Anyway, earlier this morning, CBS Correspondent John Roberts asked the following in regard to the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel Alito: "Scott, you said that - or the President said, repeatedly, that Harriet Miers was the best person for the job. So does that mean Alito is sloppy seconds, or what?"
Roberts and CBS issued an apology, saying
"At the morning White House gaggle, I used an unfortunate choice of words in a question to Scott McClellan. Please be assured that there was no perjorative intent to my question. I was merely attempting to reconcile past statements about Harriet Miers with the President's new nominee for the Supreme Court.This story was much more interesting when I thought the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court had said it.
The early morning White House gaggle is an informal, free-wheeling and often irreverent forum, which is not broadcast and generally not publicly available.
Obviously, my tone this morning was a little too casual.
As we all experience from time to time, it was one of those 'oops' moments which we wish we could rewind and re-record.
I apologize to anyone who took offense to my poor choice of words. I can assure you I meant none."
That said, the guy is now getting trashed by neocons on the CBS blog. The first post regarding the issue is above, but John Roberts has made another apology in the post here. Of course, some of these ever so tolerant Repugs are still calling for his head, just as they did when Dick Cheney told Patrick Leahy to "go fuck himself". Oh wait, they didn't.
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posted by Jonathan @ 10:10 PM
Monday, October 31, 2005
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