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http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/009

Excerpt from BuzzFlash Editor’s Blog for November 23, 2007:

You’ve no doubt heard by now that the McClellan admission was made in a first person excerpt from a book being printed early next year by Public Affairs Press (affiliated with the Perseus Group).
While the first person confirmation of what anyone with a pea for a brain knew all along caromed across the Internet, the Washington Post and the New York Times gave it the cold shoulder, among other mainstream media outlets.

In the meantime, we suspect that the White House hit men gave McClellan and his publisher the same treatment that they have given other “made men” that ratted on them: the brass knuckles and warnings to back off if they cared about their families.

As one blogger noted: “John Dillulio calls them ‘machiavellian mayberries’ and suggests that they politicize everything–yet a week later he backs down completely. Paul O’Neill says that they planned on invading Iraq from the beginning, he is savaged by the machine.”

So the publisher, within a day backed off the first person quote by McClellan, with a rather bizarre claim that the book wasn’t finished yet, even though it was the publisher that posted the quotation on its website. McClellan was in seclusion, of course, no doubt being waterboarded by some of Cheney’s crew.

In an all too fitting and tragic irony, the mainstream media only took notice of the damning revelation of criminal behavior – certainly in the high crimes and misdemeanors category, as Valerie and Joe Wilson charge – on cue from the White House once the publisher recalled the first person quotation, which is indeed quite a remarkable feat, since clearly it would only be done under pressure, since it is hard for a publisher to post a first person quote and then claim that it was premature. What kind of credibility does that leave you with? But it was probably preferable than running a publishing house with two broken arms and a pencil rammed through your ear.

Much, much more at: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/009

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