Dunn Out, Pfeiffer Up, at White House Communications Shop
EmailAnita Dunn, the White House communications director, is leaving the White House at the end of the month, sources tell ABC News. She will remain a consultant to the White House advising with long-term communications planning and other strategic issues.
Dunn will be replaced by the deputy communications director, Dan Pfeiffer.
Dunn’s departure was expected; she came on board temporarily earlier this year when communications director Ellen Moran left for a more family-friendly position at the Department of Commerce. Dunn, who advised then-Sen. Obama during the campaign, always said she was here temporarily because she wants to spend more time with her teenage son.
Pfeiffer, a Georgetown alumnus from Delaware, originally worked for the presidential campaign of Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind, but became the Obama campaign communications director after Bayh dropped out. He has worked for former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD, and Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD, and is married to Sarah Feinberg, senior advisor to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and a special assistant to the president.
There have been discussions at the White House about Dunn’s husband, Bob Bauer, replacing White House counsel Greg Craig. Today’s move presumably makes that switch more likely.
-jpt
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Dang! I had Gibbs in the office pool. But I guess Gibbsy is just too valuable doing his Sargeant Schultz routine every day! (I see nussing; I hear nussing…)
Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 10, 2009, 11:56 am 11:56 am
I wonder if her open admiration for Chairman Mao had anything to do with the decision?
Posted by: fjbar | November 10, 2009, 11:58 am 11:58 am
So, the Dunn’s will still be on the government dole one way or another.
What I really want to know, Jake, is when did you find out you were a major character in the Stephen King book, Under the Dome?
Posted by: Mrs. Kravitz | November 10, 2009, 11:58 am 11:58 am
“Anita’s Dunn” – VegasRick on November 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Hot Air dor com
Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 10, 2009, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm
LMAO.. after the white house seen the DOMINANCE Fox news had on election night, David Axelrod ASK Fox to be interviewed to explain (spin) the Democrat losses
The white house has seen the tremendous decline in CNN and MSNBC viewers and the rapid rise in viewership at Fox…The Obama LOONS were defeated in their war on freedom of speech… LMAO and of course ABC was silent
Posted by: mickey maoist | November 10, 2009, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
If she is still a consultant then she has gone nowhere. Under pressure for their commuist type freedom of speach restricking tactics she is rewarded as a consultant.
Posted by: Jim Rod | November 10, 2009, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
As a consultant she receives all the benifits of being attatched to the whitehouse without governement restriction. Ironic considering she stands for government restrictions.
Posted by: Verbalrant.com | November 10, 2009, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm
All the benefits of obama, no restrictions. Ironic since she stands for government restriction.
Posted by: Verbalrant.com | November 10, 2009, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
The White House had to wait a few weeks after it became public that Dunn was a Mao cheerleader, to let her go.
It may have looked bad to have a Maoist in the WH but it would be worse to let Beck get the credit for getting rid of another radical.
Posted by: kyle | November 10, 2009, 12:47 pm 12:47 pm
Mmmm mmmm mmmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
Posted by: Mary | November 10, 2009, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
Anita will have more time to read about her favorite mass murdering philospher–Chairman Mao.
Posted by: larry | November 10, 2009, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm
And so are 80+ Members of Congress:
Posted by: Commie Blaster | Nov 10, 2009 12:41:59 PM
Commies! Yipes! I’m glad you are around to “blast” them! I feel safer without that Communist, Dunn, running around communicating and stuff.
Ever notice that Communications and Communist start out the same way…. coincidence? Hardly. And what about “Community”…. as in Community Organizer? Coincidence?
Look at Obama…. sure, he says he supports business. And, many of his supposed critics in the red media claim that he is too friendly to big business and the investor class… but if you look at how he seems… the reality sets in. Nevermind what he says and does…. you only have to look at how his name sounds funny and how he has a D next to his name…. and you will see that he is scientifically proven to be communist.
Posted by: gobot | November 10, 2009, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
Glenn Beck is going to miss her.
Anita never did call Beck to dispute anything he said about her.
Must have been the truth.
Posted by: millie | November 10, 2009, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm
She will speaking at the Chairman Mao conference on Human Rights
Posted by: jamescbuilder | November 10, 2009, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm
Maybe she will become a czar!!!????
Posted by: wis134 | November 10, 2009, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
Posted by: gobot | Nov 10, 2009 12:53:59 PM
Yes we know. The sky is not REALLY falling. It’s only falling when liberals want something.
“We need a stimulus! (Only certain) financial companies are too big to fail! We must buy GM to save the country! We must destroy private health care to reform it! Racism is rampant among the right wing; we’re the only ones who can really help you!”
Like that.
Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 10, 2009, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm
Now if only the rest of the commies in the WH would leave, of course there would be practically no one left, but that would be OK.
Posted by: rufus | November 10, 2009, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
“She will remain a consultant to the White House…”
I wonder what the financial arrangement of her consultancy is? Reaping the fruits of her loyalty to BHO. Gravy train!
Posted by: beeman | November 10, 2009, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
The Commies left in Jan. 09. Although there’s one just hanging on until his trial…Cheney.
Posted by: sara | November 10, 2009, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
I will miss Mao Tse Dunn
Posted by: drjohn | November 10, 2009, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
Too funny, Beck called this about two weeks ago
Posted by: Scott | November 10, 2009, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm
Darn that Fox News!
Obama is having to get rid of his best radicals.
Who is next?
Thanks Fox for being our watchdog.
Posted by: hank | November 10, 2009, 1:33 pm 1:33 pm
This was planned all along, folks. Nothing to see here. These are not the droids you’re looking for.
Posted by: Jay Guevara | November 10, 2009, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
Yes, this move was planned…since about ten seconds after Glenn Beck torched her on Fox.
Posted by: Jay Guevara | November 10, 2009, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
What kind of person admires a ruthless dictator that executed more people than Hitler?
Didn’t seem to bother Obama.
Posted by: tyler | November 10, 2009, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm
Thanks, Glenn Beck. You are absolutely a thorn in the Obama administration’s side! I’m glad the Mao lover is gone, but I’m going to miss the “red phone” on his show.
Isn’t it amazing that the MSM has totally (and purposely) overlooked the very facts that Glenn Beck, a self professed “non-reporter”, has brought to light? Just goes to show what a joke the media and the office of the Presidency has become.
Now, if Glenn can just put a little more heat on Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Emanuel……
Posted by: Shoe | November 10, 2009, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
Have you ever seen a more tone deaf group of people?
Obama gives cheery shout-outs before addressing the nation about a tragedy where 13 troops are killed.
Van Jones advocated for a cop killer
but is still recruited by the WH.
Anita praises Mao in front of high school kids.
Obama goes to Berlin to prove how presidential he is but doesn’t go to celebrate the fall of communism.
Obama jumps to conclusions and calls cops stupid but tells us not to jump to conclusions about Hasan.
It’s like a very bad dream we are in.
Posted by: greg | November 10, 2009, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
“Anita Dunn, a veteran Democratic strategist and top adviser on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, will take over as White House communications director at least TEMPORARILY, according to sources familiar with the move.” APRIL 30, JONATHAN MARTIN (emphasis added)
But if it makes you happy, go ahead and believe it was due to the opposition party (Foxnews and Beck).
Posted by: jhw539 | November 10, 2009, 1:49 pm 1:49 pm
Now she is free to do Super Poly Grip commercials!
Posted by: 912er | November 10, 2009, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm
Van Jones and Dunn aren’t really gone–just out of sight.
To the far left these two are completely normal and admired for their beliefs.
But not by the mainstream.
And the good thing–because of Fox the mainstream of America got to see who really surrounds Obama.
Posted by: ollie | November 10, 2009, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
“But if it makes you happy, go ahead and believe it was due to the opposition party (Foxnews and Beck).”
It certainly couldn’t have been her hero-worship of Mao Tse Tung.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | November 10, 2009, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm
“Anita Dunn, a veteran Democratic strategist and top adviser on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, will take over as White House communications director at least TEMPORARILY, according to sources familiar with the move.” APRIL 30, JONATHAN MARTIN (emphasis added)
But if it makes you happy, go ahead and believe it was due to the opposition party (Foxnews and Beck).
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The right wing has a hard time with real information and facts. Too blinded by their ideology.
Posted by: tierra | November 10, 2009, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm
Maybe she’s stepping down due to a conflict of interest. I heard that her
husband’s law firm has been hired by Obama to fight the “birther” lawsuits
that keep trying to have Barach’s long form birth certificate (which is different from the “certificate of live birth”),released to the public.
Posted by: phil | November 10, 2009, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm
Speaking of Czars, does anyone know or is it written anywhere what these commies make as salary? I would love to know where the money comes from.(Ha, from the taxpayer) and how much we are all paying?
Next, I read where Obama took weeks to get Cao from LA to bend to his will. But, bend he did! The promises Obummer made to Cao were supposed to be given anyway.What fools we mortals be!
Dear God, I have never been so annoyed and irritated in my life!This is not the America I know and love! Thank you, Glenn.I watch you all the time and I haven’t seen anyone dispute anything you say. No one has bothered to dial that phone yet. Could it be because they lie like rugs and can’t give you any definitive answers as to what you supposedly lied about? Thanks again, an old lady who is screaming quietly at the gov’t!!!!!!
Posted by: Janet L Dickens | November 10, 2009, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
“All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others, and deserve a bailout”
Posted by: Living faith | November 10, 2009, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
tierra | Nov 10, 2009 2:2 1:44 PM: “The right wing has a hard time with real information and facts. Too blinded by their ideology.”
And the Left on the other hand is Blinded by outright Hypocrisy. Get over yourself!
Posted by: nobama12 | November 10, 2009, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
tierra | Nov 10, 2009 2:2 1:44 PM: “The right wing has a hard time with real information and facts. Too blinded by their ideology.”
And the Left on the other hand is Blinded by outright Hypocrisy. Get over yourself!
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54% approve of the job President Obama is doing. I’m one of them.
I’m in the mainstream of America, not on the left.
Get over yourself.
Posted by: tierra | November 10, 2009, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
it is amazing how Obama takes care of his friends and how these people are all interconnected. Dunn’s husband apparently works for a lawfirm who defends Obama from being able to prove his citizenship and even real name (and/or name changes). The new appointee is married into the Emmanuel dynastic order. And all seem to get funding from government largess or Democratic circles. It is like Obama transport the corrupt patronage system of Chitown to DC- not that DC needed much help in corruption, nepotism, and the like!
Posted by: Ed | November 10, 2009, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
tierra: And 58% of Americans believe the Next President will be Republican..And I am one of them! And 40% of Americans Strongly Disapprove of Obama’s performance ..And I am one of them! Overall 52% of Americans disapprove of Obama’s Performance.. And I am one of them…
Posted by: nobama12 | November 10, 2009, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
2 months to get up to speed
2 months to dispense propoganda and push for the Olympics
2 months to clean out her desk
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”
Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 10, 2009, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
….until Pfeiffer starts yakking about
the merits of Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, etc. Then we will see a quick internal
shakeup and the next radical will be
named to the post. Obama’s got hundreds
lined up in the wings.
Posted by: grizzlybare | November 10, 2009, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
I’m in the mainstream of America, not on the left.
Get over yourself.
Posted by: tierra | Nov 10, 2009 2:48:45 PM
Interesting that you define the mainstream of America as the “center” politically. It’s not a political term. Look it up. They have Internet access in your country, right?
Posted by: Visualize Whirled Peas | November 10, 2009, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
If this had been about Bush’s cabinet, the media would’ve led with”Another One Bails on Bush”. FOr O’Bama, it’s warm fuzzy story about a mother who wants to return to her mothering duties. Bull! And I thought that Obama was going to rise above cronyism – he’s hiring friends just like the rest of ‘em. I’m getting more dienchanted with that guy every day.
Posted by: merry | November 10, 2009, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
Obama’s rateing is NOT 54% it is down to 49% so stop your liberal lies, I hope it goes to 37% so we can kick his no good Worthless black behind out of office, This Man has Done Nothing, To Protect This Country,All He Is Doing is Going Around The World Kissing All Our Emenies Behind Ends, He Is A Coward And A Disgrace, and a Terrorist Sympathizer,When this moron says we shouldn’t jump to conclusions, after it was proven that it was a muslum terrorist attack on our soldiers, theirs no excuse for that kind of remark
Posted by: frank | November 10, 2009, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
“Dunn’s departure was expected; she came on board temporarily earlier this year when communications director Ellen Moran left for a more family-friendly position at the Department of Commerce.”
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It’s pretty simple folks, not that complicated.
Posted by: tierra | November 10, 2009, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
Obama’s rateing is NOT 54% it is down to 49% so stop your liberal lies
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frank the 54% is quoted directly from TODAY’S Gallup poll so your ‘lying’ accusations rather point back in your own direction.
You can find the poll on line under Gallup.
Posted by: tierra | November 10, 2009, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
p.s. – frank, try to find a tactic beyond juvenile name calling and insults.
Posted by: tierra | November 10, 2009, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
“Obama’s rateing is NOT 54% it is down to 49% so stop your liberal lies:
Obama’s job approval:
RCP Average 51.7 43.7 +8.0
Gallup 54 39 +15
Rasmussen Reports 48 52 -4
CNN/Opinion Research 54 45 +9
Ipsos/McClatchy 53 43 +10
FOX News 50 41 +9
NBC News/WSJ 51 42 +9
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie
Posted by: Ryan C | November 10, 2009, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm
FOX nails another one.
For a non-news network they sure do expose the non-news-worthy truth about the players in this administration.
I am wondering when the other media is going to start doing their jobs as well. I like FOX and I like that they are not really a news-network and keep the pressure on this administration.
Posted by: Lone Star Rules | November 11, 2009, 7:31 am 7:31 am
Re: “which is different from the “certificate of live birth”),released to the public.”
Obama has released the OFFICIAL birth certificate of Hawaii. (http://www.starbulletin.com/columnists/kokualine/20090606_kokua_line.html). And, as that article says, it is the only birth certificate that Hawaii now issues. It no longer sends out copies of the long-form birth certificate.
The Wall Street Journal commented:
“Obama has already provided a legal birth certificate demonstrating that he was born in Hawaii. No one has produced any serious evidence to the contrary. Absent such evidence, it is unreasonable to deny that Obama has met the burden of proof. We know that he was born in Honolulu as surely as we know that Bill Clinton was born in Hope, Ark., or George W. Bush in New Haven, Conn.’
Posted by: smrstrauss | November 11, 2009, 7:32 am 7:32 am
ABC you dropped the ball on this one too,is Glenn Beck and Fox so much better reporting the real news that you have just given up.Stick to that Obama worship and watch your ratings decline.
Fox keep up the good work.
Posted by: Johnny L | November 11, 2009, 9:03 am 9:03 am
Hey Tierra….I really don’t know what Fox News and/or G. Beck had to say about Dunn….I have folks like you to keep tabs on the onn-political gems that go on in, BUT I have been in awe of Ms. Dunn’s temporary position in the West Wing ever since she got the job. I thought at first that she was sort of a college summer intern or something, and as she opened her mouth more often during her tenure, I researched just who she was (try it sometime, it works), and I was able to flesh out who she is…who her husband it….and added it to my collection of facts about the strange bedfellows our POTUS has made to staff his beleagured Administration…..so I guess I had better turn on G. Beck more often…..like good old Smokey the Bear says, “…where there’s smoke, there’s fire….”.
Thanks for the tip.
Posted by: justj joey | November 11, 2009, 11:12 am 11:12 am
I guess G. Beck was instrumental in having Anita Dunn removed as the WH communication director for her statement that she is an admirer of communist dictator Mao.
Posted by: austin | November 11, 2009, 11:54 am 11:54 am
As long as we are fighting each other…
they win, we all lose. who are They?
follow the money.
Posted by: Brad Sanders | November 12, 2009, 9:00 am 9:00 am