McClellan Transcript--Q: What is his problem?...what the hell is going on?

[truthpusher]

WOW...

Link w/Video: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050718-2.html

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan
James S. Brady Briefing Room
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Press Briefing
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1:04 P.M. EDT
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(snip)

Q Is leaking, in your judgment of his interpretation, a crime?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'll leave it at what the President said.

Go ahead.

Q What is his problem? Two years, and he can't call Rove in and find out what the hell is going on? I mean, why is it so difficult to find out the facts? It costs thousands, millions of dollars, two years, it tied up how many lawyers? All he's got to do is call him in.

MR. McCLELLAN: You just heard from the President. He said he doesn't know all the facts. I don't know all the facts.

Q Why?

MR. McCLELLAN: We want to know what the facts are. Because --

Q Why doesn't he ask him?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'll tell you why, because there's an investigation that is continuing at this point, and the appropriate people to handle these issues are the ones who are overseeing that investigation. There is a special prosecutor that has been appointed. And it's important that we let all the facts come out. And then at that point, we'll be glad to talk about it, but we shouldn't be getting into --

Q You talked about it to reporters.

MR. McCLELLAN: We shouldn't be getting into prejudging the outcome.

more: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050718-2.html

complete transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050718-2.html

[sniffa]

1. what the fuck is your probLem scooter!?

:rofl:

nominated too.

[TahitiNut]

14. George W. Bush: "Soft On Crime (in the White House)"

:shrug: The Chimperor finally got his marching orders from Cheney ... through Karl Rove.

[SpiralHawk]

21. Geroge W. Bush: Soft on treason

and, as usual, AWOL when the nation needs direction and leadership.

[damntexdem]

22. Well, sure, he's soft on treason, but that's not the issue:

he's still waiting to see whether the treason is a crime. ;-)

And like the sound of one hand clapping, is treason a crime if the president pardon's the perpetrator, and keeps him on as chief of staff? ;-)

[uppityperson]

2. He can't ask him until the investigation is over? wtf?

If Mr.bush were to ask Karl, he might get an answer. Oh, I'm sorry, I mean prejudge the outcome. So he can't just ask him. Because they are responding to news storied and don't want to prejudice the outcome. So don't ask?

My brain hurts from trying to figure out the logic here.

[central scrutinizer]

18. plausible deniability

Bushco doesn't want to know or at least pretend that he doesn't already know. The crucial question since Watergate: "What did the President know and when did he know it?"

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. The POTUS's pleasure?? WTF?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, we all serve at the pleasure of the President in this White House.

At HIS pleasure??? Dammit! He is supposed to serve us, and humbly so!

[I Have A Dream]

35. This is a stock phrase that's used for anyone who works in the...

administration (whether Republican or Democratic). I've seen it used by characters in episodes of the "West Wing", which of course is a Democratic administration. It's not peculiar to the B* administration.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Let's make sure everyone knows HELEN THOMAS is asking this...

...credit where credit is due. Ms. Thomas is the one handing Scotty his ass here.

:toast:

[AFSCME girl]

9. She totally rocks! n/t

:bounce:

[HeeBGBz]

10. Helen rocks!

Good on her for asking the tough questions!

[Behind the Aegis]

11. GO HELEN!

And the women lead the way.....

[TahitiNut]

17. Helen and I are both Alumnae/i of the same Alma Mater.

(Go WSU!)

[Sparkly]

33. You go, Helen!!!

:D :thumbsup:

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I just love the smell of flopsweat...

"Q Scott, I just wonder -- Scott, on a personal, human note, how are you holding out? Are you enjoying this? (Laughter.) Seriously. And are you consulting with any of your predecessors who have also gone through crises, Mike McCurry --

MR. McCLELLAN: There are so few things I enjoy more. (Laughter.) Connie, this is nothing personal. Everybody is doing their job here, and I respect the job that you all are doing in this room. And I look forward to having a continuing constructive relationship with everybody in this room."

:rofl:

[Greeby]

12. Heheh

Like Jon Stewart said: "Your flopsweat shames your master."

*bows*

[kedrys]

20. With a picture of Lyin' Flyshit on the screen

I'm still laughing at that one... :D

[Burried News]

29. Glad you enjoy working with everybody Scotty cause ...

Your boy has three more years to serve on his sentence - in another year he'll wish he had the Nixon option - but I say 'hell no he can't resign' - how many military officers who want to resign right now can't because of stop loss.
Don't impeach him - make him serve his sentence - bet we can take it easier than he can take it. :smoke:

[Sydnie]

funny thing is

they won't comment now because there is an investigation going on, yet they traded in gossip when they made statements of "I heard that too" to these reporters. They have nerve to call foul about the reporters doing what they did themselves.

In the absence of a statement from them, we are left to our imagination to figure out just what happened, when it happened, and who was involved. The thing that disturbs me is, the facts may be far worse than any of us can even imagine! Leave us to "debate in a vacuum", and you deserve the stories that get floated about you". Yes, I am looking at you Rove, Libby, Cheney, Condi, and the Boy-blunder.

[goforit]

8. Yes......what really lies in their dark closet?

[goforit]

6. Tooo funny!!!.....What an outstanding question!!!!

Our 'beloved" elementary school highjacker.....
has to wait till the investigation is over.

In the mean time his polls will bottom out in the negative zone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Special Prosecutor has been appoionted per

scotty... WOW... you will not hear that on the teevee foils becuae the office of the Special Prosecutor was never reneweed. Did scotty mispeak or ... do we have a special prosecutor?

WOW they are on full cover mode now

[Geoff R. Casavant]

25. I think you are confusing . . .

"Special Prosecutor" with "Independent Prosecutor." Fitz is a special prosecutor because this case would ordinarily be out of his jurisdiction, as the crimes occurred in DC not Chicago. But he's not an independent prosecutor in the sense that he still reports to DOJ.

Criminal procedure is not my bag, so if I've made an error here I'd appreciate a correction.

[Doctor_J]

13. I think this is going to leave a stain even if

they manage to wiggle out of prison time. FINALLY the media whores and the public are not going to let them get away with something.

[cynatnite]

15. these press briefings make excellent watching

:rofl:

I keep waiting for the day when scotty has to be dragged to the podium and crying like a girl. :evilgrin: Won't happen, but it sure does make for nice imagery.

[Straight Shooter]

16. Never ask a question when you know you won't like the answer.

Lawyers say it's wise to never ask a witness a question when you don't know the answer, or at least have a real good idea of what the witness might answer.

In this case, bush knows the answer. If he asks Rove, which is an exercise in redundancy since bush knows the answer, then bush becomes complicit. They're all just covering their collective a**, but especially bush. Anybody who believes anything different really needs to go back to school, say, 2nd grade or thereabouts.

[wallwriter]

19. Hey! Turd Blossom!! If you did it, confess now,

so we can get on with our lives.

[sellitman]

23. Getting the facts is HARD WORK!

Of course when the facts are "in" they will be doing


HARD TIME instead!

:popcorn:

[progressoid]

24. How long before they just stop having press briefings?

:popcorn: This is just too much fun. :popcorn:

[formercia]

26. Don't ask, don't tell.

Sgt Shultz Bush.

[sundancekid]

27. who's your mamma now, snottie mccryin??? even the freepers wonder

YES, I ALREADY TOOK A SHOWER ... and b4 posting this from FR ...

snottie's mamma is a currently elected TX repuke official (Comptroller, I believe) and will be challenging Perry for Guv of TX; however, the proper string and spellings of her names should be:
Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn

http://www.window.state.tx.us/

~snip
To: BTCM

Scott McClellan got his job because of his pushy mom, Carol McClellan-Keaton-Rylander-Strayhorn, the much married/divorced challenger to Gov. Rick Perry of Texas. His brother is running Medicare in this country. The old gal saw to it that her boys got on the federal gravy train when W was elected in 2000. I don't know if Mark McClellan is doing a better job at Medicare, but he certainly can't be doing worse than Scott, the press secretary. It would have been a more even contest if Ari would have been in charge of yesterday's horrible presser.

17 posted on 07/12/2005 5:18:02 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1441066/posts

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on edit: corrected her names and gave TX comptroller link

[Burried News]

28. Scotty, looks like you've become a pet goat.

Love watching you at the rotiserie - no need to stick a fork inya -you're done - in fact you're well past done.

[CoffeeCat]

30. Wow!! Did you see this exchange???

(Wow! What caused the media to wake up? There were scandals prior to this one. Why are they doing their jobs now? Is it because American has turned on the pRes and it's ok now to go on the attack? Is it because the scandal involves one of their own? AMAZING!!!)

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Q: Scott, going back to the President's statements from earlier -- if someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration -- it makes me go back to the question I asked you last Wednesday, is there regret from this administration of what it has done to the Wilson family, with the CIA leak? And I talked to Mr. Wilson prior to going into the East Room, and he basically said, the American people deserve an apology, and that his family was basically collateral damage in a bigger picture.

MR. McCLELLAN: All these questions are getting into prejudging the outcome of the investigation, and we're not going to do that.

Q But if someone -- if the President acknowledged that there was a problem, and it could be a criminal problem, if he acknowledged that, isn't there some sort of regret?

MR. McCLELLAN: It's a criminal investigation. We don't know all the facts to it.

Go ahead.

Q Well, is there any regret from this White House that it has caused an American family who worked for this government --

MR. McCLELLAN: I heard what you had to say and I've already answered it.

Q No, you didn't.

[Sparkly]

32. Yes -- that was April. n/t

[Glenda]

31. I can't wait until the video is on cspan.org

:kick:

[rosesaylavee]

34. Face The Nation Bob had it right yesterday

Bob Shieffer on Face the Nation yesterday did a great commentary on the failure of Bush to behave as any other president. Why doesn't he sit down and ask his staff what the truth is and what happened... obviously because the truth implicates him personnally.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Face_the_Nation_Schiffer_Rove.mov

[Inland]

36. "What is his PROBLEM?" "Why doesn't he JUST ASK HIM?"

Not exactly the toughest question in the world, is he?

[ailsagirl]

37. Helen ROCKS!!

I loved her question: "Two years and he can't call Rove in and ask
him what the hell is going on?"

Or was it a statement?? :eyes:

:rofl: