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Ari Fleischer: “Every time his approval in Iraq went down, it was the headline. Now it's gone up. It was a part of the story, but why…”

On the recordMarch 3, 2005
Every time his approval in Iraq went down, it was the headline. Now it's gone up. It was a part of the story, but why wasn't that the headline?
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Ari Fleischer
Republican · New York

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Fleischer critiques media coverage of presidential approval ratings.

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