{"id":168,"date":"2006-02-14T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/14\/mcclellans-bushisms\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T00:25:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T05:25:26","slug":"mcclellans-bushisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/14\/mcclellans-bushisms\/","title":{"rendered":"McClellan’s Bushisms…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Everyone is ticked about McClellan’s withholding information. I guess I’m used to that. This<\/strong><\/a> kind of thing is what gets to me:<\/p>\n

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But by the time of Mr. McClellan’s noon briefing, when the press secretary was aware of Mr. Whittington’s downturn but did not disclose it to reporters, his tone was serious, even as he was at times impatient with the persistent questions about the shooting. "If you want to continue to spend time on that, that’s fine," Mr. McClellan said. "We’re moving on to the priorities of the American people."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

That’s the kind of thing that Bush says too. He implies that people who are questioning something he does are being petty and that he’s above all that and the one who is really focused of the public good. I hope we get some really powerful opportunity to set both Bush and McClellan very, very straight on that point.<\/p>\n

While I’m at it, there are pedicted articles coming from both sides of the fence saying "drop this shooting accident story." In the scope of things, they’re right. It’s small compared to the other scandals. But I say "no" not because it’s a way to trash Bu$hCo, but because dropping stories is what got us where we are today. One reason to pusue this one is that there are ways to get information so the Spin can be exposed. With many of their baloney stories, they hold all the cards and the information that leads to the truth is hidden for literally years. Look how long and how much work it’s taken to even slightly penetrate the Plame affair. I say, "drop nothing!" "Damn the torpedos. Full speed ahead." "Take no prisoners!" <\/p>\n

We’ve had enough of these people…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone is ticked about McClellan’s withholding information. I guess I’m used to that. This kind of thing is what gets to me: But by the time of Mr. McClellan’s noon briefing, when the press secretary was aware of Mr. Whittington’s downturn but did not disclose it to reporters, his tone was serious, even as he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}