I'm a politician, so I have been figuring out ways to master the art of wiggling out of potentially damaging statements.
So sue me.
Anyway, I think I can offer Scotty McClellan the best advice he can hear right now. USE YOUR OWN WORDS TO ESCAPE THIS MESS!!!!!!!
Here's his words from 2003, regarding the Valerie Plame/Karl Rove act of treason....
July 23, 2003
QUESTION: Scott, has there ever been an attempt or effort on the part of anyone here at the White House to discredit the reputations or reporting of former Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife, or ABC correspondent Jeffrey Kofman?
McCLELLAN: John, I think I answered that yesterday. That is not the way that this White House operates. That's not the way the President operates . . . No one would be authorized to do that within this White House.
July 22, 2003
QUESTION: The Robert Novak column last week . . . has now given rise to accusations that the administration deliberatively blew the cover of an undercover CIA operative, and in so doing, violated a federal law that prohibits revealing the identity of undercover CIA operatives. Can you respond to that?
McCLELLAN: Thank you for bringing that up. That is not the way this President or this White House operates. And there is absolutely no information that has come to my attention or that I have seen that suggests that there is any truth to that suggestion. And, certainly, no one in this White House would have given authority to take such a step.
Did you catch the idea? The PERFECT way for Scotty to escape.....he said "THIS White House".
But he said it in 2003! A NEW administration took office on January 20th, 2005.
So he can say that the OLD White House wouldn't have operated that way, but not the NEW one!
Run with it, Scotty! It's your only hope!!!!
Jeff Seemann