{"id":196051,"date":"2008-05-27T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/27\/mcclellans-new-tell-all-actually-tells-all\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T03:52:00","slug":"mcclellans-new-tell-all-actually-tells-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/27\/mcclellans-new-tell-all-actually-tells-all\/","title":{"rendered":"McClellan&#8217;s New Tell-All Actually Tells All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0508\/10649.html\">a lot more than you would expect<\/a> from the guy who job was to Bush&#8217;s liar in chief<sup>*<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, at least from the excerpts on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Politico<\/span>, he does a lot more blaming of Bush&#8217;s staff than Bush himself, but still, the allegations are explosive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He accuses Bush of relying on propaganda to sell the war.<\/li>\n<li>Basically calls the press a bunch of lap dogs.<\/li>\n<li>Admits that the administration was clueless on Katrina<\/li>\n<li>That Rove, Libby, and possibly Cheney lied to him about l&#8217;affaire Plame.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to buy the book, paying Republicans only creates more Republicans, but I&#8217;m definitely going to borrow it at some point.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">To be fair, this is the job description of every press secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least a lot more than you would expect from the guy who job was to Bush&#8217;s liar in chief*. To be fair, at least from the excerpts on Politico, he does a lot more blaming of Bush&#8217;s staff than Bush himself, but still, the allegations are explosive: He accuses Bush of relying on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1078,1062,1051,1064,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-disaster","category-espionage","category-hypocrisy","category-media","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}