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Wall Street Journal Unbelievably Keeping Mark Penn as Columnist
Hamilton Nolan · 08/27/09 10:40AMLeak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients
Hamilton Nolan · 08/26/09 01:26PMMark Penn Now Helping to Destroy the Housing Market
Pareene · 06/15/09 01:10PMUh Oh, Google's in More Antitrust Trouble!
Owen Thomas · 05/04/09 06:59PMFailed Political Flacks Jockey For Crown of Evil
Hamilton Nolan · 04/14/09 09:26AMMicrosoft's Secret Campaign Against Google Includes CEO's Ex-Girlfriend
Owen Thomas · 04/03/09 11:02AMInept PR Guy Mark Penn Invites You to His 'Dungeon of Rotting Humanity'
Owen Thomas · 03/28/09 03:00PMRachel Maddow Now Raping Mark Penn Daily
Hamilton Nolan · 03/10/09 11:00AMMaddow on Mark Penn: "When Evil Needs Public Relations, Evil Has Burson-Marsteller On Speed-Dial"
Pareene · 03/06/09 03:24PMHillary's flack told Bill Gates not to bother "being human"
Owen Thomas · 08/13/08 11:00AMMark Penn, the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, will likely never work in politics again. He's in hot water over his advice to Hillary Clinton. A series of memos obtained by The Atlantic show Penn offering Clinton unsavory advice. (For example: highlighting Barack Obama's childhood abroad as a way of suggesting he was too foreign to be president.) But the fallen flack has a promising career as consigliere to tech CEOs, based on his advice to Bill Gates: "Being human is overrated."
Mark Penn: You Fool
Hamilton Nolan · 04/07/08 01:41PMSo Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's doughy chief strategist, finally got booted from the campaign last weekend. The majority of her campaign team hated him for some time, so his departure will be welcomed by insiders. They felt that his strategy was unsuccessful, and they were right. But the specific reason for Penn's departure was his idiot move of meeting with the Colombian government, in his day job as CEO of massive PR firm Burson-Marsteller, to represent them on the opposite side of an issue from Hillary Clinton, while running her campaign. And you know what? This moment was inevitable. The very idea of having a man simultaneously running a presidential campaign and an international PR firm is stupid, and never should have happened in the first place. You fools!