Scott McClellan Needs A Thesaurus
Scott McClellan Needs A Thesaurus
Finally! The White House press corps at long last woke up today and started asking questions about Karl Rove. They wanted to know if White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan stood by his previous statement that anyone involved in leaking undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity to the media should be fired. But when the going tough, McClellan fell back on his handy list of Phrases To Use To Dodge Questions. Here’s Scott McClellan, by the numbers:
23: Number of times McClellan could’t answer a question because the Rove investigation is “ongoing.”
10: Number of times McClellan couldn’t answer a question because it was “related” to the investigation or in the “context” of the investigation.
16: Number of times McClellan said he just wouldn’t “comment” on a question.
5: Number of times McClellan assured reporters he “appreciates the questions” about Rove’s involvement in the Plame case.
8: Number of times McClellan told reporters he and the president were “helping” the investigation with their silence.
8: Number of times McClellan said he and President Bush want to “get to the bottom of this.”
3: Number of times McClellan said he and the president planned to “cooperate fully” with the investigation by not answering questions.
10: Number of times McClellan claimed he’d already “responded” to a reporter’s question.
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Mike Moore has the video….
July 11th, 2005 at 3:33 pmhttp://www.michaelmoore.com/_images/splash/scotty_rove_71105.wmv
I’ve made comments before about how the press is liberally biased and no one on these will agree with me. After reading the details of the news conference, it was quite obvious they had an agenda of attacking McClellan and going after Rove. How many times do you have to hear “no comment” to stop asking the same question?
July 11th, 2005 at 4:02 pmIt’s sort of hypnotic isn’t it.
I could almost feel sorry for them. They have gotten so used to getting away with evasions and outright lies they must be flabbergasted over why it isn’t working now.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:08 pmI love comment #2. Please note that there was no problem in making comments when there was insufficient investigation to pin Karl’s involvement in providing information concerning Plame. The President and McClellan were more than willing to stand up and proclaim Karl’s innocense and that of the others. Now it is just the opposite. Why should the press not press foreward after the nocomment? To make it clear to the public that the administration is now in an untenable position and will stone wall until such time as (they hope) a technical defense against criminal conduct is successful or the public’s attention leaves the issue.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:16 pmBush Jr.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:16 pmDo you not believe that those who represent us, and that are supposed to be leading our Nation towards a better future, should answer the questions of the American people? The media is just one source that can be used to get those answers. They are human and therefore are prone to err, and sometimes those errors can be over looked but when they do something that is dangerous to another person, or that will damage us in any way, or our credibility then they need to be held accountable. We deserve to know!
Excellent, Publius, very clear. I’m happy the WH press corp finally woke up! Anyone taking bets on who reports on this other than the Daily Show and possibly Olbermann?
July 11th, 2005 at 4:29 pm0: Number of times McClellan actually said “no comment.”
July 11th, 2005 at 4:30 pm2: # of electrodes attatched to Scott’s sack from battery under podium.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:35 pmThe one that always gets me is “I appreciate the question.” Bush and McClellan both use this to stall for time when they’d rather silence the questioner.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:35 pm“No comment” is an inadequate and self-serving response generated by an administration that DOES have answers to serious national security questions. Those answers are embarrassing and self-incriminating. Endlessly repeating “No Comment” is a chickens**t cop-out alternative to coming clean on illegal activities by Top administration officials possibly including the President if he has provided additional smoke for Rove to hide behind.
“No Comment” = increased suspicion = increased scrutiny
Or at least it should.
It didn’t have to be this way.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:40 pmI only want to know what “fair game” means. And how such a comment could be anything less than malicious. Or in this case, treason.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:44 pmAs I heard Bob Woodward say or imply this past week on “Hardball” that hard questions should be asked and looked into with the current administration as there might be a similar outcome that might occur that happened to the Nixon administration. All the secretive things happening with this administration sounds quite familiar and needs some deep investigation by good reporters and for a “whistleblower” to come forward.
July 11th, 2005 at 4:51 pmJunior:
I’d rather look at it in the context of “At how many press briefings did they have an agenda of attacking the president vs. at how many press briefings did they sit on their duffs and ask how he was planning to spend his next vacation and wasn’t he proud of Jenna and Barbara?”
Why not have an attack or two to stave off boredom?
If we’re making a big deal about it, it’s because it’s OUT of the ordinary!
July 11th, 2005 at 5:00 pmBlogviews: Great Scott!, Death=Approval, Coingate,
* The Left Coaster is among those noticing mainstream media agressively doing its job today, as White House spokesman Scott McClellan clams up about Karl Rove. Read some of the transcript for some good yet appalling fun. Check out Think Progress for …
July 11th, 2005 at 5:13 pmI’d also like to know how many times Scotty has said something had been made “very clear.” That’s got to be his favorite phrase.
July 11th, 2005 at 5:23 pmNumber of times McClellan actually said “no comment.�
Deep Throat never actually said “Follow the money”. William Goldman wrote it into the script because it was a shorter more precise version of what he said. What’s your point? Do you even have one?
July 11th, 2005 at 5:23 pmDallas, read Worse than Watergate by John Dean. You’ll see the Nixon/Bush parallels.
It’s just nice to see, a year after reading Joe Wilson’s book, that he was apparently quite right in his assumption of Rove’s guilt.
Wouldn’t this be a great NYT headline: Bush, Rove Stonewalling Treason (or something similar, you get the idea. I suck at headlines.) :)
July 11th, 2005 at 5:45 pmSnotty sure look uncomfortable today. I’d sure like to see a riled up press ask similar questions of the pResident and that Fat Queen Karl. Better yet, let’s see if the prosecutor has enough to indict someone.
It’s begining to feel a whole lot like Nixon times all over again.
I feel sad for this country that it has to come to this. I never thought I’d see this twice in my lifetime. But corrupt politicians must be outted to preserve balance and to show the world the US can sometimes recognize and speak and deal with the truth.
July 11th, 2005 at 5:50 pmTime to put Karl Rove in the death pool.
Betting begins immediately on how much longer he will keep his job at Bush’s side.
He is so over! :-)
. . .
July 11th, 2005 at 6:24 pmOn comment 2: Yes, it was aggressive questioning. I think it was for two reasons: First, the press is overcompensating for it’s negligence in this matter. Second, it’s protecting yourself by making sure everyone knows who you are in case you wind up missing…
July 11th, 2005 at 6:35 pm>How many times do you have to hear “no comment� to stop asking the same question?
Um, until the person stonewalling you answers the question.
How many times do you have to be asked a question until you give a straight answer?
By the way, these questions should have been asked with this tenancity (and more so) two years ago.
July 11th, 2005 at 6:52 pmBetter beam Scotty up, the atmosphere on this
July 11th, 2005 at 6:54 pmplanet does not sustain those working for Junior.
Props to number ten, says it all..
July 11th, 2005 at 7:15 pmI just wanted to comment on bush jr’s comments to the effect of “the media is biased”.
July 11th, 2005 at 7:21 pmFirst off, media is the plural of medium. Newspaper is a medium. Newspaper and TV are media.
—*”usage The singular media and its plural medias seem to have originated in the field of advertising over 50 years ago; they are apparently still so used without stigma in that specialized field. In most other applications media is used as a plural of medium. The great popularity of the word in references to the agencies of mass communication is leading to the formation of a mass noun, construed as a singular . This use is not as well established as the mass-noun use of data and is likely to incur criticism especially in writing.”*—
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
Rush Limbaugh gets that wrong all the time, so perhaps I know where you get it from.
At any rate, The New York Times, commonly known by the right as a lefty paper, has had to appologise for being too right biased in it’s reporting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html?ex=1400990400&en=94c17fcffad92ca9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
Has Fox?
To be fair, Bill O’Reilly sort of did.
http://twincities.indymedia.org/newswire/display/15975/index.php
Where are these media biases?
A picture is worth a thousand evasions.
July 11th, 2005 at 7:30 pmIt looks as if those in power today are making the same mistake made by so many despotic regimes in history. They believe themselves so immune to the will of the people that they become cocky and shoot their mouths off without regard to the safety of those people who’s lives and careers could be damaged by their stupid offhand remarks (example; revealing the identity of a CIA operative). Thank God that history is cyclical and that this sort of behavior is almost always indicative of that despotic regime’s imminent demise.
July 11th, 2005 at 7:36 pmJust remember what happened to the woman who said “Let them eat cake.”
Karl Rove has finally been caught red handed with his love of dirty tricks to quiet anyone who has a different opinion. We should i8nsist that our President hasn’t lied again when he stated he would fire anyone who was guilty of this leak. Is it possible tha that the religious right, the blameless GOP Congress and Senate and their moral adherents will white wash Rove’s smearig conduct?
July 11th, 2005 at 7:41 pmIncidentally, any right wing republicans out there who think that K. Rove is being unfairly attacked should read up a little on what that pig-faced neo-nazi minister of propaganda has done to get his way in the past. I cant wait to see him marched out of his office in cuffs. It should be tar and feathers instead.
July 11th, 2005 at 7:47 pmThe media has given a pass to the Bush Administration, even in light of the facts before us including the Downing Street Memo, Tom Delay’s ethical matters, lies about weapons of mass destruction, and now retaliation against an honorable public servant such as Joe Wilson. The American Public has been kept in the dark by mainstream media for too long. Time for truth telling!
July 11th, 2005 at 8:16 pmThere once was a weasel named Rove
July 11th, 2005 at 8:21 pmFor Bush’s agenda he strove
Now Bush and McClellan are hiding the felon
but his ass is ablaze on the stove
Ok, ignore the people involved for a minute. Let’s say you or I out an undercover agent in a time of war. What’s the punishment under the law? I’d say a minimum of prison, a max of execution for treason. Now, I’m not naive enough to think that the same laws would apply to Rove, but why aren’t we asking “WHY DON’T THEY?”
July 11th, 2005 at 9:11 pmMcClellan: “I know you are, but what am I?”
July 11th, 2005 at 9:16 pmNewsweek/prisoner abuse + Rove = Meltdown
July 11th, 2005 at 9:28 pmFor “Bush Jr.” and all you other sheeple……….baaaaa,baaaaaaaa.
Monday July 11, 2005 10:31 PM
Some of the denials, other comments, at media briefings by White House spokesman Scott McClellan when asked by reporters whether President Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, was involved in the leak of a CIA officer’s identity:
^Sept. 29, 2003
Q: You said this morning, quote, “The president knows that Karl Rove wasn’t involved.” How does he know that?
A: Well, I’ve made it very clear that it was a ridiculous suggestion in the first place. … I’ve said that it’s not true. … And I have spoken with Karl Rove.
Q: It doesn’t take much for the president to ask a senior official working for him, to just lay the question out for a few people and end this controversy today.
A: Do you have specific information to bring to our attention? … Are we supposed to chase down every anonymous report in the newspaper? We’d spend all our time doing that.”
Q: When you talked to Mr. Rove, did you discuss, “Did you ever have this information?”
A: I’ve made it very clear, he was not involved, that there’s no truth to the suggestion that he was.
^—
^Oct. 7, 2003
Q: You have said that you personally went to Scooter Libby (Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff), Karl Rove and Elliott Abrams (National Security Council official) to ask them if they were the leakers. Is that what happened? Why did you do that? And can you describe the conversations you had with them? What was the question you asked?
A: Unfortunately, in Washington, D.C., at a time like this there are a lot of rumors and innuendo. There are unsubstantiated accusations that are made. And that’s exactly what happened in the case of these three individuals. They are good individuals. They are important members of our White House team. And that’s why I spoke with them, so that I could come back to you and say that they were not involved. I had no doubt with that in the beginning, but I like to check my information to make sure it’s accurate before I report back to you, and that’s exactly what I did.
^—
^Oct. 10, 2003
Q: Earlier this week you told us that neither Karl Rove, Elliot Abrams nor Lewis Libby disclosed any classified information with regard to the leak. I wondered if you could tell us more specifically whether any of them told any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA?
A: I spoke with those individuals, as I pointed out, and those individuals assured me they were not involved in this. And that’s where it stands.
Q: So none of them told any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA?
A: They assured me that they were not involved in this.
Q: They were not involved in what?
A: The leaking of classified information.
Unfortunately I don’t believe our corrupt government will indeed march Rove out the door. The bastards get away with MURDER! Literally!
July 11th, 2005 at 9:29 pmRegarding #2, I am continually amazed at the non-negotiable position of Bush supporters. What more can this president and his administration screw up before the far right steps back and maybe, just maybe sees a problem?
July 11th, 2005 at 9:33 pmFinally,
July 11th, 2005 at 9:39 pmThe press corp shows some backbone. I hope they press on in coming days and not relent. This time Karl Rove is “Fair Game”.
would that they would have been this tenatious in their questioning before we went to war.
July 11th, 2005 at 10:26 pmJohn Kerry is circulating an open letter to Bushie to fire Rove.
I told the Kerry camp that impeachment must be addressed NOW.
If you sign the letter make sure you add comments like mine to make sure Kerry and every other Senator knows that impeachment is being demanded.
July 11th, 2005 at 10:26 pmI copied a little tactical deconstruction from my blog below, feel free to check it if you’d like. It’s not necessarily for the converted, but I’m working on preaching the truth as widely as I can…
Original link – http://blackkrishna.blogspot.com/2005/07/bitchin-beers-and-urrrp-bush-bashin.html#comments
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Monday, July 11, 2005
Bitchin’… Beers… and… (urrrp!)… Bush-Bashin’…
Man…
It’s gotta SUCK to be part of the White House Press Corpse…
I mean…
you played ball to get this far in journalism…
I mean…
You put in work hoping to really speak truth to power…
And…
You know dude is just bald-faced lying to you every day…
I mean…
You know dude is evasive…
I mean…
You see the infamous Mclellan Mumble…
I mean…
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Does this ever bother you?
Do you ever complain about it with your co-workers?
Do you ever get together over beers and bitch about it?
(…)
Just like any craptastic job:
do you bond over it’s shared suckage?
Just like any craptastic job:
do you bond over it well?
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Do you ever feel like working on plan to de-suckify your jobs?
Do you ever feel like working on the plan together?
Do you ever feel like hittin’ back?
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That’s right…
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Do you ever feel like hittin’ ‘em: AP, CBS, NBC and ABC News Reporters?
Do you ever feel like hittin’ ‘em together as a united front?
Do you ever feel like hittin’ ‘em on the same crucial issue?
Do you ever feel like hittin’ ‘em on an issue near and dear?
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Like freedom of the press?
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Whatever it is man…
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Go get ‘em!!!
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Roll Over Rove
White House Press Corps Finally Grills Scott McClellan on Rove
VIDEO! – 6 min 33 sec
Scotty says so much by saying nothing at all
WATCH IT AT – http://www.michaelmoore.com/
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It ain’t enough…
But it’s a start…
And if we punk ‘em for this attempt…
They will stop…
And…
That will be worse…
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So, let’s give a nice round of applause to:
“TERENCE HUNT, Associated Press!!!”
(clap-clap-clap!)
“JOHN ROBERTS, CBS News!!!” (former MuchMusic VJ too!)
(clap-clap-clap!)
“DAVID GREGORY, NBC News!!!”
(clap-clap-clap!)
“TERRY MORAN, ABC News!!!”
(clap-clap-clap!)
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Thank you gentlemen.
Now please investigate why the investigation asked the White House to stop publicly commenting on the investigation when it doesn’t take an investigation to figure out that they no longer benefit and are actually harmed by commenting on the investigation as opposed to before when they were commenting during the investigation on the investigation.
Go on then, investigate.
Go on.
Thanks.
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Epilogue: Strategic Templates…
Even if this wasn’t the thinking, it could’ve been, and could be used in the future to plan the same type of attack on the lies of power.
That’s right: whether it happened this way or not, it could’ve, which means we have an ethically solid template to work from and use as a lesson-precedent for future decisions.
We can look at these actions as a success and learn from them objectively, or we can devolve into cynically hoping the Bush Boys get caught peeing on teens like R. Kelly to hold them accountable.
It’s a pick’em really… I’m cool with either.
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Because…
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CNN video censored at Guantanamo prison
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 7 (UPI) — Taking up U.S. President George Bush’s challenge for reporters to visit the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, CNN did, but its video was censored.
In response to allegations of prisoner abuse at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, Bush made the challenge in June, and again Wednesday while in Denmark.
However, a CNN crew that toured the facility was not allowed to see the worst-behaved inmates, who are kept in a block behind a mesh fence.
The prison holds about 520 prisoners from 44 countries, most of them captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
CNN employees were not allowed to speak to the prisoners, and military censors demanded the crew erase video footage they said would allow viewers to identify a prisoner.
In the hospital wing, one prisoner shouted in English, “We take the torture in here,” but it was not possible to talk to the prisoner about his allegation, the network said.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
SOURCE – http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050707-09270600-bc-us-guantanamo.xml
July 11th, 2005 at 10:32 pmThis is above more than Rove and a political scandal. It’s about punishing both a senior diplomat ( a former Republican, by the way, whom Bush Sr. lauded for his patriotism and who was a true hero during Gulf War I)…and a senior intelligence operative with twenty years of experience in covert ops and deep cover, keeping an eye on all the bad guys out there (including guys like Saddam and Kim Jong Il) who might get their hands on REAL WMD’s.
Why were they punished? Because they wouldn’t go along with the admin’s lies about the justification for war. THAT’s the bigger crime here – a cover up of the forged Niger documents, possible falsified, forged, and planted intelligence, and showing others in the intelligence community that if they DARED speak the truth, their careers – and possibly, their lives or those of their contacts – would be “fair game.”
July 11th, 2005 at 10:33 pmI’m afraid I’m leaning toward Rude Pundit’s interpretation. No way Bush doesn’t pardon him so this so the liberal media doesn’t take advantage of this little mess to get in the way of the important work old Karl’s doing keeping traitorous liberals from painting big dayglo targets on the roofs of orphanages full of blue-eyed christian babies for the convenience of terrorists.
July 11th, 2005 at 10:34 pmBush Jr., will you please take the republican cock out of your mouth!
July 11th, 2005 at 10:40 pmPress Briefing by Scott McClellan
These are the questions that presidential spokesman Scott McClellan was asked at his daily press briefing this afternoon in the order in which they occurred:
July 11th, 2005 at 11:15 pm#33 well said, but it goes deeper. To elaborate: we must keep in mind that the 60-odd million supporters (as of Nov. 2004) of our current administration only account for about 29-odd percent of adults in this country. I am pretty sure a lot of their minds have changed since then (just an guess). If one stands way back and sees things for what they are, “Meltdown” is inevitable. I have known from personal experiance that everyone eventually shows their true colors. I look forward to what the next few months uncovers…do we live in interesting times, or what?
July 11th, 2005 at 11:17 pmRe comment # 2: “how many times do you have to hear ‘no comment’ to stop asking the same question”?
July 11th, 2005 at 11:49 pmAnswer: until you get a straight answer!
Response to #41: Julia, you need to check with your optometrist, because not all Christians have white skins and blue eyes, and we Christians practice what we believe and we don’t just talk cheap Christian talks as examplified by Bush and his cohorts. Please don’t embarrass yourself again with your bizarre stories.
July 12th, 2005 at 12:10 amI think Bush Jr is really Jeff Gannon trying to control the conversation. After we found out that his softball questions to McClellan were rigged and that he had “special privileges” he had to go underground. Now I think he trolls the blogs as his last refuge hidden where he can continue his personal crusade against the liberal monsters who destroyed his prostitution income.
It’s time for Cheney and Rove to officially step down. Bush our president is a mental basket case so he’ll either breakdown or be led off the stage in a straight jacket. The corruption and dishonesty in this White House is beyond anything this country has ever seen. What McClellan got today was what he deserved. If the Washington press core had been doing it’s job we would not be in the giant international mess we are in today. They showed they can be adults today and not let these scoundrels off the hook. It remains to be seen what they will do from here on in. If they do their job Bush/Cheney will fall before the summer is out.
July 12th, 2005 at 12:27 amStocks have such a thing called “support levels” – that’s what they bounce between the highest point and lowest point over weeks of trading. At 550 Articles on Goolgle news search the Rove story has blasted through the upper support levels and will now take off. It is now a true full blown scandle. Didn’t think I’d ever see the day again with corporate controled media where they would really cover serious news. Usually it’s 1,500 article on Micheal Jackson farted or Bush BSs and poses on his endless terrorism 24/7
July 12th, 2005 at 12:28 amIf Rove continues down this path he’ll end up with the Presidential Metal of Freedom.
July 12th, 2005 at 12:56 amThe press conference was amazing, something you might expect from Lewis Carroll or the Marx Brothers. Like all the Bushies, Scott is determined to remain on message. To many, that is supposedly a good thing. This press conference shows that being “on message”, when taken to the nth degree, is absurd, silly, dishonest, and secretive. Why is Scotty stalling? He is waiting for the White House Spin Machine to come up with some brand of plausible deniability that he can parrot dutifully. His hope is that things will then go back to Business as Usual. I hope that doesn’t happen.
July 12th, 2005 at 2:24 amYou know what bothers me…
It’s time for a distraction from the Rove/Plame story.
The Whitehouse have their backs against the wall…
And after London’s recent bombing…
Now would be a very convenient time for a terrorist ‘incident’ to occur… at least.. convenient for the PNAC-wielding neocons.
L8z
July 12th, 2005 at 4:27 amkarl rove is a king maker. He will not go quietly into the night. He knows all of the dirt on King George and will gladly hold it over his head. Bush has two choices. Hold onto him until the end of the investigation. Read that the next couple of years and the end of his administation and pardon him. Or he can pardon him now. Rove has too much dirt on Bush and is more than willing to use anything to protect his own ass. Do you think old Scotty likes being up there as a punching bag? Rove has been with Bush for years. He is the king of slime. I’d bet paychecks he would be a real snake in a corner with a few dirty secrets under his belt and his job and jail time at stake.
July 12th, 2005 at 9:51 amIs it me, or shouldn’t Robert Novak be getting some of this attention as well? Mathew Cooper has been forced to not only disclose his source, but testify. Times reporter Judtih Miller is currently jailed and the reality is that Robert Novak was the one who first nationally disclosed Mrs. Plames indentity. It’s a fact that our media has been scared into submission, hopefully this new situation with Karl Rove will give our “free press” the balls they need to do their job and hold this administration accountable. The British press would never let Tony get away with anything. They right wing went after Clinton with a vengence and I might add to the tune of about 50 million tax payers dollars for lying about sex. You would thing that For something as serious as treason, doesn’t the Bush administration deserve the same attention?
RTS
July 12th, 2005 at 10:10 amTime for “big time intelligence chatter” and bumping the terror level up. But WAIT! That’s not enough of a distraction for this administration….it’s showtime!
July 12th, 2005 at 10:25 amI think it’s going to be another ‘October Surprise’ showing of Osama, complete with footage of his hiding hole cave that we found him in and, yep you got it, killed him in.There won’t be enough left of the bodies to show on good,decent Christian television (Since we don’t actually have him, nor will we. That wasn’t ever the plan anyway, now was it?)
This administration has come up with a distraction at every turn, to keep the public and the gullible media from focusing on the realtime blips and blunders (and yes, crimes)that it commits continuously. Maybe the blinders are starting to come off now, if there isn’t a bigtime distraction. Maybe Rove will be too distracted ,with his own name being pulled through the mud of his own making, to
come up with a ‘good one’ this time.
Let me guess…it’s Clinton’s fault.
July 12th, 2005 at 12:43 pmUnfortunately all of our branches of government are controlled by Republicans. Rove will just get a slap on the wrist and be told, “bad boy, bad,” and get a raise from it.
#40 touches on the bigger scandal: WHO FORGED THE NIGER DOCUMENTS? Rove’s attempt to discredit Wilson’s investigation and thus bolster the credibility of the forged documents imply HE was complicit in the forgery. It’ll take another two years for this question to even get asked…
July 12th, 2005 at 12:57 pmIt’s unfortunate that the WH press corps (and all the MSM for that matter) have to wait for some big story from Newsweek to break before suddenly growing some balls. This administration needs to be grilled like this every day. With millions of people tuning into nonsense shows like Fear Factor and The Bachelor just to see some train wreck style drama, you’d think the news people would realize that average folk really like to watch other people squirm. It’s good TV. So why not add some drama to the nightly news by grilling our favorite WH spokesman?
July 12th, 2005 at 1:00 pmWhat did the President know and when did he know it?
July 12th, 2005 at 3:14 pmGod I love the smell of Impeachment in the morning …
July 12th, 2005 at 4:43 pmMy bet is that Scott will bail just Ari Fleischer did!
July 12th, 2005 at 4:53 pmjust like Ari Fleischer did. Sorry for the omit.
July 12th, 2005 at 4:54 pmBush can’t fire Rove, he answers to him!
July 12th, 2005 at 5:23 pmAP – Bush Game Plan for Rove Problem Leaked
July 12th, 2005 at 6:32 pm“Try total arrogance and blatent disrespect for the law. It worked before” chatters the chimp.
I predict Rove will rsign. His resignation statement will go something like this. “The scurrilous and unfounded personal attacks on me by the hysterical force me to resign as a matter of principle. This attack has ditracted our President and my fellow REpublicans in Congress from the completion of those critical tasks that G Schrub promised the Amercan people who swept him in to offfice in the great eletoral mandate of last year. This altruistic agenda including a continuation of the freedom war in Iraq, a permanent tax cut (greatly favoring our most wealthy base, see Fahrenheit 9/11), a Patriot Act that is truly patriotic (i.e. trampling even more of our freedoms), a visionary Social Security plan (that does nothing to alleviate the lonterm financial stability of the system), and the banning of un holy marriages (but its OK if maybe I engage in unholy nonmarriage). Our noble and illustrious War President must be free to do what’s right for God (Christian God only), God bless America and G Schrub.”
July 12th, 2005 at 9:21 pmThe only catch to this scenario is if The Scrub gets stubborn, which he is wont to do. Let’s hope he does, cause then they will go down much harder and Schrub’s Brain won’t be able to work his malevolence from retirement.
oops meant to say what’s good for God and America, but then he might say it just as it was at first. LOL
July 12th, 2005 at 9:25 pm[...] And now, if it’s Friday somewhere it’s time for the Friday Random Ten. Believe it or not I didn’t make this one up. This one goes out to Scotty McC. [...]
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