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In which SC attempts to play the role of Fenian_Bastard

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by sportschick, May 27, 2008.

  1. ondeadline

    ondeadline Well-Known Member

    MCClellan is coming on Olbermann's show tonight. Yeah, there will be some tough questions there. That would be like him coming on Fox News when he still was working for Bush.
     
  2. PeteyPirate

    PeteyPirate Guest

  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    So apparently Phil Donahue wasn't full of crap when he said MSNBC bosses told him to back off the anti-war stuff. Anybody think these cable news outfits will try and sell whatever it is they think the public will buy? MSNBC - your political barometer.
     
  4. D-Backs Hack

    D-Backs Hack Guest

    You can wring your hands all you want, Scott.

    The blood is not coming off of them.
     
  5. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    MSNBC throws CNN's and former MSNBCer Jessica Yellin under the proverbial bus, oddly using similar language used by the White House to refute McClellan's allegations.
    From the Associated Press:
    MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said Yellin was a "freelance overnight news reader at MSNBC for one year who was not renewed." But he didn't dispute Yellin's claim that she did some Washington and Pentagon reports while there.

    "She had little to no contact with editorial decision makers, and certainly was not a part of the editorial process on a daily basis," Gaines said. "Given how her story has changed so dramatically since her appearance on CNN - her current employer - less than 24 hours ago, we find it hard to believe that anyone would take this disgruntled former employee's comments seriously."
     
  6. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Well, it appears the left was right about McClellan when it said he was a liar and shouldn't be listened to.

    But now the left thinks he's the most credible person on the planet and his word is gold.

    Revealing.
     
  7. D-Backs Hack

    D-Backs Hack Guest

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/29/122537/311/953/524846

    Karl Rove:

    Of course it sounds like us. We've been right all along.

    That's the advantage of trafficking in reality -- history has a habit of vindicating our words.
     
  8. D-Backs Hack

    D-Backs Hack Guest

    A former Republican White House press secretary says that, "Yeah, we weren't truthful in Iraq," which is what liberals have been saying since 2002.

    It takes a logical leap of Bob Beamon proportions to turn this into a revelation about liberals' character.

    But tony, as always, doesn't disappoint.
     
  9. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    I aim to please, Joe. And some people are really easy to please.
     
  10. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    Scotty is trying to make his penance ... and make a pile of money at the same time.

    Anyone who pays one farthing for this book is a loser.
     
  11. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Of course, anyone who stuck around for a bit of the show after Olberman learned, the publishing house that printed Scott's book doesn't give even six-figure advances. That means McClellan didn't get all that much in the grand scheme of things. A good year, year-and-a-half's worth of salary, but nothing ludicrous to tell his story. So if he's looking to cash out, he sure picked the wrong publisher to go to, at least according to Jonathan Alter.
     
  12. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    He deserves no remuneration for blatant dishonesty. That he'll even be getting "a good year, year-and-a-half's worth of salary" is an uproar.
     
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