Scott McClellan Originally Wanted to Attack Media, Defend Bush

NewsBusters.org ^ | Matthew Sheffield

[wsjreader]

He is just an unprincipled scumbag with IQ below 80. May his soul rot in hell.

[AU72]

McClellan is a 10 dollar a trick whore.

[Non-Sequitur]

Although today his book is being touted by left-wing reporters and pundits, his initial plans for the project show former White House press secretary Scott McClellan intended to take a much different approach, one that was more sympathetic to President Bush but also quite hard on the "liberal elites" of the Washington press corps and their "hostility" toward the administration.

But then he figured out there was more money to be made by attacking Bush and sucking up to the media?

[MarineBrat]

He reminds me of the guy in Aliens 3 that they called “Eighty Five” because someone peeked in his personnel file and saw his IQ.

[Bernard Marx]

Another Useful Idiot.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I want to see another source for this claim.

[river rat]

Is that right?

I guess the whore got sidetracked by a “john” with more money?

Bush knew this whore for YEARS, and couldn’t figure him out.
I KNEW he was out of his element the FIRST time he faced the press in his job as spokesperson...

Peter Principal writ large.

[Gene Eric]

Yeah, right. That was probably part of the book deal.

[lormand]

If anyone has seen a Scott McClellan news conference, you would be convinced that Scotty was intentionally sabotaging the administration's effort.

Having a "new tone" attitude and hiring old buddies regardless of ideological vetting, you get crap like this.

[iopscusa]

Wow, it is amazing that this total rewrite of McClellan's book by the Pravda Media has been disclosed so quickly thanks to the investigative forces of the true media! The battle for the soul of the country is joined, thanks for the new media we have a chance to preempt the lying left media.

[Lancey Howard]

Sounds like somebody got dirt on McClellan.
Is he a “friend” of David Brock?

[Wil H]

McClellan is doing in his book exactly what he did in his job.

He is being trotted out to deliver a message crafted by someone else.

He did it in the White House.

He does it in his book for his new left wing employers.

He obviously doesn’t have an original thought of his own.

[saganite]

Defend Bush? Attack the media?? There’s no money in that!!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Girly man whore.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Robert Novak’s column today pretty much destroys McClellan's take on the Plame affair (which is most of the book.) Novak points out that its obvious several writers contributed whole sections to the book...

[Eurale]

The Scowling Tim Pussart tore him up yesterday, but still failed to mention Soros and the editor.

[I see my hands]

To: SM

Take the easy way out.

[roses of sharon]

Scott McClellan works the party circuit to promote book (Snifter clink to FreeRepublic.com)

From Lucianne.com

[Dahoser]

How could this be the case when the guy is out on the talk show circuit not only spewing the crap in the book, but also sucking up to the likes of Richard Clarke? There’s way too much of McClellan eagerly trashing the Bush administration for this to be credible. He may have wanted to take a few shots at some of the White House press corps, but I’m not buying he was going to write a positive book about his former employer only to be thwarted by his evil editor who rewrote it just before printing.