CNN Video: "McClellan critics read from same script"

[Bucky]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/29/moos.naughty.scotty.cnn

[Bandit]

1. Which just adds additional proof to his point of permanent campaign

That is a key factor to the permanent campaign. Making sure everyone has all the same talking points. It is their way of "catapulting the propaganda"

[Canuckistanian]

2. It's like Richard Clarke said

Whenever they have a major defection, they get out a little box of pre-written talking points.

Such as "he/she is only in it for the money" or "he/she is a disgruntled employee".

[KharmaTrain]

3. How Jon Stewart Has Changed The World...

In the past, Chicken Noodle News would never admit to being used by the Mighty Wurlitzer. It wasn't until Stewart said he wouldn't be anyone's "monkey"...and exposed how the Mighty Wurlitzer played that people began to take notice. Now it's a regular feature on the "real" news channels.

[gratuitous]

6. Just so

Once the Daily Show started splicing these robotic recitations together, it became pretty apparent that having an administration mouthpiece wasn't a "get," it was a "give." Hand over air time on your show to let the mouthpieces say the exact same thing on your show that their colleagues are saying on every other show. Startling that CNN actually caught on to this, but it's so pervasive maybe it's sunk in even there.

I predict the media will stir from their somnambulence during the rest of the year, and as soon as a Democrat is sworn in to the presidency, they'll back in full-throated baying howl, skeptical about everything. And if anyone threatens them that their stories are being "noted in the building," they'll re-double their efforts. During this misbegotten administration? Not so much.

[gatorboy]

4. It amazes me that these folks are still so smug, that they assume no one would catch on to this.

I mean, c'mon. It would be one thing if you had a few of these guys saying something similar. But thanks to the multitude of political shows out there, you can witness at least a dozen of these jokers saying the exact same thing at the exact same time. They don't realize that that looks a little...Suspicious?

[kskiska]

7. When Tweety confronted Ari Fleischer with this,

remarking on the "synchronicity" and "regimentation" of responses, he had a look of surprise, like he'd been caught out.

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. Attack the messenger, not the message. The Republican way

They got nothing, because they know Scotty is telling the truth. So all they have left is to attack the messenger.