The Network Behind the Bush-bashing Book

familysecuritymatters.org ^ | May 30, 2008 | Cliff Kincaid

[LiberConservative]

This whole thing stinks of a mind job and "change of heart" for money. Where was Scotty's conscience when he was on TV talking to me? If he had his doubts then either quitting or allowing himself to get fired on-the-spot might have made for a much better (and credible) story.

[originalbuckeye]

A few days ago Obama actually used the words ‘collective’ and ‘collectivism’ in a speech. I can't remember which one but I suspect no one in the audience was bothered by these references.

[rlmorel]

Once again, the ghostly trails of the victims of so-called “McCarthysim” show that McCarthy WAS an American hero who sacrificed his life and reputation for his country. He was right on.

I.F. Stone, for God’s sake.

I had no idea of these connections, and I will bet money that most Americans do not, either.

How reliable is Cliff Kincaid of Family Security Matters?

[Paladin2]

I always thought McClellan to be an idiot, but not a very useful one.

[Paladin2]

Scott could always hang out with jumpin’ Jim.

[VR-21]

I hear you. The Marxist left (in which I include the two Democrat Pres. candidates) no longer seems to feel the need to conceal themselves. They still use code words to cloak their agenda, but they’re not nearly as subtle. The less intelligent amoung them like Maxine Waters actually give away the game, and few people seem to catch on. Sometimes I feel like I’m in one of those horror films where only I can see the monster.

[Kaslin]

jrooney might be talking about this

But Is It True?

[driftless2]

Of course Osnos looked at McClellan as a perfect, resentful stooge. Waved a few bucks in his face, and voila! they had themselves a disgruntled ex-Bush admin with a very large axe to grind.

[Chickensoup]

This is interesting since book payments and advances have become the primary method of payola in Washington.

I understand Hussian’s payola started right out of law school.

[khnyny]

bump.

[originalbuckeye]

You're right. Thick-as-a-fencepost Maxine Waters did not quite catch herself before she had uttered the word Socialize in reference to the oil companies. Sadly the people I know who are voting for Obama don't care what is revealed about him, his agenda or the Dem agenda. They will vote for him anyway as he's soooo Presidential. Lord help my country.

[Mygirlsmom]

Yes.

Yes.

Not at all.

[kcvl]

"First we had to ascertain what kind of book he wanted to write," said Osnos, a former Washington Post reporter and editor. "We are journalists, independent-minded publishers. We weren't interested in a book that was just a defense of the Bush administration. It had to pass our test of independence, integrity and candor."...

Osnos called the book "a really sophisticated, thoughtful, reasoned and, in many ways, pained portrait of a president" and said, "The Bush he came to serve went off the rails."

Peter Osnos

Nov. 21, 2007

Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan's book in April, tells NBC from his Connecticut home that McCLellan, "Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him."

Osnos says when McClellan went before the White House press corps in 2003 to publicly exonerate Libby and Rove, the problem was that his statement was not true. Osnos said the president told McClellan what "he thought to be the case." But, he says, McClellan believes, "the president didn't know it was not true."

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, released Monday on the publisher's web site, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame. "There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Monday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself."

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Peter Osnos, the liberal founder of PublicAffairs books who “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on his anti-Bush screed which has enraptured the news media, denied, the Washington Post reported Friday, that McClellan had “undergone heavy-handed editing,” but in maintaining that he had not steered McClellan to write anything he didn't believe, Osnos exposed a political agenda as he conceded he had no interest in a pro-George W. Bush book. Equating criticism of the Bush administration with “integrity and candor,” Osnos, the former Washington Post reporter and editor who in March denounced Rush Limbaugh as “bombastic, aggressive, and mean,” told the Post:

We are journalists, independent-minded publishers. We weren't interested in a book that was just a defense of the Bush administration. It had to pass our test of independence, integrity and candor.

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Peter Osnos, who wrote Wednesday that he "worked very closely" with Scott McClellan on McClellan's new book published by PublicAffairs which Osnos founded, is a liberal whose publishing house is affiliated with the far-left The Nation magazine and the publisher of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

[kcvl]

Osnos, a former Washington Post reporter and editor. "We are journalists, independent-minded publishers".

In a March column he denounced Rush Limbaugh as "bombastic, aggressive, and mean," bemoaning how the late William F. Buckley Jr. left behind "a right-wing culture that tends to be as coarse and leaden as his demeanor could be buoyant," charging Buckley provided "unfortunate cover to others who followed with a spirit that was distinctly and consistently malevolent."

In contrast, he hailed the late left-wing columnist Molly Ivins and wished she had more impact: "In the contest for power in America, Molly Ivins had a good perch in her column, nearly perfect pitch, and, alas, too little influence." Ruminating this week about the Kennedy family's legacy in the wake of Senator Ted Kennedy's cancer diagnosis, Osnos asserted that "we are a distinctly better country for the message" which "Ted conveyed about our priorities as a people."...

[kcvl]

Peter Osnos is emeritus director of Human Rights Watch and is George Soros' publisher

Osnos spent nearly twenty years at the Washington Post

Susan Osnos, who is a consultant for nonprofit organizations (associate director; Human Rights Watch)

[kcvl]

Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program

Founding Members

Presidents Circle
The Clinton Family Foundation

Vice Presidents Circle
Sandy & Susan Berger

Chiefs of Staff
Peter & Susan Osnos

[kcvl]

Osnos, Peter L. W. – director of Human Rights Watch
Osnos, Susan Sherer – communications director of Human Rights Watch

Council on Foreign Relations (both)

Susan Sherer Osnos - wasn’t there a Sherer involved in the Linda Tripp/Monica Lewinksy affair?

[piasa]

HOLBROOKE PING

[zip]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

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