{"id":653,"date":"2003-09-19T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/653.html"},"modified":"2003-09-19T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2003-09-19T19:16:19","slug":"clark-picks-up-a-very-talented-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clark-picks-up-a-very-talented-press-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark picks up a very talented press secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are, most Americans aren&#8217;t familiar with Mary Jacoby. She&#8217;s been a great journalist for the St. Petersburg Times, covering Congress and political news for the paper in Washington for years. I&#8217;ve had a chance to talk with her on several occasions, and I can say with confidence, she belonged at a paper with a far bigger circulation because she did great work.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this because Jacoby resigned from the St. Pete Times this week to &#8212; get this &#8212; become Wesley Clark&#8217;s press secretary.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a terrific choice and will do a tremendous job. If the rest of Clark&#8217;s staff is as talented as Mary Jacoby, he&#8217;ll do just fine.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across this information, in case you&#8217;re wondering, by reading in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/19\/politics\/campaigns\/19CLAR.html?ex=1064635200&amp;en=3cf55b5c39e03a89&amp;ei=5062&amp;partner=GOOGLE\">today&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> that Clark is already relying on guidance from Jacoby as she travels with the General. (I called the St. Pete Times newsroom to confirm that Clark&#8217;s Mary Jacoby is the same reporter I&#8217;ve talked to in the past.)<\/p>\n<p>And Mary, if you happen to read this, I need a job, I love Gen. Clark, and I&#8217;m waiting by the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are, most Americans aren&#8217;t familiar with Mary Jacoby. She&#8217;s been a great journalist for the St. Petersburg Times, covering Congress and political news for the paper in Washington for years. I&#8217;ve had a chance to talk with her on several occasions, and I can say with confidence, she belonged at a paper with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}