Bush doesn’t plan to read McClellan’s book.
By on May 30th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Bush doesn’t plan to read McClellan’s book.
At a closed-door fundraiser for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday, President Bush “told an intimate audience that he hasn’t read his former spokesman Scott McClellan’s book, and doesn’t plan to, but he is disappointed with the criticisms made by the former White House confidant.” Bush, according to attendees, said that “he will work to forgive McClellan for what he wrote,” but that “McClellan is ‘not the same guy’ who he knew going back to his first presidential run.”
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not enough pictures
May 30th, 2008 at 10:34 amOf course he’s not going to read it…. there’s no pictures for him to color.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:34 am“Reading? Why start now?” – President Dinkledonk
May 30th, 2008 at 10:36 amBush doesn’t read.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:37 amit will be read to him by laura.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:39 amWhy read it? He lived it.
Besides, GDumbya is physically allergic to valid criticism. It is not allowed in his bubble.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:40 amBush doesn’t plan to read
There. Fixed it for you!
May 30th, 2008 at 10:42 amYou’re welcome.
I will work to forgive bush too but I will fail
May 30th, 2008 at 10:42 amDRxJ says
Bush doesn’t plan to read.
Bush reads?!?!?!
May 30th, 2008 at 10:44 amPuh-leeeeeeze! Bush has been quoted on the record as saying that he doesn’t even read newspapers (a practice which one might be inclined to think would be absolutely essential for any principled world leader, never mind the leader of the world’s foremost superpower) — and he’s also proven time and time again that he has no patience or tolerance for anyone who dares to criticize him or his administration. Knowing this, considering that McClellan’s book is reportedly filled with criticism of the Bush administration, why would anyone with two functioning brain cells to rub together be at all surprised to learn that Bush has no intention of reading it?
May 30th, 2008 at 10:45 amAll the McClellan attackers are recycling the same tactics they use for anyone who criticizes the administration. No substance, no factual response to specific issues, just ad hominem and snide insinuations about motivations and lack of “loyalty”. The problem is it continues to work exactly for the reason McClellan puts in his book: a compliant and compromised media. An amoral administration can get away with just about anything in this environment.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:45 amObama has to amplify McLellan’s message. ‘Propaganda Regime’ should be shouted to the media & from the rooftops.
If guilt by association is the wingnut’s only recourse, let’s use the same tactic on McCain, who voted with Bush’s agenda 100% of the time THIS YEAR.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:49 amHow would Bush know what to forgive? How can he be “disappointed”? What totally disingenuous remarks!
May 30th, 2008 at 10:50 amIf Bush hasn’t read the book then he clearly is relying on his “advisors” to fashion his reaction; you’d think Bush would have learned his lesson about these so-called advisors.
He is going to wait for the movie.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:55 amGeorgie doesn’t recognize Scottie Tissue cuz
May 30th, 2008 at 10:55 ama) Scott’s not on his knees
b) his mouth isn’t slavering on Bush’s unzippered pipe
Why am I not surprised? Maybe because the truth hurts.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:57 amI can hear ol’ Jack Nicholson screaming right now:
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!
nik, nik……FIRE
May 30th, 2008 at 10:58 amI cannot wait until Jan 2009 (if we even get that far). Even if McCain wins, the level of snide, self-assured, stomach-turning bravado of this disgusting Administration will be over.
McCain is bad, but he isn’t THIS bad. “I will work to forgive him” SPARE US YOUR FAUX TRANSCENDENCE…I think I may vomit.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:59 amThat Bush wouldn’t read McClellan’s book should come as no surprise. However, the part of the article that really caught my eye and REALLY pissed me off, is this:
The president attended two fundraisers and had no public appearances or official business except a brief courtesy visit to LDS Church leaders. His overnight stay in Utah was part of a Western swing that will, in large part, be paid for by taxpayers. The White House does not have the total cost for the trip nor could it provide totals for Bush’s three previous Utah trips.
But they aren’t cheap.
For example, Air Force One costs roughly $60,000 per hour to fly. The cargo planes that transport the motorcade and helicopters cost another $7,000 each per hour aloft, according to a 2006 report by House Government Reform Committee staff for Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
If it is official business, taxpayers pay; for political travel, the national party or candidate covers part of the cost.
Although the Waxman report found that, in the 2002 election, 97 percent of the flight expenses for Bush’s travel was paid by taxpayers.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:01 amHere’s a different take on Bush’s refusal to read McClellan’s book..
May 30th, 2008 at 11:06 amAnd here is the kicker. Bush’s travel money is skimmed from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, just to rub the noses of poor people in it.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:06 amBush doesn’t plan to read McClellan’s book.
DUH.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:07 amIt is too fun to watch the neocon pukes explode on screen. Oh, the outrage!
They are not outraged because of the truth in Scotty’s book, they are outraged that he broke the code of silence.
This ain’t the Mafia, buttfcks, it’s a democracy. Get the hell out of America and shut down Faux News on your way out the door.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:08 amHas Dubya actually read ANY book since “My Pet Goat” almost seven years ago?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:10 amI take it this means Scott’s book won’t be part of the Dubya Preznetial Liberry…
May 30th, 2008 at 11:11 amDuh. Bush doesn’t read books. Facts get in the way of his agenda.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:12 amPresident Bush “told an intimate audience that he hasn’t read his former spokesman Scott McClellan’s book, and doesn’t plan to,
For most people in this situation, curiosity would lead them to read what was being said about them and it’s curiosity that leads us to learn. But not Bush, he has no interest in learning from his mistakes or even acknowledging them.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
May 30th, 2008 at 11:13 amHe’s got to get through the Hardy Boys adventures first.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:15 am.
(Boy! I am really showing my age.)
Dana Perino said the book had been described to Bush, “It is rectangular, about 11 by 8 inches, and a little over 1 inch thick. It has a nice picture of you and Scotty on the cover.”
May 30th, 2008 at 11:15 amDRxJ Says:
Bush doesn’t plan to read
There. Fixed it for you!
You’re welcome.
Bush doesn’t plan.
There. Fixed it for you!
May 30th, 2008 at 11:17 amYou’re welcome.
shoeless,
May 30th, 2008 at 11:17 amNice.
As Bush himself said, Books are Laura’s thing.
(unless there are pictues of pet goats, that is ?)
May 30th, 2008 at 11:31 amIf only it came in a comic strip version…
May 30th, 2008 at 11:39 amClean up on aisle #34, please…I almost stepped in Trollshit.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:39 amBush doesn’t plan to read McClellan’s book.
and so, of course, as it IS “opposite day” everyday in bush-bizarro world, that means he definitely WILL read that book…
he is too much an egoist to pass that up…
May 30th, 2008 at 11:45 amI keep finding it harder and harder to imagine the blind ignorance of the 19% koolaid-drinking, leg-humping bush apologists.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:47 ammpeachcheneythenbush Says:
[...] a brief courtesy visit to LDS Church leaders.
he has to ask their permission for romney to be vice-president???
May 30th, 2008 at 11:48 amArt.
Good one!
My dyslexic eyes caught “a brief visit to LSD Church leaders
Now, that’d be any Sunday mass, eh?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:53 amIt appears by my post #40 that I may have dropped some acid.
It was to be:
Art.
Good one.
(next topic)
I thought he was visiting with LSD Church leaders.
Now, that’d make for an interesting congregation, and Sunday mass, eh?
(I’ve really got to proof read these posts before I submit)
May 30th, 2008 at 11:56 amDear bandwagon,
Congratulations! Your most recent comment at thinkprogess.org has earned you 65 cents.
Keep up the comments! One penny per word!
Your friends,
May 30th, 2008 at 11:57 amRNC Online
However, Bush does plan to announce the downsizing of the Scott McClellan room in the Bush Presidential Library to a closet for turncoats.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:58 ambandwagon you spelled “Liberalism” with a capital letter.
Interesting.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:58 ambassface, that’s 65 cents tax free!
May 30th, 2008 at 12:00 pmType isn’t big enough and no pictures to color in.
And just maybe the TRUTH will make him burst into flames.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pmCrapwagon says – blaa blaa blaa blaa, RNC, blaa, blaa, blaa, Limpballs, blaa, blaa, blaa, O’Lielly, blaa, blaa, blaa, tool, blaa, blaa, blaa, ignorant, blaa, blaa, blaa, sheeple, blaa, blaa, blaa.
What an idiot.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pmI think what bandwagon is trying to tell us, is that he doesn’t read books either.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:06 pmIt is interesting to see that there are still some willing to admit their support for Bush in the face of the truth of the evil of his administration. I have seen radical posts that say that these Bush is My God folks would support him even if he raped a 10 year old boy on the lawn of the White House and I thought that that was a little overboard.
Color me wrong. As evidenced by bandboy, I have to believe those radicals were right.
Thank FSM that there are only a handful of these braindead pukes around.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:08 pmBush doesn’t plan to read McClellan’s book.
What are the Vegas odds of him enjoying “My Pet Goat” for the 3 millionth time ?
May 30th, 2008 at 12:14 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
Scotty’s book is number 1 on Amazon.
Truthdoctor Says:
No body cares about Scott McClellan. Ask the average man on the street who he is and not one of ten can tell you.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
Scotty’s book is number 1 on Amazon.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pmbandwagon Says:
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None of McClellan’s claims are backed up with any facts whatsoever. Another example of journalism severely infected with the sickness called Liberalism. Bush is the subject of the book, why would he read some greedy slug’s off base opinion of what happened in meetings that he wasn’t involved in? Toilet Paper is defiantly doing its readers an injustice by playing see-saw with only one participant.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
When have facts ever been on this administration’s side ; or ever been used by them ? The mushroom cloud and WMD’s in Iraq statements ?
May 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pmDid he ever finish that one? Bush is probably waiting to find how that one turns out before starting on another book.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:20 pmNot enough stories of Iraqi dead kids.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:21 pmKeltoi Says:
Actually, I think I agree with Missmolly and this is not going to get much traction with the general public.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
Scotty’s book is number 1 on Amazon.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:22 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
Where is that original post from “truthdoctor”?
MSNBC: White House Officals Are ‘Flat Out Angry,’ Calling McClellan ‘Traitor,’ ‘Benedict’»
May 29 @ 9:01 AM
May 30th, 2008 at 12:29 pmSo completely Bush- don’t read, have people tell him what to think. Wouldn’t it be funny to pull an April Fools joke on Bush: Tell him some tale and get his public comment to the nonexistent .. Hehehehe!
May 30th, 2008 at 12:30 pmYeah, like someone could tell him to say Saddam was trying to buy yellowcake uranium, and he should sya it in his SOTU address. That would be a real howler!
May 30th, 2008 at 12:33 pmBush doesn’t just accept what he’s told as the truth, that’s nonsense. He looks in their eyes, gets a gut feeling for their soul and trusts his instincts.
Someone could read to him that Bid Laden intends to strike in America and Bush will totally ignore it.
Don’t need no stinking brain when you have such a finely tuned gut reaction.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:40 pmThere aren’t enough pictures for him to understand the book. After all he got through life on his daddy’s reputation, not his smarts. Look at the way he reacted when Tim Russert asked him: Whether it was a war of necessity or of a war of choice? He responded: “Expand on that question” before he could decide that “It was a war of necessity”. That showed the man’s thinking process is about an inch wide and a fraction of an inch deep. He’s basically an airhead man who has difficulty thinking and answering questions on the fly.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:46 pmA man who lacks the intellectual curiosity to read a book about himself is unfit to be the POTUS. And a Speaker of the House without the integrity to put impeachment on the table, well she should be shown the door as well.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:53 pm“Bush doesn’t plan to read McClellan’s book.”
Double truth: Bush isn’t a planning man, and Bush doesn’t read.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
When the NYT best seller list comes out this weekend and Scotty’s book is number 1….the reich-wing will continue to implode with rage. I can’t wait.
They’ll just accuse the NYT of “liberal media bias”.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:59 pmShayne #64…Bravo post of this thread…Blessings
May 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pmHe’s got to get through the Hardy Boys adventures first.
“The case of the missing soul”
(Boy! I am really showing my age.)
Me too!
http://progressiveworldreview.com
May 30th, 2008 at 1:42 pmWhy thank you #1.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:56 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says
May 30th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Scotty’s book is number 1 on Amazon. The facts are getting out. America cares to hear the truth. The reich-wing is going to be a permanent minority. Amen.
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From your lips to God’s ears. I certainly hope so.
I truly hope that at least some of the people buying Scott’s book aren’t already in the anti-Bush choir — those who are buying the book to be able to say, “see, I told you so”. Since McClellan was a Bushie at the front of the stage for awhile, he probably still has his conservative fans who would buy his book even if it was only a step-by-step guide to nose-picking.
I’m glad that the book is popular, and I’m glad that some people are setting aside their game controllers to pay attention. Now, the next step is to galvanize all this awareness of the propaganda game into action — preferably at the voting booth.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:58 pmYou’d think, with the 90-some books he reads every year in his competition with Rove, he’d have time to sneak this one in….
Cheers,
May 30th, 2008 at 3:17 pmHe hasn’t finished “Mt Pet Goat” yet
May 30th, 2008 at 3:50 pmNo pictures, no popups, no crayolas, no goats, no readit.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:01 pm“Bush doesn’t plan to read McClellan’s book.”
That is because the book contains too many words, no pictures and Bush can’t read!
May 30th, 2008 at 4:49 pmBush can’t read. We’ve already learned this.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:09 pm