Rove Responds to McClellan's Allegations
Karl Rove appeared on Hannity & Colmes tonight and was asked about Scott McClellan's allegations in his upcoming new book regarding the Bush Administration and Karl Rove on a number of issues.
Rove was asked about the allegation that he and Scooter Libby had a private meeting after meeting with Bush and McClellan's suggestion that it seemed "suspicious" (related to the Plame affair) because they never met privately. Rove said that it was totally false, as he met with Libby "all the time." Rove said it was "definitely not" about the Plame affair because his lawyer specifically told him never to discuss any information with anyone else in the White House. (And reminded us that it has long since been revealed that it was Dick Armitage who accidentally "leaked" the information to Bob Novak.)
On McClellan's suggestion that the Bush Administration was "in denial" for a week following Hurricane Katrina, Karl Rove said that he doesn't think McClellan was in any of the meetings, which took huge amounts of time in the immediate aftermath. Further, Rove pointed to these examples of how "out of the loop" McClellan was on certain issues.
I am not sure what to make of McClellan's accusations except that he's trying to sell his book and probably needed at least some red meat to sell it. I was always wholly unimpressed with McClellan's performance and thought that he did President Bush a terrible injustice with his inarticulate ways of talking to the press. (I often wondered how someone so seemingly inept at speaking could ever become press secretary, but that's another story.) Tony Snow was a huge asset to President Bush to which McClellan simply couldn't compare.
Perhaps McClellan was annoyed that he was removed from his post to be replaced by Tony Snow, perhaps he's trying to make some money, or perhaps he simply wants to be well-liked by the liberal media crowd in Washington, DC, where he lives. Of course, the media will seize on these comments and discuss them ad nauseum, while completely ignoring Douglas Feith's War and Decision that had a very different point about the Iraq War and the facts surrounding the lead-up to it (not to mention that it was well-sourced rather than primarily hearsay and speculation).
HotAir has the video here.
Rove was asked about the allegation that he and Scooter Libby had a private meeting after meeting with Bush and McClellan's suggestion that it seemed "suspicious" (related to the Plame affair) because they never met privately. Rove said that it was totally false, as he met with Libby "all the time." Rove said it was "definitely not" about the Plame affair because his lawyer specifically told him never to discuss any information with anyone else in the White House. (And reminded us that it has long since been revealed that it was Dick Armitage who accidentally "leaked" the information to Bob Novak.)
On McClellan's suggestion that the Bush Administration was "in denial" for a week following Hurricane Katrina, Karl Rove said that he doesn't think McClellan was in any of the meetings, which took huge amounts of time in the immediate aftermath. Further, Rove pointed to these examples of how "out of the loop" McClellan was on certain issues.
I am not sure what to make of McClellan's accusations except that he's trying to sell his book and probably needed at least some red meat to sell it. I was always wholly unimpressed with McClellan's performance and thought that he did President Bush a terrible injustice with his inarticulate ways of talking to the press. (I often wondered how someone so seemingly inept at speaking could ever become press secretary, but that's another story.) Tony Snow was a huge asset to President Bush to which McClellan simply couldn't compare.
Perhaps McClellan was annoyed that he was removed from his post to be replaced by Tony Snow, perhaps he's trying to make some money, or perhaps he simply wants to be well-liked by the liberal media crowd in Washington, DC, where he lives. Of course, the media will seize on these comments and discuss them ad nauseum, while completely ignoring Douglas Feith's War and Decision that had a very different point about the Iraq War and the facts surrounding the lead-up to it (not to mention that it was well-sourced rather than primarily hearsay and speculation).
HotAir has the video here.
posted by Richie Rich | 9:18 PM
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