Scott McClellan Grabs A Seat At The Former-Bush-Aide-Turned-Author Table

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/19/scott-mcclellan-grabs-a-s_n_73386.html

Scott McClellan Grabs A Seat At The Former-Bush-Aide-Turned-Author Table
Jason Linkins
November 19, 2007 06:01 PM


Long before the White House Press Corps became saddled with Dana "The Gift That Keeps On Giving" Perino, they got to receive their briefings from Scott "The Gift That Gave As Well As He Could Given The Relative Lack Of Confidence He Had In Just About Everything He Was Ever Asked To Say" McClellan. McClellan stepped down from the position in May of 2006, and has since penned a book that will finally allow him to do what he never could as press secretary: tell all.

Public Affairs, who will be publishing the book, has posted this excerpt, which gives one a helping of insight into how McClellan views his years of service:

The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself.

McClellan's book is titled What Happened, after the question he muttered to himself every night before the clutches of fitful sleep claimed him, and is scheduled for an April 2008 release.

[Fridays Child]

1. Hmm.

That's all I'm saying.

[hatrack]

2. Ooh! Snotty McMoonace has a new book!!!

Oh, pleasepleasepleaseplease let him come to a Border's near me in a futile search for money and an even more futile search for some sort of "credibility"!!!!

[immoderate]

3. Will this change anything? No...

We know this. The freepers will deny it. And so it goes...

--IMM

[gratuitous]

4. Say it ain't so!

McClellan said things that he knew not to be true?! Dearie me! Whatever shall we tell the children? Because as we all know, lying to the media is the Worst, Most Gravestest Offense of Them All.

I'm sure that Pat Buchanan, George Will, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter will all be filling the airwaves with high dudgeon over this Breach of the Public Trust, right? Right?

{Crickets}

[SpiralHawk]

5. "I sold out to a pack of corrupt & sociopathic chickenhawk republicon liars." - Scottie

"But since I'm also a republicon chickenhawk, and the money was good, so what."

- Scottie

[boobooday]

6. Well smear my ears with jam

And tie me to an ant hill.

Scotty, Scotty, Scotty. "Unknowingly," indeed.