Now He Tells Us?
May 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
The news today is that Scott McClellan was just as frustrated while serving three years as Bush White House press secretary as we were watching him.
If you don’t know already, McClellan, an Austin native who first joined Bush’s staff when W was governor of Texas, has written a scathing tell-all memoir about his time in the White House. We haven’t read it, but judging from the title — ““What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” — we’re thinking he is a tad disillusioned. The New York Times has more details here.
Mr. McClellan writes, the decision to invade Iraq was a “serious strategic blunder,” and yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake the Bush White House made. That, he says, was “a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.”
Shocked, simply shocked!
His former colleagues are not happy and seem to be settling on an alien-abduction-like explanation. “It is sad — this is not the Scott we knew,” current spokesperson Dana Perino told USA Today. Rove echoed the refrain saying, “This doesn’t sound like Scott; it really doesn’t.” (It’s true McClellan does have three brothers. Maybe there is something to it. We’ve always had trouble telling them apart too.)
When McClellan announced his resignation from the White House in April 2006, he told the president, in front of a gaggle of reporters: “Our relationship began in Texas, and I look forward to continuing it, particularly when we’re both back in Texas.” (Video footage of the announcement is here.)
Bush responded, “One of these days he and I are going to be rocking on chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary.”
Yeah, that kind of “Old Friends” moment, could be a little awk-ward. It will take a mighty big porch. Or maybe the old McClellan will show up and a new Bush we haven’t seen yet.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
I don’t care to know why Scott told the truth in his book; I just want to read the facts REVEALED in in it to know “what happened” to the George Bush I voted for in 2000!
May 29th, 2008 at 7:17 am
You GOT the George Bush you voted for.
Scotty’s being Scotty; there’s a market for “insider tell” books, and right at the moment the market for “Bush is a goat” books is ~ 2.3 times the market for “Bush is a God” books. Thus, the smart marketer (which is Scotty’s forte) generates and sells a “Bush is a goat” book.
Look for more of them as the job market for freshly canned shrubberies gets worse.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
Succinct Economic Bailout
No doubt,
George W. Bush - do without!
Part of the ‘Back to Crawford - Pronto’ Movement.
Hubert Wilson
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 am
Cowboys, Cowtards and Cowturdulence
Comparing George W. Bush to retarded cowboys -
Clearly for cattlemen embarrasses and annoys!
‘Do NOT ever besmirch the good reputation of a retarded cowboy!’ - Frederick Jackson Turner and Walter Prescott Webb in ‘The Code of the West’ (well, not really, but Larry McMurty is rumored to be developing a whole mini-series on the subject entitled ‘Loathsome Dud’ - no, NOT really)
September 24th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Magic Act of George W. Bush
America NOW disappearing in its last hour
As the greatest world superpower?
One of the great collective acts of INCOMPETENCE in all of American and world history by Texas George George W. Nero!
September 25th, 2008 at 10:35 am
The Regrets and Sorrows of Jack Gruet
If only they had believed?
So many now would not be bereaved?
Their leader had gladly deceived?
Such deceptions he had weaved?
The truth - Jack Gruet had perceived!
Instead, only the public’s ire he received!
When the written evidence he retrieved,
More than just a few were peeved!
Threats and more were at him heaved!
How could he question the leader’s image heroicly conceived?
Now from his own regrets Jack Gruet is unrelieved!
He too is more than aggrieved!
Disaster and sorrows avoided - if only , IN Jack Gruet, they had believed!
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