Ongoing investigation! Ongoing investigation!
Hero/patriot David Gregory and others jump all over WH spokes-liar Scott McClellan after President Stupid prejudged an... well, you know the rest.
Q: But it's hypocritical. You have a policy for some investigations and not others, when it's a political ally who you need to get work done?
MR. McCLELLAN: Call it presidential prerogative; he responded to that question. But the White House established a policy --
Q: Doesn't it raise questions about his credibility that he's going to weigh in on some matters and not others, and we're just supposed to sit back and wait for him to decide what he wants to comment on and influence?
MR. McCLELLAN: Congressman DeLay's matter is an ongoing legal proceeding --
Q: As is the Fitzgerald investigation --
MR. McCLELLAN: The Fitzgerald investigation is --
Q: -- As you've told us ad nauseam from the podium.
MR. McCLELLAN: It's an ongoing investigation, as well.
Q: How can you not -- how can you say there's differences between the two, and we're supposed to buy that? There's no differences. The President decided to weigh in on one, and not the other.
MR. McCLELLAN: There are differences.
Q: And the public is supposed to accept the fact that he's got no comment on the conduct of senior officials of the White House, but when it's a political ally over on the Hill who's got to help him get work done, then he's happy to try to influence that legal process.
MR. McCLELLAN: No, not at all. Not at all. You can get all dramatic about it, but you know what our policy is. Go ahead, Paula.
Q: I do have a question about White House ethics guidelines --
MR. McCLELLAN: I think the American people understand.
Q: Fuck, dude! No, they don't! And the only thing that's dramatic is the inconsistency of the policy and you trying to defend it.
MR. McCLELLAN: ... fuck ...
MR. McCLELLAN: Call it presidential prerogative; he responded to that question. But the White House established a policy --
Q: Doesn't it raise questions about his credibility that he's going to weigh in on some matters and not others, and we're just supposed to sit back and wait for him to decide what he wants to comment on and influence?
MR. McCLELLAN: Congressman DeLay's matter is an ongoing legal proceeding --
Q: As is the Fitzgerald investigation --
MR. McCLELLAN: The Fitzgerald investigation is --
Q: -- As you've told us ad nauseam from the podium.
MR. McCLELLAN: It's an ongoing investigation, as well.
Q: How can you not -- how can you say there's differences between the two, and we're supposed to buy that? There's no differences. The President decided to weigh in on one, and not the other.
MR. McCLELLAN: There are differences.
Q: And the public is supposed to accept the fact that he's got no comment on the conduct of senior officials of the White House, but when it's a political ally over on the Hill who's got to help him get work done, then he's happy to try to influence that legal process.
MR. McCLELLAN: No, not at all. Not at all. You can get all dramatic about it, but you know what our policy is. Go ahead, Paula.
Q: I do have a question about White House ethics guidelines --
MR. McCLELLAN: I think the American people understand.
Q: Fuck, dude! No, they don't! And the only thing that's dramatic is the inconsistency of the policy and you trying to defend it.
MR. McCLELLAN: ... fuck ...
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