Hi, I'm Scott McClellen, and I hate myself. I'm a liar and I work for even bigger liars -- liars who are evil and who want to destroy the world. I loathe myself so much that I drink myself into a stubor every night. I eat three pizzas a day. Look at how I'm so bloated now, my God, I'm such a fat fuck.

I so wish I could spend my days answering softball questions from Jeff Gannon -- you know, the Hot Army Stud who has such nice soft balls himself. He was getting the high hard one from Karl Rove, and I might have had a piece of Hot Army Stud myself -- how do you think he got into the White House 100 times? Certainly not because of his writing!

I hate myself so much. Anyway, I'll just keep on lying to the public because I need to keep my excuse for a job. I can't sleep at night. I have to go drink some Jack Daniels now. Perhaps I'll have some with George.

Every time I think I can't be shocked by this administration's flagrant disregard for any rules but it's own, they somehow manage to up the ante. Not only does this situation seem to represent a complete disregard for the truth, but strategically it makes no sense. Why can't Scott McClellan just stand up today and say "I meant to say 'inaccurate'". People have slips of the tongue all of the time, and, sadly, we'd all forget about it by next week. Even in the video, McClellan's voice is hard to make out over a fairly insistent questioner.

Instead, we have leadership so fundamentally unwilling to ever admit a mistake that they'll subvert the process and change the rules for even the smallest detail. Having a President willing to subvert the Democratic process to win an election, while despicable, at least revolves around stakes we can all understand. Having a President willing to subvert our most fundamental freedoms to avoid having an aide be misquoted (or quoted correctly in a mildly embarrassing light) is truly terrifying.

"Their comment is a little bit bit incongruous." Is that another way of saying "They're liars."?

Just asking...

And kudos to CQ Editor David Rapp for sticking to his guns and refusing to change their record of the press briefing.

Fat people are evil.

How can we push for this to be corrected?

I tried calling the White House press office - and got through to them on the second try - but they only speak to members of the media.

It's difficult for a citizen to get an answer from the White House.

It's outrageous for them to falsify the record - I watched the video, and there is no indication McClellan said what the White House claims.

I'm going to call my Congressman next.

""It doesn't jive with what we have." The speaker's usage here should be jibe, not jive. As it is, the statement contradicts itself. Otherwise, it is a great story!

I'm proud of those who stuck to their guns and didn't change the wording, despite requests from the White House. I'm also pleased to see this being covered on Salon...as it was in a few smaller blogs over the past day or so and I worried this would never make it out.

I'm still haunted by the worry that the mainstream press will never cover this. What can be done to make enough noise to get this out there?

I realize this is viewed by many as just a small mishap relative to the much larger ethical and legal concerns the administration is dealing with, but it is indicative of the administration's desire to alter facts to fit their own reality. This particular brand of deception is inherent in everything the administration has done to date and is why we are in the mess we're in.

More disconcerting -- the press corps seems willing to let them run unchecked. Why?

I just checked on both my computers and it ain't Real Player that's malfunctioning. With every other briefing I've checked, you get the Real Player controls which make it easy to fast forward or rewind a particular briefing. The October 31 briefing is the only one I've found where the control panel does not work. Can anyone else check on this and see what the results are? I'd like to smell something fishy, like the fact that the White House doesn't want people listening over and over again to that briefing, but I'd like to be sure it's not just my malfunctioning computers.

When you have controlled the message for as long as the majority party has to date, you reach a point where you believe you not only control the message, but reality itself.

Witness the story above.

Videotape evidence shows what Mr. McClellan said. Two other sources reported it accurately. The White House heard it differently.

A room full or reporters and a videocamera have it one way, they have it another. And just by the force of the bully pulpit, the White House believes it can "make its own reality," to paraphrase a neocon comment.

This is what has brought this group to its collective knees at this moment in time. A belief that is not only cannot make a mistake, but when it does make one, it can change the record, rewrite the history books, retell the story as it SHOULD have been, not how it WAS.

This is not the Vatican, or the Papacy. This is an admiinistration that, when faced with its own errors, does not say "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtian," but "Pay no attention to the reality of what is siad and done. We will define your world."

I say no.

I didn't have any problems with Real Player letting me go forward and backward about 100 times. However, I still can't tell what he said. To be fair, he is shaking his head while he's saying whatever it is he's saying -

I looked at the video Thursday night swedish time (6 hours ahead of Eastern) and then the controls worked. I used them to confirm over and over that McClelland did say "That's accurate".

Now when I try, 24 hours later, the controls are indeed gone.

The White House thus chose to make this alteration in the last 24 hours.

This is so spooky. The White house is not afraid of lying ever so

obviously, even in the face of evidence on their own home page.

I have tried to download the clip, but it is not possible.

So if they change the video too, how can we prove it ?

Deeply worried

Bjorn Akerman

Goteborg, Sweden.