The MSM is desperate for any 'good' (meaning bad for G.W., republicans and/or conservatives) news and are grasping at straws with almost comic mania.

Earlier today, the LAT story on Sandra Day O'Conner was another prime example of a manufactured, twisted, slathered, dipped, rolled and dunked story desperately trying to be relevant and, of course ...bad for conservatives.

You shake your head, and are literally embarrassed for these poor, poisoned little people.

Worse yet (for them) places like NewsBusters aren't taking this lying down, and on other blogs, this sort of tripe isn't being taken lying down.

We're learning.

Once the left has declared something to be true, they can never be proven wrong. They will either drop this issue and never mention it again, or they will continue to claim that it's proof of the administration's campaign to out a covert agent.

Another case in point; they other day I was listening to an interview with Lewis Lapham where he was discussing the administration's fear-mongering. He noted the President's assertion that Iraq had nuclear weapons and offered, as "proof", Condoleezza Rice talking about a mushroom cloud. I was dumbstruck since I knew exactly what he was referring to. Here's the quote in question;

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

He ignored everything except the last two words and the fact that she was talking about Saddam, and somehow the Ms. Rice is lying about Iraq having nuclear weapons. The left has no shame.

There are publicists, and then there are great publicists. McClellan is clearly getting his money's worth from this book's publicist.

By chumming the waters with an out-of-context drop of "red dye #2," this publicist has convinced the ignorant media sharks that there's blood in the water, and gained more publicity for the book than any amount of money could ever buy.

Of course the fact that the MSM has devolved into predictably Pavlovian responses does make the job easier.

Heck, why fight the MSM when you can outsmart them?

Thompson/Giuliani 2008

Rhetorical question as McClellan no one can even remember who he is or what he ever did. So his claim to fame is a statement whining about something which is about nothing.

I really do not have allot of respect for McClellan and these kiss and tell books for profit. He is not bright enough to know that Russia dumped 2 shiploads of WMD into the Indian Ocean for Saddam which the DOD recorded. He is not bright enough to read the DOD reports that a convoy and 2 plane loads of biological weapons ended up in Syria and Lebanon and that Saddam's one big nuclear weapon he did built which was too heavy to mount on a Scud was taken to mother Russia on a Bolshevik transport.

Apparently McClellan never even read the published reports out of European junk yards which showed Saddam had scrapped to hide most of WMD delivery systems.

Apparenlty McClellan never even bothered to check the reports that Saddam shipped to Sudan via Iran chemical weapons to the Muslim regime to gas the Christians of Darfur.

Now the above being written about would have been a wonderful book to read. It would have landed most of the deposed socialists in Europe and Clintonia in prison which is why all of this is being hidden as boss Bush didn't want America in political anarchy knowing Russia and China got us in the AK 47 sights.

McClellan should have written a cooking book in boiling water and making toast as it would have been of more value.........at least liberals could not be taking that out of context.

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Noel, I thought the same thing myself about the book. Its just
media hype. When his book does come out and the truth about
Bush....it just wont matter. The damage is done, they wont
correct it. whoops, oh well. The media does this all the
time.

mom

McClellan and/or the editor who wrote the book for him needed a controversial point or no one would have cared about the book in the first place. Now lefties will be standing in line to buy it.

When Ann Coulter does it, she's being mean and shrill just to boost her sales.

When someone does it to embarrass Bush, lefties are immediately convinced it's the gospel truth and cannot thank the author quickly enough.

Remember the book won't even be available until next year. They were doing this as a test to see if it would be popular. McClellan is laughing all the way to the proverbial bank.

It'll be interesting to see how this eventually plays out.  

card holding member of the vast right-wing conspiracy

You will have to forgive me if I think that most press secretaries are not insiders with burn before read clearances who take a doses of truth syrum before holding a press conference just to get it right.