Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman.
At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about the comments of two U.S. mayors who support the candidacy of Sen. John Kerry.
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WND: The Boston Herald reports that during an interview, Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino, who is, as you know, the national co-chairman of the Kerry campaign, called the rest of that Kerry campaign – and I quote – "small-minded and incompetent and trying to find a scapegoat for their incompetency." And my first question: Neither the president nor anyone else in the White House would find fault or disagree with Mayor Menino, would they?
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McCLELLAN: Are you asking me to add to that?
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WND: Well, I'd be delighted, if you'd like. Nobody disagrees with Mayor Menino in the White House, do they?
McCLELLAN: You've heard directly from him. I'll let his words stand on their own.
WND: All right. When Senator Kerry came to Baltimore this week, he was introduced by Democrat Mayor Martin O'Malley, who announced that he is more alarmed about the Bush administration than he is about al-Qaida, an absolutely astounding statement that evoked no dissent from candidate Kerry. My question: Can the president or anyone else at the White House cite any other mayor in the United States who has made a statement of such outrageous asininity?
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McCLELLAN: Les, people are entitled to their opinions, no matter how wrong they are.
WND: No matter how wrong they are – and you believe this was wrong, don't you?
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McCLELLAN: Go ahead, April.
WND: Don't you, Scott?
McCLELLAN: You just heard me address it.
