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To: SilentZ who wrote (359828)	11/21/2007 6:55:49 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1574599

talkingpointsmemo.com Publisher Of McClellan Book: Scottie Won't Implicate Bush For Lying About Plamegate, After All November 21, 2007 -- 1:35 PM EST // // Oh, this is just lovely. The publisher of the forthcoming book by former White House flack Scott McClellan is now walking back the idea that the book will finger President Bush for knowingly misleading McClellan about Plamegate, saying that if Bush did mislead him, he didn't do so deliberately. As you may have heard, yesterday the news broke that McClellen was set to publish new details about Plamegate, in which he suggested that he would reveal that he was misled by Bush himself about Karl Rove and Scooter Libby's role in outing Valerie Plame. The book's publisher, Public Affairs, yesterday posted this tantalizing excerpt from the book on its site: The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. 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. The suggestion here is very strong that McClellan was preparing to implicate Bush for knowingly misleading him about Plamegate in some way. Understandably, this was greeted as huge news, and generated a massive media firestorm. 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. Oh, well. It was fun while it lasted.

To: SilentZ who wrote (359828)	11/21/2007 7:22:44 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1574599

There is no recession. Only democrat pundit talking points.

To: SilentZ who wrote (359828)	11/21/2007 7:29:44 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574599

Z, > Bushies want to lower taxes all the time, no matter what. You can push the myth that lower taxes is what caused this "mess" in the first place, but that would be oversimplistic at best, ignorant at worst. > There's been a recession... just not for rich people, which is the way we measure things. I drive a Beamer, you drive a Lexus. Are we "rich"? Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (359828)	11/24/2007 2:02:52 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1574599

Did you find a link to your alleged US recession yet?

To: SilentZ who wrote (359828)	11/24/2007 7:53:06 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574599

Really...I'm not rich and I haven't seen any sign of a recession....got a link?