Posted on 05/29/2008 9:44:56 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
Peter Osnos, who wrote Wednesday that he “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on McClellan's new book published by PublicAffairs which Osnos founded, is a liberal whose publishing house is affiliated with the far-left The Nation magazine and the publisher of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. PublicAffairs has a roster of authors who are nearly all liberals and/or liberal-leaning mainstream media figures, including six books by far-left bank-roller George Soros. On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Ari Fleischer related that “Scott told me that his editor did 'tweak,' in Scott's word, a lot of the writing, especially in the last few months.” In an “Eat the Press” blog entry Wednesday, Rachel Sklar asked Osnos: “Did you work directly on the book with McClellan? (Who was his editor?)” Osnos replied: “The editor was Lisa Kaufman and yes, I worked very closely with them.”
A reporter and editor at the Washington Post during the 1970s and 1980s before going into book publishing, Osnos pens a weekly column for the left of center The Century Foundation. In a March column he denounced Rush Limbaugh as “bombastic, aggressive, and mean,” bemoaning how the late William F. Buckley Jr. left behind “a right-wing culture that tends to be as coarse and leaden as his demeanor could be buoyant,” charging Buckley provided “unfortunate cover to others who followed with a spirit that was distinctly and consistently malevolent.”
In contrast, ruminating this week about the Kennedy family's legacy in the wake of Senator Ted Kennedy's cancer diagnosis, Osnos asserted that “we are a distinctly better country for the message” which “Ted conveyed about our priorities as a people.”
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So? There’s no law against publishing a book. It’ll be judges on its merits, or lack thereof. So what if a conservative book is published by a conservative publisher? Who gives a crap?
Well, didn’t Little Green Footballs point out that the company that owns the publisher is Perseus-Soros?
Thus, Scottie hired a liberal ghostwriter - he didn't even write the book himself.
If I recall, wasn’t Scott’s mother a democrat loyalist in political office somewhere in Bush’s home state of Texas. I think Bush thought democrats could be trusted - he was way wrong and has been proven time and again with the stab marks in his back...Scott was just another democrat in republican clothes...
“a right-wing culture that tends to be as coarse and leaden as his demeanor could be buoyant,” charging Buckley provided “unfortunate cover to others who followed with a spirit that was distinctly and consistently malevolent.”
Apparently Osmosis here doesn’t spend any time reading the comments on Daily Kos or Huf Po.
His father wrote a book about the belief that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.
In the not too distant future - Americans will wake up and react to the Leftists, radicals and corrupt politicians destroying the Republic....
The frenzy and blood lust will keep the gallows very busy....
Pretty lame damage control.
S far I’ve seen crybabies complaining that the publisher is a liberal, that McClellan is a traitor, etc. All of this is peripheral. The GOP/neocon spin machine so so far not tacking the book head on.
Only one thing counts. Is the book truthful or not?
It’s ‘truthful’ in the eyes of Peter Osnos/George Soros, who wrote the book. Rube McClellan accepted money to have his name in the byline as ‘author’. His mother the Democrat ex-Mayor of a Texas town approves. Perhaps as close as her son will ever become to being ‘published’!
Rush just said that nobody would even know who Scott McClellan was if it hadn’t been for George W. Bush.
I haven't read the book, and won't be reading it for the obvious reason, but everything I've heard makes it sound like it's just a cut and paste from the NYT, WaPo, and all the left wing blogs (just as Mr. Rove said).
It doesn’t matter what the liar says. The media will spin it for all it’s worth.
But I think it will backfire just like all the other crap the dims have tried in the past. They never learn. They’re focused on one thing—2 things —3 things,
Bush, Rove, & Cheney. Pass the popcorn, please.
When you look into who published the book and who edited the book and find out it is published and edited from far left sources, that is pertinent. When you find out the money is coming from far left sources, that is pertinent. When you find out the company is owned by George Soros, that is pertinent. All call into question the books validity.
When Ari Fleischer says he talked to Mclellan on and off and for the last year it was a pro Bush book, but was lately ‘edited’ and now pops out an anti-Bush book, it is pertinent.
The question isn't is it published by a liberal publisher. Almost all publishers are liberal. The question is, is the book a hit piece and was the book done as propaganda.
Hope that explains it.
Much as they try to bring him in, President Bush is not going to be on the ballot this year. Oddly enough, if McCain makes a strong enough campaign he can win against this.
So far he’s Fred without the principles, intelligence or wit.
The History Channel in 2003 had a Men Who Killed kennedy segment devoted to LBJ's involvement, amongst other scandals.
The HC was forced to cease broadcasting the episode immediately, DVD sales halted, and a public apology for airing it!
McClellan's fathers book just added another insider report on this subject.
***His father wrote a book about the belief that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.***
That's what it is.
The press is saying the book reveals what they were saying all along.
Apparantly it does.
It validates the left wing view and people at large will believe it.
Apparantly so.
That is the big deal.
This week. It's another one on the pile.
It is presented as the true insider story from a Bush loyalist.
That's what it is.
When you look into who published the book and who edited the book and find out it is published and edited from far left sources, that is pertinent.
Why? The accuracy of the book does not rely on the motives of the publisher. It's totally irrelevant. If the book is inaccurate, let that be brought to light.
When you find out the money is coming from far left sources, that is pertinent. When you find out the company is owned by George Soros, that is pertinent. All call into question the books validity.
None of that calls into question the book's validity. Of course a liberal publisher will want to publish a book he agrees with. Doesn't mean it isn't true. That has to be shown. Just impugning motives is lame. When Ari Fleischer says he talked to Mclellan on and off and for the last year it was a pro Bush book, but was lately ‘edited’ and now pops out an anti-Bush book, it is pertinent. The question isn't is it published by a liberal publisher. Almost all publishers are liberal. The question is, is the book a hit piece and was the book done as propaganda. Hope that explains it.
Just shows one of the many things that makes GWB an poor manager.
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