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Posted By TimALoftis 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsFormer White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush "veered terribly off course," was not "open and forthright on Iraq," and took a "permanent campaign approach" to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
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TimALoftis1 year, 1 month ago
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Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush "veered terribly off course," was not "open and forthright on Iraq," and took a "permanent campaign approach" to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
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TimALoftis1 year, 1 month ago
* McClellan charges that Bush relied on "propaganda" to sell the war.
* He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war.
* He admits that some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be "badly misguided."
* The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that two top aides held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
* McClellan asserts that the aides Karl Rove, the president's senior adviser, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff "had at best misled" him about their role in the disclosure of former CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
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mcgrievysr1 year, 1 month ago
TimALoftis----"Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush "veered terribly off course," was not "open and forthright on Iraq," and took a "permanent campaign approach" to governing at the expense of candor and competence"
Exactly what we've been saying here, but now it comes from inside the White House.
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 1 month ago
Same group of shameless fools voted to sink this story.
Their stinky little pack is getting smaller..
From what do they stink you may ask??
The odor of those who continue to be responsible for a completely unaccountable administration that is damaging this once proud country and relies on trained animals like them to keep defending the defenseless...
These people know no shame and have no sense of what being a true American requires..They are stubborn, brainless fools.
They have absolutely no standards for what a president should be..What can they tell their children?
Here they have in bold crayon the absolute outing of their idiot leader and they still defend him blindly, YES, like NAZI's did Hitler. Their loyalty to their pig leader and his pig friend Cheney is inexplicable. They have nothing to add to this nation. What a waste.
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smithichie1 year, 1 month ago
Sounds like it will be an interesting book. The quote that caught my eye was this one.
"The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. â;¦ In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."
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mesodude1 year, 1 month ago
I am surprised I haven't seen any quotes about Cheney yet. I wonder if there will be references to "Darth Rove".
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DoseASpinoza1 year, 1 month ago
"Ouch..this has to hurt the Bush loyalists a little."
I doubt it. They are the true believers, and none of them, Bush included, ever cared about the fallout on the rest of us.
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Charlson1 year, 1 month ago
The job of White House Press Secretary has become so soiled lately that I've got to wonder what moral person could accept a job that includes lying, misinformation, deceit and subterfuge as part of the job description.
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mntnman4441 year, 1 month ago
Wasn't the theme...anyone who said anything negative (truthful) about Bush was an anti-American traitor?
And now,anyone (80%) who wants to leave the place we never belonged is a "surrender monkey".
The BushCo criminals are already putting the smearmobile into gear against McClellan.
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Spadecaller1 year, 1 month ago
I am sure McClellan knew he was dishonest with the media and the public during his work as press secretary for Bush.
While his story only supports what most rational people have known for years about this ill-conceived war, it at least confirms the truth. What is most important about McClellan's memoirs is that it can enlighten those Americans who have enough of an open mind to withdraw their support of McCain's candidacy, which supports a war that was never necessary.
The most shameful reality of this news item is what it shows about people like McClellan. They are willing to enable the exploitation of the lives and well-being of our soldiers and Iraqis if it serves their careers.
It now serves McClellan's ambitions to get paid for the truth -- the truth that he withheld when it was most important. He is not a hero. He is only a spineless messenger whose hands are also stained by the blood spilled in Iraq. Happy Memorial Day, Scott McClellan!
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ETproductions1 year, 1 month ago
It's not like he's telling us anything we didn't already know, but considering the right-wing source, it is pretty amazing stuff. Maybe even enough to convene a grand jury and begin criminal investigations when the current Mukasey Injustice Department is replaced by a functioning Justice Department.
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CaptainLucid1 year, 1 month ago
Dream on Cowboy. I am certain that on his last day in office W will issue a list of pardons thicker than a Sunday copy of the NY times. The worst is I think he will complete the deed by pardoning Cheney and then resigning. That would make Cheney the president and his only act will be to pardon W for any possible offenses. I am hoping for them to be hauled before the Hauge for war crimes.
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berkeley1 year, 1 month ago
for the record, when did he resign? right after the wilson/novak/valarie plame story hit the street.
he heard that the penalty for exposing a cia operation was death, and he wasn't sure the cover-up would hold.
despite the book, the future will know him as a paid liar.
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Charlson1 year, 1 month ago
And yes, where was the (liberal) White House Press Corps on asking the tough questions about the war's rational? Or demanding accountability for where American dollars were going, for what use, who was benefiting and with what success? Does anyone think any of our White House Press Corps members have done their jobs? Or the mainstream media for that matter? Corporations controls the media and the corporations benefit from the policies of the Bush administration. Liberal media my a$$.
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mesodude1 year, 1 month ago
"Does anyone think any of our White House Press Corps members have done their jobs? Or the mainstream media for that matter? "
--Have you ever seen Helen Thomas in action? She's in her twilight years but she doesn't pull in any punches. Frankly, I don't see the press secretary's job as being all that difficult but the Bush administration has made a total joke out of the position. Tony Snow? Dana Perino? How many different ways can you say "i'll get back to you" or "We haven't seen the report yet, so I can't comment on it" or "he doesn't comment on it" etc?
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dwemm1 year, 1 month ago
I've also got more than a suspicion that this is a further attempt by the Republican Party to distance itself from the Bush administration. They learned in 2006 that name recognition with Bush is poison in the polling place, the same as identification with Nixon was in the 70's after
Watergate and Vietnam.
McLellan can then go off and work for McCain or any of the congressional candidates. As for his inability to tell the whole truth at the right time, that might just be a job description for "WH Press Secretary" these days.
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DoseASpinoza1 year, 1 month ago
Even Mr. McGoo is keeping Shrub behind closed doors (gates) during his fundraisers this week in AZ. They moved the big one from the Phoenix Convention Center to a private residence because 1) they could not sell enough tickets and 2) they were afraid there would be more antiwar protesters than Bush/McGoo (Bush third term) supporters.
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texangelwings1 year, 1 month ago
Telling the people something we already know! Where was his courage back then? Too bad he wasn't a whisleblower back when it would have counted!
Thanks ybdogsct and Mark for the heads up on this article.
Thanks Tim!
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Will13131 year, 1 month ago
I hope that McClellan has the decency to donate the profits from the book to charity.
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if you believe that he will do so.. quackpot would REALLY be a fitting name.. :-p
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Poulenc1 year, 1 month ago
Under the heading of Only in America:
You write a book that (rightly) demeans its central subject--and you, by implication!
You pedal it everywhere you can...
You have your fifteen minutes of fame...
And you make $$$ from your "revelations" (stale news, actually--or at least, yet more corroboration)...
And you establish a lecture-circuit market for yourself...
Pat yourself on the back! You're a miscreant celebrity!
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walden31 year, 1 month ago
Liar, liar pants on fire.
I'd like to ask McClellan how he feels about being complicit in the needless deaths of thousands of Americans, tens of thousands of Iraqis and bankrupting the country. Does he think his little confessions absolves him of responsibility.
"...the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration..." Well, DUH any one of us looking in from the outside in 02-03 could see that.
Ari Fleischer also wrote a book. There seems to be a pattern here. The monsters help Bush to achieve his goal and lie to the American people, then they cop to it, then they go on the talk show circuit, then they make lots of money. Talk about traitors to America.
First we had Ari Fleischer. A despicable lying creature. Then McClennan another lying, fabricating mouthpiece. Then the chief propagandist from Fox Tony Snow and finally the way over her head Dana Perino.
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BillieMaxer1 year, 1 month ago
* McClellan charges that Bush relied on "propaganda" to sell the war.
Noooooo really, glad we found that out and here I thought we went to war for all the right reasons.
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Will13131 year, 1 month ago
I'd like to hear what he would say UNDER OATH about Plame.. and throw in Fleischer also remember the latter was given immunity for his grand jury testimony...
that treason thing might just be on the burner again...
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mesodude1 year, 1 month ago
Propeller's low-budget version of the Caped Crusaders except without the capes and they're mission is to defend evil until Dumb'ya's face is on Mt Rushmore.
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eugenegerard1 year, 1 month ago
The word propaganda is synonymous with lieing. The lies Bush said were felonious and treasonous. Impeach and incarcerate the whole bunch of them.
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