Posted on 05/29/2008 6:10:39 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Was George Soros behind the publication of Scott McClellan's book? Meredith Vieira had the perfect opportunity this morning to find out—but chose to punt. The Today co-anchor certainly had the time: her much-touted exclusive interview with the author of What Happened ranged over the show's first two half-hours. But even when McClellan himself put the issue on the table by citing his publisher by name and alluding to its philosophy, Vieira failed to pursue a line of questioning that could have put matters in an explosive new light.
As MRC's Brent Baker has detailed, McClellan's publisher, PublicAffairs:
is part of the Perseus Books Group, which also owns Nation Books, “a project of The Nation Institute” which publishes the magazine of the same name, and Vanguard Press, whose home page now features The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, a new book by Vincent Bugliosi that “presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq.”
Baker also notes that PublicAffairs is the publisher of no fewer than six books by Soros himself, and that McClellan's editor, Peter Osnos, who acknowledges having "worked very closely" with the author, is a liberal pundit in his own right.
Finally, Little Green Footballs has documented that there are several Perseus companies that actually include "Soros" as part of their name, as in Perseus-Soros Management, LLC.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Vieira blows chance to ask McClellan about possible Soros connection. Ping to Today show list.
The Nation... I smell Katrina Van Den Heuvel, and that's not a good thing!
And when did Vincent Bugliosi go over to The Dark Side? Along with that miserable putz McClellan.....
The Nation... I smell Katrina Van Den Heuvel, and that's not a good thing!
And when did Vincent Bugliosi go over to The Dark Side? Along with that miserable putz McClellan.....
So what? I have been largely busy with work for the last two days, so don't know much more about this than the headlines. But, judging from the reaction by FR Posters and talk radio, it sounds like McClellan is entirely correct. I have not seen a single person actually dispute his assertions, its all just attacking the messenger. There is no surer sign that he is on target.
If McCain will turn on Soros over this, it might give me a reason to vote for him. But I'm not holding my breath.
More from White House coming up on Fox News. . .perhaps they will go there. .
Of course Vierra never intended to go there; why even get close to the truth at NBC. It’s not their job!
That's some real good logic you got there boy. LOL! FYI: McClellan didn't start working at the White House until after the start of the war and the Saddam regime had been toppled.
“Blows chance”? There was no way she is going to discredit him....she didn’t blow it....she avoided it.
The msm, Exhibit A of Bush Derangement Syndrome, will never ask such a question. McClellan is simply the useful idiot to promote their agenda of Obama for President.
It will be up to Rush and Sean and Laura to get this Soros connection out. You have to hand it to that devil...he really knows how to manipulate our political system as well as he does the currencies of the world.
Actually, people have disputed his assertions. Dan Bartlett called them “total crap.” Moreover, you’ve probably heard the statements by various former admin officials saying this doesn’t sound like McClellan. If Soros is behind it, and we know that a left-winger was his editor and “worked very closely” with McClellan on it, there’s reason to wonder whether McClellan wasn’t pushed into making statements he himself didn’t entirely believe. Was the book possibly ghost-written by a Soros guy? I think these are valid questions. At the very least, I think they should be posed. Let’s get the fact out on the table and let people judge for themselves.
Little Green Footballs lays out the connection showing the ownership link with Soros and Scotty’s Publishing company.
It is decent logic. In all aspects of life, when someone responds to factual assertions with anything other than a factual response, it suggests the factual assertion is true.
I noted that in my item and linked to LGF.
McClellan says that Rove and Libby went into a room, closed the door, didn’t invite him in, he didn’t hear them, yet he divines that they talked about outing Plame (which neither did, it was Armitage doing the outing) and you believe that?
Here is the LGF link, it’s got some very good front page info:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
I don't know, I would need more context. Did Rove and Libby regularly meet? Were they both talking about Plame immediately before or after this meeting? Did they tell anyone about what they talked about?
That's why a lot of us were called rapists, child molesters, slavers and a bunch of other stuff when we questioned the legality of the FLDS raid.
Vinnie has always been a democrat. He's done some pretty good work deconstructing the JFK conspiracy theorists, and I really admired his insightful analysis of the OJ trial in "Outrage." Curiously, one of the things he railed on in that book was the emergence of the 24-hour news cycle and the "expert commentators" it generated who were really out of their depth and/or areas of expertise. Sadly it looks like Bugliosi has become what he once decried.
Got one thing to say about Scott McClellan. He was NOT QUALIFIED to be the White House Spokesman. He got the job probably as a favor to his mom. And now he is disgracing himself by trying to bash Bush just one more time before his Presidency is over.
Scott, you are a disgusting fool!
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