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Scott McClellan on the Bush administration


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The really disturbing thing was the reaction from a lot of reporters to McClellan's claim that the media was too kind to the Bush administration leading up to Iraq.
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23 responses // Scott McClellan on the Bush administration

  • Another example of why G.W. Bush needs to be impeached.
    sail4life8
  • very intreeding about the white do some more
    joerayborne
  • News anchors are hoping this story will go away because they'd have to admit their media's complicity with the Bushies and resign.
    Rufus_J_Firefly
  • Scott McCellin is a hippie traiter, he should have to go to prision for treason! What GWBjr's goals are to spread democracy all over the planet and spread the word of god.

    John McCain is the only cannidate that will fufill our presidents war on immorality. What we need in these endtimes is a good strong coneretive anti-libaral, non-hippie who holds true to the word of our lord. I really hope WHEN McCain becomes president he lives up to the republican platform and ends abortion, criminalizes gay sex and marrage and stops de-regulasion. We need to invade andor nuke iran and all these terriorists before its too late. This is exacly what the bible pridected would happen if the world fell away from his word. Armegeddon is close at hand we must stop them as a global force and unite christians and live as the word would tell us. and wage war against the non-beilevers and democarats and libarals. "The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked." (Psalms 58:10)

    Dont be talking smack on MY PRESIDENT!
    theholylord
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  • It's a shame you've
    been taken in by
    Satanic forces.

    If you truly believe
    Bush is "on the side of the
    angels";
    you are, at best, delusional.

    Of all the people who
    support Bush and
    the criminals behind him;
    I feel most sorry for folks
    like you who
    may honestly
    believe you're
    supporting God's
    work.

    My prayers are with you.
    May our Lord Jesus Christ
    remove the scales from
    your eyes and purify your
    heart.

    Bush's invasion and
    occupation of Iraq has
    managed to be even
    more, quantitatively,
    evil than the tyrant we
    displaced. We've taken
    Iraq from the frying pan of
    a brutal dictatorship into
    the fire of an exponentially
    more brutal occupation/civil
    war.

    MILLIONS of innocent
    people have been
    killed/displaced.

    What Bush has wrought
    is EVIL!

    What Bush has wrought
    puts a big smile on the
    face of Satan.

    The fact that, ostensibly,
    good Christians like
    yourself have drunk
    the Jim Jones/George
    Bush kool aid is so very sad.

    Put your prideful/egoic
    nature aside and look
    deep into your soul to
    a place where Conscience
    resides. Ask yourself if
    Jesus Christ would really
    approve of the lies and
    horrors that Bush has
    thrust upon the world?

    The facts, history
    and all sane measures
    of Reality weigh in to
    overwhelmingly expose
    Bush as a fool at
    best, and a demonic
    creature at worst.

    Again, my prayers
    are with you.

    PS I've reframed this to try
    to get it all to show....as there
    seems to be a problem with
    this browser reading the
    full text at the edges.
    nilent
  • So much for books about Bush and his administration. McClellan should have had the book out earlier if he really means what he says in the book. Anyway, I just think he got the right subject matter and will pocket all lot of money on the sales of the book. Maybe the best thing he can do is donate the money he earns from the sales to help the Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans. Then I will accept his motivation for writing the book.
    rasting
  • to take responsibility for your actions seems to be one of the biggest downfalls of our society.......the comments I've heard about this book is similar to the statement that "hindsight is 20/20"........why aren't people taking a stand while things are in the process? Is it money that lead people or themselves? Most of us have an instinct that tells us the difference between right and wrong.......we should say something while it's happening.....so that we can figure out the solutions, instead of hiding behind the illusions of grandeur that are presented by leaders who may or may not be the great thinkers that they are put in the positions to be.
    PAINTERGRL
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  • @paintergrl

    Its hard to stand up when you are in the middle of wrong doing. I know that I don't speak up when my boss is doing shifty things.
    Whats worse is that it seems like there was an atmosphere of "speak out and your out" which will motivate most people to just look the other way.

    As for all this, yeah its too little too late. All the Bush antics and poor news reporting of the past 7 years are very clear to anyone who doesn't hold bias against reality.
    DrGlass
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  • Screw your career. Speak up when people around you do bad things. Otherwise you are an enabler and as much at fault as the person who does the bad thing.

    Yes, I have spoken up when my bosses did bad things and was punished for it professionally. I don't regret it for a single moment.

    After all, you have to live with yourself long after you no longer work with those people.

    I have long since been furious with the press being weak on the Bush's administration. Every time the press says, "Oh, we weren't weak on Bush." I just start screaming at the TV or the article I read. I REMEMBER that time frame and screaming then whenever the press asked the most pathetically innane questions.

    The saddest thing was Bush's press secretaries constantly ignore or refuse to answer the most pathetic of soft ball questions. Just listen to the questions they give to Dana Perino. Notice how few she bothers to answer. She often acts as if the reporter insulted Bush personally with that question so each reporter after that seems more reluctant to ask questions.
    beck7422
  • What else is new. The media has always been under the of the White House....and the big coporations. However, my appreciation goes out to people like Scott who has the courage to tell the truth.
    brad01
  • What else is new the media is controlled by the big corporations.
    brad01
  • Courage. brad01? I doubt that you use it in the correct context, i.e., in the same sentence with McClellan's name. The man was a coward, like many more who didn't speak out when it could have made a difference. It's those who were fired for speaking out that have courage...like about 12 Generals!
    wildspirit
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  • Insiders know the best and are the most criticized. I admire those generals but they can't say what this guy can and don't have his unique position. The generals are politicians alike and are bound by contract to not speak out. Cowardly or not I would like to read for myself what was written. The industrial war complex needs testing grounds. 130 divded by 190 equals alot of places to test weapons.
    7c0m9
  • I agree that McClellan should have spoken up while he had the opportunity. Too many people now-days are getting fired from the Bush administration, then coming out with books on how wrong everyone else was, and what their role was in doing wrong, while saying very little about their own wrong doings.

    I'm also hearing a lot of hub-ub about the media going too easy on the administration and allowing people to be mis-informed or mislead and I agree that this is probably the case. But let's be honest here. This isn't the fist time in our nation's history that the public has been lead astray by the government with the media's aid and it wont be the last.

    I've heard enough of this finger pointing, It's time we take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions, this has gone on long enough. I hope that before this administration is through, we have enough gumption and patience left to do a REAL investigation, and hopefully put some people (*cough-bush-cough*) in the hot seat.

    The American people deserve to know the truth about the actions of their leaders and if they're not looking out for the country's best interests, then it's time we get them out of there, like we SHOULD've four years ago.
    squidteeth
  • Dear: 7c0m9

    It would be wonderful to hold the governnment accountable for their actions. However the government and media are run by a small group of elites who have their own agenda and it has little to do with the mass public. Holding government accountable is nothing more then a fantasy just as one believing that we live in a democracy...we do not nor will we ever.
    brad01
  • I think you make a very good point. McClellan's book is a good opportunity for reflection on the part of the media. I remember Dan Rather commenting on how surprised he was that he got caught up in, for example, Colin Powell's testimony about WMD's at the UN.
    ecocollaborative
  • When everyone has an interest in a share of the pie, everyone pulls their own wheel barrel and there is no community effort to solve problems or to seek the truth about issues. And even if someone wanted to seek the truth about a particular issue how does one do that. When the issues are spun by so many different media ect.., It is almost futile. In the end people believe what sounds most truthful to them.
    brad01
  • Dear Joan,
    I am new to this site so pls bear with me, I had to youtube your performance on Hardball on the 27, since I refuse to watch CM and his pal KO.
    You were fantastic!!!!!!!!!!. I am at the point that I do not trust the press any more, (did you realize that the Wash Post has not yet retracted their support of the war).
    I am and I will always be a Democrat but I will be staying home in Nov.

    walter kirby
    North Andover Ma
    wallybux

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