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.
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"Not at all. I know I don't know if the original assertion is true or not,..."
How is that a false premise? A false premise would be if I assumed something was true without knowing it was true.
You are a pesky one!
You stated that you don't know if the premise is true or not. Well then, it follows that you do not know if the conclusion is true or not.
No, I didn't. The premise was not "the accusation is true". The premise was "an accusation was made". What followed then was a discussion of whether or not a response to an accusation can tell us anything about the validity of the accusation.
McClellan fits their template. Soros is one of the architects of the template.
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