Dick Morris

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{{hatnote|This article is about the conservative pundit. For other Dicks named Morris, see [[Morris]].}}

{{cquote|Politically, he’s the most unbelievable guy around.|||Underwear Guy (Doug Depierro) on Dick Morris<ref name="mediaite2">[https://www.mediaite.com/weird/im-with-dick-morris-all-the-time-gutfeld-audience-loses-it-as-underwear-guy-tries-to-explain-bizarre-cameo/ ‘I’m With Dick Morris All The Time!’ Gutfeld Audience Loses It As ‘Underwear Guy’ Tries To Explain Bizarre Cameo] by Jennifer Bowers Bahney, ''Mediaite'', 20 January 2024.</ref>}}

{{cquote|I've been thinking about starting a hedge fund, just to invest in whatever Morris says won't happen.|||[[Nate Silver]]<ref>[http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/09/nate-silver-book-signal-noise-interview.html Q&A With Nate Silver on His New Book, Whether Romney Has a Shot, and Why He Doesn’t Play Fantasy Baseball Anymore].  ''New York Magazine''.  2012 September 28.</ref>}}

'''Richard "Dick" Samuel Morris''' {{lived|1948}} is a conservative [[pundit]] and pollster. He worked with [[Bill Clinton]] as governor of [[Arkansas]] (i.e. ever since 1978, during Clinton's first election<ref name="nyt"/>) and as President. After working with the Clinton administration, he went [[Republican]] and started appearing on [[Fox News]], and got a regular segment on ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]''. (He was in fact a Republican strategist before 1994,<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985043,00.html "Who is Dick Morris?"]</ref> and Clinton started consulting him in secret ever since 1992.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/chapters/4.html "Frontline: The Clinton Years"]</ref> It was Morris who put Clinton in the [[third way]] [[triangulation]] stuff.) He also still polls. He once let a prostitute suck on his toes while he was working for Clinton, and also did an impersonation of Popeye the Sailor Man for her.<ref>[http://articles.philly.com/1996-09-04/news/25633049_1_sherry-rowlands-dick-morris-popeye The Philadelphia Inquirer: Morris Did `Cute' Dance In His Bvds Hooker: He Was Popeye]</ref> He doesn't like Clinton anymore, and really dislikes Clinton's wife, [[Hillary Clinton]]; this was because the Clintons cast him aside after an alleged dalliance with a call girl.<ref>[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/dick-morris-donald-trump-clinton DISGRACED FORMER CLINTON AIDE REPORTEDLY IN TALKS TO JOIN TRUMP]: " A bigger impetus for Morris, however, seems to be his deep-seated hatred for the Clintons: ever since he was booted from their orbit following an alleged dalliance with a call girl..."</ref>

He was terminated from Fox in 2013, on his own admission for being wrong with his political predictions,<ref>[http://deadline.com/2013/02/dick-morris-dropped-by-fox-news-422542/ UPDATE: Dick Morris Says Fox News Fired Him “For Being Wrong”]</ref> and later in 2013 became the "chief political commentator and correspondent" for... get this... the ''[[National Enquirer]]''!<ref name="nyt">[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/style/hillary-clinton-dick-morris-national-enquirer-donald-trump.html Dick Morris Takes Aim at Hillary Clinton From a Tabloid Perch]</ref>

Nowadays, he can be found on [[Newsmax]], one of the perpetual fonts of far-right wingnuttery, either as part of his weekly half-hour show or guest-starring on one of several others, yelling about how teaching kids about racism will reinforce the Oedipal complexes that they all have,<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmax-host-dick-morris-claims-critical-race-theory-will-cause-kids-to-marry-their-mother Newsmax Host Claims Critical Race Theory Will Cause Kids to ‘Marry Their Mother’], ''Daily Beast.'' 24 June 2021.</ref> while a random guy walks across the shot in his underwear.<ref name="mediaite1">[https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-underwear-clad-man-crashes-dick-morriss-live-shot-on-newsmax/ WATCH: Underwear-Clad Man Crashes Dick Morris’s Live Shot on Newsmax] by Jamie Frevele, ''Mediaite'', 16 January 2024.</ref>

==Vendetta against Hillary Clinton==
Dick Morris is not the first man to feel bitter about his old job, but he has certainly gone the extra mile to make his bitterness known. On ''The O'Reilly Factor'', Morris told [[Laura Ingraham]] that his "old friend" Hillary Clinton was [[Conspiracy theory|conspiring]] to create a global [[EPA]] through the [[United Nations]].<ref name="Morris+Clinton+UN">[http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/06/27/dick-morris-smears-hillary-clinton-with-un-cons/157580 Dick Morris Smears Hillary Clinton with UN Conspiracy Theories ], Media Matters.</ref> Given the UN's record on "getting us to heaven"<ref name="Churchill+UN">"The U.N. was set up not to get us to Heaven but only to save us from Hell." -[[Winston Churchill]]</ref> Mr. Morris and Ms. Ingraham have nothing to fear.

Among other books, he has written ''Rewriting History'', which is largely a rebuttal to Hillary Clinton's self-satisfied autobiography ''Living History''. Dick Morris seems to carry a lot of silly bitterness towards Hillary.

==Underwear Guy==
{{#ev:youtube|6ZBd2hXhUGc|400|right}}A live video interview between Morris and Newsmax host Rob Schmitt about the 2024 Iowa caucus included a guy in his underwear calmly walking across Morris’s shot.<ref name="mediaite1" />

Doug Depierro (AKA Underwear Guy) later appeared on Gutfield! to clarify that he wasn’t “Morris’s gay friend, the pool boy, [or] whatnot,” but was there to set up the backdrop for the technically inept Morris. Oh, and that he also an artist who restores the murals at Mar-a-Lago for Trump.<ref name="mediaite2" />

==Assorted lies==
Perhaps it comes with the profession, but Dick Morris is quite mendacious. As a Republican operative, he has decried [[Barack Obama]] as a dictator (doing things for which [[Bush]] was praised).<ref name="FTB+EB+DM">[http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/03/30/dick-morris-lies-about-obama/ Dick Morris Lies About Obama], Dispatches from the Culture Wars, [[Ed Brayton]].</ref> He also tends to [[bullshit]] about the economy. <ref name="tnr+DM">[http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/85668/dick-morris-obama-2012-japan-economy Dick Morris is Lying, Part ∞], The New Republic.</ref>

==As a pollster==
Dick Morris anticipated [[Mitt Romney]] would win the [[2012 U.S. Presidential Election]] in a landslide. He was wrong.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/dick-morris-attempts-to-explain-his-election-prediction/2012/11/09/d7eaeafa-2a67-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_blog.html Dick Morris attempts to explain his election prediction], Erik Wemple</ref>

==See also==
*[[David Frum]] -Dick Morris in reverse, a Republican who turned Democrat.
*[[Vince Foster]] -A Clinton aide who didn't go on to a cushy job.

==External links==
*[http://www.dickmorris.com Official Dick Morris site]
*[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/09/dick-morris.html Dick Morris: World's Worst Political Pundit?]

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