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Home Front: Politix

Former Bush aide defends book against criticism

2008-05-30

Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan, defending his book critical of President George W. Bush and the Iraq war, said on Thursday he may have made a mistake by not speaking out sooner.

You made a mistake by speaking out at all ...

Under fire for what former White House colleagues see as a betrayal of the Bush administration, McClellan said on NBC's "Today" show that, at the time, he had misgivings about the war and felt the administration was rushing into it. In the end, however, he said he trusted Bush and his advisers.

The "Today" show interview was the first for the former White House spokesman since news of his book, "What Happened -- Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," hit the capital.

All the reporters lauding him today thought he was dumb as a box o' rocks back when he was the Chief Presser ...

Posted by:Fred

#15 Well, yeah, grom. Glenn was quoting him.

I thought everyone knew the source of that quote. My apologies.

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-30 21:33

#14 Really? I thought it was Mark Twain.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-30 21:24

#13 Samuel Langhorne Clemens said it.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-05-30 21:18

#12 As Instapundit said:

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-30 21:16

#11 AP reports McClellan received a $75,000 advance on teh book, which, ironically, is equivalent to 30 pieces of silver in biblical times

Posted by: Frank G 2008-05-30 18:22

#10 Rove points out that he and Libby spoke together at least once a day (their offices were 20 ft from each other). The fact McClellan hardly ever saw them together is an indication of how out of touch he was.

Jebus, a slow witted traitor. LOL! the best kind!

Posted by: RD 2008-05-30 14:14

#9 Karl Rove made an excellent point on Hanity and Colmes:

McCellan writes about an incident where he spotted Karl Rove and Scooter Libby speaking together and how unusual it was to see them together.

Rove points out that he and Libby spoke together at least once a day (their offices were 20 ft from each other). The fact McClellan hardly ever saw them together is an indication of how out of touch he was.

Al

Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-05-30 12:24

#8 McClellan, McClellan... why does that name ring a bell? Could this a$$wipe be any kin to the McClellan that gave another president (Abe Lincoln) so much grief during a time of war? At least that McClellan had a brain, even if it was half-pickled.

Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-05-30 11:48

#7 Zenpundit aptly describes McClellan as the John Dean of the Bush administration.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-30 11:31

#6 Heard Rove on Fox last night say "Just wait until MY book comes out"! Unfortunately he has the class to wait until after the election.

Posted by: Thealing Borgia6122 2008-05-30 11:11

#5 He's a fuggen idiot. Not one footnote, not one documented reference, nothing but allegation, guided by a publisher that works for The Nation and publishes Soro's books.

Compare that to Feith's books which has tons of footnotes and 90 pages of documentation in the back part of the book about why and how Bush took us to war in Iraq - a book that I might note the MSM ignores because it doesnt match their desired narrative - while this POS does match thier bash Bush narrative and thus gets the publicity.

McClellan was spectacularly ineffective, and he was so inept and incompetent that he is one fo the few people that Bush actually FIRED! That takes a LOT of doing.

The guy is an incompetent boob, who is being vengeful, and used as a tool by the left.

Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-30 08:54

#4 said on Thursday he may have made a mistake by not speaking out sooner.

Of course, Scotty doesnt think it was a mistake to wait just another six months until Bush was out of office to release his book. Im sure the fact that it is in the middle of an election year is just one of those co-winkee-dinks. I mean when your speaking truth to power timing is everything.

Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-05-30 08:48

#3 I'm sure the dork's book will be the talk of the Sunday shows. Then.... chirp chirp chirp chirp

Posted by: Grenter Protector of the Geats4975 2008-05-30 08:38

#2 I should take your $10, bad; the book will spawn demands for Congressional investigations (for C-SPAN face time) throughout the campaign season.

Posted by: Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-05-30 07:56

#1 McClellan is a fourth rate advisor, a press secretary. Only a press with a liberal agenda would give any credence to this guy's ax grinding.

He has no new information to give: just his personal views on the Bush administration. We coulda loaded up the Huffington Post for this material.

I got ten bucks that sez McCellan's book won't be mentioned in the press at all by June 10th.

Posted by: badanov 2008-05-30 00:17

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