Bush's former press secretary is blowing the lid off in a tell-all to be released next week:
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.
Sounds like someone isn't content to go down in history as the worst press secretary ever for the worst president ever.
5/28/2008 12:10 PM
Gob Bluth wrote:
I was just perusing some of the comments at Taylor Marsh's site and ran across yours in one thread from last night.
I've got to give you credit for trying to fight the good fight with those people. I've tried it myself with about the same results you enjoyed. Their idea of discourse is limited to, at best, mindless talking points and spouting preconceived notions; at worst, it's name calling and profanity. Overall, a pathetic display.
I gave it up when it just became apparent they weren't interested in being challenged or even lending the least bit of thought to something. Not to be overly dramatic, but you kind of get the idea some of them may not be totally well or stable.
Anyway, like I said, thanks for fighting the good fight. Their inanity and hollow, silly insults say more about them than they do about people like you and me, who try to back up our assertions with reason and empirical facts. Reply to this
Thanks for visiting my site, and the supportive words. Yes, the folks at TM are in a pretty desperate place emotionally. Hillary's downspiral has put many of them into clinical mode. Sometimes I'll think of visiting and hashing it out with them, and often I'll decide against it, feeling like I'm just picking on the uninformed and--as you pointed out--"unstable". Even Taylor seems to have realized of late that the majority of her "Marshans" are remarkably un-Democratic, vulgar, and, well, stupid.
Feel free to visit and comment anytime. Again, I appreciate your words of support, as we both fight the good fight for the eventual Democratic nominee.
