Author Topic: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out  (Read 12419 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Brassmask

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2600
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« on: May 28, 2008, 11:21:46 AM »
White House press release:

Disgruntled ex-employee and possible gay child molester Scott McClellan has pitifully penned a "tell-all" book in which he makes wild and delusional claims of "propaganda" and "self-deception".  It is unclear to the White House exactly why McClellan has fallen into the clutches of the terrorists who have brainwashed him into hating America; but we know that the American People, who clearly DO love America and Support The Troops?, will have the decency and honor to ignore McClellan's left-wing tome of conspiracy theories.

The real reality is that the President and his staff all told then-Press Secretary McClellan to quit playing up WMD, smoking gun mushroom clouds and Saddam Hussein's ties to terrorists but he would go out to the reporters again and again telling them whatever he felt like!  We just couldn't control him!  He was like a mad dog out there!  We mean, this guy was out-of-his-tree nuts!  In the end, that's why he got fired because he just kept lying and lying all the time!  Now, he's just pissed and out there trying to make a dollar by painting our beloved "president" in a poor light.  (Did you hear the "president"'s now only polling with 69% negatives?  That's like a .05% drop!  America loves him!  Clearly, this means that McClellan is a liar out to make a dollar.)

We're sure he needs the money what with how he's blowing it on, what some call, child porn productions.  Oh well, we're just going to stay above it.



Reality found at this link...
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/05/28/bombshell_book_rocks_white_house.html


News of the extremely critical memoir from former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan dominates the headlines this morning. What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

New York Times: "President Bush 'convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment,' and has engaged in 'self-deception' to justify his political ends, Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, writes in a critical new memoir about his years in the West Wing."

Washington Post: "Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated 'political propaganda campaign' led by President Bush and aimed at 'manipulating sources of public opinion' and 'downplaying the major reason for going to war.'"

Wall Street Journal: "The White House took part in an 'endless effort to manipulate public opinion to their advantage' in promoting the invasion of Iraq, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan declares in a new book."

Los Angeles Times: McClellan writes, "No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary."

Plane

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 26993
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 12:34:55 PM »

'downplaying the major reason for going to war.'"



What does he say this was?

Lanya

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3300
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2008, 12:44:57 PM »
?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.?

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

Darn those advisers!   If only we had someone higher up than them....someone who would make tough decisions....who had a moral compass, and good judgment...
Planned Parenthood is America’s most trusted provider of reproductive health care.

BT

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16141
    • View Profile
    • DebateGate
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 3
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2008, 12:51:19 PM »
Quote
Darn those advisers!   If only we had someone higher up than them....someone who would make tough decisions....who had a moral compass, and good judgment...

I hear Obama is mounting a high intensity search through all 57 states for the best and the brightest to serve in his administration.


sirs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27078
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2008, 01:15:31 PM »
 ;D
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

Brassmask

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2600
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2008, 01:30:20 PM »
Quote
Darn those advisers!   If only we had someone higher up than them....someone who would make tough decisions....who had a moral compass, and good judgment...

I hear Obama is mounting a high intensity search through all 57 states for the best and the brightest to serve in his administration.


I wish someone would provide a link to the transcript for that quote about the 57 states.

Christians4LessGvt

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11139
    • View Profile
    • "The Religion Of Peace"
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2008, 01:40:13 PM »
"I wish someone would provide a link to the transcript for that quote about the 57 states"

Are you denying the moron said it?

Or are you going to try to weasel out and say it was out of context?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws[/youtube]

if video doesn't work click link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

« Last Edit: May 28, 2008, 02:18:32 PM by ChristiansUnited4LessGvt »
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" - Ronald Reagan - June 12, 1987

sirs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27078
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2008, 01:40:54 PM »
I guess we have to face facts Brass.  Based on your parameters, Obama is a moron
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

Brassmask

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2600
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2008, 01:41:53 PM »
Ouchie!

The book begins with McClellan's statement to the press that he had talked with Rove and Libby and that they had assured him they "were not involved in ... the leaking of classified information." ...

"[President Bush] too had been deceived, and therefore became unwittingly involved in deceiving me. But the top White House officials who knew the truth ? including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney ? allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie."

McClellan also suggests that Libby and Rove secretly colluded to get their stories straight at a time when federal investigators were hot on the Plame case. "There is only one moment during the leak episode that I am reluctant to discuss," he writes. "It was in 2005 during a time when attention was focusing on Rove and Libby, and it sticks vividly in my mind. ... Following [a meeting in Chief of Staff Andy Card's office] ... Scooter Libby was walking to the entryway as he prepared to depart when Karl turned to get his attention. 'You have time to visit?' Karl asked. 'Yeah,' replied Libby.

"I have no idea what they discussed, but it seemed suspicious for these two, whom I had never noticed spending any one-on-one time together, to go behind closed doors and visit privately. ... At least one of them, Rove, it was publicly known at the time, had at best misled me by not sharing relevant information, and credible rumors were spreading that the other, Libby, had done at least as much."

Xavier_Onassis

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27916
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2008, 01:43:23 PM »
I guess we have to face facts Brass.  Based on your parameters, Obama is a moron

===================================
Definitely true, according to the official rules of Sirsball?
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

sirs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27078
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2008, 01:46:51 PM »
No, that'd be according to Brass's parameters for what constitutes a moron, and then reinforced by yourself.
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

Xavier_Onassis

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27916
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2008, 01:55:35 PM »
No, that'd be according to Brass's parameters for what constitutes a moron, and then reinforced by yourself.

==========================================================================

Bullshit! I have never stated that Obama is a moron, and do not, in fact believe that this is so. You are on some sort of demented adolescent ego trip. Your opinions are exclusively your own, and I share none of them with you.

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."

Brassmask

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2600
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2008, 02:01:07 PM »
As prophecied....

Quote of the Day
"Scott we now know is disgruntled about his experience at the White House... It's sad. This is not the Scott we knew."

-- White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, quoted by NBC News, on former colleague Scott McClellan's new book, What Happened.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/05/28/quote_of_the_day.html

sirs

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 27078
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2008, 02:04:07 PM »
No, that'd be according to Brass's parameters for what constitutes a moron, and then reinforced by yourself.
========================
Bullshit! I have never stated that Obama is a moron, and do not, in fact believe that this is so.

Never said that.  I said according to the parameters you & Brass place at defining what a moron is, so hastily applying it to Bush, happens to fit nicely on Obama as well.  Try to keep up.

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

Brassmask

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2600
    • View Profile
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: Poor R-Wingers: Scotty McClellan Sells Them Out
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2008, 02:06:39 PM »
Never said that.  I said according to the parameters you & Brass place at defining what a moron is, so hastily applying it to Bush, happens to fit nicely on Obama as well.  Try to keep up.

I've never listened to Obama and thought, "this guy is a moron".  Therefore he is not a moron.