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Good to hear from McClellan off the podium.

Well, it's obvious that this admin has certain allies on the Supreme Court too.

Note to McClellen: Cancel that hunting trip with Dick Cheney and avoid Laura Bush at intersections. http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

Now that he's the media darling, we're supposed to forget what a total liar he is? I ain't buying this sudden epiphany of his. He was a whore for Dubya, now he's a whore to sell books. Something about all of this stinks. And parading him on show after show is just more buying into the same old lies. Liars interviewing liars. Sadly, nothing will come of this except a big ol paycheck for Scottie.

the french have got a word for it.

or THIRTEENTH!!!!!!!!

Yeah, they blamed the intell:

Seven of every 10 dollars America now spends on intelligence actually goes to private corporations, where ex-government employees often do the same jobs they used to do—for double the salary. “It's unseemly, and what's worse is that it has become normal,” said one intelligence expert. “The Intelligence Community and the contractors are so tightly intertwined that their interests are identical.”

Source Salon

http://www.newser.com/story/28717.html

Yeah, that pos Tenet is making millions. The mafia is jealous of this racket.

Was one of the conditions of his appearance that Keith had to smooch his ass for 40 minutes? The part at the end about the book being used by future generations as study material.....um, yak! Maybe in ethics class as an example of what having none looks like.

getalife @ 16:

Yeah, they blamed the intell:

Seven of every 10 dollars America now spends on intelligence actually goes to private corporations, where ex-government employees often do the same jobs they used to do—for double the salary. “It's unseemly, and what's worse is that it has become normal,” said one intelligence expert. “The Intelligence Community and the contractors are so tightly intertwined that their interests are identical.”

Source Salon

http://www.newser.com/story/28717.html

Yeah, that pos Tenet is making millions. The mafia is jealous of this racket.

When BushCo says "the buck stops here" they do mean literally... in their off-shore bank accounts.

Come on Scotty tell us why BushCo really lied to us, depleted out military, squandered our tax dollars and killed thousands of innocent people and 4,000 US soldiers in the process. Tell us what this war was really about Scotty.

Oil http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_options_rose_3281_last_1011.... more oil http://www.aztlan.net/oiltanker.htm and revenge http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/27/bush.war.talk/

Impeach.
Indict.
Imprison.

MN USA @ 21:

So what's he telling us that we don't already know? Just because the Bush administration says up is down doesn't make it so. McClellan looks thinner and more mature. It's nice to see a person with a conscience come out of this administration...finally... - though the Bush gang will make him pay for it.

Sadly enough, that is the crux of this entire thing. Yes, Scott is finally confirming what a lot of us has been thinking since the first days of this entire war brouhaha. I agree that it is very nice that finally the media has to squirm for being called out on their behavior.

But, I also agree that the Bush folks are a vicious group. I hate to say it, but does anyone think that Scott might head down the same trail as the DC Madam?

Sure, everyone knows that Fox News is right wing. Again, Scott reveals nothing new. The difference in his critique from left wing or objective sources is his absolution of right wing ideology in practice and the deliberate nature of the Bush regime's malfeasance as the responsible factors and instead places the locus of blame on bad advise and circumstance. McClellan's book is a self-serving pseudo-mea-culpa on par with Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich."

The real danger to our democracy comes, not from Fox, but the Mainstream Corporate Media which maintains a superficial veil of objectivity. Yellin's admission that network suits manipulated reportage to favor the Bush regime, is a stark reminder that the Corporate Media is not an objective observer, but a partisan actor with a symbiotic relationship with the Republican party and it's ideology of deregulation.

I heard on the Verdict that after darth shot his buddy in the face he told someone to give the story to fake news so other networks would have to quote fake news.

heartless, petty, shallow, nasty, mean

The trolls will be out heavy tonight. Watch all the dumping on McClellan instead of the Chimp and his Organgrinders.

Steve E @ 30:

The trolls will be out heavy tonight. Watch all the dumping on McClellan instead of the Chimp and his Organgrinders.

why can't people dump on both? What makes McClellen so special now? He's been in Dubya's right pocket since his days as Governor. So, now that he decides he wants to 'come clean', he's an okay guy? People died while he lied.

CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 91:

nothing will come of this. the press beat up on themselves to get a reprieve from the public and to try to regain some of their completely lost credibility. they'll get back to lying by the 11:00 news cycle.

I was amazed McClellan consented to be interviewed in front of a window. I kept waiting for the pink mist.

Hey, guys, it's a joke the way the right wing reacts when one of its members decides to tell the truth.

You can always count on them to provide a knee jerk reaction calling the individual disgruntled, unpatriotic, not the fella I knew, misled by the Eastern liberals. They're actually so funny it's hard to stop laughing at how consistently they react, whether it's Rove or Dana or Cheney or Rice or a right-wing pundit or one of the other clowns who have been misleading the country for years now. Someone said it, you know when they've been uncovered (once again) for their lies, stupidity and chicanery, when they react so consistently.

Let's all laugh them out of office for all time because they're so stupidly funny.

MN USA @ 21:

So what's he telling us that we don't already know? Just because the Bush administration says up is down doesn't make it so. McClellan looks thinner and more mature. It's nice to see a person with a conscience come out of this administration...finally... - though the Bush gang will make him pay for it.

let's not pretend scotty has a conscience. he's getting money for this, which is all you can expect from republican slime.

hello @ 33:

empy @ 18:

Was one of the conditions of his appearance that Keith had to smooch his ass for 40 minutes? The part at the end about the book being used by future generations as study material.....um, yak! Maybe in ethics class as an example of what having none looks like.

Really, the man is a smarmy, sweating little toad(y).

He gets anyone's respect - why...?

Ummm, maybe because his conscience is getting to him and he's decided to sing a little? Not the whole song, but the beginning...?

The question for me is this: Who will be brave enough to whistle-blow the middle, the end, and the HALLELUJAH CHORUS!!!! (Impeach, Indict, Imprison)??

Sybil Edmonds tried, and they shut her up....

Next?

Yup but instead these people ended up being called names like “unpatriotic” or “freedom haters”, when all along they should have been called “the voice of reason”.

Hell of a thing to be vindicated for but I still feel vindicated. I've been called those things in the past by neoconservative elitists that I am forced to work with. I feel like Randy Quaid in "Independence Day", only I haven't been drunk for 8 years. I now tell those assholes that their voter registrations should be suspended for the next two elections, or until felons regain the right to vote. All they can do is respond with some gibberish about suicide bombers.

So we are to believe Mr. Toad thought Dubya was going to come to town and be this reach across the isle kind of guy that would change Washington for the better. Like he did in Texas? Ummm.......horseshit! Not buyin' what yer sellin' Scotty. You had a front seat for all the dirty dealing and criminal activity. You knew better than almost anyone what an intellectual lightweight and pathological liar your boss was/is. Every time you were behind that podium you knew you were doing harm to this country, yet the power your position brought was to tempting to deny.

Now, you want to be rewarded for this ninth inning mea culpa with a big book payday? Donate the profits to the people of Iraq whose lives you helped destroy and I may have a small piece of forgiveness in my heart for you. Cash that check and bounce and you are nothing but a piece of shit toad with no redeeming qualities.

How is it that he knew nothing about the Pentagon's program of propaganda? What was his job title again?

harvey korman passed away , guess tim conways next!

empy @ 48:

How is it that he knew nothing about the Pentagon's program of propaganda? What was his job title again?

I could see Scott getting handed the talking points and told to go make it happen

it's not just fox,though they are the worst case, but abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, ny times, wash. post, etc. corporatism has destroyed press freedom in the u.s.

All day long we have been bombarded with one pundit after the next telling us this news is nothing new. Nothing to see here. We all knew we were lied into this war. Excuse me, yes WE knew, but not from anything you have ever told us. We knew because of sites like this that would dig into what we were being told. Sites that would expose us to the people who were the dissenting view, that never got a seconds time from the corporate media. They act as if they were on the cusp of exposing these lies when they were fighting the exposure at every turn. They were the ones calling us unpatriotic conspiracy theorists. They were the ones devoting hundreds of hours of coverage to Anna Nicole and missing white girls and false terrorist threats and zero coverage of the fuckups happening right under their nose. Nothing to see here but the fact that you failed to do your job.

empy @ 56:

All day long we have been bombarded with one pundit after the next telling us this news is nothing new. Nothing to see here. We all knew we were lied into this war. Excuse me, yes WE knew, but not from anything you have ever told us. We knew because of sites like this that would dig into what we were being told. Sites that would expose us to the people who were the dissenting view, that never got a seconds time from the corporate media. They act as if they were on the cusp of exposing these lies when they were fighting the exposure at every turn. They were the ones calling us unpatriotic conspiracy theorists. They were the ones devoting hundreds of hours of coverage to Anna Nicole and missing white girls and false terrorist threats and zero coverage of the fuckups happening right under their nose. Nothing to see here but the fact that you failed to do your job.

No... they did their job, is the real truth of the matter.

And each of those schmucks were paid very handsomely for their services rendered, you can believe it..

empy @ 56:

All day long we have been bombarded with one pundit after the next telling us this news is nothing new. Nothing to see here. We all knew we were lied into this war. Excuse me, yes WE knew, but not from anything you have ever told us. We knew because of sites like this that would dig into what we were being told. Sites that would expose us to the people who were the dissenting view, that never got a seconds time from the corporate media. They act as if they were on the cusp of exposing these lies when they were fighting the exposure at every turn. They were the ones calling us unpatriotic conspiracy theorists. They were the ones devoting hundreds of hours of coverage to Anna Nicole and missing white girls and false terrorist threats and zero coverage of the fuckups happening right under their nose. Nothing to see here but the fact that you failed to do your job.

According to Glenn Greenwald, it's not the media's job, mon. From the article:

The central excuse offered by self-defending "journalists" is that they didn't present an anti-war case because nobody was making that case, and it's not their job to create debate. This unbelievably rotted view found its most darkly hilarious expression in a 2007 David Ignatius column in The Washington Post. After explaining how proud he is of his support for the attack on Iraq, Igantius explains why there wasn't much challenge made to the Administration's case for war (h/t Ivan Carterr):

In a sense, the media were victims of their own professionalism. Because there was little criticism of the war from prominent Democrats and foreign policy analysts, journalistic rules meant we shouldn't create a debate on our own. And because major news organizations knew the war was coming, we spent a lot of energy in the last three months before the war preparing to cover it.

They were "victims of their own professionalism." It's not up to them to create a debate where none exists. That's the same thing Charlie Gibson, David Gregory, and Tim Russert -- among others -- have all said in defending themselves.

The idea that journalists only convey statements from politicians rather than "create debates" is the classic Stenographic Model of "Journalism" -- "we just write down what people say. It's not our job to do anything else." Real reporting is about uncovering facts that the political elite try to conceal, not ones they willingly broadcast.

Fuck you, fourth estate. You're dead and buried. And you wonder why blogs rule the news world now?

I always knew we were right...

And Simple Scotty is only finally admitting that the Ice Burg is there... His eyes tell us he also knows how huge it is.. he just wont say that, because him saying anymore...keeps the lid on the crimes against humanity that have been slathered upon us for a few more moments..

So he needs to be arrested... and convinced to make a plea deal with Scotty to be states witness... and he will only get 5 years hard labor...

This should be treated as a trial case.. not a media event...

Ruthless People @ 1:

Can we impeach now or are we still waiting for a blow job?

Unfortunately, we are still waiting for the President to be caught red handed doing cocaine. Bush and Company should be hanged. No, I'm being totally serious.

Geno in Ptown @ 64:

Ruthless People @ 1:

Can we impeach now or are we still waiting for a blow job?

Unfortunately, we are still waiting for the President to be caught red handed doing cocaine. Bush and Company should be hanged. No, I'm being totally serious.

Bush was never a guy I "wanted to have a beer with," let alone do blow with, even if he brought it.

hello @ 55:

VegasRage @ 52:

empy @ 48:

How is it that he knew nothing about the Pentagon's program of propaganda? What was his job title again?

I could see Scott getting handed the talking points and told to go make it happen

When even the moving and shaking male hooker community of Washington (Jeff Gannon) hurriedly rushes to defend his president and his administration, then you know that a genuine can of worms have been opened.

LOL! Right you are, I don't think history is going be nearly as kind as George hopes it will be.

Jackie @ 59:

Journalist Jason Leopold reported this information over a year and a half ago. But the Media reported him a liar and even called him all kinds of names. But the last laugh is on the Washington Post, CNN Firedoglake,and all the Media Stations as Jason was right and Scotty proved it. The same people will have eggs on their faces when the news finally comes out that Karl Rove was indicted as Jason said but his case was Sealed by the court. People will believe lies before the truth. Only a Grand Jury can indict a person not a Prosecutor. As Rove had made 4 trips to the Grand Jury, then his attorney learned a lady spoke to Fitz and the factual information contradicted what Rove testified to. In other words he lied under oath. Quickly the lawyer asked to have Rove speak again to the Grand Jury. You got it folks Karl was indicted and Jason reported that information because it's PUBLIC RECORD.

Yes Jason got this one right, and should recieve his due. But his reputation went south when he also reported that Karl Rove was going to be indicted in the Plamegate affair.

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Scotty comes off better when he's not having to shill for the Bush Administration.

McCellan is still sipping the koolaide. Hey why not simply state Bush lied???? The Bugliosi book is more relevant. Bush is a murderer.

Steve E @ 7:

Always remember this guy didn`t need to be waterboarded. He just plain had enough.

I'm not sure if I would rather be waterboarded or have to be the town liar for chimpy/dick inc. Having to be close to and support such pure unmitigated evil has to be a tourture worse than most of us can imagine. Scotty, even though he is coming clean, has to go to sleep at night and wake up every morning with the thought that HE was a tool in the murder of 1 million people. He supported people who did nothing while fellow americans floated face down in the streats of New Orleans. The fact that he will make a ton of cash off his book sales and interviews, doesn't do anything to make me think he is any less guilty now than then.

Here's the biggest point about this whole story. Scotty isn't saying anything we didn't already know. There is nothing in this book that is news to those of us who have been paying attention to the facts over the last 8 years. There isn't anything wild, crazy or otherwise unsupported by other people's accounts of the events. So when the reich wing apologists tell you Scotty is off his rocker and not to be trusted, they are telling you to ignore yet one more person who has exposed what we already knew to be the truth. How Nixonian of them. If we had a proper congress, that performed constitutionally required oversight, and actually executed their job as an equal part of government, all the presidents men would have to swear an oath and testify about these crimes. Thanks to the '06 Dems. for making sure that will never happen.

I am now starting to feel a little sorry for Scott McClellan. He is thinking about all of the things he has heard and seen that he knew was wrong but just had to come to terms that his hero is not a hero at all. For Scott McClellan it cannot be about the money because I am sure the GOP would have taken care of him money wise as long as he kept his mouth shut. I think Scott McClellan has a conscience problem and the book is the one way to redeem himself in his eyes.

Most of the media and especially the television media, will always have the blood of the Iraq war on their hands no matter how much they try to whitewash it off.

I kept waiting for Keith to ask him about the Gannon/Guckert caper. Is there any mention of that episode in Scott's book?

RobertD @ 71:

Gretchen @ 11:

What amazes me is after all this time it is finally being discussed openly. In the MSM, no less.

Has the third seal been broken?

Two things:
1) I want to hear it from actual White House reporters. Reporters who covered the president and his staff, like the one from CNN last night. When *they* start saying they were leaned on to change their stories, we'll know it's being discussed openly.

2) All this talk about McClellan and his book makes me appreciate one person in particular: Helen Thomas. She deserves a medal for never caving to Bush's press secretaries, always asking them pertinent questions, and calling bullshit when they've given her bullshit answers. This latest episode reminds us that she's a national treasure.

RE: Helen Thomas

She deserves a medal .

Andy @ 83:

Err, just a little point but what's that 'Countdown Exclusive' bug at the top left hand corner of the screen?

Didn't KO have a go at Billo for saying his interview with Hillo was an exclusive?

Was this interview before or after Scottie's 'exclusive' appearance on The Today Show?

KO is not quite the same anymore. He's turned or is on his way to turning into a Billo or Limbaugh. I know I'll get attacked for saying this, But I believe it to be true. Different points of view, same technique.

Scottie's account is just like Ellen telling us she is a lesbian. Duh!!!!!

Ruthless People @ 87:

Reverend Richie @ 85:

All that is required now is for Colin Powell to come clean about what he knows and this would be the final nail in Bush Administration coffin! Lets pray that Colin Powell do the right thing.

If he won't, subpeona him. Frog march he and Rove together. This is bigger than Bush regime loyalty. It's about countless lives lost, trillions of our tax dollars squandered and our moral standing in the world trashed.

Excellent points and all very doable. If Powell spits out the truth its all over but the crying. Then we will see who has a real spine. If the politicians and lawmakers don`t show any then it is imperative for the citizens to gather en masse and head to streets and the capital and demand common justice on criminal charges. Fuck the Supreme Court. If they mobilize Blackwater then you know why the American people have the right to bear arms.