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Ari Fleischer Becomes a Packer Backer

The Green Bay Packers' management team has not been particularly adept in its handling of Brett Favre, who wants to return to his starting quarterback job, be released, or be traded (presumably to a team that has a decent receiver or two). It's likely that Packers management will compound that problem by hiring former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer "for one month to help them handle the public relations nightmare the situation has created."

When he wasn't helping Dick Cheney out CIA agents, Comical Ari's specialty was spinning lies to the media. The Packers really think he's equipped to help them clean up the mess they've made? Does Fleischer plan to accuse Favre of hiding WMD's in his locker? Unlike White House reporters, local sports reporters tend to know the difference between truth and lies. For the Packers, the nightmare has only begun.

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    Can't they get Donna Brazile? (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by MarkL on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:13:03 PM EST
    She's so good as smoothing things over.

    It's a good day to be a Bears fan (none / 0) (#1)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 02:00:42 PM EST
    I don't get to say that very often.

    Comical Ari HA! (none / 0) (#2)
    by flashman on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 02:07:55 PM EST
    Best line of the day :)

    Well TChris the Bush Admin. (none / 0) (#3)
    by TheJoker on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 02:15:55 PM EST
    DID get away with like 99.999% of their bullcrap while Ari was lying and filibustering for them. Maybe the Pack know what they are doing after all.

    One phone call from Ari.... (none / 0) (#4)
    by kdog on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 02:19:52 PM EST
    and the opposing team's best player gets sent to Guantanamo Bay.

    Not even Favre can choke that kind of advantage away:)

    More likely... (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 02:51:53 PM EST
    ...one call from Ari and Aaron Rodgers "mysteriously" vanishes off the face of the earth.  

    Poof--everyone's problem is solved.  Well, until BF decides he's retiring again.    

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    True that... (none / 0) (#9)
    by kdog on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 02:55:47 PM EST
    or even more likely...Ari will call in his connections to make Favre go away...that's what the Pack front office really wants.

    By next week he will be audited by the IRS, be the target of a DEA painkiller distribution ring investigation, and placed on the no-fly list...:)  

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    I would love that! (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:03:29 PM EST
    I'm sooo tired of hearing about BF 24/7. They even interupted last night's game for his plane landing in the Land o' Cheese.  Give me a break.

    The Farve lovers remind me of another group who can't seem to move on.

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    I'm glad the Jets didn't get him.... (none / 0) (#13)
    by kdog on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:13:41 PM EST
    the NY sports media was clamoring for it, but I think he's pretty much washed up.

    Not to mention a big-time media circus distraction.

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    Yeah... (none / 0) (#14)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:18:22 PM EST
    ...he would have been a one year stop-gap at best.  Although, I'm not sure that either Clements or Pennington are the long-term answer for the J-E-T-S.  

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    Not sure either.... (none / 0) (#15)
    by kdog on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:26:19 PM EST
    I'm a big Chad Pennington fan but he can never seem to stay healthy...and I think his throwing shoulder is held together with scotch tape and rubber bands at this point.

    Clemens...who knows?  Uninspiring so far.

    At least either one should have a better O-Line in front of them.

    You a Broncos fan?  Big do or die year for Jay Cutler...  

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    I don't think (none / 0) (#16)
    by CST on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:28:27 PM EST
    The Jets have a long-term answer.  Not to the power-house in their division who will go nameless so I don't get skewered for supporting the most hated team in professional sports.

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