BOR & McClellan spar over Scott's book

It's little wonder that I despise Bill O'Lielly as much as I do. The footage above is a great example of why. To BOR, only one person has an accurate and proper memory of anything, and that's him.

He's so full of it about what pushed the case for the War in Iraq over the top. According to O'Lielly, it was Colin Powell's speech at the U.N. That's BOR's partisan, myopic view, and it's about 1/8th accurate. I distinctly recall people like Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice (then National Security Advisor) mentioning "mushroom cloud" and "Iraq" in the same sentence, and President Bush doing the exact same thing. Just so you don't think my memory is as good as O'Reilly's, here's on clip of our esteemed president, pre-Iraq War, at his propaganda spewing best:

Anyway, here's a partial rough transcript of the top video, via C&L, of O'Reilly's (attempted) grilling of McClellan:

O'Reilly: You said they used propaganda and that is a loaded word.

McClellan: The White House Iraq group, the White House Iraq group was set up, it's a marketing arm for selling the a war. That was a specific purpose that I talked about in the book

O'Reilly: Because they fervently believed that the guy was a danger and could hand his weapons off.

McClellan: No because the President had a bigger driving motivation which was to transform the middle east.

O'Reilly: You telling me that President Bush didn't believe they had the...

McClellan: No, he did too. He believed that too.

OReilly: That's not propaganda then, that's not propaganda.

McClellan: It is when you package it all together—over sell it and over state it to the American people. That is propaganda.

Ooo - O'Reilly's pretty touchy about the "P" word, isn't he?

O'Reilly's rolling George Tenet footage doesn't exactly boost his case in this debate, either. Tenet is hardly a credible source when it comes to any sort of intelligence relating to 9/11 OR the War in Iraq.

Good on McClellan for bringing up about the White House Iraq Group and its role in pimping the Iraq War to the American people via an all-too-subservient corporate media.

I give major kudos to McClellan, Bush's former propaganda minister turned whistle blower, for appearing on State TV to spar with one of Bush's many current propaganda ministers, Bill O'Lielly.