Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House

[FOTD]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html

"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.

Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception" (Public Affairs, $27.95):

• 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."

Why bother to read this trash when history will tell the real story.



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[Conan71]

Scott McClellan has no credibility, he's trying to set up his career life after the WH.  

If he felt so strongly that the media should have questioned the run up to the war at the time, he should have as well.  He could have quit at any time back then with his integrity intact.  He was a willing co-conspirator, now he's running for cover with a kiss-and-tell book.

[FOTD]

He sucked then. He sucks more now.

We all gotta eat.....

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD


We all gotta eat.....

LOL! One more war profiteer...

[FOTD]

This stuff is priceless as well as shameful.

McClellan First Noticed Bush's Habit of Lying during Campaign Flap over Cocaine Use

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/05/28/mcclellan-first-noticed-bush-lies-in-1999-cocaine-flap/

"'The media won't let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,' I heard Bush say. 'You know, the truth is I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don't remember.'"

"I remember thinking to myself, How can that be?" McClellan wrote. "How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn't make a lot of sense."

This is so disgusting. This pig is getting so much money and attention for something everyone knew. This POS was one of those who worked hard to make sure it was kept secret or denied.

[pmcalk]

Here's a hint--if you went to some wild parties, and you can't remember if you did some drugs, then you did some drugs.  If you were sober, you would have remembered not doing them.

[cannon_fodder]

+1 pm, great explanation.

Plus, in my perspective, I don't really care if you did drugs so long as you are honest about it.  BS about "I don't remember" or "I didn't inhale" is just stupid.

quote:
Yes, I did illegal drugs when I was a youth.  It was a mistake, one of many I have made in my life.  Luckily that mistake did not cost me in significant ways nor addict me to a harmful lifestyle that often ruins a young persons chances in life...

then segway into your talking points about how drugs are bad but its the addiction not the addict and blah blah blah. Or whatever direction you want to go in.  

More than 50% of Americans admit to trying illegal drugs.   Add in legal pill poppers, alcoholics, and people who deny it and you are in a comfortable demographic.  Plus, Americans love a person who admits mistakes - especially when they then over came that mistake.

The denial just doesn't make much sense.  I mean, unless you were a crack whore or snorted coke in the Oval Office when your daddy was... wait a minute! []

[FOTD]

When they asked Obama if he ever inhaled he replied, "wasn't that the purpose."

[custosnox]

I'm getting flashbacks to that recent Robin Williams movie that I just can't remember the name of right now.  Head of State?

[FOTD]

McClellan: WH wanted him to stay silent. Huh, imagine that?

Watch Scottie on Countdown tonight! Strange. Who'd a thunk it would ever be. Keith O and Scottie the terrior....

George Bush Authorized the Leak of Valerie Wilson's Identity
(No kidding) Will Dumbya fire himself?
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/george-bush-authorized-the-leak-of-valerie-wilsons-identity/
Impeachment should be just a shot away.....

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

McClellan: WH wanted him to stay silent. Huh, imagine that?

Watch Scottie on Countdown tonight! Strange. Who'd a thunk it would ever be. Keith O and Scottie the terrior....

George Bush Authorized the Leak of Valerie Wilson's Identity
(No kidding) Will Dumbya fire himself?
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/george-bush-authorized-the-leak-of-valerie-wilsons-identity/
Impeachment should be just a shot away.....

Two steaming piles of dung on the air at the same time, wow, "must miss TV".

Fascinating how excerpts of McClellan's book sound just like Moveon.org talking points.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Scott McClellan has no credibility, he's trying to set up his career life after the WH.  

If he felt so strongly that the media should have questioned the run up to the war at the time, he should have as well.  He could have quit at any time back then with his integrity intact.  He was a willing co-conspirator, now he's running for cover with a kiss-and-tell book.

Totally agree. This guy is in it for the money.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

McClellan: WH wanted him to stay silent. Huh, imagine that?

Watch Scottie on Countdown tonight! Strange. Who'd a thunk it would ever be. Keith O and Scottie the terrior....

George Bush Authorized the Leak of Valerie Wilson's Identity
(No kidding) Will Dumbya fire himself?
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/29/george-bush-authorized-the-leak-of-valerie-wilsons-identity/
Impeachment should be just a shot away.....

Two steaming piles of dung on the air at the same time, wow, "must miss TV".

Fascinating how excerpts of McClellan's book sound just like Moveon.org talking points.

Fantastic post! I love it. Won't watch, stinks too much. I'm an independent thinker and don't need a Repub mouthpiece or a Dem mouthpiece to form my opinions. They are all CRAP!

[spincycle]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaFan-inTexas

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Scott McClellan has no credibility, he's trying to set up his career life after the WH.  

If he felt so strongly that the media should have questioned the run up to the war at the time, he should have as well.  He could have quit at any time back then with his integrity intact.  He was a willing co-conspirator, now he's running for cover with a kiss-and-tell book.

Totally agree. This guy is in it for the money.

Scott came from Texas and had no clue how DC works, and then when he was forced to resign he was gonna get even.

[spincycle]

Scott was naive when he arrived at the White House and is still naive. If he really wanted to raise awareness about the culture in DC, he could have done it a million other ways.  1) become a professor of political science 2) work for a association that tries to change the corporate culture and when he first had problems with the President or WH staff, he should have spoke up then and every single time they were out of line, or appeared to be lying. That is what PR people do. When you disagree with the fundamental truth, you drop those clients, or in this case the President of the United States. I really don't think that Scott has the complete picture, I think he might have bits and pieces of it; so I dont really trust his assessment of what he thinks the facts are.