Allen: McClellan sounds like ‘the left-wing haters.’
Allen: McClellan sounds like ‘the left-wing haters.’
On Tuesday night, former Bush adviser Karl Rove responded to former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s explosive memoir by saying he “sounds like a left-wing blogger.” During an interview on right-wing talker Mike Gallagher’s radio show today, Politico’s Mike Allen echoed Rove’s dismissive response, claiming that McClellan had adopted “the vocabulary, rhetoric of the left wing haters.”
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ALLEN: And indeed, Scott does adopt the vocabulary, rhetoric of the left wing haters. Can you believe it in here he says the White House press corps was too deferential to the administration.
GALLAGHER: Deferential!?!
ALLEN: in the run up to the war. Now, I don’t think Scott felt that way when he was up at the podium like a punching bag
GALLAGHER: Like a deer in the headlights.
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May 29th, 2008 at 7:03 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
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The right side is TERRIFIED of the truth. They will do and say anything to keep throwing dirt in the face of every thinking American. They rose to power on lies and secrecy, and that is the only way they can survive now.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:05 pmI’d like to tell Mike Allen – and all the other republican operatives who run Politico – that it was us — the right wing “haters” that you mistakenly mock — we were the ones who were jumping up and down, waving our arms and screaming, wait! you guys got it wrong! they’re lying to us!
May 29th, 2008 at 7:09 pmBecause we dared to disagree with your foregone conclusions and the propaganda spewed from the White House and its cabal of criminals, we have been deigned to be “haters” by the likes of you and your colleagues.
You ignored the facts, you drank the mind-numbing koolaid, you dismissed us, you ignored anyone who countered your own opinion of the sh!t-for-brains boy-king in the White House and his puppeteer, and his sycophants, becoming one of them, abandoning your own mission as journalist.
I am disgusted with you, your kind; that you can still appear in public and not accept your own responsibility in the abyss we find ourselves in today is incomprehensible.
You should be ashamed, begging forgiveness, and vowing to return to the honorable pursuit of true journalism instead of criticizing the critics who were right from the start!
sorry guys, Scotty is one of yours. sorry to have to shine the light of reality in your ayes…
May 29th, 2008 at 7:11 pmWe are “hateful”, but we were right.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:12 pmWhat about independents concerned about highly partisan leadership consitently bending the truth? What about management theorists disturbed by George Bush’s inability to process information and act in a mutual/cooperative fashion? Calling anyone who raises concerns “left wing haters” is in itself ignorant. Welcome to the world of message bombs, which effectively blow up any deeper discussion, thus any opportunity to learn.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:13 pmScrape Mike Allen’s chin and send the sample off to a lab.
You’ll get the DNA from Karl Rove’s ball-bag.
-GSD
May 29th, 2008 at 7:14 pmThe stuttering, sweating, bug-eyed Mike Allen is perfect for… print journalism.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:15 pmThe ferocity of the character assassinations is proportional to the truth of the disclosures; which, could be the smoking gun for prosecutions and impeachment
May 29th, 2008 at 7:16 pmDuring an interview on right-wing talker Mike Gallagher’s radio show today, Politico’s Mike Allen echoed Rove’s dismissive response, claiming that McClellan had adopted “the vocabulary, rhetoric of the left wing haters.”
Classic right wing hypocrisy, the ones selling hate have always come from the right, from Hitler to Hagee.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
May 29th, 2008 at 7:23 pmJeebus, is that really all they got? “Left-wing haters”?
Y’know, when right-wing Bushbots start talking like “left-wing haters” maybe it’s time to reassess whether the conclusions of the “left-wing haters” were really driven by hate or, perhaps were a result of clear-eyed analysis of a reality-based world. A view that some right-wing Bushbots might come to accept after the cloud of authoritarian war-lust burns off.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:24 pmAnother croaking toadie joins the chorus.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:24 pmHaving watched (for those important years) Scotty’s obvious embarrassment at Q&A’s, it is hardly surprising that he finally enacted his revenge upon his ‘masters’ for the predicaments he found himself in. I always felt he personally had more character than Fleischer, Snow and Perino (the lies stuck in his throat – they were experts at BS)and he truly hated his role as spokesperson for the ‘worst administration ever’.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pmAri Fleischer, said “Scott uses the very same words that the far-left uses and I find that troubling.”
The truth sometimes is Ari…now toss off.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:28 pmIs it our fault those reichwingers are so darn hatable?
May 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pmI guess the truth is hateful to sociopathic liars.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:33 pmTwo syllable words require a dictionary Ari doesn’t have; oh the pain!
May 29th, 2008 at 7:35 pmhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24861380/
That doesn’t sound like a ‘left wing hater’.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:36 pmMike Allen doesn’t sound like a journalist at all. Sounds like the idiotic Karl Rove.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:41 pmAri Fleischer, said “Scott uses the very same words that the far-left uses and I find that troubling.”
yeah, I could see Ari being troubled by that. When his successor at the job of White House mouthpiece starts sounding like the dirty fu(king hippies they all made fun of, he’s got to wonder if the whole house of cards is about to come down.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:43 pmThe frothing at the mouth right-wing critics of Scott McClellan sound a lot like, well, Scott McClellan:
“I think it appears to be more about trying to justify personal views and opinions than it does about looking at the results that we are achieving on behalf of the American people.”
McClellan, asked if former Treasury secretary Paul O’Neill’s book contained falsehoods, January 12, 2004
“Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had.”
McClellan, on the book by former counter-terrorism tsar Richard Clarke, March 22, 2004.
For more details, see:
May 29th, 2008 at 7:43 pm“A Look Back at Scott McClellan’s Greatest Hits.”
Don’t tell us backedup, we’re not the people calling him that, troll.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:43 pmDo we “Hate” criminals….yes we do.
Do repukes “Love” criminals…yes you do.
The difference is easy to see and understand.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:46 pmFar-left = informed voter = non-sheeple = mainstream America
You lemmings can tack your labels onto us, but we’re on to you. It’s painfully slow to force all of you to be accountable for the horrific crimes you’ve committed, but the joist on the reich-wing wall will be found, and the court of law will drive its nail in you.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pmOh yeah, there’s nothing so vile as a left-wing blogger, is there you murdering-torturing-lying-scheming-money grubbing-homophobic-crusading-xenophobic-scum sucking-misogynistic-neo con-race baiting-assassination wishing-intelligently designed corporate shill mouthpiece?
But, don’t take it personally, OK? Hmmmmmm?
May 29th, 2008 at 7:49 pmIt may be old, trite and true, but the “Left” is right.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:49 pmSounds more like Scott McClellan has joined the right-wing haters.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:50 pmThe exact words the far-left uses:
Bush lied us into Iraq.
Bush outed Valerie Plame.
Yep, he sure did say the exact words the far-left has been using for years. So what, it’s the truth. YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
May 29th, 2008 at 7:56 pmAri says:
And indeed you should, but I would guess not for the right reasons…
May 29th, 2008 at 8:06 pmTry reading the garbage posted about McClellan in the comments area at the Politico. It is a right wing frenzy over there.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:07 pmOn Fox News yesterday, McClellan’s predecessor, Ari Fleischer, said “Scott uses the very same words that the far-left uses and I find that troubling.”
Words like “fact”, “truth”, “proof”, “partisan”, “propaganda”, “misdirection”, “lies”, “deception”, “wool over the eyes”, “is”, “and”, and “the”, etc….
Cheers,
May 29th, 2008 at 8:15 pmDON’T BE HATIN’. ;)
May 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pmFu(k these two clowns and the elephant they rode in on!
The left wing bloggers are the only outlets not spewing the RNC propaganda.Our MSM has become nothing but STENOGRAPHERS.And as Stephen Colbert so wonderfully sums it up…”TRUTH HAS A LIBERAL BIAS!”
‘the left-wing haters.’???
The truth can not be clearer of the theft, treason, mass murder and lies and we STILL have some on the right calling We the People names to divert reality? Can those on the right be that stupid?
All We the People really want is for all to obey the Constitution, where as it appears, those on the right still want the theft of our treasury, treason, murders, and the complete ruination of our country.
Go figure.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:53 pmMaybe Scotty is hoping to get less jail time after War Crimes trials?
May 29th, 2008 at 8:54 pmOlbermann’s interview tonight ended with John Dean who said that it is probably too late for impeachment – we have reluctantly come to that conclusion.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pmBut we certainly can prosecute these criminals on federal crimes.
Why isn’t there any discussion in the msm about the 93000 acres in Paraguay purchased by the Bushies. We have no extradition with Paraguay, so we can find them guilty of federal and international crimes but they can live in Paraguay untouched. Is it true? Do we know for sure that this land purchase is a fact?
Ah, the “left-wing haters”. That’s us guys!
You know, I actually think the neocons thought the progressive movement was dead, and that we would slide meekly into corporate/fascism.
Our anger scares them. They SHOULD be scared.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pmI’m really confused. The only “left wing haters” I know are neocon fascists. So they must be talking about themselves.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:46 pmWhy would Ari call this troubling? The truth should never be troubling. That makes as troubling all of the lies told by Ari, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Bush, Gonzales, etc.
Transparency is the buzz word in business for not fudging the facts to make something look better than it actually is. Perhaps Ari should be searching for a little transparency.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:22 amI am a Republican. Let’s just say that most people on this site and I don’t see eye to eye on the level of services that the federal government should provide. But then I disagree with the neocon faction of the Republicans on the same topic. I’d cut the feds to 1/10th their current size and eliminate the IRS as soon as the national debt was paid off in a heart beat if I had my chance.
That being said I want to thank everyone here. I want to thank you all because you love this country. You love it more than your own party affiliation. And so do I. You love the constitution, and as far as I can see the only time you overstep the bounds of the constitution is in your wanting the central government to do too much for the good of the common man.
I stopped watching corporate news a few years ago when they became mouth pieces for the white house. I turned to news outlets like think progress in order to read the truth.
For years now the right wing trolls would come in here and on every similar site and say that we are lying, that we were all conspiracy nuts, and now the main propaganda person for the white house has come forward and validated everything that we have ever said.
Damn it feels good to be right.
Thank you, Scott, for validating everything we said was happening in the run up to the Iraq war. I forgive you for lying to us before. But don’t let it happen again.
Don’t take it personal, Scott, but I still want you to do jail time for your part in the conspiracy, otherwise I’d be soft on crime and as a good right winger I know that you despise soft on crime people.
Right now I am just eating popcorn grinning from ear to ear watching the Neocons imploding. Right now the distrust is building between them all, and they are wondering who will be next to tell the truth about what happened.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:26 am“left wing haters” why is this so called journalist adopting the rhetoric and vocabulary of the far right?
I just watched McClellan on C-span and his criticism of Bush and others seems extremely soft with all kinds of excuses. With that said I commend him for speaking up. Judging by the response from the right hes in for a very rough ride
May 30th, 2008 at 8:40 amMarie-
Re: Bush/Paraguay
May 30th, 2008 at 8:48 amThe boy king can run but he can’t hide. Paraguay may not have an extradiction agreement with America but that shouldn’t stop President Obama or the War Trial enforcers at the Hague from using extraordinary rendition. Chimpy used this to facilitate his torture program but I don’t think any nation would object to it’s use in bringing this war criminal to justice. The only hitch might be the small army of Blackwater stooges who may attempt to protect him but since they are hired guns beholden to nothing but the allmighty dollar I’m sure there would be many in this world who would be more than willing to outbid Bushboy to pay off the mercinaries (I’d suggest paying them in euros).
Hmmm, I Blog, and I do hate those who seek to destroy a Democratic America (GOP Republicans like Bush,Cheney,Rove,Rice,Rumsfeld, etc), but so what? If that qualifies me as a ‘hater‘ then so-be-it. Rove is easy to hate. Whose fault is that? Doesn’t everybody hate Rove? Rove is a scumbag who seeks to destroy America but who is so misguided and warped that he hasn’t recognized his own destructiveness.
As for Republican buckrogers1965 plan to shrink gov’t to 1/10th it’s size (while the population it governs continues to expand)I’ll simply point to these quotes:
May 30th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Mike Allen is borderline retarded. I’m not exactly surprised…
May 30th, 2008 at 10:01 ambuckrogers1965,
I don’t know if you are still around, your post was hours ago but thanks for the post.
One of the tragedies of the last 7 years is the divisive politics pushed by Karl and supported by Fox News and the far right. There is room for honest debate in the middle, and the differences are not as great as they would have us believe.
No one likes being lied to, no one. I have a lot of good friends on the right and they despise the government intrusion and secrecy that this administration represents.
I personally think Karl’s tactics may have won the 200 and 2004 battles, but he lost the war.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:42 amThere you have it, people.
The reich says TRUTH = HATE.
And BuckRogers1965…? Welcome to the light.
~A
May 30th, 2008 at 11:06 amIf you criticize that’s the same as “hating.” How terrible that a leading national pundit is so deeply in the tank with the right wing. What a disingenuous liar.
Man, the Politico is such a transparent right-wing outfit. Glenn Greenwald has other examples.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:07 pmhttp://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
Scott McClellan is very close to his mother, Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn. (Yes, she’s been married a few times.) She’s the former mayor of Austin and former Texas State Comptroller, and two years ago she broke with the Republican Party to run for governor against Bush’s successor, Rick “Governor Goodhair” Perry. She lost, but I think her move had a big effect on Scotty’s loss of allegiance to the Republicans. He left the bubble, and his old pals like Dan Bartlett now can’t grasp what he’s saying — it all sounds “left-wing” to them. I’m no fan of Carole Strayhorn (she and Kinky Friedman split the anti-Perry vote enough to kill Chris Bell’s chance to win), but I think she played a part, at least indirectly, in opening Scotty’s eyes to a few things. Thanks, Mom.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:44 pmApparently, nobody briefed Scott about how mob-like loyalty was part of the job description; and, that when the mob uses and abuses you, you’re supposed to take it and take it with a smile. His mother raised him better:
“AUSTIN — Scott McClellan tried to resign as White House press secretary because of growing concerns about the administration’s direction, but President Bush urged him to stay on the job.
His mother, Texas political veteran Carole Keeton Strayhorn says he tried to resign in late 2005, but the president talked him out of it.
“I could see him becoming more tortured as it went on,” said Mrs. Strayhorn, a former Republican state comptroller and Texas Railroad Commissioner.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/053008dntexslater.40b37509.html
June 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pm