Throwing Georgie under the Bus

[Griff]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says in a new book that President George W. Bush "veered terribly off course" and was not "open and forthright on Iraq," Politico.com reported on Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080528/...bush_book_dc_3

It will be interesting to see how much McClellan says he knew. He is right about the press not doing their job. Too bad we only impeach for lying about sex.

[TheMercenary]

No biggie. All Press Secretaries work for the boss. Everybody has to serve somebody. McClellan is a mouth piece for the man and I am pretty sure everyone accepts that. Cudo's to him for telling his side but it is only one side.

[glatt]

McClellan associated of his own free will with those rats. He can't come back now and try to distance himself. He passed the lies along. He's one of them.

[Undertoad]

He did the worst job of any press secretaries in my memory. Monotonic and boring for TV, with no idea how things would "play". Unable or unwilling to think on his feet. He was in the job for three years and nobody listened to a word he said. They picked him because they have no concept of how to communicate.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

McClellan associated of his own free will with those rats. He can't come back now and try to distance himself. He passed the lies along. He's one of them.

What ever. Looking to blame him for the administrations failures is useless. He was a mouth piece. He had a job and 15 min (well 3 yrs) of fame. He will make money off his book and the job has given him an in for numerous jobs in the future. The majority of people could give a rats ass about anything he did during his time at the podium.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Looking to blame him for the administrations failures is useless.

Posting on the internet about politics in general is fairly useless.

I'm not blaming him for the administration's failures. I'm blaming him for his own. He's saying that Bush basically lied about the Iraq war, but he was Bush's mouth, so what does that make him? He's trying to paint himself as this saint. He's not. He's one of them.

He's connected, and he will make some money off this book. I won't dispute that. Most people won't really remember him and don't care. I won't dispute that either.

[Happy Monkey]

He waited until he had a book out and Bush's popularity was in the crapper before he exposed the BS. Bleh. I'm glad he's done it, but it is too little, too late.

I don't believe that it took him this long to decide that it was BS; his demeanor during his tenure always seemed to me to indicate he didn't believe it. Which makes the press' culpability all the worse. Not that that excuses him. Lying to someone isn't any better if you know won't call you on it.

[TheMercenary]

Yea, it does sound like some serious distancing and ass covering. Screw it. I could give a crap what he writes. I will never read his book. Anything a press secretary says before or after his employ is highly suspect. What amazes me more is that any of you think that in some way he was complacent or suddenly not complacent in the daily propaganda that ANY PRESIDENTS PRESS SECRETARY was putting forth while doing the job he was hired to do. BFD. Please tell me that Clinton’s Press secretary was any different. Again, who fucking cares. They are a mouth piece for whoever hires them to be their mouth piece. BFD. That is their job. Get over it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Scott McClellan = Chemical Ali.

[Ibby]

He's certainly no CJ.

bet he couldnt even do The Jackal half as well
(and we all know thats the REAL measure of a press secretary)

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Yea, it does sound like some serious distancing and ass covering.

It sound like another in a long list of insiders telling the truth about the mental midget. His book only adds to the long list of other who have been saying the same thing.

A president sits on his ass for five days while the USS Abe Lincoln sits doing nothing nearby an Indian Ocean tsunami. For five days, a million are dying and President Ass wipe cannot even dispatch the Lincoln task force ... until world wide mockery embarrasses the mental midget.

How curious. An aircraft carrier, USS Bataan, sits futilely and idly for five days off New Orleans - not permitted to assist Americans in the Super Dome and Convention Center. Why? The book says why. President Dic licker could not decide for five days that a category five hurricane would make landfall. However, as the hurricane struck New Orleans, the mental midget saw fit to go to a campaign fund raiser in Southern California.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by tw

snip President Ass wipe snip mental midget.

snip President Dic licker

Whew, good thing you don't stoop into namecalling like UG.

[classicman]

I was thinkin the same thing!

[elSicomoro]

We should create a tw stock market. Right now, his market value is in the crapper.

[lookout123]

don't worry, it'll bounce back once top management is changed.