Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan is doing the Texas Two-Step.
In an excerpt from McClellan’s new book, “What Happened,” released Monday on the publisher’s web site, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were “not involved” in the leak involving operative former CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame.
“There was one problem. It was not true. I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff and the president himself.”
But now, McClellan’s publisher, Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, says the quotes and the book itself are untrue.
McClellan, “Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him.” Osnos said the president told McClellan what “he thought to be the case.” But, he says, McClellan believes, “the president didn’t know it was not true.”
Isn’t this reversal reminiscent of the Kitty Kelley book, The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, in which Kelly, after interviewing more than 150 subjects, revealed that at Yale, George Bush was known as “Lips Bush” because he was the fraternity cocksucker? Shortly after the publication of the book, the author also danced the Texas Two-Step and backed off the revelation.
Which brings us back to Scott McClellan. Did the Bush family mafia threaten him with injury or worse if he didn’t back off the revelation that Bush was involved in the outing of Valerie Plame? After all, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has yet to close up his investigation of the matter. If Bush lied Fitzgerald about his involvement in the Plame matter, the president has opened himself up to charges of suborning perjury.
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Scotty either got some spine for a few days then got scared or he was told the Bush syndicate was after him.
Either way Scotty and Bush are both guilty and should be jailed.
I think Scotty was instructed to shut up. If he wanted to see his 40th birthday.
You see, the charges in his book — that George Bush was involved in outing Valerie Plame meant, Bush he lied to Patrick Fitzgerald.
The Bush dynasty functions like an uber-version of the Sopranos.
For a publisher to do a 180′ like this and issue a statement claiming a presumably vetted manuscript contained factually incorrect information after excerpts were released to the public, tells me all the Bush operatives are absolutely responsible for the retraction.
They say Reagan was the “teflon” president. The cabal surrounding George Bush are engaged in revisionist history while he’s still in office.
Poor little Scotty.
Even as a private citizen, George Bush is pulling his strings like that chubby puppet he is and always will be.
I’m waiting for the day and the former member of Bush’s cabinet to just come clean and reveal the truth. If they’re threatened, so public, hold a press conference and let everyone know about it. This family isn’t like the mob — they’re nothing more than schoolyard bullies who will retreat when they’re bitchslapped.
When you have a whole family that belongs to an organization bent on total economic, political and religious domination of the whole planet through wars, genocide, lies, theft of natural resources and manufactured religious crusades that benefits just an inbred class of neo-monarchists, would you expect them to do otherwise?
They were on this like flies on garbage!
Great story and great picture.
Finally, there’s a useful purpose for Bush’s lopsided mouth.
I think Dad hit the nail on the proverbial head.
The Bush klan are in-breed, elitist, Monarchists and since they print the money, they don’t have to adhere to the same rules of society the rest of us must adhere to, inorder to survive.
We’re here to serve them — make no mistake about it.
Frightening a publisher is small accomplishment for a “dynasty” like the Bushes.
You might enjoy reading this.
‘Dynasty of Death:’ Historical Perspective on the Bush Family
There is no historic parallel that can be drawn, nothing compares with the accomplishments of the Bush family. No dictator or tyrant can equal the suffering and destruction they have wrought on humanity, as they are not mere tyrants themselves, but the makers and breakers of tyrants, the organizers and profiteers of war and death.
They are not alone and solely responsible for creating the present day military industrial complex, however since 1915 the Bush family has been directly involved in World War One and Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, numerous CIA secret wars, the Gulf War, and now a “Never Ending War”.
The past four generations of this one family have had a hand in promoting and profiting from most of major wars that America has waged since the beginning of the industrialized age.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=EBB20061022&articleId=3558
Excellent link, Jade East.
Thanks much. There is no more evil family on the planet than the Bush family. They’re like a cancer feeding on humanity.
It is scary to think how much power Bush and his cronies seem to have. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was threatened.
It could be the Bush family, or it could have been a ploy to generate buzz and increase book sales. Either way, Scottie is pathetic.
The day Scott McClellan decided to tell the truth by penning this book about his former boss was the day his life was put in jeopardy. McClellan was around this family for years. He knows how terrifying they are and the rule of law doesn’t apply to them. He’s lucky he wasn’t found face down in a ditch somewhere in rural Virginia.
Sometimes one picture really IS worth a thousand words!
Yes, I’m sure Scott “had a revelation” when the Bush goons came knocking at the door. And no doubt the book publisher had a few ominous phone calls and in-person visitors worthy of an “X-Files” episode.
He was probably threatened with a lot more than his own life–probably the lives of his wife and children, parents, etc.