McClellan on Plame (This has to hurt!)

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 2, 2008 | Robert Novak

[dalight]

A partisan Democratic mantra began earlier in the book. McClellan writes George H.W. Bush's 1988 campaign "acquiesced to certain advisers, including Roger Ailes and the late Lee Atwater," who opposed Bush's "civility and decency." (McClellan, then 20 years old, played no part in that campaign.) McClellan contends that thanks to Rove in 2002, "the first cracks appeared in the facade of bipartisan comity."

[dalight]

Novak tears McClellan a new posterior oriface.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The only person who could have given McClellan’s fantasies the serious case of Ned Beatyization they deserve.

[MovementConservative]

Liberal dummies are going to make McClellan and his publisher a lot of money buying this book. What a waste of space McClellan is.

[TChad]

Even McClellan's deputy press secretary Trent Duffy is piling on:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060101922.html

Now he has no friends on the right, and only very temporary friends on the left.

[Admin Moderator]

Real Clear Politics is excerpt/link only.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts

[Vigilanteman]

McClellan ran for president once. He won all these red states.

[Enchante]

Scott McClellan = dishonest vicious whore for the Demagogues

He has sold his soul for money + entree into ‘Rat/MSM cocktail parties

No decent person would ever want to know him

[roses of sharon]

Darn, so sorry!

[Aria]

I can’t imagine why this dweeb is going on O’Reilly - if BOR doesn’t shred McClellan than I’m going to join those who think BOR is nothing but a gas bag.

[FredZarguna]

The sad fact of the matter is that McClellan was not qualified for the job, never became qualified for the job, and was elevated to the position because he was a Bush loyalist from back home. McClellan's book, like McClellan's personality, offers nothing new. It's the literary equivalent of several hundred pages of "What He Said." Why would this surprise anyone? That is exactly what -- at a critical juncture in the life of the Bush White House -- McClellan's press briefings were like: "What the Handout said," was in fine and in sum what his doddering efforts at communications in front of the Washington Press Corp amounted to.

Now, because he could not work any faster and was finally tossed on his ear for it, Scott shall have a new master; and may he serve them as loyally as he did his President and putative friend. One thing he'll discover: the grass really is greener on the Left side of the fence, because on that side they will not question an inept boob who's useful to their agenda. Same boob, same facts, but this time around Scott will get a pass on the tough questions.

[FredZarguna]

That McClellan was nearly as inept as this McClellan. Although they say that McClellan was a genius at logistics. I doubt this McClellan is a genius at anything.

In a simpler age he could've worked for Paul Winchell or Edgar Bergen.

No, scratch that. Jerry Mahoney had it all over Scott. And even on the radio Charlie McCarthy was a better ventriloquist's dummy than Mr. McClellan.

[roses of sharon]

Wow, thanks for that link.

[SolidWood]

BOR is a gas bag and a putz. He called us FReepers racists and hate-mongers, while he repeatedly made vitriolic attacks against our Iraqi allies.

[Aria]

You’re right - I forgot about him trying to compare us to the rabid leftists.

I like your tag line.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bob Novak has forgotten more about journalism, D.C. politics and government than Scott McClellan would ever know if he lived to be 150!

[TigersEye]

He does not mention that Armitage turned himself in to the Justice Department even before Patrick Fitzgerald was named as special prosecutor.

This is the part of the story that really burns me. There must be something criminal about allowing an investigation to take place when they already knew who leaked and that what was leaked wasn't a crime. If Fitzgerald didn't know all this then he would have to be the most incompetent prosecutor ever. In my mind he's a criminal too.

[TChad]

Wow, thanks for that link.

Coming from a close co-worker, that letter is devastating to McClellan's credibility. Peggy Noonan asks if McClellan is telling the truth. It sounds like the answer is no.

[Enchante]

Wow, that’s a great letter!

Of course, it could have been briefer:

“Dear Scott, you scurrilous pu##sy-weasel, were you lying to all of your friends and colleagues for the past 5+ years or are you lying to everyone in the public and media now?”

[endthematrix]

I agree, but I just get kicks that the Left really think the Rove is a diabolical genius. They are convinced Cheney eats puppies, but Rove is cunning, and had to be put down at any cost. Scotty just ain't convincing IMO.