Quoted: The former White House press secretary joins us for the hour on the heels of his explosive new book, <i>What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception</i>. McClellan says former White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby lied to him about their role in the CIA leak case, criticizes the corporate media for acting as "complicit enablers" in what he calls the Bush administration's deliberate manipulation of the public to build support for invading Iraq, and recounts the White House’s response to Hurricane Katrina as one "in denial." McClellan also reveals the suffering of Iraqi civilians seemed to be of little concern at the White House, where he says the massive death toll from the US invasion was seldom discussed. And he explains his own personal transformation from Bush administration mouthpiece to a critic of conscience and why he's now sympathetic to the journalist I.F. Stone’s famous advice to young reporters: "governments lie." [includes rush transcript]
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Toyota says there will be two unique models, one badged a Toyota, the other a Lexus, both will sit above the third-generation Prius car, also due in 2009. The new Prius as well as the two new models are expected at this year’s Detroit auto show.
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