At the beginning of the Bush presidency - you know, back when the economy was good, gas wasn’t $4 a gallon and the most important thing on Bush’s mind was stem cell research – yeah, the days before we all realized what a moron he was, there was a shining light among a cabinet made of complete idiots. It was Ari Fleischer, Bush’s first Press Secretary. I have to admit, I had a semi-crush on Ari. He had that nerdy accountant-type look and he was going bald, but his vast knowledge and intelligence was intriguing. I was amazed at how one person could be so on top of things when there was so much information being thrown at them. He also seemed genuine, something that is not common in politics, especially in this administration.
Then one day Ari Fleischer resigned. Scott McClellan was named as his replacement and suddenly I found myself not looking forward to the daily press briefings anymore. Eventually, McClellan quit and Tony Snow, a Fox News anchor was named as his replacement. Although I liked Tony Snow on Fox News, it just didn’t seem appropriate. Tony didn’t last too long. He had health issues and stepped down. He was replaced by someone so unimpressive that I don’t even know her name. Dana something???
Fast forward to this week. Scott McClellan has just published a book bashing the Bush Administration. He recounts how the administration used “political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people” and how they encouraged him to lie about the CIA agent leaks. He goes on to say how he unknowingly passed on false information meant to deceive the American people. This is just the latest of a long line of former top officials in the Bush Administration that have come out shaming their former bosses.
What I find hilarious is how the White House has responded to these allegations. They call McClellan "disgruntled" and question why he never expressed his concerns while he was Press Secretary if he was in such opposition. Ummmm… when was the last time you told your boss, “Boss, you’re a complete moron and you have no freaking clue how to run this business.”? That’s right. If you want to keep your job, you don’t say that. Instead you zip your mouth until you find another job. Once you have another job in place, you give notice, and on your way out the door, you vent to anyone willing to listen.
That’s exactly what Scott McClellan did. For someone who was so faithful to his party and position, he became “disillusioned” and is now even speaking favorably of Barak Obama. As with McClellan and so many others, “Disillusioned” is how I find myself feeling toward the Republican Party.
Then one day Ari Fleischer resigned. Scott McClellan was named as his replacement and suddenly I found myself not looking forward to the daily press briefings anymore. Eventually, McClellan quit and Tony Snow, a Fox News anchor was named as his replacement. Although I liked Tony Snow on Fox News, it just didn’t seem appropriate. Tony didn’t last too long. He had health issues and stepped down. He was replaced by someone so unimpressive that I don’t even know her name. Dana something???
Fast forward to this week. Scott McClellan has just published a book bashing the Bush Administration. He recounts how the administration used “political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people” and how they encouraged him to lie about the CIA agent leaks. He goes on to say how he unknowingly passed on false information meant to deceive the American people. This is just the latest of a long line of former top officials in the Bush Administration that have come out shaming their former bosses.
What I find hilarious is how the White House has responded to these allegations. They call McClellan "disgruntled" and question why he never expressed his concerns while he was Press Secretary if he was in such opposition. Ummmm… when was the last time you told your boss, “Boss, you’re a complete moron and you have no freaking clue how to run this business.”? That’s right. If you want to keep your job, you don’t say that. Instead you zip your mouth until you find another job. Once you have another job in place, you give notice, and on your way out the door, you vent to anyone willing to listen.
That’s exactly what Scott McClellan did. For someone who was so faithful to his party and position, he became “disillusioned” and is now even speaking favorably of Barak Obama. As with McClellan and so many others, “Disillusioned” is how I find myself feeling toward the Republican Party.
Crush on Ari Fleischer??
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ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of the Bush presidency - you know, back when the economy was good, gas wasn't $4 a gallon and the most important thing on Bush’s mind was stem cell research – yeah, the days before we all realized what a moron he was, there was a shining light among a cabinet made of complete idiots. It was Ari Fleischer, Bush’s first Press Secretary. I have to admit, I had a semi-crush on Ari. He had that nerdy accountant-type look and he was going bald, but his vast knowledge and intelligence was intriguing. I was amazed at how one person could be so on top of things when there was so much information being thrown at them. He also seemed genuine, something that is not common in politics, especially in this administration.
ReplyDeletePretty interesting that a Moron with a cabinet of complete idiots could pull that off! He fooled Tenet of the CIA, former President Clinton, his wife, Kerry who voted for the war before he voted against it or was it he voted against it before he voted for it, Gore who invented the Internet along with man made global warming that is the religion of the Liberals, Plosi and her side kick Harry the two who have thrown up the White Flag more than once and now state that the Iranians are the reason that OUR TROOPS are showing progress (they're helping us) and the majority of the so called leaders in DC voted for the war, oh no Barack Hussein Obama voted against it... You know, the one who has Visited 57 states with one more to go and the ONE who spoke to the Dead last week. Damn can't fool all of the people I guess.
Economy was good and no $4.00 Gas. Wow what happened in 2001, I believe a bunch of fun loving Muslims took down the world trade center buildings, crashed into the Pentagon, and took a few Americans to their DEATH in a field in Pa. Now there are many who believe that the Moron you refer to also was responsible for the above, we will not go there but I will say that they sit on the Left Side of the Fence. The Gas price, the President should share some of the blame, Why the GOP don't grow some and tell the Damn Tree Hugging Liberals to shove it and if they want to live in the dark ages they should do so without bringing the rest of us with them.....DRILL IN THIS COUNTRY, had Clinton not vetoed the drilling in Anwar 10 years ago we would be enjoying the "fruit of our country" but we should not question that, just blame Bush, hell he is the reason I can't hit a few good Jack Pots in the Casinos, and I know Damn well he is behind the Break up of the Governor and his Wife.
Speaking of the Economy, I believe it has been pretty good to You, Your Family as it has been to Mine, but if you believe the Media, we are all on the highway to Hell.
Then one day Ari Fleischer resigned. Scott McClellan was named as his replacement and suddenly I found myself not looking forward to the daily press briefings anymore. Eventually, McAllen quit and Tony Snow, a Fox News anchor was named as his replacement. Although I liked Tony Snow on Fox News, it just didn’t seem appropriate. Tony didn’t last too long. He had health issues and stepped down. He was replaced by someone so unimpressive that I don’t even know her name. Dana something???
Fast forward to this week. Scott McClellan has just published a book bashing the Bush Administration. He recounts how the administration used “political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people” and how they encouraged him to lie about the CIA agent leaks.
The so called CIA agent was not ousted by the White House!
He goes on to say how he unknowingly passed on false information meant to deceive the American people. This is just the latest of a long line of former top officials in the Bush Administration that have come out shaming their former bosses.
What I find hilarious is how the White House has responded to these allegations. They call McClellan "disgruntled" and question why he never expressed his concerns while he was Press Secretary if he was in such opposition. Ummmm… when was the last time you told your boss, “Boss, you’re a complete moron and you have no freaking clue how to run this business.”? That’s right. If you want to keep your job, you don’t say that. Instead you zip your mouth until you find another job. Once you have another job in place, you give notice, and on your way out the door, you vent to anyone willing to listen.
The Man did not give notice, he was fired, he did not vent going out the door it took him well over a year and after his Mother was ditched by the GOP in Texas (look it up) it was about an election. Would you not question the motifs of someone who "zips their lips" then come out with some tell all book that can only do harm to this administration and McCain (the 3rd liberal). I understand there are many who couldn't care less what damage is done to our Country.
The guy that published Scott McClellan's book is a guy named Peter Osnos. He is a huge, far-left liberal. His publishing house is affiliated with The Nation magazine. His company has also published The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. This man's name is Peter Osnos, and so far six books have been bankrolled by George Soros. So there is a George Soros connection to the Scott McClellan book. You Know who Soros is and what he stands for, right?
I've added what Rush had to say, I know, I know he is the mouth piece of bush.
.It is stunning to me to listen to everybody out there who knew McClellan say that they have never seen anything like this from him, or heard anything like this from him, that he never once spouted anything like this. I'll tell you what's going to happen. I'll tell you what's going to happen to McClellan. The left is going to use him up here. Scott, they look at you as a nerd. You are a useful idiot, and they're going to give you about 24 or 48 hours here of a lot of attention, and, yeah, your book's gone to number one, you're going to make some money off of it, but they're going to throw you away as soon as they've used you. As soon as they've gotten everything out of you that they can, they're going to toss you aside, and you're going to be friendless. You're going to have nobody. Because what you have done is not just dishonorable, it is ungrateful. Scott McClellan, nobody would know who you are were it not for George W. Bush. George W. Bush kept you -- your incompetence -- out of loyalty. This is the kind of thing that just irritates people to no end, especially your friends. What's even happening now a little bit, folks, it's starting to trickle out out there, even some of these people on the left are saying, "I don't care what he's saying now; we knew this all along. Why, why didn't he say this earlier?" The left is not totally embracing this guy.
There is a connection with George Soros and Peter Osnos and McClellan and his book, and Vincent Bugliosi, the longtime lawyer that used to be on every night talking about O.J. Simpson, he has written a book called The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, 4,000-plus American soldiers in Iraq being murdered by George W. Bush, in a pointless, worthless unjust war, published by the same guy, by the same publishing house, George Soros. So Scott McClellan has a new bunch of friends, in addition to this. This I love. Bob Wexler, US Congress, from just south of us here, he's in Boca Raton, he called yesterday for Scott McClellan to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath regarding the devastating revelations made in his new book. Here's what Wexler said in his released statement: "The admissions made by Scott McClellan in his new book are earth-shattering and allege facts to establish that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby -- and possibly Vice President Cheney -- conspired to obstruct justice by lying about their role in the Plame Wilson matter and that the Bush Administration deliberately lied to the American people in order to take us to war in Iraq. Scott McClellan must now appear before the House Judiciary Committee under oath to tell Congress and the American people how President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and White House officials deliberately orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people."
I hope this happens. All this is gonna do right now is just add to his book sales, but I hope this happens because he doesn't have any information! He wasn't in any of the meetings! He was a deputy for all those years. He had no input in policy. At times he even complains in the book about being kept out of the loop. He was not a big-time player. He doesn't have anything substantive to tell these people. He probably didn't write this garbage that's in his book. So let Wexler call him up there and let him tell Wexler and the House Judiciary Committee, "Well, I really don't know what Rove and Libby talked about, I just assumed. It was behind closed doors and the timing. I never actually saw Vice President Cheney." The reason he can't stand on two legs on this is because everybody knows what the leaker was. The leaker was Richard Armitage. Everybody knows what a travesty of justice this whole case against Libby was. Everybody knows the real two liars in this whole case were Wilson and Plame. I mean, this is just classic. I hope he ends up there, and I hope these guys demand everything from him that he purportedly knows, because under oath we would most likely find out he doesn't know diddly-squat about what's in his book because he didn't write it.
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RUSH: George Neumayr at the American Spectator today has an entirely different take on the Scott McClellan business. He says: "The talking point [of the day] from the White House regarding Scott McClellan's surprisingly non-bland memoir is that 'this is not the Scott we knew.'" Neumayr says, "Actually, it is. What's likely is that just as the White House pushed him to make statements he couldn't cobble together on his own, so too did the editor for this book, What Happened. At least that's what I deduced from Ari Fleischer's Wednesday night interview with CNN's Campbell Brown. Fleischer said that he asked McClellan if he had worked with a ghostwriter on the book. McClellan said no...but allowed that his editor had 'tweaked' some of his copy. 'Tweaked' probably means massively rewrote. And if so, why should this surprise the White House? Why is the White House surprised that a dullard they manipulated could also be manipulated by a book editor? Exhibit A of the thesis of McClellan's guided book is McClellan himself. Why did Bush hire him in the first place?"
And it goes on, but here's the conclusion: "In this case, the Bush administration's self-inflicted wound was to hire a stooge who it first manipulated and then released into the world to be manipulated by others. They handed him talking points and he read them to millions; then his new masters handed him talking points and he wrote them up into a bestselling book." So Neumayr is a little: The White House deserves what they got here, to a certain extent because they knew they had an idiot. They knew they had a dullard. They knew they had a stooge who couldn't put his own thoughts together. They had to do it for him, and then they replace him with Tony Snow, and Tony Snow wins immediate accolades. Everybody says, "Oh, how great! What a great improvement." McClellan is out there fuming and simmering over this and getting angry. So the stage was set and it was just a matter of time before the left got their hooks into McClellan. Let's go to some of the sound bites from him this morning on the Today Show. Meredith Vieira interviewed him. One of the questions was, "You had to know, Scott, that this book of yours was going to cause a firestorm."
MCCLELLAN: When I went to work for President Bush back in 1999, then Governor Bush, I had all this great hope that we were going to come to Washington and change it. Uh, he talked about being a uniter, not a divider. This was a president that had a record as governor of Texas of being a bipartisan leader, of someone who brought people together to get things done, an approval rating well into the seventies. And then we got to Washington, and I think we got caught up in playing the Washington game the way it's played today, and I think a lot of Americans like me would like to see us move beyond that bitter partisanship that exists today.
RUSH: This just frosts me. This is just... Scott McClellan, you are using the language of the left. "A lot of Americans like me would like to see us move beyond the bitter partisanship that exists..." Don't you understand, you dolt, your job was to help your president prevail? This is an ideological battle! And as far as the president working with other people, what the hell? Where were you? What do you think he was trying to do? Have you ever heard of the new tone? He let Ted Kennedy write the education bill, for crying out loud. He's got the Kennedy family up there eating popcorn, watching Kennedy movies in the White House Theater. He went out of his way to bring Democrats into the White House for policy purposes. You had to be there. This is an example of how out of touch this guy is or else these are not even his words. Blame Bush for the partisan divide? This is a president who would never attack Democrats! This is a president who would never lead a conservative movement against liberalism but rather tried to accommodate them, and tried to end all of this so-called rancor that went on during the Clinton years. This is flummery. Here's the next bite. The next question from Meredith Vieira: "Karl Rove says this doesn't sound like you. It sounds like left-wing bloggers. The administration has come out and said that you're disgruntled, that you're just mad because you got pushed out of the job and this is your way of getting even."
MCCLELLAN: One of the most defining -- two -- two defining moments that caused me to become increasingly dismayed and disillusioned with the way things were going in Washington, DC. One was the revelation that I had been assured -- and Karl Rove and Scooter Libby both, I asked them point-blank: "Were you involved in this in any way?" Both assured me in unequivocal term: No, we were not involved in this. The other defining moment was in early April 2006 when I learned that the president had secretly declassified the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq for the vice president and Scooter Libby to anonymously disclose to reporters. And we had been out there talking about how seriously the president took this selective leaking of classified information, and here we were learning that the president had authorized the very same thing we had criticized.
RUSH: (Big sigh.) Uh, Scott? The National Intelligence Estimate? The president does not leak it after he declassifies it. I am doing my best to stay NPR-type composed here. It is impossible for something to "leak," Scott, that has been declassified. To assign nefarious motives to the president for declassifying it...? Do you not remember, you idiot, that the Drive-By Media and the Democrats were clamoring for this? How in the world can something be "leaked" when the president declassifies it? It's not possible. Semantically, etymologically, this is not possible. Also this business about Rove and Libby involved? Hey, Scott, have you ever heard the name Richard Armitage? They were not involved in the leak. Scott, if you had any gonads, you would understand that what happened to Scooter Libby is one of the major travesties of justice that has occurred in our lifetimes in the US legal system. Leak a declassified document? Vieira then said, "You seemed to stop just short of saying that President Bush and his administration flat-out lied."
MCCLELLAN: What happens was that we got caught up in the excesses of the permanent campaign culture. We got caught up in trying to sell this war to the American people. Much of that information was based in what could be substantiated, but at the same time as we accelerated the buildup to the war, uh, the information that we were talking about became a little more certain than it was, the caveats were dropped, contradictory intelligence was ignored. Uh, intelligence that had a high level of confidence was combined and packaged with the intelligence that had a low level of confidence, and together that made it sound like the threat was more urgent and more grave and gathering than it really turned out to be.
RUSH: This is a guy who doesn't have the slightest clue what he is talking about. This is left-wing liberal talking points. His book is filled with fiction. President Bush delivered 24 major speeches on Iraq over two years starting in September of 2002. In October of 2002, Congress cited no fewer than 23 reasons when it overwhelmingly gave President Bush the right to remove Saddam Hussein. Isn't it interesting, Mr. McClellan, that the people who voted and gave the president permission -- he did not act unilaterally -- are now saying they were lied to? They had nothing to say about this. They had nothing to do with this. They want to wash their hands of it. They want to wash their hands of victory; you want to wash your hands of victory. There was no "permanent campaign." That was the Clintons. The Clintons didn't govern. They campaigned.
.RUSH: Yeah. A lot of it was ghost written. Look, Scott McClellan's been outta there since 2006, he doesn't have a job. Most people who leave the White House press secretaryship have all kinds of private sector jobs (snapping fingers) like that. Like that. They are considered skilled communicators, corporate people love to snap 'em up, maybe talk show hosts jobs are offered from various cable networks. This guy got nothing, got nothing. So this is money. This book is money. And he got what he wanted out of all this, number one at Amazon, it will be on the New York Times list. They'll probably keep it there for a long time, even beyond when it belongs there because it's exactly what the Times would write. But he's going to be friendless when this is all over. And if Gregory is any example, he's not going to have the respect -- I know he's not. These libs are gonna use him in the media for however long it's worth it to them, and then, see you later, Scott. He's burned his bridges with his friends, so to speak. So he's going to be alone quite soon for quite a while.
That’s exactly what Scott McClellan did. For someone who was so faithful to his party and position, he became “disillusioned” and is now even speaking favorably of Barak Obama. As with McClellan and so many others, “Disillusioned” is how I find myself feeling toward the Republican Party.
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, I have been disillusioned with the GOP for Years, I consider myself Conservative and for some time the GOP has forgotten this part of the party.........But I refuse to curse the President and slam my Country for the things that I disagree with, there is more than enough of that going on, many do that on our soil and on foreign, call him worse than Hitler, I have no use for that. To many people are so concerned about their agendas and couldn't care less about the well being of this Country. they sleep as the Borders are wide open, more concerned about removing GOD from America, (don't understand how people fear something that they say doesn't exist) but they are fine with Foot Baths in our schools, airports and Public schools teaching about Allah. Hollywood making anti American movies and the Liberal Media spreading their Hate of this Country.
I'm Not ashamed to say I'm American and I Love this Country, doesn't matter what party has the White House! I can only Hope and Pray that for Your Children and my Grand Child that one day Americans will Wake Up and Want what is Good for the Country and not just their wants and desires.