scott mclellan resigns

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...DEVELOPING...

― -+-++--+, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Wow! Who'd have thought!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8H344FO3.html

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Looking around a room full of aides who like him have worked there since the inception of the Bush presidency, Bolten said that any who expected to move on by the end of the year should do so immediately, according to McClellan.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

waiter disgusted by the smell of food, ill miss u :,(

― -+--+-++-, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

hello
http://www.foxnews.com/tonysnowradio/images/300_400_snow5.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

boo! he was the perfect mouthpiece for bush, a stammering, sweaty loser who turned bright red when tossed any but the softest of balls.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

"One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days," Mr Bush said.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

right before scott barfs all over trent lott's porch

― -+-+++--, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

where will they find another shifty-eyed flack who always looks like he's about to puke?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

directions to find another shifty-eyed pukey flack:

1) walk out white house
2) cross street
3) pick first person you see in suit
4) hire immediately

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

http://villagevoice.com/music/blogs/riffraff/

― -++-+++, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

One of the things that makes me think I'm going insane is that whenever I read Scott McClellan's name I imagine him in casual, "around the house" clothes, which I don't think I've ever actually seen a picture of.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Hey, sup. Welcome to Casa de McClellan. Want a pizza bagel? Check it out, the Masters tournament's on. Pull up a chair, you're safe here.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Khaki shorts and a braided belt.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Oakleys.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.yankeepotroast.org/images/birkenstocks.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was thinking either that or Tevas.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Whatever. A press spokesman caught out-and-out lying to the press and he sticks around for, what, another year? With that kind of judgment at the top, what does it matter who's in this chair?

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Pink Lacoste polo shirt.

(XPOST!)

― Dan (Tevas) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:48 (twenty years ago)

i thought mclellans beef was that he thought cheney & rove were telling him the truth when he repeated their constant stream of lies

― -+--++-+-, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

also apparently nobody debriefed him re: libby til like 5 minutes before shit went down - hilarious

― -+--++-+-, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

'alright scotty heres whats up, cheney just shot a guy in the face, the press've known about it for 2 days but we're just lettin you in on it, now go out there and give em hell!'

― -+--++-+-, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

No one on the right is shedding tears either. John Podheretz in The Corner:

Not to hit a guy when he's down, but...thank God.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 19, 2006

Personnel Announcement

President George W. Bush today announced that he has named Joel D. Kaplan to serve as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. In this role, Mr. Kaplan will be responsible for the policy development process in the White House. He will work closely with the four policy councils and the Cabinet agencies to provide the President with the best possible advice on all policy matters.

"Joel Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect, and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes. He is well-respected in the Cabinet and White House, and he will help me and Chief of Staff Josh Bolten develop policies that meet our Nation's priorities and needs. I appreciate his continued service to our country," President Bush stated.

Mr. Kaplan has served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget since he was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to that position in 2003. He previously served as Special Assistant to the President in the Office of the Chief of Staff. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kaplan was a law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States and for Judge Michael Luttig on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He served for four years in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Kaplan is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Mr. Kaplan will join Joe Hagin and Karl Rove as Deputy Chiefs of Staff to the President in the Office of Chief of Staff Josh Bolten. Joe Hagin has served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff since January 2001. Karl Rove has served as Assistant to the President, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Senior Advisor since 2005, and he served as Senior Advisor from 2001 through 2005.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thecomedystore.com/images/kaplan.jpg

"SO CLOSE!!!"

― Dan (Welcome Back) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

"Gabe Kaplan is a man of great talent, intellect, and experience who possesses a deep knowledge of policy and budget processes. He is well-respected in James Buchanan High Scool, and he will help me and the rest of the sweathogs develop policies that meet our Nation's priorities and needs. I appreciate his continued service to our country. Up your nose with a rubber hose," President Barbarino stated.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha

― -+-+-+-+, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

omg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

awwww, i was kinda hoping to see scotty's head explode one day just cuzza the sheer amount of crap he has spewed over time. i could have sworn he had almost reached that point of no return where the amount of lies you tell results in some form of spontaneous combustion. (dubya immune natch cuzza pact with devil)

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Every press secretary lies for his president or transmits the president's lies; that's his job. But Scotty always seemed like a nice kid with neither the acting prowess nor sheer force of personality that the job requires.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

they should get andy richter to replace him.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

whoa

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

blogsome!

― DOQQUN (donut), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

like i was saying

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I hate to bring out this ol cranky talking skeleton mask out of the closet, but given that, within the past two years, I've seen a a same-sex civil rights bill in Washington state defeated due to a Democrat who renounced homosexuality as "a sin", and saw the bill pass the following year because a Republican named Finkelmeyer flip-flopped in order to seem more moderate than his moderate Republican challenger in the upcoming race, and all of Maria Cantwell's various connections with slimy Idaho right-wingers...

..with Democrats like these, who needs heroes, etc.

― DOQQUN (donut), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

("heroes" to the GOP, that is)

― DOQQUN (donut), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah but Doqqun the Dems pay occasional lip service to progressive values, so they're way "better" - it's not like any of them voted in favor of the invasion of Iraq or anything

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

because there was, like, lots of other stuff they could have done the last few years.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

also, they could have stopped the war

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb I always forget, are you of the opinon that the Dems we've got are actually pretty good & are doin' the best they can, etc, or do you share my opinion that none of them are worth two shits in a bag?

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

here we gooooo

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 22 April 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

hi Tommy. yes.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 April 2006 03:30 (twenty years ago)

They are good politicians, but damned if I can find barely any on either side of the spectrum enough to make something worthwhile happen at all.

I thought the 2000 election would be the pinnacle of malaise, but 2008 is seeming to promise Malaise Deluxe.

― DOQQUN (donut), Saturday, 22 April 2006 04:59 (twenty years ago)

do we have a senate 2006 thread?

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 22 April 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/27/in-scalding-memoir-mcclelland-calls-dc-press-corps-too-deferential/

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

If anything, the national press corps was probably TOO deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to... Iraq.

what a strange quote. the only question i can imagine provoking it is "was the press corps deferential enough to you and the bush administration in the run-up to the iraq war?"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

as a press sec his line of thinking is probably "i wanted them to deferential, but i was like, come on guys, this is just fucking ridiculous"

― deeznuts, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

Rove: if McClellan had such moral qualms, he should have spoken out, lol. Where have I heard that one before?

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

whitehouse press secretaries have to be the most pitiful motherfuckers in the whole universe

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

i think WH press secys who tell us when rove and libby took a meeting and what the potus said about coke are kinda awesome

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

yah its fun and all but plz blatant ass covering

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/28/mcclellan.book/index.html :

Fox News contributor and former White House adviser Karl Rove said on that network Tuesday that the excerpts from the book he's read sound more like they were written by a "left-wing logger" than his former colleague.

― jermainetwo, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Paul Bunyan, IWW member

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://dawnsearlylight.blogs.com/graphics/Monty_Python_lumberjack.jpg

― jermainetwo, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/23830/thumbs/r-MACBUSH-huge.jpg

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

McClellan's mommy is not very popular with the Texas GOP, as I understand it.

― milo z, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

OMG his piggy little features inside that expanse of subcutaneous face fat.

― suzy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Some kind of freaking genius cropped those two photos. Bush is a Mike Luckovich cartoon come to life.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

im wondering if theres any sort of acknowledgment of guilt or apology in this book - or does he just leave it all on bushs doorstep - cause plz if yr gonna complain abt propaganda

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z13EVD50L.jpg

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hypnomedia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEL_hndb0kA

― StanM, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Tags: puzzled

― jeff, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Ari Fleischer, 'human pinata.'

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 June 2008 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

he has the kernel of a chewed up butt of a half-truth; a funny thing happened on the way from the briefing room to the nightly news, not that he needs to be told that. i wonder why he even bothered writing this.

― tremendoid, Monday, 9 June 2008 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

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