Bush Lied, Plame Signs Multi-Million Dollar Book Deal

Well… that’ll sell some books. 

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were “not involved” in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.

“There was one problem. It was not true,” McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff and the president himself.”

1. So I guess we can concluded that you disapprove of Plame writing a book and making money from it (although the article doesn’t make any mention of this).  Are you concerned about the fact that, according to McClelland, the president and the vice president lied?

   You’re starting to remind me of Fred “Duke Cunningham is refreshing” Dooley.

   Posted by scott on November 21, 2007 at 1111 hrs




2. McClellan actually said: “I had unknowingly passed along false information.”

   A PR guy who doesn’t tell the truth?  What has this world come to?!?

   Posted by David on November 21, 2007 at 1140 hrs




3. A PR guy whose client lied to him?  That’s what’s not news.

   But back to Scott’s post, where is the story about Plame’s book?  This is a story about a book by McClellan, a Bush guy.  So why the headline here? 

   Are you suggesting—is there a new leak now—that Bush, Cheney, et al., lied to Plame and/or the CIA, too?  Link?

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 1245 hrs




4. Thing is, everyone has for the most part already figured out that Bush and Cheney were up to their necks in lies about this.  McClellan’s book will only confirm that.  And the people who refuse to believe it without any evidence provided by Bush and Cheney to the contrary are the kind of people who will just cover their ears and scream loudly whenever anyone offers them any kind of suggestion that would upset their already established worldview.

   And while I’m sure his check will be nice, McClellan’s not likely to just make stuff up for a paycheck.  Most likely, he’s doing the book so he can sleep at night.

   Posted by Recess Supervisor on November 21, 2007 at 1310 hrs




5. As much as I dispised what transpired with the whole circus around Monica and Bill part of me wishes his impeachment would have been successful.  If you are the commander in chief and are caught telling the American people something you know is not true you should lose your job, no matter how trivial. 

   I would lose my position if I lied to one of my clients.  The top job in the world should be held to higher standards, not lower.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 1403 hrs




6. Well, and now McClellan and his publsiher are saying that yesterday’s exceerpt was just a teaser and that if GWB did pass along false information it was unknowing.

   Scooter just can’t help but stretch the truth.  I can hardly wait for Tony Snow’s book.

   Bah!

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 1420 hrs




7. And it took only 5 posts to mention Clinton.  Who had the over/ under?

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 1620 hrs




8. Just so we can cover all the bases without wasting a lot of time here are 4 other rationalizations for the crooks in DC.

   1. There is of course tool of the left (“He’s Hitlery’s sex slave!”)

   2. The Classic – “He’s just trying to sell his book!1”

   3. “No underlying crime! No underlying crime!” Plame really wasn’t a secret agent because she didn’t drive around in a BMW X8 that shot lasers from the medallion.

   4. Fact Checkin’. They actually read the book (snort) and find some minute flaw or debatable fact (“He said Karl Rove wore a blue tie with red stripes on Nov 5, 2003, when it was a red tie with blue stripes!!”)

   5. The Favorite. Good old baseless innuendo, rumor and bat shit crazy maliciousness. I’m sure Ace Reporter Michelle Malkin is lurking in his bushes even now. (OMG! He’s got red maples in his yard! He’s a communiz!)

   
   I see you went with “The Classic” (#2), Owen nice choice.

   And no posts of support for Annette and rationalizations for letting her keep her seat on the SC?

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 1835 hrs




9. She was never covert so this is a moot point.

   Its another overpaid Washington Couple who want their 15 minutes..

   Times up Not lets talk about something that really matters

   This doesnt

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 1937 hrs




10. Times up Not lets talk about something that really matters

    This doesnt

    If there were a “D” after his name, it would. But there’s an “R”, so rationalizations and justifications are in order.

    Right?

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 2014 hrs




11. Valarie Plame was never a covert operative.

    So what ever is after my name doesnt really matter.

    If your main point is all about lying, why not ask Joe Wilson who really sent him in the first place..

    This is old news, and an opportunity for poor ole Valarie and Joe to be in the limelight..

    Oh and Chenney was responsible for 9/11.

    Rosie says so…  Another try dailykos you might fit in better there.

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 21, 2007 at 2339 hrs




12. I believe it was no later than this spring when CIA director, Gen. Michael Hayden, told Henry Waxman that Valerie Plame was covert/undercover when she was outed.  Now, one would think that if Waxman misunderstood or misquoted Hayden, he would have issued some kind of denial.  But the only clarification he issued is that he considers “covert” and “undercover” to be the same.

    It is curious that the same crowd that makes fun of President Clinton for trying to redefine the verb “is” works so tireless to split hairs in this matter, as though a legal distinction between covert and some other status considered equivalent by someone no less than the head of the CIA is a morally laudable reason to out an employee.

    Methinks, ye who cannot spell the Vice President’s name, that perhaps you are spending a little too much time reading the crap over at Newsmax or World Net Daily, or listening to Bob Novak, who’s spent the last handful of years trying to cover his ass.  The reason this blew up and covered the Bush Administration in s@#$ is because nothing they did or said passed the smell test with anyone not drinking the White House Kool-Aid.

    You can keep rationalizing it and defending it, but to the vast majority of rational people, it just makes you sound like a Kool-Aid slurping idiot.

    But let’s get back to the point of this thread, that being that Scott McClellan is about to become the umpteenth person with inside knowledge of the Bush White House to come out and blast the administration for being run by a bunch of anti-intellectual, power-hungry political hacks.  But I suppose they’re all liars with an agenda, unlike the White House, which is run by saints.

    Posted by Recess Supervisor on November 22, 2007 at 0120 hrs




13. Headline here still uncorrected. 

    So about this blog, too, it can be said:

    “There was one problem. It was not true.”

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 22, 2007 at 1028 hrs