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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJared Kushner Hires Horror-Film Publicist to Run PR for His New White House Office
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/kushner-hires-horror-house-publicist-to-run-his-pr.html?mid=fb-share-diJared Kushner Hires Horror-Film Publicist to Run PR for His New White House Office
By Adam K. Raymond
The Purge: Election Year poster. Photo: Universal Pictures
President Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner has hired a publicist practiced in the art of selling scary things to lead communications for his new White House office. Josh Raffel is joining the newly created White House Office of American Innovation after leading PR efforts at Blumhouse Productions, the plucky horror house that put out The Purge, Paranormal Activity and, most recently, Get Out, among other movies.
Before joining Blumhouse, Raffel worked for Manhattan-based Hiltzik Strategies, which repped Kushners family business. Trumps strategic communications director Hope Hicks is also a former Hiltzik employee.
While Raffels history with Kushner Companies no doubt played a role in his hiring, so too must have the obvious parallels between the job hes leaving and the one hes taking. Even if youre inclined to believe that the Kushner-led Office of American Innovation will be nothing like a horror movie, its impossible to deny the shared aesthetic between what Raffel used to sell and what hell be selling now. Just look above at the tag line on the poster for The Purge: Election Year. It says Keep America Great, and its the same line Trump plans to use for his 2020 reelection bid.
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Jared Kushner Hires Horror-Film Publicist to Run PR for His New White House Office (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2017
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Zoonart
(11,871 posts)1. Oh... the irony...
FFS, just make it stop!
GWC58
(2,678 posts)2. "Keep America Great!
OR ELSE!!
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)3. Don of the Dead
Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)4. Seems pretty appropriate to me.
I'm recommending they hire Charles Manson to be Jared's spokesman, too.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)5. Once again, truth is more bizarre than fiction. n/t