Press Batters McClellan on Rove/Plame Link

E&P ^ | 07/11/05 | E&P Staff

[Pikamax]

Mcclellan should have send I answered the question, moveon ;)

the minute you let the press corp jackals start to whine it goes out of control.

[Cicero]

Don't I recall that clinton cancelled all his press conferences for more than a year? Maybe it's time to follow that example and see what the press has to say about it.

Or maybe Bush should imitate clinton's other practice, and lean on their bosses through the IRS and the regulatory agencies until they fire 5 or 6 of the worst offenders.

[Darkwolf377]

McClellan is a wuss.

Laura Ingraham for WH spokeswoman.

[cubreporter]

I always say they should mention it once and then say if it is asked about or referred to or anything close to it I will just say: "Next Question, please." If the next question is about the topic...simply say: "Next Question please" and...if the whole thing is about it then the content of the press conference will be "Next Question please." If the dolts are too damned dim witted to move on to something else then that's what the conference would be all about. I would NOT each and every time EXPLAIN again. Simple and effective.

[Dilbert56]

He should simply state he's not taking any more questions on that topic. If the next question is about that, he should end the press conference.

[Tarpon]

Last night on NBC when Andrea Mitchell was asked something like -- did reporters know Valerie Plame was a CIA operative and Wilson's wife before Novak wrote the article -- her answer, YES, most did. So where is the beef? Looks like a leftist-MSM kerfuffle to me.

So the charge was Rove divulged the name of Valrie Plame to the press which they already knew. The memo that is being shown as proof positive does no such thing. Get your bucket of ice cold water at the Powerline

If the leftist-MSM didn't bat an eyelash when Sandy Berger was stuffing top secret docs down his Fruit of the Looms, why is this a big deal? There wasn't even any crime, unless you count those reporters lying to the judge -- which is going to be really funny in the end.

[narby]

I seem to remember that when this whole thing broke, that Plame was already publicly known as an employee of the Firm, but that her role in undercover work was not. Rove supposedly said that Plame was a CIA employee, but that was already public knowledge, therefore no problem.

[balch3]

Shut down the press briefings. They serve no purpose if they're only going to be forums for sedition.

[popdonnelly]

Nothing wrong with asking questions. But practically every Democrat in America has the knife out for Rove. That includes those in the media.

[nuffsenuff]

David Corn made a fool out of himself.

I watched it. He was a blithering idiot.

[TheOtherOne]

I seem to remember that when this whole thing broke, that Plame was already publicly known as an employee of the Firm, but that her role in undercover work was not. Rove supposedly said that Plame was a CIA employee, but that was already public knowledge, therefore no problem.

The nuance of all this will be missed by most people.

[Minus_The_Bear]

McClellan isn't helping the situation any. Get somebody in there with a freaking backbone.

[TheOtherOne]

Shut down the press briefings. They serve no purpose if they're only going to be forums for sedition.

There is nothing seditious about it.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[hipaatwo]

McClellan isn't helping the situation any. Get somebody in there with a freaking backbone.


Karen Hughes would be awesome!

[petitfour]

There might be a story if Karl Rove had shoved Ms. Plame in his pants and snuck her out of the building and then cut her up into a zillion pieces and put her in the trash. As it is, it sounds like her existence was not classified.

[Peach]

Amazing the press seemed so much less concerned with the Sandy Berger story.

[McGavin999]

No more pressers. Cut the morons off.

I have a sneaky feeling that someone is going to go to jail, and it's not going to be Rove.

[MinuteGal]

The White House has not learned to let things get out of hand. This affair is out of hand.

White House PR stinks. Spokesmen come out too late on issues, McLellan is a cloddy wuss with no ability to dance on his feet. He comes out looking like a dammed fool. Too many GOP TV pundits are silver-tongued wusses also. The President is above using the bully pulpit. GOP congressmen and senators are mostly in hiding when they should be on the capitol steps. Need I go on?

I've been ranting on this lack of administration attack and counter-attack strategery for a couple of years. Why the hell don't they listen to me? (barely an LOL).

Leni

[sam_whiskey]

I agree. This guy has always seemed to think he's supposed to be a pincushion for the press...