Get the topic off Obama. Quickly, quickly.

Better to be a sexist than ...

Geez, NOW this closed-mouth putz is talking? Thanks for nothing.

That's some harsh criticism right there boy.

Maybe he isn't a bullshitting, traitorous hack after all. You'll just have to pay him $29.95 to find out.

I'm shocked. Next Dana Perino will let us know she lied in service to the President!

Isn't it always the rats the jump first from a sinking ship?

I always thought that Scott McClellan could use a sound spanking. I'm up for it!

well, we can't all be "hardworking white americans" now can we?

Scott McClellan is quoted as saying, "In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."

Sure it did. In a long interview published by Salon on March 19, 2002, Scott Ritter, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, was quoted as saying, among other things,

"Dr. [Paul] Pillar, the national intelligence officer [for Near East and South Asia] for the CIA, gave a speech at Johns Hopkins two weeks ago and said Iraq does not pose a threat to the United States, especially on a one-on-one basis, that warrants the use of military power in such naked fashion."

http://dir.salon.com/story/people/feature/2002/03/19/ritter/index1.html

On August 6, 2002, Robert Scheer wrote in Salon:

"Bush's claims in the first days after the Sept. 11 tragedy that Iraq was complicit in the disaster have never been backed up by any real evidence."

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/col/scheer/2002/08/06/iraq/index.html

And in a news story published on Nov. 29th, 2001, Eric Boehlert discussed points made by critics of the administration:

"But critics say the calls for Saddam's head, without either hard evidence of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks or support from an international coalition, border on warmongering."

http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/29/war_on_saddam/index.html

The "liberal media" DID expose the lies. Scott McClellan just didn't read it. Pity. A $35 subscription was all it would have taken.

When we do finally get rid of the bogus president and his sycophants, the sewers of Washington DC will finally be opened and we’ll all be reeling from the news.

I guess the job openings for lying sacks of shit is somewhat slow at present. Did you ever for one minute believe one thing he said as press secretary. The Daily Show used to catch him all the time - we just have short memories. He is going to get toasted by Faux news and the like. I already heard the eminent douche bag Tucker Carlson laying into him on MSNBC tonight.

Do you suppose he'll reveal who Guckert-aka-Gannon was spending so much time with after hours in the White House? Scott was certainly always one of the the possibilities there...

I guess even those evil people can only tell lies so long before it wears on their consciences.

but how is their fault that he stood there for years and lied his ass off?

Way too little, way too late. And, of course, not his fault, right?

We can expect the Conservative smear machine to come out in full force. Why does Scott "Hate America"?

He lied in the service of Bush and now he is lying that he didn't know anything. The more things change the more they stay the same.

You seem to think that everyone everywhere is imbued with the holy light of what they entirely believe is a just and noble cause. Maybe it was just a job to him to move on to the next phase of his life. McClellan's and Bush's families go back a long time in Texas politics so they threw little Scotty a bone and gave him a job where all he had to do was read cards. I'm sure it didn't matter in the least whether anyone believed him or not. I remember open laughter from the Press Corps several times at the patently inane things he said. Straight up Iraqi Information Minister silliness.

If someone told me to I could talk shit for a few years and parley that into millions, I would. It's not as if the press ever bothered to go after the story, ever.

You took the money, you kept the money. No get out of jail card for you! (or any former Bush staffers for that matter.)

You did the crime, now do the time.

It's pretty amazing that McClellan has the audacity to blame the media for its inability to report the truth about Iraq before the war began, when he spent the majority of his time during those months misleading the press about those same questions.

Greetings

After those trials hard to find a German soldier...

Thats how it will be here in Amerika, NO ONE will remember whose fault it was or how it happened. The pure dumb amazement summed up: "No one could have forseen"

Go back to your Survior and American Idol nothing to see here, the show is long since over

Enjoy the journey

WarLord

someone mentioned this before i think, before we went to war i remember watching the explanations and justifications being played out by bush and his cronies. their 'analyses' and 'intelligence' were so obviously far from the truth, anyone with basic knowledge of the middle east could have picked them apart. there were plenty of reports out there that correctly pointed out inaccuracies and predicted the quagmire that would unfold (salon had a few of them). but no one wanted to listen and everyone who disagreed was labeled unpatriotic. now people (including senators from new york and arizona) claim that we made the right decision based on the knowledge we had at the time. these are the people in whom we trust to keep us safe.

Scott McClellan is a spin doctor. That's what he does. Whether what he says is true or not is irrelevant in that context. Spin doctors spend their lives finding the best angle to achieve popularity. How much money is there in a book deal extolling the virtues of President Bush? How much money is there in being, to borrow from another Right-Winger-cum-hars-critic-of-conservatives, "blinded by the right?" David Brock spent years trading in the lowest kind of political sewage, but when the money dried up he seized the moment, as any capitalist would, and found a new career in a different sewer. So, McClellan's done the same. Can we blame him? And better yet, has he given us any reason to believe him?