Roll Call’s Mary Ann Akers will reveal Thursday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dined earlier this week with Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and Sen. John Thune, the man who took out former Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Tom Daschle, RAW STORY has learned.
The dinner, Akers is set to report, included Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, conservative columnist William Safire and Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot, and their wives.
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“There was also talk at the dinner of Thune’s victory over Daschle,” Akers adds. “The Senator thanked Gigot for The Wall Street Journal’s ‘anti-Daschle editorials,’ the source said, adding that Rumsfeld seemed ‘very eager to hear about the race.’”
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