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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: freelyhovering who wrote (68922)5/28/2008 6:46:43 AM
From: Ron  Read Replies (1) of 542528
 
It is significant that the book comes out this early, while the administration is still in office, and before the general election. I see the actual release date is June 2nd.

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception (Hardcover)

One has a hard time imagining anything like the following coming from a Ron Ziegler (Nixon)or a Marlin Fitzwater (Reagan)
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The mild-mannered former press secretary pulls no punches in his new book, according to the Washington Post account of it:

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 going to war."

And then there's this:

The book, coming from a man who was a tight-lipped defender of administration aides and policy, is certain to give fuel to critics of the administration, and McClellan has harsh words for many of his past colleagues. He accuses former White House adviser Karl Rove of misleading him about his role in the CIA case. He describes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as being deft at deflecting blame, and he calls Vice President Cheney "the magic man" who steered policy behind the scenes while leaving no fingerprints.

It would have been nice if he had told us some of this at the time, back when we were paying his salary.

time-blog.com

washingtonpost.com
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