The evidence is pretty clear Scott McClellan was lying through his teeth when he was White House Press Secretary, why the heck should I believe he’s telling the truth now as he peddles his book? The main difference between him and Fleischer and Snow is that he wasn’t that good at the lying. Perino is about as bad as he is.
All these books - McClellan, Fleischer, Bremer, Feith - are uniform in their spin that poor Bush was done in by his advisors. The truth is the buck stops at the president’s desk.
Scottie is right about one thing. There is no such thing as the “liberal media” and the press corps was too coddling of Commander Codpiece.
Hey, I say cut him some slack. It’s not easy to apologize for years of shoveling bullshit to the masses. I’m pretty sure he feels really bad about it.
Who was that poster here that maintained that Bush never lied about anything? Can’t remember his name. I’d like to see his response.
I’m pretty sure he feels really bad about it.
Why do you assume this is true? Seriously. Scott McClellan is an adult. He knew exactly what he was doing.
I thought it was Jay who used to say, all the time, “Not one documented lie. Not. One.”
I’m sure whatever bad feeling McClellan has is mitigated by the obscene amount of money he made by confessing his unforgivably damaging falsehoods.
I wonder what McClellan has to say about Bush’s torture policies?
It’s not easy to apologize…
Is that what he thinks he’s doing?
I thought it was Jay who used to say, all the time, “Not one documented lie. Not. One.”
No, it wasn’t Jay, but it was one of his flying monkeys I think.
I dunno, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe McClellan is just cashing in; it just seems this kind of–pardon me for saying this– “throwing Bush under the bus” is kind of unprecedented. At least during the Bush Admin.
I seem to recall others recently experiencing the same epiphany that many of us had experienced prior to 2000 w/r/t Bush, and maybe I’m just bitter that they now get to reap monetary reward for their sudden mea culpas while those of us who were right the first time are still screwed by the economy he helped to create.
I heard that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, but clearly this was said before the invention of tell-all publishing contracts.
You should be inclined to believe him because it’s a statement against interest.
I’m inclined to believe him because nothing he says is particularly revelatory to anybody who was actually paying attention.
For a couple years we watched McClellan lie to the press corps and the press corps refuse to mount a true challenge to those lies.
Now he says “I lied to you. And the press didn’t call me on it.”
Well, bravo. I’ll save my money for something interesting.
OW, I think Duros was making teh funnee. And the not-one-documented-lie guy was Dugger.
Yes, thank you. It was Dugger.
I’m inclined to believe him because nothing he says is particularly revelatory to anybody who was actually paying attention.
Waxman wants him to testify before Congress, so maybe it is relevatory.
OW, I think Duros was making teh funnee
Yeah, sorta. I mean I hope he feels bad about it now.