McClellan's Book

[Fish]

My favorite part of the whole thing is the headline: White House Puzzled By Book

[gonzomax]

You could not write a book report on the book. You can not discuss his writing style. But so much has been out you can discuss the information. That has been discussed in many quarters.
He says we were propagandized into the war. The Bushies were looking for an excuse to go into Iraq.

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

@Scylla

I am shocked, just shocked that you would misrepresent my statement so. You, a paragon of equanimity and fair judgement.

What I had said was that I was awed by your abilities to pronounce judgement without having read the book, and that I lacked such capabilities.

How could you possibly think I was being snarky?

Yes, and I read the cliffnotes to Finnegans Wake. Perhaps you will come to my symposium on Joyce at the end of the month where I will reveal my scholarly insight.

I also saw the trailer to the New Indiana Jones movie and I would like to start a thread comparing and contrasting Spielberg’s use of the camera eye between that and Duel (I saw five minutes of Duel while switching back and forth during a commerical once.)

Afterwards perhaps take tea and discuss current events as derived from perusing the headlines while waiting on line to buy a donut at the quick-e-mart.

Afterwards, we can watch an episode of house on DVR and then go down to the local hospital and perform surgery as qualified physicians.

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No snark at all, my friend. You are clearly correct and justified in your opinions, and I remain overawed by the abilities of you and yours to expound so athoritatively and make such brilliant and sweeping deductions from a mere paucity of selectively chosen evidence.

I on the other hand am a mere inferior. I need due diligence before I form opinions and claim expertise. I actually need to read books before I can judge their content. Pity me.

You know, taking about the publicized revelations in a whistle blower’s book is not the same as analyzing a novel or a movie. Information is information. It doesn’t require any consideration of prose style, or pacing or literary allusions. These are not “spoilers,” or mere rumors of revelations we’re seeing. We’re getting self-contained units of new information. There is no greater context which is going to change that information. Your objection to others discussing this new information (which no one, including McClellan, has alleged is being misrepresented or false) is based on a mistaken premise.

[elucidator]

@Scylla

…How could you possibly think I was being snarky?..

The tattered communion dress, the big brown innocent eyes batting furiously, the stench of fried circuitry wafting from the smoking ruin of my Radio Shack Snarkometer…

[gonzomax]

I was just watching Mosaic. It is a program showing the main stories in middle east countries. Scotts book is a prominent story. One showed the old Baghdad Bob and the ministry of misinformation. They said we have the same thing in America.,except we call it White House Press Secretary. The difference they said, it that we actually believe the Press Secretary.

[Mumio]

@BJMoose

McClellen is scheduled to be on Countdown Thursday night. That should be interesting.

For some reason this “revelation” sticks in my mind: per McClellen, Bush simply does not remember if he ever did cocaine. I’ve heard of lost weekends, but this guy may have lost a whole decade. I’m beginning to understand why the Founding Fathers were loathe to set up a simple, thorough-going democracy. They thought “the mob” wasn’t up to governing itself well; and given that **we keep electing incompetents like Bush **to lead us, they may have been right.

:mad: I never voted for him and never would vote for any Bush family member. I learned there was no integrity there nor was there any thought for anything or anyone other than the Bush family so I’m not at all surprised that things have turned out the way they have. Despise them all, especially the one who owned the company I worked for. And yes, when I left employment I had to sign a confidentiality agreement.

[Merijeek]

@Scylla

Not only can you evaluate the book without even having read it, you can intuit the opinion that I will espouse after I’ve read it.

Truly yours is a dizzying intellect.

Could you share with us how you’ve acquired your omniscience?

Reading to the fevered rantings of a reality-free apologist for years and years has pretty much done it.

If I wanted to be really daring (and predicting your reaction in no way requires any skill in prognostication beyond “what would a lazy non-thinker do”), I would assume that some True Believer like Carol Stream will come in with some insane Blogspot “cite” informing all of us that McClellan was actually a loyal Bushie until Bill Clinton seduced him and turned him into a Patriot Hating Homo Liberal.

-Joe