Tell Us Something We Don't Know...

Amy Austin | May 29, 2008
I think it's already well known by now that I'm no big fan of Bush or his administration. I almost feel sorry for him, though, being the perpetual subject of "tell-all" expose books... but what else should one expect when surrounded by the likes of fair-weather former press secretary Scott McClellan? What a piece of crap this guy is! That he would write this book after happily taking a paycheck for doing the job that he apparently has a seriously delayed moral dilemma about makes him the worst kind of capitalist pig in my estimation. I hope that nobody buys his book... who can possibly believe that anything in it is worth the paper it's written on?! How do we know he isn't telling more lies about the lies he already told?!!

That he reportedly paints an ugly picture of Karl Rove in particular is hilarious... the most appropriate example of "calling the turd brown" that I've ever heard of! What's next, the Cheney memoir telling how he was tortured for eight years and of his single attempt to escape being thwarted by birdshot??? Puh-lease.

Scott Hardie | May 29, 2008
If I didn't already consider his conscience long gone, I would suspect this tell-all was McClellan trying to come clean, too little too late. But no, it's a cash-in like any other, and it has adopted a fashionable position. Had the war gone well and Bush's approval ratings not plummeted and the mistakes after Katrina been forgiven by the American public, would this book write fondly of his glory years in the great Bush administation? I think so. That doesn't make what he really wrote untrue, or unnewsworthy, but it does make it unpalatable.

Amy Austin | May 29, 2008
Yeah, well... slant is slant -- it's a cash-in either way. I don't mean to state that he's telling outright lies, but I do think that he is probably remembering things in a *very* convenient fashion... and one that doesn't appear to be shared by his fellow "Bushies"... changing weather and approval ratings aside.

Tony Peters | May 29, 2008
That its a cash in I'm sure, that he is stabbing Bush and his administration in the back....yeah pretty sure that's true too but I think its a bit of payback the administration ruined McClellen's name a reputation by sending him out to lie for them and I think he had every right, to quote Amy, call a turd brown. Sadly the biggest thing he show/tells in his book is just how much on the fringe the admisitration kept him. Many press secretaries got their marching orders from a President that trusted them, McClelland seems to have gotten his from everybody but the President.