Here's the latest transcript of a White House press briefing posted on their official website. From all the TV clips of White House press briefings I've seen over the last few years I've always known how Orwellian and self-serving they were, but this is the first time I've seen one as text. They're even worse than I thought.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/12/20041210-9.html
How does Scott McClellan sleep at night? Anyone who can, with a straight face, invent and regurgatate this sophist crap has to be a sleeze-ball of the first order. Is a pat on the head from Dubya (along with a nice fat paycheck) enough to assuage his conscience--assuming he has one. Again, how does Scott McClellan keep his skin from crawling when he lies down at night in that terryfying, existential, self-reflective time between awareness and sleep? And what brings these reporters back again and again to get non-answers--another fat paycheck and a chance to hobnob with power? It must be like trying to dance with a partner who won't move their feet, or a repeated sexual encounter that always ends in frustration. Not once is there ever a real answer to a real question. Hell, with a little effort we could do away with human presence altogether; someone could easily compile a compendium of stock phrases and cliches, insert them into a computer program, and then just let the software answer the reporter's questions automatically. The pen may be mighter than the sword, but not if the ink's integrity has been diluted. Can you say Winston Smith? Can you say 1984?