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White House's McClellan Does A Jig For Press Corps Over Rove
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 Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan shows his fancy dance moves as some of the press awaken from their groupthink slumber and actually start acting a little bit like journalists:Q: Scott, can I ask you this: Did Karl Rove commit a crime?
MCCLELLAN: Again, David, this is a question relating to a ongoing investigation, and you have my response related to the investigation. And I don't think you should read anything into it other than: We're going to continue not to comment on it while it's ongoing.
Q: Do you stand by your statement from the fall of 2003, when you were asked specifically about Karl and Elliot Abrams and Scooter Libby, and you said, "I've gone to each of those gentlemen, and they have told me they are not involved in this"?
MCCLELLAN: And if you will recall, I said that, as part of helping the investigators move forward on the investigation, we're not going to get into commenting on it. That was something I stated back near that time as well.
Q: Scott, this is ridiculous. The notion that you're going to stand before us, after having commented with that level of detail, and tell people watching this that somehow you've decided not to talk. You've got a public record out there. Do you stand by your remarks from that podium or not?
MCCLELLAN: I'm well aware, like you, of what was previously said. And I will be glad to talk about it at the appropriate time. The appropriate time is when the investigation...
Q: (inaudible) when it's appropriate and when it's inappropriate?
MCCLELLAN: If you'll let me finish.
Q: No, you're not finishing. You're not saying anything. You stood at that podium and said that Karl Rove was not involved. And now we find out that he spoke about Joseph Wilson's wife. So don't you owe the American public a fuller explanation. Was he involved or was he not? Because contrary to what you told the American people, he did indeed talk about his wife, didn't he?
MCCLELLAN: There will be a time to talk about this, but now is not the time to talk about it.
At that point, the room went dark for a few moments and McClellan reappeared basked in an otherworldly red glow. Sounds of flames and screaming people could be heard off in the distance...
MCCLELLAN: David.. David.. David.. I told you before we weren't going to talk about this right now. How would you like it, if for example, I mentioned that your cousin who's in Iraq is currently located at Lat: 307.2 Lon: -122.4 and will be going out on patrol in an un-armored Humvee at 07:30 UTC? Or that as we speak, Rove is feeding a story to Fox and CNN on how your wife slept with ten black guys at Plato's retreat while you masturbated wearing Donald Duck pajamas? Don't make me show the video Dave.. don't make me. Be a good little reporter and ask how the President's dog is doing. By the way you're never allowed in this room ever again.
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CNN: The Cheese News Network
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 It must be a slow news day... CNN downplays apparently mundane issues like drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Social Security, Decreased life expectancy due to childhood obesity, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Italy leaving Coalition of the "Willing", Syrian intelligence agents leaving Beirut, Darfur genocide, Americans still without healthcare, lots of wars, dead soldiers and Iraqis and what is CNN doing?
Running front page stories about steroid-using baseball players that nobody cares about. This is the crap that our Congress wastes their time with, instead of investigating more substantive issues like: Jeff Gannon, Robert Novak outing Plame, Vote tampering in Ohio & Florida, non-existent WMDs, Enron/Haliburton/Cheney, POW abuse in Iraq/Gitmo, etc.
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