Cyranno DeBoberac
05-28-2008, 12:44 PM
One of Bush's former press secretaries, Scott McClellan, wrote a book (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.html). And boy is it a doozy! I guess that when he decided to write his memoirs, his heart grew two sizes that day.
Some of the highlights and revelations:
President George W. Bush manipulated public opinion through a ``political propaganda campaign'' to justify going to war in Iraq.
He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war: “If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
“The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”
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.
Some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
“I still like and admire President Bush,” McClellan writes. “But he and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war. … In this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security.”And much much more!
I wonder if he's ill or something, because this is deathbed-confessional, finding-Jesus-before-he-goes-to-hell stuff.
(Of course, having published all this, I'm sure Scott can count on running into Karl Rove in a dark alleyway somewhere with a garrote. :-D )
And the White House responds (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-05-28-mcclellan-cover_N.htm): "Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," said White House press secretary Dana Perino. "For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad — this is not the Scott we knew."
That the kind of language you hear from cult members talking about one of their apostates.
Is it January 20th yet???
Some of the highlights and revelations:
President George W. Bush manipulated public opinion through a ``political propaganda campaign'' to justify going to war in Iraq.
He says the White House press corps was too easy on the administration during the run-up to the war: “If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
“The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”
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.
Some of his own assertions from the briefing room podium turned out to be “badly misguided.”
“I still like and admire President Bush,” McClellan writes. “But he and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war. … In this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security.”And much much more!
I wonder if he's ill or something, because this is deathbed-confessional, finding-Jesus-before-he-goes-to-hell stuff.
(Of course, having published all this, I'm sure Scott can count on running into Karl Rove in a dark alleyway somewhere with a garrote. :-D )
And the White House responds (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-05-28-mcclellan-cover_N.htm): "Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," said White House press secretary Dana Perino. "For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad — this is not the Scott we knew."
That the kind of language you hear from cult members talking about one of their apostates.
Is it January 20th yet???