Mark Katz

A former two-term speechwriter in the Clinton White House, Mark Katz is the founder and principal of the Soundbite Institute a consultancy that generates speeches, messaging and creative content for clients who communicate in high-stakes arenas.

Archive of Junk Shots

The (Imagined) Backstory of Anthony Weiner

We might have seen this coming. If there were an archive of Anthony Weiner’s crotch-shot correspondence, it’d probably look like this.

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The Funniest Speech Clinton Never Gave

Two weeks after Boston, Barack Obama will have to walk a line between heartfelt and funny at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. For Clinton speechwriter Mark Katz, that’s an eerily familiar challenge.

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The Clinton Speech That Never Was

<p>It's that time again: The White House Correspondents' Dinner, when presidents get onstage and yuk it up for a roomful of reporters they normally prefer to evade. But real-world problems sometimes get in the way, as they did in 1995 when Bill Clinton's planned speech was <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/26/the-funniest-whcd-speech-bill-clinton-never-delivered.html" target="_blank">dropped</a> in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. Speechwriter Mark Katz quickly scrambled to tone down the jokes. Herewith, the Clinton speech that could have been.</p>

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