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May 28, 2008
The Price of Blind Loyalty
I have never been a fan of Scott McClellan. Frankly, I thought he was a terrible press secretary - his hapless trapped-animal eyes, nervous monotone and inability to handle the White House press corps didn't do the administration any favors. Heck, his mumbling was enough to make one yearn for the comparative rhetorical genius of Ron Ziegler.
When he was basically fired, I thought it was a good move by a president who far too often put personal loyalty above basic competence. His misplaced trust in an incompetent like McClellan has now come back to bite him.
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level - from too much secrecy to a less-than-honest selling of the war to a lack of personal candor and an unwillingness to admit mistakes.This, from the man who once decried 'tell-all' books from former administration officials. Guess that outrage goes out the window when you've been fired.In the first major insider account of the Bush White House, one-time spokesman Scott McClellan calls the operation "insular, secretive and combative" and says it veered irretrievably off course as a result.
What makes McClellan's book especially egregious is not the fact that he's cynically playing on Bush hatred to make a buck. No, it's the language McClellan uses to criticize the president and the accusations he makes. In an attempt to sell books, McClellan has given the administration's political enemies the ammunition they need to call the Iraq war into question.
I agree with Mark Levin - if McClellan really felt the president was acting irrationally in the run-up to the Iraq war, he should have done the honorable thing and resigned. That act would have shown conscience, and would not have come across as the pathetic cry for relevance that McClellan's book displays.
That the president ever thought this man was worthy of trust doesn't speak well of his ability to judge character.
Update - Ha. The moonbat-ization of McClellan is complete.
Also, crazy seems to run in the family. Karen Hughes did the president no favors when she brought this guy into the White House.
Posted by slublog at May 28, 2008 09:53 PM
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