http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3356219Oh my.
The Bostonian Drunkard:
WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 07:56 AM
Original message
Call me cynical, but I'm calling 'Bullshit' on McClellan's little sob story.
First paragraph from a WaPo story about how McClellan's colleagues were floored by his statements and new book:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/28/AR2008052803041.html?hpid=topnews
Scott McClellan was the ultimate Bush loyalist. He went to work for George W. Bush when he was Texas governor in 1999, helped Bush gain the White House in 2000, and then came to Washington to defend the president for the next six years on such issues as the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
...more...
And a little background from Wikipedia:
Born in Austin, Texas, McClellan is the youngest son of Carole Keeton Strayhorn, former Texas State Comptroller and former 2006 independent Texas gubernatorial candidate, and attorney Barr McClellan. McClellan's brother Mark McClellan headed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and formerly was Commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration. McClellan is the grandson of the late W. Page Keeton, longtime Dean of the University of Texas School of Law and renowned expert in tort law.
After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, where he was president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Texas Alpha Chapter, McClellan was the three-time campaign manager for his mother. In addition, he worked on political grassroots efforts and was the Chief of Staff to a Texas State Senator.
Karen Hughes, Governor Bush's communications director, hired McClellan to be Bush's deputy press secretary. McClellan served as Governor Bush's traveling press secretary during the 2000 Presidential election. McClellan became White House Deputy Press Secretary in 2003. McClellan replaced Ari Fleischer, who stepped down as White House Press Secretary on July 15, 2003. McClellan announced his resignation as Press Secretary on April 19, 2006. Many newspapers at the time reported that McClellan was forced to resign due to the Valerie Plame issue and handling of Hurricane Katrina relief. On April 26, it was announced that Fox News pundit Tony Snow would succeed him in the position.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_mcclellan
So let me see if I've got this straight.
His MOTHER was a serious player in Texas politics. He was her campaign manager THREE TIMES in TEXAS ELECTIONS.
His FATHER is a lawyer in Texas.
His BROTHER is also involved in both TEXAS and FEDERAL government, and his GRANDFATHER was a reknowned expert on tort law.
So HIS WHOLE IMMEDIATE FAMILY is heavy into law, politics and government in Texas, going back three generations.
He himself was a state Senator's Chief of Staff, in a state where the congress has more constitutional power than the governor.
KAREN FREAKIN' HUGHES hired him on to be Press Secretary for the 2000 campaign, and then for the Office of the President...and she's a goddam hammerhead shark...d'ya think she'd let an innocent, credulous, trusting little lamb become the mouthpiece for the whole show?
He was fooled by their lies and duplicity, he says on TV today. "So bad, I trusted Bush's rhetoric from 2000, and I was just so misled."
Um...BULLSHIT.
He was raised in a family of Texas players, worked for more players, and was sharp enough to get hired on to be pretty much the most important PR flack in the galaxy. He dealt with Cheney and the rest during the campaign, and long afterwards.
He wasn't duped, or fooled...unless he lied to himself.
The guy on your TV is trying to bullshit his way out of Hell, I think. I don't buy it for one stinking second.
I think it's safer to call the Bostonian Drunkard drunk.
The sleazeball skumbag primitive is the first to chime in:
IanDB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 08:02 AM
Response to Original message
1. I think Scotty has some kind of verbal abuse fetish. He came out with the book because he missed...all the public humiliation.
I don't think he cared then-- or cares now-- about what the truth is, or was.
He just wants to be able to stand in front of a microphone and be abused until he's had enough to go home and spank himself silly.
ogsbee (102 posts) Thu May-29-08 09:59 AM
Response to Reply #1
38. If your enemy provides you with inside truths, do you turn your nose up at it?
Or do you use it in the fight for truth and justice?
IanDB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 10:25 AM
Response to Reply #38
44. Oh, I agree we should use it.
meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 08:05 AM
Response to Original message
2. I think all of us are calling 'Bullshit' on this one Will
And so goes, pretty much, the rest of the bonfire on Skins's island.
sfexpat2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 04:22 PM
Response to Reply #46
59. How was he screwed in any way? He was their liar, that was his job.
Hmmmmmm.....aw, never mind.
And then we get a nice little bouncy:
Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 04:46 PM
Response to Reply #45
64. I call MAJOR BULLSHIT on the dubya and Karen scenario. MAJOR BULLSHIT!
I lived in Texas during 1981-1996. I knew (intimately) persons involved (heavily) in the Texas Republican Party. After Clinton defeated bush*1 and Anne Richards was elected governor, I chided my Republican friend that the bush* family was banished from DC and hopefully from politics. My friend--with a smile on this face--informed me that Anne Richards would be a one-term wonder and another bush would sit in the White House and first would be the next Texas governor. I almost peed my pants when he told me the fix was in, and George W. would be the next Texas Governor and then the next bush* in the White House.
My friends father worked for Rainwater and the Bass Family. Their connections were impeccable, as was their "information."
I think Freud would find it intriguing, that the ratting primitive put "information" inside quotation marks.
sfexpat2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 04:10 PM
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57. I'm with you, Will. Anyone who believes this guy needs to come see my showroom full of bridges.
Hmmmmm.....major major major subconscious slip on the part of Doug's ex-wife, but never mind.....
