Does McCllelan really believe in what he is saying?

[question everything]

He was on the CBS Morning show and said how Bush had high hopes and idealism to clean Washington, or something. And I thought to myself: what BS! Bush was selected by the powers that be: Cheney, Rumsfled, PNAC, etc. to provide a pretty face (more or less) who would not tax his brain too much, who would do and say what he was told to.

After all, before the 2000 elections, before 9/11, Wolfowitz was saying that if elected, the Bush administration would invade Iraq.

[PATRICK]

1. A hallmark of most press secretaries

is positive fitness for the job of getting one side of the story as a genuine loving fan of the administration- and not ever being expected to know much much less an opposing viewpoint except as a job of countering it. Some truly beautiful minds, liked by the press corps in their positive attitude innocence and safe, irresponsible limitations. Some end up being well liked by all regardless of the crap, but the Bush administration is clearly impossible to escape "Scott" free, further circumstantial evidence of the nadir to which it has sunk. By definition of their deliberate innocent role they are very often or almost have to be better than the President to exist in the job.

Goebbels would be better than President Bush today and more innocent.

[question everything]

2. Thus, it is a game that everyone knows and plays

The press secretary sticks by the administration, no matter what, and the press takes what s/he says with a grain of salt.

And then, of course, if a reporter questions the that person too much, that reporter would pretty much cut his own source of future reporting.

[PATRICK]

3. Three fourths

uselessness because the secretary knows little, has fixed opinions and upon that nothingness builds a wall with which to spar ritualistically with the overblown reporters glorified in crumbs, in small piercings of the wall, in empty performance, in cynicism that pays well, and a test of their membership in a club of deceit. they report the little that the WH wants them to know and play off the even less that leaks out from most of the same source in a phony staged "questioning" by the god almisghty 4th estate.

They should be sued. The only one doing the job is the empty headed puppet whose strings pull their strings.

Why did Ari and Scott have to leave? Because the truth has degenerated so much it is no longer safe even for puppets.

[annabanana]

4. Did he ever?

I suspect he's always been the yappy dog at the bulldog's feet.

"Whad'ya wanna do today Spike? D'ya wanna chase some rabbits"?

[mac2]

5. No but he wants to think he's clever and charming enough

that we might believe him. He's already been paid with his book deal. It is a ploy to improve Bush's image as being right about the terrorists, etc. He didn't know. He didn't do it on purpose, etc.