McClellan Book

Source: journalism.indiana.edu --- 4 days ago
Riley Visiting Professor Dennis Elliott’s column on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new Book appeared in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette in June. Elliott said he felt compelled to defend the public relations profession after McClellan’s Book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, provoked commentary and misunderstandings [...] ...

Source: mikerupert.newsvine.com --- 16 days ago
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan slams President Bush on domestic and foreighn issues, such as Iraq and Hurrican Katrina, in his upcoming memoir Saying Bush was not "open and forthright on Iraq" and was slow in his response to Katrina. ...

Source: www.nelsonguirado.com --- 28 days ago
Hoping to boost sales in South Florida, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan has translated his best-selling memoir of his White House years, What Happened , into Cuban-American, renaming it Wha' Happen' . In addition to the now-famous passages, McClellan adds that Rove and Cheney would often hold cock fights in the Rose Garden and that Donald Rumsfeld "was one heck of a Salsa Dancer... echaba candela! " McClellan reports further on George Bush's rush to war in Iraq with this overheard conversation: Bush: Wha' we do abou' el H-P , man? Halliburton executive: We shoo' go there, an' kill 'em. Asi, pla pla pla. Bush: I'll sen' a cohete por su cu** . Wha' you call that? Halliburton executive: "Choc-en-o." Bush: Eso , an' later, voy yo y me ca. ..[inaudible] en su madre. Alli mi'mito en frente de to' mundo. Halliburton executive: You better be quie' man. The Mcmierda e'ta por alla, alli por el over there. Bush: Aaaa, ese . You mean el comemie*** ese? Le's sen' Condi pa' asu'tarlo. What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan In a new twist, Scott McClellan has released a soundtrack to Wha' Happen'. We have some selections below: Wha' Happen' by Pupi Campo: Rhumbas and Mambos 1948-1951 Que le pasa a esa mujer by Sierra Maestra: Cuba - Fully Charged Que es lo que pasa by Rolando Laserie: EL GUAPACHOSO by ROLANDO LASERIE Celia Cruz with No se lo que me pasa: La Guarachera de Cuba Bi ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 62 days ago
AP - On his Book promotion stopover here, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan was squired around by a "literary escort," a pleasant woman named Naomi who drives visiting authors to their speaking engagements in a blue convertible. There were no motorcades, no street closures, no Secret Service. ...

Source: www.xanga.com --- 33 days ago
I have found two ways of cheating in life recently, and I thought I'd share them with you. One of these is probably of significantly less interest to the males in my readership, at least for the next 20 years, until men give in to the relentless capitalist drive to buy makeup. I'll start with the other cheating trick. Lately, I've been thinking and deceiving myself that I'd like to read a bunch of these political memoirs that are coming out. I even have one or two semi-memoirs, like John Yoo's Book, War by Other Means . It has, however, become abundently clear that reading (actually reading) these books is a waste of time. But you know what else is a waste of time? Walking between my office and the train station every day. That's about 20-30 minutes each way that is wasted. ("Wasted." I don't really believe in wasting time, but we'll leave that for another day.) So a couple weeks ago, I downloaded a couple audiobooks I'd been meaning to read--the type of Book that it won't matter if I tune out for 10-30 seconds to look both ways to cross the street, etc. Guess what is perfect for that? Political memoirs. So far, in 1.5 weeks, I've listened to Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope and half of Scott McClellan's What Happened : Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception . Both of these are books I would never have bothered to get past page 20 on, honestly. Audacity of Hope is, predictably, better, but what has really surp ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 25 days ago
In his new Book, "Full of Bull: Do What Wall Street Does, Not What it Says, to Make Money in the Market" (FT Press), former analyst Stephen McClellan says most top analysts do more marketing than research. ...

Source: www.salon.com --- 29 days ago
Apparently, Obama-bashing is good for business. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported on a wave of recently released books critical of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama that are, so far, enjoying brisk sales. The titles read like a TimeLife collection of Obama-hating favorites. "The Case Against Barack Obama," by National Review Online reporter David Freddoso, was just released, and Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality" also recently hit store shelves. Finally, former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, coauthored "Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It." (This may qualify as the longest and most convoluted subtitle of all time. We're checking with Guinness.) All three books have shown strong sales numbers so far and, as of this post, they're all in Amazon.com's list of its top 25 bestsellers. For insight as to why the books are selling so well, the AP turned to Peter Osnos, founder of PublicAffairs, the publisher of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's recent Book. "Obama is a fresh subject -- it's all new ground," Osnos said. "McCain doesn't have the same kind of resonance, it's nothing in comparison, because you can ...

Source: www.mediabistro.com --- 51 days ago
In President George W. Bush 's press conference today, he dodged a question by CNN's Ed Henry about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan 's Book "What Happened." I have had no comment, and no comment now on Scott's Book. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media ...

Source: www.crooksandliars.com --- 21 days ago
  Typical Bill O’Reilly. Just because Obama hasn’t gone on his show yet—he feels it’s OK to have a smear Book written about Barack. There are plenty of them out there about Bush, proclaims Bill. He names McClellan’s Book as a smear Book. Scott, aren’t you glad you hung out with O’Reilly?  Download | Play   Download | Play (h/t [...] ...

Source: journalism.indiana.edu --- 4 days ago
Doctoral student Gerry Lanosga and his former WTHR-TV colleagues have been nominated for a national Emmy award for investigative reporting based on their series, Cause for Alarm, that spotlighted the emergency broadcast system in the central Indiana. RelatedRead more about this project.Cookman curating Kinsey exhibit (Aug. 31)Elliott column addresses PR profession, McClellan Book (Aug. 31)Parameswaran [...] ...

Source: journalism.indiana.edu --- 1 day ago
Associate professor Holly Stocking has been named to the advisory board of the Women in Science initiative at Indiana University.RelatedJohnson hosts Profiles (Sept. 3)Cookman curating Kinsey exhibit (Aug. 31)Elliott column addresses PR profession, McClellan Book (Aug. 31) ...

Source: newsbusters.org --- 28 days ago
Rich Noyes, the MRC's Director of Research, appeared on FNC's Fox & Friends program earlier this morning. He disucussed how the news media are all too eager to publicize anti-Bush administration books with harsh allegations, such as the much hyped 'The Way of the World' by Ron Suskind and the recent Book by former Bush administration spokesman Scott McClellan. "They certainly do have a lot of promotion. This Book by Ron Suskind -- he was on the Today show two days this week, he was on NBC Nightly News. He was on MSNBC. CNN's had him." On the other hand, when it comes to anti-Obama books, Noyes highlighted how the authors of those books have not been on those same programs. "It's the anti-Bush books that get all the air time." Noyes also contrasted how the media warmly received the Scott McClellan Book versus how they 'yawned' at his predecessor Ari Fleischer's Book. "They're not interested in what former Bush administration press secretaries have to say. They're interested in books that trash the President." ...

Source: airamerica.com --- 29 days ago
Well, they'd have to, wouldn't they? But they language they're using is a league beyond the usual arrogant dismissals, as if they can barely be bothered with something so off-the-wall. No, this time - after McClellan did them some heavy damage with their own people - they're going all-out . It's "gutter journalism". It's "absurd". In BushSpeak, that's tantamount to an admission that Suskind's right. The Bush administration joined former top CIA officials in denouncing a new Book's assertion that White House officials ordered the forgery of Iraqi documents to suggest a link between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the lead hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. read more ...

Source: www.24-7pressrelease.com --- 5 days ago
Inspired by the political success of Senator Barack Obama, author and award-winning speaker Brian McClellan prepares to release his latest Book A Love Letter to Black People: Audaciously Hopeful Thoughts on Race and Success. ...

Source: pipes.yahoo.com --- 24 days ago
Dear editor, praise God; unlikely people can wake up! Former White House Press Secretary and Bush loyalist, Scott McClellan, in a just-released Book, confesses that instead of effective and honest government, Americans were subjected by the Bush administration to a “permanent campaign” that was “all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president’s advantage” and that Bush relied on an aggressive “political propaganda campaign” instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war. ...

Source: www.newshounds.us --- 18 days ago
I had equipment failure Friday so totally missed FOX and Friends, but RawStory caught this little gem: "Fox suggests swiftboat author being swiftboated himself." Aawww, is the smear merchant being called out publicly this time? Compare and contrast this defense with the attacks on Scott McClellan , Richard Clarke , and Paul O'Neill , and get back to me on that fairandbalanced thing. One note: in the video Steve Doocy states that the Book is number one on the NYTimes bestseller list with a "dagger," which (per Doocy) means "The New York Times is saying [Corsi's] Book, Obama Nation, is being bought in bulk by a bunch of conservatives." Corsi says that's not true, "the sales are all retail sales." But per the NYT website , "A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders." It's a propaganda twofer: Doocy is misstating the Times policy and falsely ascribing an accusation to them, and he and Corsi give an incorrect impression that the sales are all individual. The sales may indeed be retail , but the customers are buying in bulk, per the stores' own reporting to the New York Times. Corsi can't cherry-pick which portions of the retailers' reporting he wants to believe - it's got to be all or nothing. ...

Source: www.swamppolitics.com --- 23 days ago
by Johanna Neuman Maybe this is why Texan Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, disdainfully refers to the committee's investigation into President Bush's policies as "the Book-of-the-month club." Since George W. Bush took office in 2001, books have proliferated about his alleged misdeeds , as noted in the L.A. Times' Countdown to Crawford , and Congress has made eager witnesses of their authors. No one likes books more, it seems, than committee chairman Democrat John Conyers of Michigan. "You should see Mr. Conyers' library," confided one staffer. There was Allen Raymond, whose How to Rig an Election prompted hearings into whether Republican operatives routinely steal elections -- and why the Justice Department is not prosecuting them. Then there was Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman who wrote a Book called What Happened . In the aptly named kiss-and-tell memoir, McClellan accused Karl Rove (the president's man), I. Lewis Scooter Libby (the vice president's man) and even President Bush (presumably his own man) of misleading him during the Valerie Plame incident. Now comes journalist Ron Suskind, whose The Way of the World alleges that senior Bush administration officials ordered the forgery and dissemination of false intelligence documents to convince Congress -- and the public -- of the need to go to war in Iraq. Conyers has ordered a thorough review of the underlying allegations and th ...

Source: www.altenergystocks.com --- 18 days ago
On Sunday, Tom Philpott at Peak Energy told us about The End of Food . The Book, that is. While food is neither alt energy not cleantech, it is a key environmental theme in my view and will grow in importance as the effects of climate change are felt across the globe. On Monday, David McClellan at Solve Climate argued that the costs of nuclear energy were rising out of reach . A good attempt at coming up with a comparison of wind and nuclear prices, and interesting in the context of my earlier article on power plant costs . On Tuesday, Matthew McDermott at TreeHugger told us about a new software that allows windfarms to predict output to four days in advance . Whenever I cheer wind on, and I do that a lot, I get comments to the effect that wind won`t ever count for much because of predictability and dispachability problems. To that I answer: if you`re paying no attention to technological developments on the storage and predictability fronts, you`re missing the boat. On Wednesday, Andy Hoffman and Derek DeCloet at the Globe & Mail informed us that Timminco had faded under market glare . And so it goes for Timminco ( TIMNF.PK ), arguably the biggest solar story of 2007 because no one saw it coming. Moral of the story? Solar remains marred in technology risks. This is an industry that is in flux and not unlike the internet in the 1990s; it'll be game-changing one day but there is no way to tell today what the industry will look like once ...

Source: www.observer.com --- 36 days ago
On Tuesday, July 29, an uptown crowd of socials gathered at Michael’s to celebrate a new Book called Party Favors: A Novel of Politics and Greed , about the corrupt ways of Washington, D.C. political fundraising. The author, Nicole Sexton, spent 15 years in Washington as a Republican Party fundraiser working for the likes of former Virginia Senator George Allen, North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole and publisher Steve Forbes, when he ran for president in 2000. Ms Sexton has since departed for a more do-gooding role working for Bono’s One Campaign against global poverty and AIDS, but not before she wrote the novel--which she described as " Legally Blonde meets Thank You For Smoking "--based on how she went from a naive White House intern to a disillusioned GOP insider.  read more » ...

Source: www.newshounds.us --- 22 days ago
Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points , 8/13, was a message to Barack Obama about what might happen if he doesn't appear on The Factor. BOR brought up Corsi's Book claiming it is #1 because Barack Obama has refused to define himself so people will seek answers in Corsi"s Obama Nation . As the TPM continued, it sounded more and more like O'Reilly was channeling Tony Soprano warning Obama to either come on his show or suffer the consequences. On one hand, O'Reilly tried to play down the potential power of this 2008 attempt to swiftboat Obama comparing Obama Nation to Scott McClellan's recent Book about the Bush administration. On the other hand, he made sure to note that it was #1 on the NYT Bestsellers List because people have not been given access to Obama's true self. There was no mention of Obama's memoir, Dreams from my Father , as an excellent source of information for curious voters. Even Jerome Corsi seemed to like Obama's Book since he frequently used it as a source. Then he made his pitch saying that Barack Obama had promised to come on The Factor after the primary. " He looked me in the eye and patted me on my shoulder." He warned that " the dance has been going on much too long" and "what am I to think?... " As a journalist and a voter I would like to know why Barack Obama is so hesitant about defining himself?" Then offering the ultimatum O'Reilly said, "If Barack Obama continues to hide himself from American voters, he encou ...