Greg Mitchell: Preview of Upcoming Dana Perino Memoir

[laststeamtrain]

A Dana Perino memoir of her days as White House press secretary is inevitable in the wake of the Scott McClellan bombshell, especially since publishers will likely feel she has a photogenic face for the book cover and publicity tour -- this seems to be the key factor in signing up authors these days.

But why should we assume that the book will be a hyper-defensive antidote to Scotty's tell-all? Perino's problem: She has served in the White House in a period when no one has paid much attention to anything she or her boss have to say. She might be left writing a book that could be titled, Nothing Happened.

The only way -- short of a U.S. attack on Iran -- that she might salvage it is to "do a McClellan" or "go all Mac on us," as the saying might evolve, and admit that her emperor wore no clothes.

So let's imagine a 2009 Perino bestseller in which she might write:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/preview-of-upcoming-dana_b_104423.html

[pscot]

1. I think she should give an exclusive to Playboy

"WhiteHouse Press Secretary Bares All". Yum!

[tanyev]

2. The Cuban Missile Crisis: What Happened?

Ghost-written, of course.