Olbermann's blog calls for Scott McClellan's resignation

[Miami Liberal]

I smell something - and it ain’t a copy of the Qu’ran sopping wet from being stuck in a toilet in Guantanamo Bay. It’s the ink drying on Scott McClellan’s resignation, and in an only partly imperfect world, it would be drifting out over Washington, and imminently.

Last Thursday, General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Donald Rumsfeld’s go-to guy whenever the situation calls for the kind of gravitas the Secretary himself can’t supply, told reporters at the Pentagon that rioting in Afghanistan was related more to the on-going political reconciliation process there, than it was to a controversial note buried in the pages of Newsweek claiming that the government was investigating whether or not some nitwit interrogator at Gitmo really had desecrated a Muslim holy book.

But Monday afternoon, while offering himself up to the networks for a series of rare, almost unprecedented sit-down interviews on the White House lawn, Press Secretary McClellan said, in effect, that General Myers, and the head of the after-action report following the disturbances in Jalalabad, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, were dead wrong. The Newsweek story, McClellan said, “has done damage to our image abroad and it has done damage to the credibility of the media and Newsweek in particular. People have lost lives. This report has had serious consequences.”

Whenever I hear Scott McClellan talking about ‘media credibility,’ I strain to remember who it was who admitted Jeff Gannon to the White House press room and called on him all those times...


Read the rest here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[rodeodance]

1. lets blast this to all the media!! go Keith go!!!!1

[shadowknows69]

10. wow

wearing no kids gloves in that one

"The way Craig Crawford reconstructed it, this one went similarly to the way the Killian Memos story evolved at the White House. The news organization turns to the administration for a denial. The administration says nothing. The news organization runs the story. The administration jumps on the necks of the news organization with both feet - or has its proxies do it for them.

That’s beyond shameful. It’s treasonous."

Spot on Keith. You're our hero man.

[Cha]

2. scatty is spreading the word that

the US media can't be trusted..after all the media has done for bushco.

Is this a pre-emptive strike that the chimphouse so excels at?

[napi21]

3. I think we need to be careful what we wish for here.

As much as I disliked Ari Fleischer, after Scot, I really miss Ari!

I doubt anyone knows who might replace Scott, but based upon the history of this WH continuing to dig deeper into the slime pot, we just might get somebody worse.

[i miss america]

6. Jeff Gannon would be my choice

[Maat]

21. Ari was a consistent liar also ..

but he did it much better (sounded much more intelligent).

[Botany]

4. Puffy McMoon Face?

Go KO!

BTW you are my fav EDV of the KOEB .... please don't tell the others.

[Miami Liberal]

11. Your secret is safe with me

[Botany]

12. Thank you

Stephanie :loveya: Miler

Commandeer Cuckoo Bananas! I think the tide is turning.
? how will Rove try to distract us?

[Shopaholic]

5. Congrats to KO for calling bullshit on the WH & Little Scottie

:bounce:

[jazzjunkysue]

7. Please, God. Not Karen. Anything but karen.

[Bluebear]

14. Ay yi yi yi yi.

[nittygritty]

8. Wow. Excellent column.

I sent kudos email to Olbermann.

[Cleita]

9. Why stop with him?

Let's ask for resignations all the way up to and including the occupant of the Oval Office.

[Dee625]

13. Great column

While he spells out all the serious stuff quite well, I have to admit I enjoyed this part "While places like the Fox News Channel (which, only today, I finally recognized - it’s the newscast perpetually running on the giant video screens in the movie “1984”)". You have to take a little humor where you can get it these days.

[Ysolde]

15. Recommended!

And, I sent a kudos e-mail to Keith. We've got to support those folks who are standing up even if enough of them aren't!

[Oreo]

16. Kick

Amazing... if only we had a few more like him on the tv

Whenever I hear Scott McClellan talking about ‘media credibility,’ I strain to remember who it was who admitted Jeff Gannon to the White House press room and called on him all those times.

Whenever I hear this White House talking about ‘doing to damage to our image abroad’ and how ‘people have lost lives,’ I strain to remember who it was who went traipsing into Iraq looking for WMD that will apparently turn up just after the Holy Grail will - and at what human cost.

[LaPera]

17. What a joke, after Ari the liar and then little Scottie does anyone really

think, that they would get someone who isn't just as big a fucking liar as these two...

What's the point, besides wasting more time on a non issue.

McClellan’s job is to lie, that's what press secretary's do...LIE! I hate the little bastard...but the next fuck would be just as bad or worse then these last two.

[Miami Liberal]

18. .

:kick:

[dogday]

19. I will take any resignation we can get from this administration

Scott McClellan will be a nice start, then Rumsfield, then.....

[bunkerbuster1]

20. Best piece yet on the Rathering of Newsweek.

Thank god we've one friend in the SCLM.

[DFWdem]

22. Bigger fish to fry

Honestly, what would be accomplished by McClellan resigning? He's not a policy maker. He stands there and spouts the bush talking points of the day. It's like he's not even a real person. He resigns, they get someone else to stand there and toe the party line, nothing would change. There are many other member of this administration that i'd rather see resign from their duties.