McClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq veterans.
By on Jun 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am
McClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq veterans.
Yesterday, MoveOn launched a petition calling on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan to donate the proceeds from his new book to veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, McClellan promised to give a portion of the profits to these men and women. Watch it:
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The guy even LOOKS like he feels A LOT better. The WEIGHT has been lifted from his shoulders!
His head is even shaped differently.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:29 amTimmeh- weren’t you also a part of the propaganda machine? You doing anything for the victims?
June 1st, 2008 at 11:32 amNow there’s a book promotion campaign! Hell, I might even buy one.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:33 amMr. Potato head does have some answerin’ to do in his complicity, and going way too soft on Chainee.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:35 amI would love to see the discussion move away from McClellan and on to his allegations. McClellan has a lot to answer for but after all, he was just a tiny cog in the Bush machine.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 1st, 2008 at 11:36 amThat’s excellent news!
Good for Scotty. He’ll definitely feel better doing this.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:37 amHis head is even shaped differently.
Wow. Just… wow.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:39 amI’d venture a 100% portion…and a thorough testimony, would be but small recompense for being an accessory & mouthpiece to 1 million deaths as well as 4083 American deaths.
Else…get a bootleg off the net and deny this criminal any profits over selling-out his Country and his humanity. America will wear this stain for generations…a stain that McClellan knowingly fronted for.
Torture, Katrina, murder…not one dime should be rewarded to anyone who sh*ts on us all.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:41 amHow about making all the fat cat war profiteers pay their fu(king share of taxes and the government provide for the troops…not to mention no more illegal immoral wars of aggression.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:43 amI would be more pleased if he would go before the house and senate in hearing’s that would rid us of the evil bush/cheney regime..Blessings
June 1st, 2008 at 11:45 amTime will tell, but a promising start by the man. Sometimes there is only so much you can do to atone for past sins. He certainly seems to be making the effort which puts him leaps and bounds above the Republican Crime Machine.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:52 amProvided that McClellan actually does what he says he’s going to do, and that the percentage he plans to donate is something substantially more than 0.001% (50% seems reasonable to me) — then I’d say that this proves he’s putting his money where his mouth is, which suggests that his repentance over his association with the Bush administration may indeed be genuine.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:59 amgood on ya, scotty…
i’m sure there will be many more coming forward because of
his example… and that’s what we need badly…
…
hey, TP - how about a thread on the RUDE, OBNOXIOUS, PETTY, IMMATURE, PARTY-BACK-STABBING actions of the clintonistas at
yesterday’s rules committee meeting…
how embarrassing…
June 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pmDonating at least part of his profits to a veterans’ group would help to offset the claims against him that he did this for money — but more importantly, it would add validity to his statements when he appears before Congress - which I think he is obliged to do.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pmForTruth Says:
The guy even LOOKS like he feels A LOT better. The WEIGHT has been lifted from his shoulders!
His head is even shaped differently.
He doesn’t stutter like he used to when doing his Goebbels impersonation. This is a good thing Scotty is doing, and welcome to the club called Human. It is your actions that count, and he is certainly doing that.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pmI agree. Sadly, the Democrats pulled impeachment off the table.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:29 pmwitch1 and BnF - If McClellan had only had his epiphany in 2004, we’d probably NOT have GWB in office today!
June 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pmIf McClellan had started trying to talk before he got a publisher and the power behind that publisher to get on television he’d probably have ended up swinging from a rope like the DC Madame before anybody heard what he had to say. Has anybody seen Sibel Edsmonds on television?
June 1st, 2008 at 12:52 pmI would like to see the following panel testify before Congress:
Scott McClellan, Richard Clarke, Paul O’Neill as the beginning of the end of this disaster called the Bush Administration.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pmCan we add Jessica Lynch to EmilyD’s list. For no other reason then to relive those crazy madeup days
June 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pmWhile it is certainly laudable that MoveOn has pressured McClellan to donate proceeds of his book to Iraq and Afghan veterans, it would be just as laudable, if not more so, for MoveOn to put pressure on Congress to make sure that Iraqi and Afghani homes have been rebuilt after having been wiped out by American bombs, to compensate those Iraqis and Afghanis whose families have been unjustifiably killed by the American military much more than the paltry amount that they are currently receiving, to make sure that Iraqi and Afghani schools and hospitals and bridges and villages have been rebuilt after having been demolished by American firepower. But since the American media focuses less than 5 percent of their coverage on Iraq and Afghanistan, one wonders if MoveOn will be any different in their treatment and approach to the victims of American militarism.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:30 pmhuh… not even a rise?
maybe you can’t see it…
June 1st, 2008 at 1:44 pmHey katy, maybe this is what got you “moderated”.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:59 pmthanks shane - now i know you CAN see it…
yea, but you’d think they would delete it here,
not moderate me on another thread…
TP doesn’t like modo?
June 1st, 2008 at 2:03 pmat C&L comments (same thread - must be a slow day):
KarlCremslinier Says:
Move On has it backwards….
We should be rewarding and encouraging everyone who has info that could bring these criminals to justice to submit it ASAP.
hear! hear!
June 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pmWell how nice of Scott but can get give the dead soldiers their lives back or the injured soldiers their health back. It’s so easy for people to support lies and send soldiers to die and then say a few bucks will solve the problem. Will Colin Powell do the same with his book or Karl Rove? As a Military Mothers their is no price anyone can pay for the lies these people did to send our soldiers to their death. Children without Mothers/Fathers, wives without husbands and Mothers and Fathers without their children as all this was planned before the 2000 election. I’m sure Americans will see to forgive the actions of the guilty people and the White House. Yes as long as it was you or your son/daughter things go on a normal. But if the White House had open the draft all hell would have taken place in the USA and our troops would have never gone to Iraq.
June 1st, 2008 at 2:45 pmMcClellan promises to donate portion of book profits to Iraq veterans.»
This is fine and good…. I would rather see what appears to be the impossible:
All the war criminals locked up, sued and THEIR assets going to the Iraq war vets and families…. every penny from every war criminal.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pmDonating a portion of the proceeds to Iraq veterans is the very least McClellan can do.
He was one of the many enablers that helped put all these people in harm’s way. Not only that, as a mouthpiece, he also belittled anyone who dared criticise his Dear (mis)Leader.
All these enablers and loyalists are also responsible for the countless dead, maimed, raped, and displaced Iraqis who are suffering under the American occupation -their cries about ‘liberating’ Iraq notwithstanding.
McClellan making money from his book sales is just like the criminal who makes money out of recounting his crimes. Donating some of the money is the very least he can do.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:41 pmEvery talking head and so called journalist who parroted the administrations words and actions are the ones who should be giving a ‘portion’ of their earnings to the vets, as well as the corporate empire who owns them should as well.
June 1st, 2008 at 5:31 pmOf course Cheney and Bush et al pushed the US into war, it allowed their base to make money at any cost. Retired Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler hit the nail on the head with his book “War is a Racket” and he passed away in 1940.
http://lexrex.com/ enlightened/ articles/ warisaracket.htm
And it is still true today, just some of the names are different. And I am sorry to say it is not all RNC. California Senator Feinstein should also hang her head in shame, to say the least. Just one example:
http://www.metroactive.com/ papers/ sonoma/ 02.02.05/ byrne-0505.html
A San Francisco Bay Area paper, not even a mainstream outlet. Run a search on Feinstein to see several other reports.
So while I am all for a clean out of war criminals (Bush, Cheney, Addington, Libby, Rumsfeld, and on and on), the light needs to shine brightly and get rid of all the blood sucker.
Sorry for the rant. Reading Butler’s book always raises my ire, and my contact with the ‘powers that be’ for accountability!
Pax
June 1st, 2008 at 10:27 pmSorry for the late follow up, but this article says a lot as well.
http://www.metroactive.com/ bohemian/ 03.14.07/ byrne-0711.html
Pax
June 1st, 2008 at 10:34 pmJackie Says:
Well how nice of Scott but can get give the dead soldiers their lives back or the injured soldiers their health back. It’s so easy for people to support lies and send soldiers to die and then say a few bucks will solve the problem. Will Colin Powell do the same with his book or Karl Rove? As a Military Mothers their is no price anyone can pay for the lies these people did to send our soldiers to their death. Children without Mothers/Fathers, wives without husbands and Mothers and Fathers without their children as all this was planned before the 2000 election. I’m sure Americans will see to forgive the actions of the guilty people and the White House. Yes as long as it was you or your son/daughter things go on a normal. But if the White House had open the draft all hell would have taken place in the USA and our troops would have never gone to Iraq.
When a parent of a cancer or AIDS patient dies, it is the disease that kills their child and hardly the lack of funding for the cure that’s called into question. I don’t think your brand of suffering is any less painful or aggravating. Through my own turmoil, you’ll never get any sort of other accountability or satisfaction that will make any of this any easier. It is what it is and it will always be that way. The pain and “what if” stuff will always linger, but in the end you have to hope like hell we have learned to avoid another war like this and that this type of pain isn’t visited upon like it has with you or anyone else. There are times when I wish I can reflect and not go forward. But for myself, going forward is the only way I can make peace with my issues. I hope for you and everyone in your situation, that you may find your peace in the near future with whatever fate befalls these morons who got us into this mindless war.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:27 pmJackie Says: I’m sure Americans will see to forgive the actions of the guilty people and the White House.
I won’t.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 amBuy the book, I did (not that I even need to read it to find out something I didn’t know). First of all if he is indeed going going to donate to the Vets, that’s great. Second, send his little book to the top of the NYT best seller list and watch the right wingers head’s explode. It’s only like $16.00 on Amazon.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 amSo when is Sean Hannity …(a.k.a. Shun Honesty)… and Bill O’Reilly …(a.k.a. Billo Real-Lies)… of the Fox News (Fake News) Republican propaganda machine, and Rush Limbaugh …(a.k.a. Rash Lame-balls)… coming out with “THEIR” own books also repudiating the Bush/Cheney warmongering criminal administration ???
Enquiring minds want to know.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 pmYes folks, every nasty thing you have said about Scott McClellen is true. But remember this, McClellen is the only person from the White House inner circle to finally be telling what we all knew was the truth. Now, we must use McClellen to impeach and send to the World Court jail George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and all the other members of the Bush Crime Machine.
If they do their crime, they must do their time. There is no question about that in the USA.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 pmScott McClellan is to be commended for doing the right thing in exposing the Bush administration for what many of us suspected from the beginning: The war was a smokescreen for the real purpose of this neo-con administration.
What is encouraging is that we are all doing something together as a group, even if it is a very loose group. From every part of this country people are coming together to fight for what is right, and that gives me great hope.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 pmAs there is a law about making money from a crime I do not think he should make ANY MONEY from his book. He has lied to the American people day after day so his pension should also be taken away from him. Would we allow a crack dealer to keep his ill gotten gains? Scott McClellan also killed a lot of people even though he did not hold the gun, Nor did the crack dealer.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 pmWhen I was in high school these guys were role models. If I had a kid that used them as a role model now I would slap the stupid out of him/her. These guys are not ROLE MODLES now they are just CROOKS paid by us all from our taxes.
By a portion, he means…ALL of it, right?
How could McClellan possibly excuse holding onto any of this money? Of course, with the military budget being 54% of our GDP, feel free to donate that money to solar energy research so that we have NO dependency on foreign oil.
Side note: WHY does military spending take up 54% of our budget?
McClellan holding onto any money for himself is like a rich man getting a million dollars for charity and donating 75% and keeping the rest to buy a 4th swimming pool.
DONATE IT ALL, McClellan.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 pmPS I dig what all of you are saying. Absolutely amazing.
Ever wonder why the smartest and most clear-minded individuals (younger people) have no power and need to petition their butts off to get anything done, while the dumb brain-dead bimbos (politicians, particularly Republicans) have all the power and then take our ideas as their own?
Just saying.
Bucket89 2028. Get ready for it.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 pmi wanted to hear the percent. his exchange about, yes, donating was too too brief to be all that satisfying. i hope his donation portion is much longer that what he had to say about doing so!
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 pmAm I the only one who thought McClellan was insincere??? I’m sure those in the military certainly appreciate receiving care packages, but come on! Here is a guy, who, for three years collected a salary being the President’s stepandfetchit, audaciously doing his part promoting the lie that killed thousands upon thousands of people. When I think about, for instance, a 19-year-old man in a poor city who had no other opportunity, making a courageous decision to sign up and fight for his country and how McClellan was duplicit in squandering that sincerity of purpose–like it was some sort of joke!–it really makes me sick! But then again I’m sure putting a few care packages together with his wife soothed his conscience somehow. How are we going to know how much of his profit goes to veterans? And who is going to ask and keep asking?
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 amUnless he gives 100% of the book profits, then *he* is profits. (Duh?)
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmRemember, this guy is the master of spin and of vague answers. All he says is that he “intends to”, just like he says that the White House condemns torture, that we are making great progress in Iraq, that he will not discuss ongoing investigations especially if they are ongoing, etc, etc. I think it is better for our troops to get a royalty-free version of the book and send the money saved to a charity.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm“furthermore, i have stipulated that the exact amount and percentage donated will be made fully available to the public exactly 25 years following the date of my eventual passing.”
June 4th, 2008 at 4:03 pmStop going after the paid mouthpiece, he did his job. Lets go for the jugular and stop the cancerous brain. War is not an educated first responder tactic. So long as you keep providing funding for this illegal nation building war, you are part of the problem.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:35 pm