Jeff Gannon, former White House reporter, believes the following statement released yesterday from former White House spokesman Scott McClellan was “cherry-picked” by his publisher, and could prove to be misleading: “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.”
“This tantalizing bit seemed to have the intended effect judging from the volume and trajectory of spittle emanating from the mouth of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews,” writes Gannon today. “Visions of the Fitzmas that never came surely danced in the heads of David Shuster and Keith Olbermann. Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd predictably recited the Watergate mantra, calling on the new Attorney General to launch an investigation to determine the extent of any cover up and ‘what the President knew and when he knew it.’”
Gannon brings up a March 6, 2007 Larry King interview with McClellan to bolster his claim: Read more…
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With George W. Bush’s former press secretary Scott McClellan dolling out heaps of blame after apparently having been tricked into lying to the press about the Valerie Plame affair, the twisted folks over at 23/6 take a look back at some other wild White House spokesmen allegations. For instance, they ask which White House press secretary once said of his boss, “He may have been a son of a bitch, but he was a colossal son of a bitch”? Well, they were all sons of bitches, so that’s a tough one. But we digress. Click 