The biggest point on which to criticize the Bush WH in this area is that a pitiful boob like Scott McClellan was ever employed there in the first place. Yes, that was a misjudgment for which we are still paying the price.... and that SM epitomizes the half-hearted, mostly incompetent approach that the WH has too often displayed for getting out the real facts, countering leftist propaganda, etc. As for campaign mode and propaganda, good heavens, one of the biggest problems has been that the WH has so often allowed our enemies to shape the stories and dictate what’s important, how things are understood, etc.
SM has apparently written the nasty tell-all that will make him rich and please the enemies of America. Good job, Scottie!
“This too, shall pass”
>>>White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week
nothing surprising here....
McClellan is no different that any other (former) Washington poltical operative....
They’re all stinking whores....
FWIW, no one to blame but Bush for this one. It was obvious for almost the whole time that McClellan was press secretary that he was doing a lousy job. Yet he was kept on for month after month of screwups and incompetence.
Why did Bush put up with it for so long? Every president is going to make a few bad appointments, it’s inevitable. But then you correct them, before more damage is done.
And don’t tell me it’s loyalty to his subordinates. Why should a President be loyal to his failures but screw the subordinates who are trying to do a good job, like Scooter Libby, or the Haditha Marines, or Compean and Ramos?
So, now he gets his reward for keeping him on much longer than he should have done.
I hate to say it, but the guy is no Einstein. He shouldn’t have been in the position he was in.
First, he accuses Bush of doing “propaganda” about the Iraq war. If he was paying attention, he would have noticed that the problem is the reverse. The press has been doing propaganda, and Bush and McClelland did not. The press had and always has home-field advantage, they buy their newsprint by the ton after all, but Bush and McClelland owed it to the public to get the story out. They didn’t do it. No help from the DNC mouthpieces in the press, but then you don’t expect them to help. You have to do it, and McClelland didn’t do it. Clearly, he has bought into the DNC propaganda on the war. He believes it, why? because he read it in the paper.
Next, he accuses Rove and Libby of getting their stories straight. He seems not to know that Armitage already confessed. There was nothing for Rove and Libby to get straight in any negative sense of the word, although if I was Rove or Libby and I was being accused of something I didn’t do, and neither Bush nor McClelland were out there defending me, I’d probably want to have a chat.
Get this straight. It was Armitage. Rove and Libby were innocent, and the spokesman who ought to have defended them doesn’t know that.
Katrina?
The governor of Louisiana refused to send in the National Guard because, stop me if you’ve heard this before, because it wasn’t safe. It wasn’t safe, so she would not send in the National Guard.
The rest of the Katrina disaster flowed right out of that disastrous abdication of responsibility.
The federal parts of the puzzle worked as they were supposed to. The Navy was on the scene before the wind stopped blowing. FEMA was on hand ready to answer the calls that never came, because the governor wouldn’t move. National Guardsmen from neighboring states were mobilized, ready to answer the call that never came from the governor who wouldn’t act.
So when did things finally start to move? When Bush finally over-rode the state governor and federalized it. He didn’t have to do it in Mississippi, or Texas, or Alabama, only in New Orleans, where a governor and a mayor refused to act.
But McClelland seems not to have noticed that. As Bush’s chief communicator, he was and is a disaster.
Wasn’t he ‘given’ the job because of who his mother is?
I guess the wicked ones violated the baby’s innocence.
I doubt he'll be finding much work in Washington--unless the RATS want him.
feh...This is what GWB gets for hiring all these Texans at the expense of competence.
Even so, what a backstabbing, disloyal mutt.
So? Liberals rely on propaganda to sell stupid ideas and stupid books. But I'll tell you this: Whatever information President Bush has been operating on to serve the Office was not fabricated by himself, but trumpeted by people whom he trusted.
If you hire and surround yourself with good people they can make you look good even if you do not deserve it. If you hire bad and incompetent people, they will make you look bad and you will deserve to look bad for hiring bad and incompetent people.
BTTT
Scott McClellan can now add "Political Judas" to his resume.
what a disloyal turd
Is this another, “Those bastards wouldn’t listen to me!” book?
Always knew that panty waste McClellan was a nancy boy.