"To err is human, to forgive, divine" Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism. 1711 McClellan and His Media Collaborators No sooner had Bush’s ex-press secretary (now author) Scott McClellan accused President Bush and his former collaborators of misleading our country into Iraq than the squeals of protest turned into a mighty roar. I’m not talking […]
Yesterday, the Global Warming Report was released by the Cheney White House [under court order]. They’d withheld it from publication because… Well, you know why. It’s dated 2008, but it’s been ready since 2004. Here are a few screen captures. You don’t even need the legends under the figures to see that it’s plenty grim. […]
"To err is human, to forgive, divine" Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism. 1711 What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan has certainly captured our attention these last few days. Even though most of us haven’t read the book, we still attack and defend it with great […]
Out of the loop, loop, loop… By Devilstower Richard Clarke accused the Bush administration of ignoring warnings on terrorism. "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he’s done such great things about terrorism," Clarke said in a "60 Minutes" interview on the book with CBS. "He ignored […]
Arianna Huffington: In What Happened, Scott McClellan offers withering portraits of George Bush and Karl Rove, confirms we went to war in Iraq under false pretenses, and that we were serially lied to about the outing of Valerie Plame. Interesting stuff, Scott. But about five years too late. How many times are we going […]
I admit it. Katie Couric was the worst interviewer I ever watched. Watching her interview someone was like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. She always seemed more into herself and her questions than in how the person responded. Her interviews always sounded like a couple who would be getting a divorce within the next […]
Okay, I retract my last post’s harshness. It was a gut-reaction. I just remember being so disappointed watching Scott McClellan back in the Valerie Plame days, and the N.S.A. Domestic Spying days, and the Iraq War days, being dumbfounded at what came out of his mouth. As I’ve reviewed my mental images of his Press […]
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for […]
For the hearty among us, there are two takes on the Torture issue to chew over. First comes Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s Commencement Address at the Boston College Law School. He describes a historical cycle of aggressiveness and timidity in the world of our intelligence communities, and he uses Jack Goldsmith‘s book, The Terror Presidency, […]
It looks lonely to me – Mars. The scientists are ecstatic that the Phoenix landed and is functional. It’s got a baby back-hoe attached to start digging, looking for water [ice] under the surface. There’s something kind of neat about a 420 Million dollar back-hoe digging for ice on Mars. As special an accomplishment as […]