In Defense of Scott McClellan | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 hidden)
Too little too late (none / 0)
There is an interesting video on Charlie Rose's archive from a few weeks ago right after Bill Moyer's interviewed Rev. Wright. For those who don't know Bill Moyer's was LBJ's press secretary. I think he would probably express a lot of empathy if he were questioned about McClellan, or at least be torn. On the one hand, he was once the face of the Viet Nam war, but on the other hand is furious we haven't learned from his mistakes.

Never-the-less think about all the good Moyers has done in the past forty years since leaving his post. Yes, he didn't stand up when he should have, he went along with the crowd and admits it, but on the other hand that doesn't make responsible for the Viet Nam war, he was merely the talking head. No one is blaming McClellan for the Iraq war, but let's just remember whom our ire should really be directed at, and applaud the stand he is taking now, albeit too late to do any good.

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by tiggerporn on 05/29/2008 06:55:13 PM EST

He is Still Their Bitch (none / 0)
Imagine you're at a party and you get really really worked up about something, and you confront the host, in front of everybody, and he's all like, Omigod I'm so sorry to hear that, seriously, no way but then he turns right around and goes in the back room with his boys and cracks the fuck up, ha, having a beer and smoking a stogie, just laughing at you.

Come on, this is the cherry on the cake, right? Not only to Cheney/Bush get away with it, they get to tell you about it. I'm not saying that McClellan is willfully complicit at this point, it is the ultimate irony though, in admitting he was played for the fool and willfully complicit before (OK he's saying it wasn't willful or only partially so, can we really believe that) he is actually being played for the fool one more time.

For guys like Cheney/Bush it isn't just good enough to get away with it, they have to get you angry, really pissed, they have to let you know they got away with it and there ain't a damn thing ya can do about it kid so keep walking or stfu, that is essentially what they are saying to us.

I'm not saying that they had anything to do with publishing this, but that you have to wonder they weren't aware of him prepping it, aware of it and vetted about it. It has become such an MO for people leaving you do have to start to wonder. Sure sure when you're in you're in and when you're out you're out and then it is OK to cross the line and you get a nice royalty check from the publishing house, everybody from Clarke and O'Neill on down the line.

It just seems like Bush/Cheney are saying, ya what the hell, sure go ahead do it, you'll just implicate yourself on some level and then you become untrustworthy and there is always the profit motive we can throw at you (really just a reworking of the gold digger ex-wife argument) but at the end of the day man, we're above the law, so go tattle do whomever ya want.

In that sense he is still their bitch.

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by tiggerporn on 05/29/2008 07:26:21 PM EST

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In Defense of Scott McClellan | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 hidden)