Scott McClellan takes it all back! He didn’t mean that he believed and repeated a lie, he means that he believed and repeated a lie the President believed and repeated. Yeah, that’s the ticket, the President, yeah.
From MSNBC:
WASHINGTON – Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan does not believe President Bush lied to him about the role of White House aides I. Lewis Scooter Libby or Karl Rove in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity, according to McClellan’s publisher.
Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan’s book in April, tells NBC from his Connecticut home that McCLellan, “Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him.”
Osnos says when McClellan went before the White House press corps in 2003 to publicly exonerate Libby and Rove, the problem was that his statement was not true. Osnos said the president told McClellan what “he thought to be the case.” But, he says, McClellan believes, “the president didn’t know it was not true.”
If your choice of self-portrayal is liar or stooge, why would you even bother to write your memoirs? Oh, yeah, the money.
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