****Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann (interviewing Scott McClellan)****

I hope this show is a good one!

"The truth will set you free ... "

Scottie said BUSH AUTHORIZED PLAME'S OUTING AND BUSH TOLD LIBBY TO DO IT!!

He will....Unless he isn't on this earth.

From ABC:



EDIT ADD: link http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/obama-backing-1.html

~~~~~SCOTT SAID YES~~~~~


Which means the bird is gonna sing.

:rofl:

Keith asking about whether Bush saw 9-11 as an opportunity.

Scottie says YES! That he wanted to advance their POV of democracy throughout the Middle East. After 9-11 there was a change in policy. Names Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush.

Keith is doing an outstanding job. This should be watched--probably will--by everyone.

Scottie is a skunk.

I wonder if he knows how explosive this is? He seems really calm.

I'm scared for him

The horse is already out of the barn. If something unfortunate happens to him, people will be looking in Bush's direction. However, on the other hand, I don't think Bush has that much forethought.

except to discredit him, and they are trying to do that to discourage others who might be having a change of heart because of a guilty conscience...One person can be easily discredited, take a look at what they did to Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. But if more people came out...


The book has already been written and printed, there is no stopping it, and harming Scotty in anyway would make matters worse...they really cant touch him, except to discredit him.

sound. Go, SCOTT! I hope he can redeem something of his soul here because I am thinking this is why he is doing this.

if it was just his redemption, he would have spoken out sooner, like before congress via the witness chair...make no mistake about that. I am glad this is seeing the light of day.

wasn't there something not in the party line last year or two about Scotty's book and it seemed Scotty back peddled?

This is really blowing me and a lot of people away!

VP Cheney went further than everyone in the administration, including pushing the suggestion that Iraq had or was reconstituting nuclear weapons.

Scotty says the reputation of the United States has been tarnished. Says "coercive democracy" was always the strategy for going into Iraq.

figure some of it out with the blithering and slobbering and outrage from THE MEDIA.

Good for Keith !

watch this. This is why we admire Keith.

any reporter who digs for the truth. And that includes Keith.

We've had a number here to whom KO became "dead to them" for some of his remarks. I realize that this was never all HRC supporters. KO has done--and is still doing--some fantastic reporting in very dark days. It is my hope that those who are angry with KO can see this and remember just what he has done for US.

Afterwards, he decided that he could not continue in the administration.

Being thrown to the wolves after you have been loyal certainly has a way of waking up a person's conscience.

But I thought he said Bush authorized it. And Rove did the leaking.

Saying Bush authorized it is something new, IMO.

of previous classified material and told them to leak it. I can't believe I heard that. Very cool customer Scott is, very relaxed. I am amazed-he always sounded like such a doofus.

Intelligence Report in order to discredit Joe Wilson. This is related to the Libby "lunch" with Judith Miller, part of the Valerie Plame outing, bush admitted he had secretly declassified sections of it before he did it publicly.

snip

It was in Libby's grand jury testimony, revealed publicly for the first time in the government filing, that the former White House official stated that Bush had approved Cheney's instruction to reveal portions of a classified prewar National Intelligence Estimate that they believed would bolster the administration's argument that Iraq was seeking to develop nuclear weapons. At least three reporters received that information: then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller, author Bob Woodward, and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine.

On July 18, 2003, after those three had been privately briefed, the administration publicly declassified much of the document. A striking aspect of the administration's private dissemination effort is that the information Cheney and Libby put forth - regarding efforts by Iraq to acquire uranium from Niger - had already been widely discredited within the administration.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0410/p01s03-uspo.html

Are we going to hear from Fitz next week?

I'm at work!!!!

He said he saw Bush as someone who was bi-partisan, compassionate conservative, someone who had 70% approval in Texas. He came into the WH with a lot of hope for changing Washington. It was hard to see the reality of what the Bush administration really was.

This is a great interview.

call McClellan to testify under oath? Shouldn't we be demanding Congress to do this...here we have an insider, saying they manipulated the media, to sell the Iraq war.

Now we have known this years ago...but here is proof, here is testimony from inside the white house...IMPEACHMENT SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE TABLE!

Keith is doing a fantastic job of making Scotty comfortable and pulling out some comments and sentiments that I don't think he expressed previously.

Scotty does seem sincere. And, if I may add, he looks much better than he did when he was working in the WH.

Or freer, anyway

I believe you're right...Lying didn't come easy for Scotty. He would get red-faced and hyperventilate when he was lying.

SO much more to come....and here we GO!

excellent interview.. I can't wait to get this book.

Good interview and long .

Sent them in an email to huffington post.

Keith also reads Condoleeza's comments (what a surprise, she continues to push that people thought there were WMDs).

Keith brings up the point that no one is criticizing the facts of the book; it's only personal comments.

who was there confirming everything that we already knew. I know I'll be angry about it shortly, but right now, it makes me terribly sad.

Rove leaked the identity of a covert CIA agent.

President authorized the leaking of portions of the National Intelligence Estimate.

He says everything he knows and experienced on Plamegate and the leaks is contained in the book.

I have to admit, during his time as WH press secretary, he sometimes looked uncomfortable in the job - not as comfortable as Ari, Tony, and Dana have looked. McClellan is taking a big risk by actually telling the truth, and I'm glad he's doing it. He's bringing some stuff to light that is VERY important. It's a damned shame he couldn't have done it two or three years ago, but still... Good on him!

Amazing interview, and it's still going! Way to go, Keith! :applause:

Fantastic show. No wonder why Keith's ratings are going up. Tonight's show has been informative, factual, and substantive.

And Keith has conducted himself in a professional manner that Tweety and David Gregory will never achieve.

Keith has returned to a standard of interviewing the likes we don't see on our TV's anymore.

Calm.
Controlled.
Let's the other person talk, at length without interrupting constantly (Tweety?)without ridicule or jokes.

I'm really impressed and surprised at this.

I have a feeling Countdown is about to hit it's stride.
New website, endless promotions.

I like this.

Which will remain even that only for as long as it takes Scotty to book appearances on every single other cable news show of course, but hey...

Was the Today show interview even comparable ? Who was the interviewer?
Keith was claiming that this was a "exclusive *prime-time* interview"

lol

This is a great interview.

Keith asks about the "conservative media" and Fox news. "What was Fox news to your administration?"

During Cheney's hunting accident, Cheney said he picked Fox news to grant the interview because all the other news sources will have to cite Fox news when talking about the story.

Scotty wanted to get in front of the story, Cheney blew it off. Cheney only gave a statement after "nudging" from the President.

Just incredible. And it keeps going, too! :woohoo:

Hopes that people will read the book and look at what happened with Iraq. He hopes we never make the same mistake again.

I am starting to think Scotty came out with this book to prevent war with Iran...

:wow:

methinks he'll be making up his mind about who to vote for real soon....

Scotty also likes some of the ways McSame has worked across the aisle in a bipartisan way.

Says he hasn't made up his mind who he will vote for.

also

saying I can tell him what he's in for
for the rest of his life.

He will be accused of everything in the world
for the next few years.

Press secretaries know little, he says. They are told what the players want them to know. Says Scotty nails a few things down, though.

Says he will lose some friends and at some point, his words will be closely parsed and will be turned on him. If he is striking too close to the bone, they'll go after him. Dean says he will find out who his true friends are.

imo.

One of the most astonishing interviews with one of the men from the most secretive administrations the United States has had in over 50 years.

This is an excellent interview. I was stunned, not only by the candor of Mr. McClellan, but by the questions Keith asked, all pertinent, and yet couched in a respectful manner.

Incredible.
Simply incredible.