Good grief -- I just got done writing an update on the McClellan post from this morning when I read this.

Think Progress has a video up of former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee. In it, Huckabee calls former Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s revelation that Bush may have known about the leak / was involved in one way or another in the cover-up, etc., “stunning.” He also said: “They deserve to be thoroughly examined, investigated, and the truth brought to the American people.” Adding that “President Bush should personally respond to the charges.”

Too bad that both Huckabee )and Michael van der Galiën of The Van Der Galiën Gazette) fell into the same trap that the Left and the media did when this transparent publicity ploy was released yesterday. McClellan wasn't accusing Bush of anything untoward, as today's statement unambiguously states.

But then again, one really only had to read the words of the excerpt in an unbiased way to see that there was nothing there accusing the President of wrongdoing. Indeed, I'd argue that one would have had to have already been inclined to find presume wrongdoing to reach such a conclusion based upon the excerpt.

UPDATE: Looks like some folks are really invested in this -- wonder if we will get mea culpas now that the publisher has issued the clarification?

Posted by: Greg at 10:26 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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