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Scott McClellan is certainly making the rounds.. At least this interview is entertaining, sort of like the ‘Christians at the Coloseum being thrown in with the lions’ kind of entertaining…
Billo, in his typical junkyard dog fashion, goes for the throat, making it all about himself. He is a totally pompous, self-righteous, sanctimonious, ass. Instead of doing an interview and asking questions, Billo reacts to McClellan’s book, taking it personally (like its all about Billo), and then ridicules Scott, taking him to task for criticizing the President.
O’Reilly was particularly incensed with McClellan’s critique of President Bush’s reasons for invading Iraq, overtly to find weapons of mass destruction.
“If the director of the CIA believes it, British intelligence believes it, John Kerry believes it, Hillary Clinton believes it, and President Clinton believes it…” said O’Reilly, “If they all believe Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, sir: don’t you have a nerve accusing me of not being vigilant enough?”
O’Reilly later thundered, “If two presidents of the United States (sitting), the former CIA guy who works for both presidents, Tony Blair, and The New York Times all tell me and you [Saddam has] got [WMDs], we can’t say ‘no, he doesn’t!’
McClellan attempted to explain himself continuously through the interview, but O’Reilly could not be satisfied. “The central theme of your book is wrong,” accused O’Reilly.
29 Comments
June 3, 2008 at 8:18 am
Clinton to give it up
June 3, 2008 at 8:36 am
Breaking news on CNN: Hillary “Absolutely not” conceding this evening.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/03/election.democrats/index.html
June 3, 2008 at 8:52 am
Poor O’Biley, the only reason all those folks he listed believed that Sadaam has WMD was due to the insistence of the POTUS and his cronies that they had the goods on him.
The premise of O’Biley is wrong.
June 3, 2008 at 8:52 am
Dang it. Hackerbob got me all excited.
June 3, 2008 at 8:53 am
Hi Bobbo! Did you email me the other day on my hotmail account?? Via facebook perhaps?
June 3, 2008 at 8:56 am
gummitch, it is being reported that she’s conceding Obama has the delegates to win, she’s just going to hang on to negotiate whatever she can get out of Obama for her endorsement.
It’s over. Whew. Now for all those Clinton supporters who are saying they won’t vote for Obama because (fill in the blank). Time to smile and snuggle up…
June 3, 2008 at 9:27 am
RUC,
I may have, really do not remember.
Sorry I got everyone all excited.
June 3, 2008 at 9:39 am
PA-THE-TIC.
June 3, 2008 at 10:54 am
I think I can almost see his jugular vein popping out. I guess the truth really hurts and papa bear is having a tough time accepting the reality that his just a media puppet.
June 3, 2008 at 11:00 am
I am at the client site and can’t watch vids now. What did Scottie say? How did he handle O’Reilly? Tell me, tell me please!
June 3, 2008 at 11:01 am
More to the point, I suppose…was McClellen able to get in a word or three? Did BillO cut his mike?
June 3, 2008 at 11:12 am
Hi, MizzJ!
Scotty actually did very well on Billo’s show. Bill had his eyeballs spinning as usual, but Scotty didn’t get flustered by it at all. I think that frustrated Billo. The mike was not cut. surprising, huh?
June 3, 2008 at 11:49 am
Thanks, Madam Z!!
June 3, 2008 at 12:22 pm
well, i say, good job scotty… held his own pretty good.
and, thanks for posting that zooey…
June 3, 2008 at 12:41 pm
K.O. has the nitwit nearing an emotional breakdown
June 3, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Just another reason to love KO.
June 3, 2008 at 1:06 pm
“If the director of the CIA believes it, British intelligence believes it, John Kerry believes it, Hillary Clinton believes it, and President Clinton believes it…” said O’Reilly
Well, they were wrong.
And I don’t think they truly believed it (Mi6 surely knew Saddam had no WMD) but they say nothing because Saddam gone meant that German and French oil contracts would go directly to US/UK hands.
Next time we should ask Michael Moore, who has been 100% correct all this time.
June 3, 2008 at 1:07 pm
My sentiments exactly, Shayne (and ESL).
I keep waiting for BillO’s head to open up like some Operation game and spew white brain matter into the sky a la Old Faithful.
And it will be a beautiful thing.
June 3, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Juan, I believe BillO is a dickhead.
Zooey, believes it, too. So do you, Shayne, Dbadass, Walt, RUC, Muse…so, that means he’s a dickhead, right?
June 3, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Wait MJ, I think he’s a “little dickhead”, is that the same thing?
June 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm
“If the director of the CIA believes it, British intelligence believes it, John Kerry believes it, Hillary Clinton believes it, and President Clinton believes it…” said O’Reilly
Well, regardless of whether they truly believed Hussein was pursuing WMD, this just begs the real issue.
Do we, as a society, believe it is acceptable for Nation A to invade, overthrow the government of, and occupy Nation B, on the mere belief that Nation B might, at some point in the future, pose a threat to Nation A? Is a policy of pre-emptive war against a nation that is not a clear and immediate threat, an acceptable policy? Is it acceptable to engage a war costing hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives, when the evidence is ambiguous and when diplomatic channels have not been anywhere near fully vetted?
Well, these are rhetorical questions among the readers here, as the answers are obvious enough. But it’s interesting to watch the likes of Billo trying to paint the issue as whether or not a subset of people looking at selective intelligence believed one thing or another. Their beliefs about some bit of intelligence are not the crucial point. What matters is our collective belief in how we should govern our behavior on the international stage.
Billo is funny to watch here, though. His logic and his facts are so badly off key, one would think it would embarrass even the right wing. For example, I enjoyed how he was insistent that nuclear weapons were not WMD. He succeeded in making the otherwise detestable Scotty a sympathetic figure.
June 3, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Zooey, believes it, too. So do you, Shayne, Dbadass, Walt, RUC, Muse…so, that means he’s a dickhead, right?
Well, as one who is rather fond of the head of my dick, I resent having it compared with the likes of Billo, and I certainly don’t want to think of him every time I’m engaged in normal body functions.
I prefer to call him America’s Shitstain, as this does not insult otherwise valuable anatomy, while clearly indicating Billo’s ultimate value to the human species.
June 3, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Gorn, I reject and denounce my own statement WRT the head of your dick.
This is a wild interview. Apparently, if BillO says it enough, that alone makes it so.
June 3, 2008 at 3:57 pm
And I love how O’Reilly knows more about the insides of the administration than the guy who was inside the administration.
My head hurts.
June 3, 2008 at 4:15 pm
MsJoanne: Gorn and MiniGorn both thank you.
Okay, maybe I shouldn’t use “mini” in that context.
As far as Billo goes, it’s astonishing that America would give top ratings to a blustering, not-too-bright schoolyard bully. He kind of reminds me of Biff from Back to the Future. (Maybe that’s his brother: Biff O’Reilly… )
June 3, 2008 at 4:18 pm
MiniGorn? You must be very secure…
June 3, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Well, all things are relative…
June 3, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Heh.
June 3, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Gorn, what an incestuous statement, dear.
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