FOX Launches Coordinated Assault on McClellan

If there is any doubt that FOX is the Republican/Bush propaganda machine, take a look at how they're going after Scott McClellan in the wake of his tell-all book about the Bush administration, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. Having received their orders, FOX hosts and pundits have begun attacking McClellan and conjuring scenarios to explain how a former loyal Bushie would dare to be (gasp!) repentant about the lies he told, unwittingly or not, and would want to expose the propaganda campaign that led America into the worst foreign policy debacle in its history.

ThinkProgress has assembled a compilation of motherFOXers weighing in on McClellan with their patented deceptive blend of opinion/commentary/fake reporting, including:

Brad Blakeman, former White House staffer: "A publisher got to him and he waved a lot of money, I'm sure, in front of him and he took the bait and that is just unfortunate."

Trent Duffy, former White House deputy press secretary: "It's like he just turned over the pen to a publisher and signed his name at the bottom and got a big fat book contract."

Bill O'Reilly: "McClellan is in it for the bucks, keeping in mind his publisher also distributes books by George Soros and other far left people."

Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary: "And I talked to Scott yesterday and Scott did tell me, that his editor, this is Scott's words, 'tweaked some things closely in the last few months.' And I think what did happen, Bill, was the book was pretty much done and set and Scott went back in, and I think his editor wrote a lot of it."

Newt Gingrich, former House speaker: "Here is this guy who want to sell books. He's cut his ties to the administration and his publisher says, 'Now look, you can spice it up a little bit.'"

Steve Doocy: "Apparently the publisher did some tweaking. How much? That's a really good question."

Wait a minute, Fleischer, Gingrich and Doocy -- are you actually claiming that a publisher might hire an editor to EDIT a book? My stars! I may swoon. I also heard a rumor that McClellan typed the book on a liberal Mac laptop, too.

It's amazing to me that the Bush administration is freaking out about things that everyone already knows to be true: the Bush administration waged a powerful propaganda campaign to fool the press and the rest of the country into supporting the Iraq war; Karl Rove is a liar whose sausage-like fingers were all up in every shady scheme waged by the Bush administration; the Bush administration exhibited mind-boggling incompetence dealing with Hurricane Katrina; etc. etc. etc. Really, what on earth does the Bush administration think it's defending? "No, it's not that we're liars -- we're just incompetent idiots who have no idea what's happening around us." Yeah, that's much better.

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Comments

[oncethere]

In the last 15 or so years, Fox and Right-Wing Radio have mounted a frontal assault on liberals and liberalism, the equal of Hitler's propaganda campaign against the Jews and Communists. Only dfference being, the latter's morphing into mass murder. But, make no mistake about it, Fox and Right Wing Radio want to defeat and destroy liberals and liberalism. Hannity and Limbaugh use these action words frequently.

[dadw5boys]

SORRY I BLOCKED THE FOX NETWORK A LONGTIME AGO!!!!!

I had to stop them from making me stupid with their misinformation and misdirection to protect this CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION that is in the Whitehouse.

[BethStuart]

I recall Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox News) commissioned O. J. Simpson's book "If I did it" and paid him over a million dollars. I also recall that O.J. wrote none of it. Murdoch's editor did all the writing.

[lennix]

fox is a big joke real puppets for the rich bosses that own them and as munch as they trot about they are great americans they are less so becuase if you lie for someone that sent men and women to a war that you know was a lie and carry the banner for them are not reporters or americans but hidding behind the flag and using it to fool the real americans and lead the world aganist us and what we stand for no you are not one of us but all of you are fakes.

[pastgone]

Of course, as always, they attack the messenger and not the message. And it's a pretty lame attack, in this case. While quite a few folks on the left are going after McClellan for waiting until now to spill the beans, I think he's to be congratulated for writing this book, at least. Now, I can't wait for Vincent Bugliosi's!

[disgustedcitizen]

I would have been surprised it the faux propaganda machine had not spun up into full "protect the bush" mode.

However, remember they are only fooling around 22% of the people anymore.

[dadw5boys]

THAT IS STILL 66,000,000 Americans.

Hey wait, there have been over 200,000 war protesters in Washington.
]So more people are protesting Bush and the war than believe him.

And the Media still does not cover American Protesters!

[nyboomer]

Faux News has always exhibited a distinct allergy to truth and truth tellers.

No one is asserting that Scottie's book is a tissue of lies. They are claiming that he should never have confirmed the blatant and intentional lies of this administration. Such perfidy as truth telling is unforgiveable and inexcusable to America's right wingers.

[VivaZapata]

Fox will slowly lose its audience, going the way of Murdoch's rag of a paper, the New York Post, if they continue to be merely a mouthpiece for the bogus presidency of W. Bush.

[Kalemanao]

F (forget) FOX. LOL. No more importance than any Republican running for office in 2008. REMINDER: The WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS WAS LATE! Not Scott McClellan. Reflect back on a bunch of those press
conferences he "gave" during those recent years as Deputy WH Press Sec. It is my belief, McClellan's
answers to some of the questions conveyed an OBVIOUS message to those who were listening.
I am convinced some members of the White House Press got the message. But... DID NOTHING.
As usual, most of the esteem WH Press Corps were... waiting... to be handed the Official White House Press
Release before they could submit "their" story. Already, some are on the defensive...
They are "puzzled" and Scott is "not the Scott McClellan they knew"... Talk about better late than never.

[radiclib]

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Just more turds from the Fox crap factory.

Let's follow their logic: It is now somehow evil and wrong to try to earn money from your work in our great free enterprise economy. And it is especially terrible if you are telling the truth.

Who knew?

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[littlepuffycloud]

Did anyone really expect anything different from Fox? They'll probably 'find' something to make Scott look either insane or on drugs.

[4wehttam]

Maybe this time around the damn MSM won't sit idly by and let the Bush cronies mishandle American interests.....................I'll keep my fingers crossed.

At least the American people are more alert and oriented with our government and wanting to be engaged in the political arena. We can't let them took over OUR rights little by little any longer.

[RickO]

The volume of backlash is proportionate to the truth they want to bury.

[TexasDem0]

The right wing wants to discredit Scott McClellan to protect their collective, corrupt posteriors.
This Pandora’s box is the door to a very long list of very long overdue indictments.

[pastgone]

Fortunately, there's no statute of limitations on murder.

[RabidRightRebel]

The rabid right are foaming at the mouth! LOL