[Sender]

NYT: “Where was this cockroach when we needed him?”

[Dilbert San Diego]

Does Scott McClellan need money? Is that why he wrote the book?

[Question Liberal Authority]

I’m hoping to write a book about how I thought it was a mistake for Scott McClellan to write this book.

[snarks_when_bored]

I Knew It All Along [Scott McClellan]

Payback payday: Hell hath no fury like a spokesman scorned.

[oust the louse]

We live in such media frenzied times. Everyone doing thier part to get face time and be/feel important. What happened to humility and graciousness under fire? What happened to confidentiality? What happened to morality and respect?
What happened to loyalty and dedication to Country?....WTF happened?

[marron]

The president’s retired mouthpiece now admits that it wasn’t true when he said that Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby Jr. were not involved in leaking the identity of a C.I.A. operative,

Pants on fire.

It seems like a lot to ask, for a writer to string truthful sentences together. Is there not one honest writer working for the Times?

[longtermmemmory]

I think McClealan was given a good payday for the rights to his book and the publisher provided a virulent ghost writer suffering from BDS.

I don’t think scott actually wrote the book. I think this DOES demonstrate why he is among if not THE worst press secretary ever.

It is a sad end to his political career.

[Billthedrill]

Is anyone else as totally flabbergasted as I am at the weight the risible Valerie Plame case seems to get inside the Beltway and the utter lack of caring it recieves anywhere sane? Even the NY Times seems finally to be getting a little curious about that now that it no longer appears to be impeachment material.

Absolutely nothing happened to this woman or to her husband other than a great deal of enrichment. Nothing. This thing is a non-scandal, a non-issue, and it always was. Contrived. Made up. Woven out of fairy-dust. Inside the Beltway it appears to be regarded as the Bay of Pigs and the Aldrich Ames case rolled into one. Some of those folks really need to step outside that sinkhole for a little fresh air now and then.

Major bleating from a drama queen with a book to sell, IMHO. I think I've given this jackass as much time as I'm going to.

[dighton]

Truly a Nelson Muntz moment.

[marron]

Mr. McClellan also knew that the White House’s handling of Hurricane Katrina was a disaster. No doubt he misspoke when he sneeringly accused those who questioned the administration’s serial failures of playing a partisan “blame game.”

More pants on fire.

The governor of Louisiana refused to send in the National Guard because it "wasn't safe". Ambulances and relief supply trucks were held up by a cordon surrounding the city because the governor would not allow them to go in because "it wasn't safe". National Guardsmen from neighboring states were mobilized and ready to go but the governor would not allow them in because "it wasn't safe".

The situation didn't get set right until the president federalized it, something he didn't have to do in Texas, Alabama, or Mississippi.

The Navy was in place before the wind stopped blowing, FEMA was in place before the hurricane landed, everything on the federal side was ready to go. The disaster occurred because the governor and mayor were hopelessly incompetent. The president was eventually forced to bypass them. Its not supposed to work like that, and no where else did he have to bypass the local authorities the way he had to do there.

For that matter, no where else was a cordon put around the city to keep the victims locked inside the disaster zone, and the rescuers locked out. Only in Louisiana.

McClelland seems not to have noticed any of that. Bush ought to have fired this guy fifteen minutes into his first news conference.

[hsrazorback1]

Bush is on his way out, so why bother?

I see this as the work of the B. H. Obama & Co. machine to eliminate Bush as a McCain fund raiser. Instead, Bush now becomes a DNC fund raiser.

[UKrepublican]

What a disgrace this man is.

President Bush and the Bush family let him into their family and circle, they gave him everything he has. They stood by a clearly underperforming man for far longer than should - mostly because of the Presidents great loyalty.

He has betrayed them all for money. May god forgive him for his treachery.

I hope that when he is done counting his dirty money, he will stay awake at night regretting what he has done in selling his soul.

May god also bless President Bush, who has endured one hell of an onslaught from socalled friends and the most hostile media campaigns in history. I know many like to find fault with some of his policies, but he has got it right on many things and hasn’t taken the bait from his opponents.

That is the difference between a quality President (and man), and a snivelling bitter demagogue like B.J. Clinton (amongst others).

[CRBDeuce]

There are several kinds of Washington memoirs: “I Reveal the Honest Truth,” a kiss-up-and-tell designed to settle scores (nod to honesty optional). “I Was There at the Start,” designed to make the author appear to be the linchpin of history. And, most tedious: “I Knew It Was a Terrible Mistake, but I Didn’t Mention It Until I Got a Book Contract.”...

Left out was the actual category Scottie fell into..."Will accept money if someone wants to write a book with my name on it, no matter what it says."!

[wildbill]

When even the NYT is sceptical, McClellan’s hope to be the new John Dean is doomed.

[rawhide]

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Ari Fleischer related that “Scott told me that his editor did 'tweak,' in Scott's word, a lot of the writing, especially in the last few months.”From another FR thread.

[Wolverine]