you need to go back and check them," even when he knew the reporter's facts were dead on?

That's exactly the kind of guy you need to say with a straight face that the BCS is the best way to match college football's top two teams, or that the current bowl system is something that even deserves to be preserved.

(first of learned via Yglesias)

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