Corn on Scott McClellan’s Future Apology
David Corn does some interesting-to-me rambling in his latest item at his weblog: Sealed Indictments in the Leak Case?/Did Dumb Bush Aides Ensnare Bush in a Cover-up?/Cheers for Bono and U2. One part, in particular, caught my eye, maybe because I’ve been watching a lot of White House press briefings lately, and thinking about the relationship between the White House in general, and McClellan in particular, and the White House reporters.
A White House correspondent who says he likes White House press secretary Scott McClellan, recently shared this observation with me: “It’s sad about Scott. He doesn’t know that one day–maybe soon–he is going to have to come out and say to the press corps about the Plame story, ‘I was lied to, I was deceived, and, thus, I deceived you. I’m sorry.’ Scott doesn’t know this. Everybody else knows this. But he’s loyal. He doesn’t understand that such a day is coming.”
October 21st, 2005 at 7:48 am
I’m sorry, but that day is really not coming, ever.
October 23rd, 2005 at 9:44 am
While I think Mr. Bush is a fine argument for planned parenthood I do give him high marks for loyalty. I never thought I would see the day where I would say I feel sorry for President Bush.
This man who has made anti-intellectualism a seeming virtue has been badly used by his “loyal” subordinates who are anything but. The Vice President makes me pray daily for the continued good health of the bumbling but decent incompetent who sits in the Oval Office. Shame. Shame.
Pearle, Wolfowitz, Krauthammer and Cheney are subverting our constitution and turned Colin Powell; a decent and honorable man into a co-conspirator in their despicable plot…..
I don’t know if Scott is going to make any appology. Once the truth is known if he is an honorable person he will resign.
The President needs to reinvent his administration and purge the disloyal neo-cons who have brought us to disaster.