Scott McClellan said Wednesday, "If we think people are coming to the event to disrupt it, obviously, they're going to be asked to leave."
Are they kidding? This is the White House's PUBLIC position? What Scott McClellan tells reporters? On the record?
I'm speechless. Every time this White House hits a new level of arrogance you can't think it would go any farther, but then it does.
It's been perfectly clear that that's what they've been doing for ages, but to say so this brazenly is shocking. Of course there is the issue of them publicly stating that those who MIGHT dissent shouldn't have access to areas near where the president will be (much less access to the president himself), which shows on its own a frightful lack of respect for what many people consider to be perfectly appropriate levels of democracy and political discourse. But beyond that, apparently the support staff for such events has now acquired the ability to read minds (maybe they got this power from the Wall Street Journal) and can determine exactly who intends to do exactly what at public events. I understand the desire to script events, but I think there is something very troubling, bordering on revolting, about this.
Posted by armand at April 28, 2005 10:56 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics