Watching Newshour's feature this evening on "shillling" the Medicare prescription drug plan (replete with a "MEDICARE" tour bus that would do Motley Crue proud), I was struck by the creepy similarities between the main subject and interviewee/huckster (Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and previous Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Dr. Mark McClellan) and Bush Designated Liar Scott McClellan... a quick Google search and I was stunned, though not surprised to learn that it is, in fact, Scotty's brother, a fact I was (embarassingly) unaware of... in my Google search, I happened upon this gem (from the White House website)... really the entire Bush Presidency in a nutshell...
I feel it is incumbent (pun intended) upon me to share...
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The McClellan Brothers' Pre-Katrina Press Gaggle
As if the astonishing nepotism of the Brothers McClellan holding forth weren't enough, this little dog and pony show took place at the very moment (August 29, 2005) Hurricane Katrina was poised to unleash her fury on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast... this one little event had it all... the President "checking in" from AF1... Brownie... the works... a fascinating snapshot...
Curious though.. does anyone know who came first, Scotty or Marky???
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