Another controversial Obama adviser? Not so, says campaign

Barack Obama has Dennis Ross advising him on the Middle East, but apparently not the actor who played Dr. Doug Ross on the hit television show ER. The Obama campaign is denying a story in the London Daily Mail claiming that Clooney was urging Obama to be more “balanced” on U.S. relations on Israel. The original article quoted only anonymous “Democratic Party insiders” and an unnamed “acquaintance” of Clooney’s as saying that the actor and the candidate spoke frequently about policy and presentation, and an Obama spokesperson is calling it an “inaccurate report.”