Daily Show Scott McClellan interview John Stewart part 1

[eleny]

Run time: 08:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFBrguALOvc   Posted on YouTube: June 03, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 03, 2008 By DU Member: eleny Views on DU: 862

 

[canucksawbones]

1. why is it

that only a comedian can deliver the real news.....

GK

[Prophet 451]

10. Because he IS a comedian...

...essentially, it's that old saw that only small children and fools (jesters) can get away with telling teh emperor that he has no clothes.

[R Merm]

21. Because with the Bush Administration comedians have been

making all the news

[pacalo]

2. I saw this on the Daily Show site. Excellent interview.

[JDPriestly]

3. This is the most significant video that I have seen in a long, long, long, long time.

Here we have a member of the Bush administration admitting that Bush lied about the war, that the administration conspired in lying about the war. This is more important than the Downing Street Memo, far more important.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. K/R

I going to vote now.

[whistle]

5. Stewart makes good points, McClellan just may get scapegoated after all

[wildbilln864]

6. k&r! nt

[Martunez]

7. What if I get called to testify to Congress?

Just fuckin' say something!

Brilliant--and not far from the truth, I'm sure.

It's beautiful how Stewart refuses to allow Scottie to use his glib but vague catch-phrases.

[orleans]

8. 5th recommendation. n/t

[rusty quoin]

9. That was good K&R

[AlbertCat]

11. Scott, Scott, Scott

A lie is a lie....even if those people had convinced themselves it was true...for their convenience (A point you fail to mention). Frankly it was all too convenient, doncha think? And if one is so easily self delusional, then one is not qualified for a top government position. Self deluding people of this depth do not generally make it to a President of the US's advisory position....conserning going to war. That's WAR, Scott, Sure one or two might rise that high, but as many as told us about mushroom clouds and exactly where such and such amount of serin gas is buried?

The "delusion" scenario....the "they were acting in good faith" ploy is weak here simply because so many people who had the truth flashed before them either ignored it or spun it. We know all those Congress-people voted like sheep to go with the flow and save their jobs and that is the business as usual in DC you are talking about, Scott. But that's also a bunch of people who know exactly what they are up to. Bush and company LIED and if Clinton deserves to get impeached for lying, so do all those from Bush & Cheney on down.

[liberalcanuck]

19. I agree in particular with your last paragraph. Scottie is still offering

a defense even if it's the "Yeah, they were pretty much incompetent but acted in good faith" defense. I love how Stewart nailed that the Chimp and co. deliberately spun the information to go to war. For some reason, Scottie has a real problem laying it out there like that.

[geckosfeet]

12. Snotty Scotty - still dancing around the truth,,,,

[Dollface]

20. I think the fact that he didn't turn on Bush like a rabid dog makes it harder to discredit him

I'm inclined to give the guy a break. He found out that he was being lied to and used and that his hero (GWB ewww) had let it happen. It had to be hard to accept that little bit of reality after serving the guy for more than a decade.

[defendandprotect]

13. Was just watching this again --- Jon does a great job . . .

McClellan still wants to stay in denial ---

But, Jon brings it home to him --- !!!

[bjobotts]

14. The kool aid is strong stuff. He's still defending them.Yeah they lied but they really didn't mean2

[jonnyra]

15. Lets not be too quick to dismiss McClellan

over some of his annoyances. We have a former member of the bush/cheney crime family directly accusing them of the very crimes we have accused them of. You can denounce him all you want but the smarter move would be to get behind what McClellan is saying and use it as a suppository on McCain. We now have testimony from an insider as to the lying and deception by the criminal white house...the very white house McCain is beholden to. Seems to me we should be running with that not dismissing it.

[theFrankFactor]

16. You may be interested in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx4FowV_V6A

Comparing O'Reilly and Stewart on McClellan Interview

Both Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart are among the plethora of media personalities interviewing Scott McClellan on his new tell-all book, "What Happened".

This segment takes a brief look at the differing styles and values of O'Reilly versus Stewart. Could the contrasting styles and priorities be seen as classic models of the authoritarian versus the liberal ethos?

[Dollface]

18. Thanks for the link. That was much better then the analysis I made of the difference in the two

styles. All I came up with was that O'Lielly is a prick.

[AlbertCat]

22. What happened....

.... O'Reilly's interview was about O'Reilly and O'Reilly's views.

Stewart's interview was about the content of the book and what it says and doesn't say.

O'Reilly was there to attack Scott.

Stewart was there to ask the man about his book.

Period.

This is a good lesson on how to and how not to interview someone.

And that Comedy Central....a comedy station, got it right and Fox News, a supposed news station was miles away from getting it right speaks volumes for both networks.

[gatorboy]

17. Was Scotty on last night? n/t