Scottie's so-called Plamegate revelation was just another cheap political stunt by the Bushies

[ProSense]

Publisher Of McClellan Book: Scottie Won't Implicate Bush For Lying About Plamegate, After All

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But a day later, the publisher has now clarified in a new interview what the book is actually going to tell us about the President's role in this. Check out this little nugget buried in Bloomberg News' new piece on this whole affair:

McClellan doesn't suggest that Bush deliberately lied to him about Libby's and Rove's involvement in the leak, said Peter Osnos, founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan's memoir next year.

"He told him something that wasn't true, but the president didn't know it wasn't true," Osnos said in a telephone interview. "The president told him what he thought to be the case."

Sorry, suckers. It looks like McClellan will actually exonerate Bush for his role in Plamegate. But yesterday McClellan and his publisher posted a carefully selected excerpt designed to persuade everyone that he was going to implicate the President in it. Note the weaselly way the original statement says that Bush was "involved" in McClellan's misleading of the public.

It's very hard not to conclude that McClellan and his publisher deliberately played the media for chumps with the too-cute-by-half excerpt they posted yesterday. And it worked.

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Another cheap political stun by the criminal Bush gang.

[notadmblnd]

1. I'm still not buying the book

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Everything they do and say should be assumed to be a crock of crap until proven otherwise.

[zabet]

3. To play the Bushco circus,

ya gotta be able to back-peddle
and spin.

[spanone]

4. i think you're right...hook, line & sinker. karl is never far away.

[DemGa]

5. I suspected it might be a distraction from something else

Now I'm leaning toward, it's just a big FU from the Bushies.

[eleny]

6. A stunt like : "Hey everybody- Watch me do this!"

This one is not good for the Republican Party. Mark my words, the Wilson's and others will keep it alive.

This whole deal is like Marley's ghost who comes back to visit rattling chains and invoking doom.

[bdamomma]

7. so let's implicate Cheney and go right up the chain.

I will not buy his book either.

[OHdem10]

8. Do you not think most people believe all those persons

were involved in Plamegate before McClelland's revelation. Even
though there was no proof the circumstantial evidence was clear.



This is par for the course as to how they operate.

[VP505]

9. It may well

be that someone is playing games, but perhaps calling for a Grand Jury investigation into all the conflicting stories would help to clear up who said and or did what.

[LeftHander]

10. BUSH LIED! Why is that so hard to understand?

Bush Cheney and scooter and rove tried to cover it up....

That is why McClellan quit....

Who would want to work for some one that lies to you...?

You see we know know WHY the President never went under oath in the grand jury...neither did Dick...

They were only interviewed....but now...we find that it is very possible THEY LIED to Fitz...during the investigation...that...is a felony.

[aquart]

11. Again, the question is HOW DOES MCCLELLAN KNOW WHAT HE KNOWS?

How does he know he didn't tell the truth? How does he know the President didn't know HE didn't tell the truth? I'm sure the book was artfully written by 20 lawyers, but I want to know what McClellan will say under oath before a grand jury.

[truth2power]

14. I think Scotty is being hoist by his own petard. Funny, that!..

While doing the breakfast dishes this morning, that exact thought occurred to me. If he didn't know at the time that what he was saying wasn't true, but he knows now that it wasn't true, then how did he find out, between then and now, that it wasn't true?

Someone must have told him, because, to my knowledge there hasn't been anything in the public domain (you know, a public confession or something) to change the alleged facts of the matter. This makes no sense at all!

Soooo....the most reasonable conclusion one can draw is that HE KNEW FROM THE GIT-GO! Sheesh!!! I don't think Snotty Scotty is all that bright. :dunce:

[global1]

12. So If * Is Sticking By The Story That He Was Lied To Wouldn't He Be Pissed......

enough to let Scooter fry instead of commuting his sentence?

This is just a cover story to save *'s ass here. He knew. He knew he knew when he said he would fire whomever was involved in his administration. At the same time he was telling Scotty to lie to the American people.

Again - if * later found out that he was deceived by one of his own people - surely someone would have paid for that. The fact that all the people that Scotty mentions in his book are all doing ok - says to me that * was involved.

[DemGa]

13. Yes, I agree

Why would Shrub protect people who lied to him? No, this stench goes all the way to the top.

[librechik]

15. president didn't know he conveyed lies? Who told him what to say to Scotty?

didn't that "unknown person" ( rhymes with fuck me, sorta) know he was lying?

Worst publicity stunt ever.