No Politics, Please; We're Americans
With every White House press conference transcript that I read, Scott McClellan sounds more like a Stalinist goon. Yesterday, the Times ran a story about three liberal activists (let's call them) who claim to have been thrown out of a "taxpayer-financed Bush Social Security event" in Denver by a man who presented himself as Secret Security. Why? One them drove a van with a "No Blood for Oil" sticker on its tail. The Secret Service denies having had any dealings with the Denver Three, who in turn are persisting in their search for the "mystery man" who manhandled them, and they're getting some support, even from Republicans. The president is so notorious for preaching to the choir and only to the choir that even Republicans are getting a little nervous.
Not Scott McClellan, of course. He doesn't want to talk about the incident, pointing out that occurred on 21 March - old hat! Thank you, Scott, for the new statute of limitations on political news! But notice Mr McClellan's fascist phrasing:
It's clear that these three protesters are trying to advance their own political agenda.
Wow! How low can you go! What could be more despicable than attracting the attention of journalists in order to advance your own political agenda! Such, at least, is the response that Mr McClellan is clearly hoping to arouse. The first rule of fascism is that politics are bad. And observe that Mr McClellan says "trying," not "lying."
