Posts Tagged ‘Scott McClellan’

So, what does a former press secretary do to pay the bills after he leaves the White House? Apparently he writes a tell all book and pisses off folks on both sides!

But just because Scott McClellan’s book might be self-serving, does that mean everything in the book is untrue? I doubt it. Should we believe he really felt all bad about standing in front of cameras and lying to the American people on a routine basis? Probably not, but possibly he did start itching. I recall him looking less than comfortable on a number of occasions.

He has bad disparaging words to say about Bush and his (mis)Administration. These sorts of things make my little dripping fang liberal heart SING. If I have to watch Clinton savaging Obama in her quest to regain the White House, I should at least have the pleasure of watching drowning rats standing on each others’ shoulders as they try to save themselves from history’s bitter footnotes!

Some especially yummy bits from this buffet:

“Said former top aide Karl Rove, in an interview with Fox News Channel, “If he had these moral qualms, he should have spoken up about them. And frankly I don’t remember him speaking up about these things. I don’t remember a single word.”

Wow! Really, Karl? ‘Cause we know everyone would have gave a shit what the press secretary thought, right? We know anyone not aspiring to winning the Gold Medal in Ass-Kissing Yes-man-itis might as well pack and leave the Bush White House. So lets borrow a word from Frank Townsend, who called McClellan “disingenuous” and just say that is the nicest thing I can call your above statement!

And the Blondness doing the job now? She had this to say:

“Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House,” she said. ………. It is sad – this is not the Scott we knew.”

It is sad, isn’t it, Blondie? I mean, obviously just working in the emanations of the Rovian-Cheneyesque miasma obviously induces mental changes and break downs. What do you think you will turn into when YOU need another job? After all, you are still in the fog of….of, well, what can you call that foulness, anyhow?

Here is my none-too-educated, but gut-felt guess on this one. I think Scott DID feel moral qualms. But of course he knew such things would be as well received as a turd in the Presidential punch bowl, so he held his tongue and hoped things would improve. Things not only did not improve, they got worse. So away he went. Personally, I think the job is such a mind/body/soul fuck that is why Press SecretaryTony Snow relapsed into cancer. Toxic environments will do that to a person.

And the further Scott was from the White House, the more he looked around the REAL world, the more he realized how badly hoodwinked he had been. Of course the neo-con cabal doesn’t want to hear this stuff. It would be like unpacking Cheney’s lunch of grilled kittens in front of the Washington Press Corps. But I think we could McClellan the benefit of the doubt and read his book as at least partially true.

That said, I will borrow this book from the library as I don’t know as I think he deserves to make any of MY pinched pennies off of his years of depravity at the Bush White House. He shouldn’t have life too easy, should he? I personally think anyone working for Bush should have a big red letter “A” for Asshat tattoo’ d upon their foreheads; but I recognize that is my dripping fangness taking over. So, I won’t PAY to read his book: I need to pinch my pennies to pay for gasoline for the man to get to work, and to try having enough left over for Fisher House!

(An easy write up at: http://tinyurl.com/4nzx83 )