And as shown on last night's Countdown with Keith Olberman...Q In your denunciations of the Abu Ghraib photos, you've used words like 'sickening,' 'disgusting' and 'reprehensible.' Will you have any adjectives left to adequately describe the pictures from Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers? And will Americans ever see those images?
MR. McCLELLAN: I'm glad you brought that up, Jeff, because the President talks about that often.
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Q Last Friday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that shows that Ambassador Joe Wilson lied when he said his wife didn't put him up for the mission to Niger. The British inquiry into their own prewar intelligence yesterday concluded that the President's 16 words were 'well-founded.' Doesn't Joe Wilson owe the President and America an apology for his deception and his own intelligence failure?
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Q I'd like to comment on the angry mob that surrounded Karl Rove's house on Sunday. They chanted and pounded on the windows until the D.C. police and Secret Service were called in. The protest was organized by the National People's Action Coalition, whose members receive taxpayer funds, as well as financial support from groups including Theresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation.
MR. McCLELLAN: I would just say that, one, we appreciate and understand concerns that people may have. I would certainly hope that people would respect the families of White House staff.
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Q Since there have been so many questions about what the President was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda, denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Did he testify before Congress that American troops committed war crimes in Vietnam? And did he throw somebody else's medals at the White House to protest a war America was still fighting?
Source: Washington Post
Why is it that Scott McClellan called out James D. Guckert as "Jeff Gannon" when he knew his real name, since McClellan certainly knew his real name, as in order to receive a press pass, the administration conducts a background check?MCCLELLAN: Jeff, go ahead.
GANNON: Thank you. With all the reaching out that‘s going on around here, the president said Thursday in his press conference that he was reaching out to the Press Corps. What did he mean by that and why would he will feel the need to reach out to a group of supposedly nonpartisan people?
Source: MSNBC
As White House correspondent for the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin puts it:
Where do all these fake journalists come from? Do I count? (Remember the fake Medicare news reports. Remember the columnists being paid by the administration to shill for Bush's proposals; there have already been three of them discovered.)Pretty much every day, Gannon got cleared into the White House briefing room by a press office that knew his real name. Press Secretary Scott McClellan frequently called on him during the mid-day briefings, using his fake name.
Source: Washington Post
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