After about 24 hours of watching the left trying to make something of a snippet of Scott McClellan’s new book… it turns out out that there wasn’t any ‘there’ there…
WASHINGTON -(AP)- [1] Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan does not believe President Bush lied to him about the role of White House aides I. Lewis Scooter Libby or Karl Rove in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity, according to McClellan’s publisher.
Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan’s book in April, tells NBC from his Connecticut home that McCLellan, “Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him.”
Osnos says when McClellan went before the White House press corps in 2003 to publicly exonerate Libby and Rove, the problem was that his statement was not true. Osnos said the president told McClellan what “he thought to be the case.” But, he says, McClellan believes, “the president didn’t know it was not true.”
In fact, it says as much in the book, whence, of course Osnos gets his information.
[2]And so, once again, we see the leftards are desperate to get anything they can on George W Bush, leaping at every shadow… and the supposed mainstream media with them… and as soon as they both get a good head of steam going over some bit of minutiae, (Aha.. at last, we’ve got him!!!) …the football disappears from view, and they’re looking at sky, and feeling the hard ground on their back, yet again.
Don’t you EVER learn, Charlie Brown?