So Mr. Bush, Are You A Criminal Or Just Out Of Touch?

It is now post-Turkey Day and a week since Scott McClellan's publisher provided an excerpt from his upcoming book. That excerpt showed that McClellan had no idea he had passed on false information from Rove, Cheney, Bush et.al and now he is ready to cash his chips out for this very lucrative book deal. Everyone has had some time to digest their turkey and the clip from Scotty's book....so what does the pResident have to say about it?

From SignOnSanDiego:

The excerpt, posted on the Web site of publisher PublicAffairs, renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. For years, it was McClellan's job to field – and often duck – those types of questions.

Now that he's spurring them, answers are equally hard to come by.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said it wasn't clear what McClellan meant in the excerpt. “The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information,” she said.

Well of course he'd never do anything illegal, this is our commander in chimp chief we are talking about here. And Dana would never pass on false information about false information either, right Ms. Perino? Well if that is the case, then it was and is a sad state of affairs that Mr. Bush can not keep a lid on his very own press secretary. Right?

TBogg looks into his crystal ball on how future press conferences might go from here on out:

One months later:

White House press secretary Tony Fratto said it wasn't clear what Gordon Johnroe was going on about when talking about some woman named Perrino, and that he had no idea who Scott McClellan was. “The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information,” he said.

Six days later:

White House press secretary Joe Lieberman was clearly agitated today when he accused the nations press of playing "some kind of partisan media 'gotcha' game with the Bush Administration"when it was clearly in the nations best interest to "move on" and get behind the recent invasions of Iran, Syria, and Yemen, all of whom , according to the former Senator and current Republican Vice Presidential nominee, "harbor ginormous stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and, did I mention that they hate our freedoms?" He later added, “The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information” to the few remaining journalists who hadn't already left the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in order to start drinking heavily until they forgot their deep personal shame .

Damn, if Lieberman is press secretary number six, I pray to the almighty not to see who number seven might be.