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WINGERS REACT TO McCLELLAN BOOK: CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S NUTS?
I'm certain that opportunism, rather than conscience, led Scott McClellan to publish his tell-all book now, rather than when it might have had more of an impact. But that does not necessarily mean, as Karl Rove seems to think, that McClellan is lying about what transpired in the Bush White House, particularly during the run-up to war. Rather, a first-hand account like this merely seems to confirm all the circumstantial evidence of a massive propaganda effort by the administration to sell this war to the public and the world using scare tactics.
This also explains why both Rove and Dana Perino have characterized McClellan's book as so implausible that it's almost as though he's taken a leave of his senses. Rove: "First of all, this doesn't sound like Scott. It really doesn't. Not the Scott McClellan I've known for a long time. Second of all, it sounds like somebody else. It sounds like a left-wing blogger." Perino: "For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad -- this is not the Scott we knew." I also love how ol' Turd Blossom, true to form, threw in the old chestnut of the unhinged liberal blogger -- priceless.
--Mori Dinauer
COMMENTS (8)
Scott's broke and trying to sell books.
Hey, I'm all for a "tell-all" book. I'm sure there are some juicy stuff there. However I would like more to assertions about the president than innuendo and speculation.
I was disappointed with the exerpts I have seen so far...
Posted by: El Viajero | May 28, 2008 11:46 AM
I don't get why El thinks that Scott couldn't have sold a worshipful true account of how great the bush whitehouse was and how wonderful and honest all those people were. I mean, the american people still love bush, don't they, and love the Iraq war? Because it was all true, wasn't it, and all justified, wasn't it? So if Scott wanted to sell books why wouldn't he have offered the american people what they want and told them how great it all was? Why do El and Scott hate the american people and the free market so much that they are denying the american people the story they most want to hear: how the president took control and found the WMD, prevented thousands of deaths in Iraq, and saved the victims of new orleans from katrina?
aimai
Posted by: aimai | May 28, 2008 11:58 AM
Funny, isn't it?
When an ex-Clinton Administration insider comes out with an unflattering tell-all book, why...that book just CONFIRMS every negative suspicion of that Administration.
But when a similar tell-all book about the Bush Administration reveals that what looked like a duck and quacked like a duck, was actually a duck...well, clearly the author has LOST HIS MIND and is NOT CREDIBLE!
But in all seriousness, McClellan's book only confirms what an increasing number of American's now understand, and in some cases have suspected all along: The Bush Administration has been just as rotten, if not more so, than any before it. And because many on the political right are STILL willing to play the role of apologists for these bumbling fools, much of the credibility the GOP has managed to gain in the last two decades, has now been almost completely erased.
I guess in a weird sort of way, liberals should embrace the Bush Administration. Bush and his advisors have discredited conservative thought far more any Democrat could ever hope to do.
(And thanks, Scotty, for yet more confirmation as to why government in the hands of neocons is generally a bad idea.)
Posted by: Steve | May 28, 2008 1:13 PM
CAN WE BEGIN IMPEACHMENT NOW,ALSO ARREST ROVE IMMEDIATERLY AND HOLD HIM W/O BAIL,MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO GRAB RUMSFELD QUICK TOO,AND ASK POWELL TO SPEAK UP,HE QUIT AFTER HE REALIZED HE WAS BEING USED BUT HE KINOWS 70 P/C OF ALL THAT WENT ON.........
Posted by: ROBERT DEININGER | May 28, 2008 1:19 PM
What about the mentally besieged? Does John McCain ring a bell...
How will his term play out.
I'm sure no one will be here to tell about it.
He's trigger happy.(nuclear)
His main concern is war...can't really blame him, though. It is all he knows.
Posted by: justforthought | May 28, 2008 1:26 PM
...denying the american people the story they most want to hear
Have you even seen any of the excerpts (moron)?
Posted by: El Viajero | May 28, 2008 1:42 PM
I heard a telling discussion of the book on Fox News this morning. They were talking all about McClellan's motivations-- but never saying a thing about what he wrote.
I think the White House line is to try and change the subject to how could McClellan betray the White House, because the substance is damaging.
Posted by: Dilan Esper | May 28, 2008 10:24 PM
Classic Jon Stewart last night mocking Perino and the other Bushies' feelings of betrayal by McClellan.
That's not the Scott we knew. The Scott we knew lied like a muthafucka.
Posted by: Bart Acocella | May 30, 2008 5:08 PM