Good grief -- I just got done writing an update on the McClellan post from this morning when I read this.
Think Progress has a video up of former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee. In it, Huckabee calls former Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s revelation that Bush may have known about the leak / was involved in one way or another in the cover-up, etc., “stunning.” He also said: “They deserve to be thoroughly examined, investigated, and the truth brought to the American people.” Adding that “President Bush should personally respond to the charges.”
Too bad that both Huckabee )and Michael van der Galiën of The Van Der Galiën Gazette) fell into the same trap that the Left and the media did when this transparent publicity ploy was released yesterday. McClellan wasn't accusing Bush of anything untoward, as today's statement unambiguously states.
But then again, one really only had to read the words of the excerpt in an unbiased way to see that there was nothing there accusing the President of wrongdoing. Indeed, I'd argue that one would have had to have already been inclined to find presume wrongdoing to reach such a conclusion based upon the excerpt.
UPDATE: Looks like some folks are really invested in this -- wonder if we will get mea culpas now that the publisher has issued the clarification?
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Hmmm...if Bill clinton had been outed by one of his spokesmen, would you have had the same attitude?
I think it is prudent of Huckabee to call for an investigation to find out the truth.
What...are we Republicans now AFRAID of the truth?
Huckabee did nothing more than to say..."if something really DOES sound fishy, it should be investigated.
Sounds responsible to me.
Huckabee for '08...Reagan minus the Astrologer.
|| Posted by Al-Ozarka, November 22, 2007 07:35 AM ||Except for the fact that George W. Bush was not "outed" by Scott McClellan. Indeed, anyone with a reading level of sixth grade or above and an IQ over room temperature should have been able to see that -- unless they were already predisposed to presume guilt on the part of the President.
The truth here is that Richard Armitage outed Plame.
The truth here is that no law was broken when it happened -- just ask Patrick Fitzgerald, who didn't prosecute him.
The truth is that all evidence points to Democrat partisans Wilson and Plame carefully orchestrating a plot to undermine the policies of the sitting President of the United States through a campaign of nepotism and false statements.
The folks who need investigating -- and prosecuting -- in this case are Wilson and Plame.
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