Scott McClellen Suicide Watch

[dandi]

You knew it was coming. The DUmmies are in a masturbatory frenzy over former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new "tell all" tome, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". They've even assumed a first name basis with him now, referring to him as "Scotty".

How endearing.

They're even concerned about his physical well-being, seeing as how so many of the President's detractors have met with horrible fates.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3352633

BrentTaylor  (1000+ posts)       Wed May-28-08 05:14 PM
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1. Sad. The Bush Crime family may do something to him
 
 Ghost in the Machine  (1000+ posts)       Wed May-28-08 05:35 PM
Response to Reply #1
14. It's even sadder that we have reason to *think* they'd do something like that

And what reason might that be? Can you provide one, preferably one that didn't come out of your ass?

Sundoggy  (337 posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:14 PM
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2. He's seemed despondent lately
 After all, only someone seriously mentally disturbed could write such a book. We shouldn't be surprised at anything.
 
 Ilsa  (1000+ posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:16 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. Please, being a relative newbie, you might want to use the sarcasm 
 smilie with a post like that. 
 
 Sundoggy  (337 posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:17 PM
Response to Reply #4
6. Thanks for your concern
 but I have more respect for members' intelligence than that.

You, my friend, are doomed to disappointment.

trueblue2007  (1000+ posts)      Wed May-28-08 09:06 PM
Response to Reply #4
30. I think something "will happen to him"
 He won't kill himself. The criminals will do it.

Mmm hmm. A lot of that going around in the Bush administration.

libodem  (1000+ posts)       Wed May-28-08 06:49 PM
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22. He's sort of a man without a country 
 I couldn't have been nastier about the Puffy McMoon Face comments, back in the day. I do feel he has rather redeemed himself, by telling the truth. I feel less hateful toward him because he did the right thing. He's hoping God won't strike him with the same cancer that ate Tony Snow's guts. Dana Deceiver Perino better stop lying before her tongue turns black and falls out. That's all I can say.

Beneath contempt.

phillysuse  (475 posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:27 PM
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9. Scott McClellan was in a small plane which
 unfortunately was caught in an ice storm and crashed, leaving no survivors.
 
 Idealist Hippie  (1000+ posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:31 PM
Response to Reply #9
12. An investigation is underway to determine why his wrists were slashed and why a parachute ripcord
 Edited on Wed May-28-08 05:33 PM by Idealist Hippie
was found knotted tightly around his neck, just below the three bullet holes in the base of his skull. 
 
 laststeamtrain  (1000+ posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:30 PM
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11. It's a toss-up. Suicide/dead hooker in a motel room/small plane crash--
 Heart attack pill.

Good luck on the book tour, Scotty. I hope you'll be OK.

The thing about criminals is they're criminals. Stay away from them. Maybe too late for you.

Funny how they didn't believe a single word that came out of his mouth while he was working in D.C., but now suddenly he's a paragon of honesty.
 
 
 
 
 
 

[jendf]

If he had worked for one of the Clintons, I would totally agree with the DUmmies. Since so many people with ties to that family died of "apparent suicides."

The Bush family--not so much.

[Rebel]

If he had worked for one of the Clintons, I would totally agree with the DUmmies. Since so many people with ties to that family died of "apparent suicides."

The Bush family--not so much.

Word like a mofo. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

If he had worked for one of the Clintons, I would totally agree with the DUmmies. Since so many people with ties to that family died of "apparent suicides."

The Bush family--not so much.

Took the words right out of my mouth errrr, keyboard.

[Miss Mia]

Scott McClellen Suicide Watch? 

Why?  Did he back stab the Clintons?



 

[Sonnabend]

Save the flames and the insults..I do have one question.

Just how credible is this guy? You know him better than I do...and the question will be asked.

[franksolich]

Save the flames and the insults..I do have one question.

Just how credible is this guy? You know him better than I do...and the question will be asked.

According to National Public Radio--I never pay much attention to press secretaries (remember, both my fellow alum Skins and the Bostonian Drunkard were press secretaries, too)--Scott McClellan dates back to working with George Bush when Bush was governor of Texas.

McClellan is apparently of a jack-of-all trades, a master of none (nothing wrong with that; "generalists" are needed just as much as "specialists") sort of personality.

When Bush became president, he wished to reward those who had been with him, for their loyalty.

Well, what does one do with the "generalist" sort of person?

Give him a general sort of job.

Frankly, I don't recall what most press secretaries, including McClellan, look like.

And, for the record, it needs pointed out that "exposes" of a presidential administration come out near the end of an administration, or shortly thereafter.  There is nothing new in this.

[USA4ME]

Funny how they didn't believe a single word that came out of his mouth while he was working in D.C., but now suddenly he's a paragon of honesty.

Yep.  Self-deceived individuals tend to behave that way.

.

[JohnnyReb]

If you're gonna write a book about President Bush and wish to sell the most books, what you gonna say?

[claret1995]

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Sundoggy  (337 posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:14 PM
Response to Original message
2. He's seemed despondent lately
 After all, only someone seriously mentally disturbed could write such a book. We shouldn't be surprised at anything.
 
 Ilsa  (1000+ posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:16 PM
Response to Reply #2
4. Please, being a relative newbie, you might want to use the sarcasm 
 smilie with a post like that. 
 
 Sundoggy  (337 posts)      Wed May-28-08 05:17 PM
Response to Reply #4
6. Thanks for your concern
 but I have more respect for members' intelligence than that.



 At the dump wouldn't that phrase be an oxymoron

[Chris_]

If you're gonna write a book about President Bush and wish to sell the most books, what you gonna say?

Ari Fleisher (sp?), who was the president's first Press Secy. (and the best in my opinion) wrote a book about the administration as well.  I thought that it was fairly good........

McClellen was Ari's deputy, and took over after he left the WH.......I always thought that McClellen was a limp-wristed wimp during his press conferences......he always seemed to be in way over his head.  President Bush is loyal to his friends and supporters over the years, to a fault, in my opinion.......as a result he has ended up with several people in key posts that have cost him dearly.

I have to admire his loyalty, however......a characteristic that is rarely seen in politics today.....

doc

[TheSarge]

*cough*


Before he wrote his own memoir, White House press secretary Scott McClellan was rather critical of those who did the same.

In fact, some of the same language now being used to trash McClellan he himself used to trash previous administration authors.

On the book critical of the Bush White House written in cooperation with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," McClellan said on January 12, 2004:

McCLELLAN: "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 also took issue with the book by former Bush White House counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke, "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," on March 22, 2004:

McCLELLAN: 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. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book. Certainly let's look at the politics of it. His best buddy is Rand Beers, who is the principal foreign policy advisor to Senator Kerry's campaign. The Kerry campaign went out and immediately put these comments up on their website that Mr. Clarke made. ...

Q: Scott, the whole point of his book is he says that he did raise these concerns and he was not listened to by his superiors.

McCLELLAN: Yes, and that's just flat-out wrong. …When someone uses such charged rhetoric that is just not matched by the facts, it's important that we set the record straight. And that's what we're doing. If you look back at his past comments and his past actions, they contradict his current rhetoric. I talked to you all a little bit about that earlier today. Go back and look at exactly what he has said in the past and compare that with what he is saying today.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/as-scottie-sowe.html

[lastparker]

Here we go again.  24 business hours.... endless DUmp bloviating about indictments.... now this idiot, pointing his well-greased fingers at Cheney and Rove.

but here is the central question:

Who gives a flying CRAP abourt Valerie Plame?  I mean, really?

[stickyboot]

If you're gonna write a book about President Bush and wish to sell the most books, what you gonna say?

You're gonna do a Kitty Kelley smear job and rake in the profits from the libtards who want to hear de bad about de Bushes.

[BlueStateSaint]

Supposedly, Ari Fleischer (again, sp?) said that McClellan told Fleischer that the publisher (owned by George Soros--no bias there, right?) "tweaked" the book, in order to sell more copies.

[franksolich]

There was an interview of the former press secretary on National Public Radio today.

According to the former press secretary, George Bush got all caught up in this idea of bringing a new age to the Middle East, installing freedom and democracy there, and the War for the Liberation of Iraq was part of this idea, the first phase of it.

Well, damn, I think that's an admirable goal, and have always been all for it, bringing freedom and liberty to the oppressed of the world.

I don't know why that goal, that plan, that hope, has been criticized and condemned.

Maybe it's just me.

[Miss Mia]

McClellen is supposed to be on KO's Countdown tonight. 

[dutch508]

There was an interview of the former press secretary on National Public Radio today.

According to the former press secretary, George Bush got all caught up in this idea of bringing a new age to the Middle East, installing freedom and democracy there, and the War for the Liberation of Iraq was part of this idea, the first phase of it.

Well, damn, I think that's an admirable goal, and have always been all for it, bringing freedom and liberty to the oppressed of the world.

I don't know why that goal, that plan, that hope, has been criticized and condemned.

Maybe it's just me.

That is because, Frank, to the leftists, there is never a reason to fight a war.

[Chris_]

There was an interview of the former press secretary on National Public Radio today.

According to the former press secretary, George Bush got all caught up in this idea of bringing a new age to the Middle East, installing freedom and democracy there, and the War for the Liberation of Iraq was part of this idea, the first phase of it.

Well, damn, I think that's an admirable goal, and have always been all for it, bringing freedom and liberty to the oppressed of the world.

I don't know why that goal, that plan, that hope, has been criticized and condemned.

Maybe it's just me.

That is because, Frank, to the leftists, there is never a reason to fight a war.

Well, to be fair, GWB did run in 2000 on the premise that he was opposed to "nationbuilding".......I believe that 9/11 altered his thinking on this concept significantly.....

doc

[dutch508]

There was an interview of the former press secretary on National Public Radio today.

According to the former press secretary, George Bush got all caught up in this idea of bringing a new age to the Middle East, installing freedom and democracy there, and the War for the Liberation of Iraq was part of this idea, the first phase of it.

Well, damn, I think that's an admirable goal, and have always been all for it, bringing freedom and liberty to the oppressed of the world.

I don't know why that goal, that plan, that hope, has been criticized and condemned.

Maybe it's just me.

That is because, Frank, to the leftists, there is never a reason to fight a war.

Well, to be fair, GWB did run in 2000 on the premise that he was opposed to "nationbuilding".......I believe that 9/11 altered his thinking on this concept significantly.....

doc

small possiblity on that, yes. Prior to September 2001 I was thinking I was going to retire in two years.

[delilahmused]

Well, "Scotty" made is bed. When his 5 minutes is over (I don't think he'll even get the full 15) libs will throw him under the bus. Meanwhile, his true friends, who he stabbed in the back, won't want to have anything to do with him. He made his bed.

Cindie

[Chris_]

Well, "Scotty" made is bed. When his 5 minutes is over (I don't think he'll even get the full 15) libs will throw him under the bus. Meanwhile, his true friends, who he stabbed in the back, won't want to have anything to do with him. He made his bed.

Cindie

Precisely....unless MSNBC hires him as a "conservative" commentator.....to give them "balance" doncha know....

doc

[Chris_]

Well, "Scotty" made is bed. When his 5 minutes is over (I don't think he'll even get the full 15) libs will throw him under the bus. Meanwhile, his true friends, who he stabbed in the back, won't want to have anything to do with him. He made his bed.

Cindie

Precisely....unless MSNBC hires him as a "conservative" commentator.....to give them "balance" doncha know....

doc

One thing no society in the history of mankind has ever respected is a traitor.  He will be used to the ends of those who need to do so, but he will not have the respect of his new "friends" and certainly not those he betrayed.

Way to go scottie -- you have made yourself contemptible to everyone.