Wow. Talk about "spin". This is more like "nosedive".

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish () gmail com>
Date: September 8, 2005 10:53:16 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Wow. Talk about "spin". This is more like "nosedive".


http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/ 
war_room/2005/09/08/press/index.html

This brief transcript of Presidential PR flack McClellan's interaction
with a journalist attempting to get a simple "yes" or "no" answer out
of a White House spokesthing is just unbelievable.

The next time the White House Press Secretary pulls crap like this the
newspaper or news show being given an embarrassingly transparent and
desperate "handwave" like this should just print or air the entire
thing on the front page or during prime time, verbatim.  Our government
seems to think they can just be blithely, even snidely, unaccountable
and unaswering, without any reaction from America and the world.  As
long as the public exposure of "screw the people and screw the truth"
farces like this remains in the blogosphere, that may well end up
actually being true.



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