Former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan is bitter and we say, too bad!
McClellan always looked like he had just wet himself before taking the podium for 
briefings with the press. What a nice thought considering the ilk sitting before him.
Now the erstwhile McClellan publishes a book with the backing of a Leftist group and none other than George Soros, Socialist Commander-In-Chief.
Mr. McClellan supposedly supported the war in Iraq as presidential spokesman from 2003-2006, but he has since “become genuinely convinced” it was wrong.
If Mr. McClellan believes the White House used “propaganda” to sell the war than Scott was the chief propaganda minister for three years.
Scores need to be settled and it took some time for the former administration employee to get with it. Choosing strange bedfellows to stab former colleagues was McClellan’s method to be heard at this late but date specific time.
The Publisher
PublicAffairs, was founded by left-wing editor Peter Osnos and has published six books by George Soros. PublicAffairs is owned by Perseus Books, which is owned by Perseus LLC, a merchant bank whose board includes Democrats Richard Holbrooke and Jim Johnson, and who is now doing Barack Obama’s vice presidential vetting. One of Perseus’s investment funds, Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical, is co-managed with Mr. Soros. (WSJ)
Mr. Osnos, who is “editor-at-large” at PublicAffairs, told liberal blogger Rachel Sklar that he “worked very closely” with Mr. McClellan and his editor, Lisa Kaufman.
Iraq and Surge
Barack Hussein Obama has defended his position on Iraq time and again, which means immediate withdrawal of our troops and surrender. With the success of the surge Mr. Obama would not meet with General Petraeus but prefers the company of Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, and Mahmoud Amahdinejad. Obama claims he “may go to Iraq” this summer.
As the Wall Street Journal notes:
Mr. Obama has staked out a position for immediate troop withdrawal that looks increasingly untenable amid the success of the “surge” and improving security in Baghdad and Basra. John McCain was a key supporter of the surge, so Democrats now want to change the subject and claim the war was a mistake in the first place and sold under false pretenses. Mr. McClellan’s confessions fit neatly into this political narrative.
Mr. McClellan makes claims but cannot support them with substance because initially he was deputy press secretary for domestic issues and wasn’t in on the meetings that would provide him with such information.
WMD and al-Qaeda
Mr. McClellan is attempting, with the help of his new friends on the Left, to reconstitute the war in Iraq issues of finding weapons of mass destruction and the presence of al-Qaeda in Iraq before the invasion.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report of 2004, the Robb-Silberman report of 2005, and Britain’s Butler report all explain that U.S. and all Western intelligence was mistaken but not distorted. Saddam Hussein told U.S. interrogators that he kept the fact that he lacked WMD even from many of his own generals.
McClellan comes out late with a book deal during a Presidential election year with complaints he never made when working in the White House and that he cannot substantiate. Now, joining the deep Leftists movement he has become “propaganda minister” for the Socialist Democrat Party. Indeed!
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May 30th, 2008 at 11:40 am
The difference in Scotty is amazing. When he was lying to the press, he LOOKED like he was lying, evasive, sweaty, and uncomfortable. In his current interviews he looks like a man at peace with himself, and the man who would not admit that the sun came up in the east will now take any question, and answer without evasion. From a guy who couldn’t lie effectively, even for the money, he now looks like a man who would tell the truth for free. Since he was obviously a terrible actor as press secretary, it is unlikely he is acting now.
I think Scott’s conscience got to him, and he could no longer sleep at night. Perhaps the administration made a mistake by choosing an actual Christian for that job.
Of course, the talking points used to dismiss him are the same as used on each of those who broke with the administration, which pretty much nails it that he is telling the truth.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I didn’t provide “talking points” but facts from reports with links one could read.
McClellan is “at peace with himself” because he cashed in and doesn’t have to worry about a real job.
Furthermore, McClellan is angry not necessarily truthful, he can’t substantiate his bantering because the reports are out there. How many resolutions, how many countries had the same intelligence?
Please don’t defend someone who jumps the Right using the far Leftist ilk. That’s indefensible.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
McClellan and his crazy mother can’t find jobs since putting their incompetence on review. So he had to sell his soul to the Devil for a paycheck and his 15 minutes. My guess is that they will be hocking autographs to fellow travelers at aromatherapy trade shows within a few weeks.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Forgetting your dislike of McClellan for the moment, can you comment on the factuality of his accusations? It seems as if he is clearly admitting knowledge of a propaganda operation through Karl Rove and the Office of Strategic Initiatives. We know the White House was caught faking news stories before to promote NCLB, but manipulating the information going out to the public to promote the Iraqi invasion is even more serious. The Smith-Mundt Act and other laws seem to prohibit domestic public dissemination of disguised commentary that originated with our government. Can you offer why this shouldn’t be investigated?
July 7th, 2008 at 7:13 am
This is now old news and Mr. McClellan has written his book and testified before Congress.
How can I substantiate what McClellan has said or wrote. We do know that the Scooter Libby issue was blown out of proportion by an overzealous prosecutor who had a case proved in advance but decided to go on a witch hunt to no avail.
If Fitzgerald could prove nothing after spending millions and taking deposition after deposition then what does a late comer like McClellan prove? What is his motive besides he has an ax to grind years after the fact or no fact? Is this payback because the GOP and Bush administration did not back his mother in her tepid run for Texas Governor?
If McClellan is correct in his assumptions why did he continue to waddle up to the podium and pretend all was OK and continue as White House spokesperson. Someone like this is always suspect when suddenly they come out with a late “tell all” book.
Similar to the lies of Plame/Wilson, it’s a publicity stunt, money grabber and attempt to attack a group of people who “did you wrong” at least in McClellan’s imagination. The time for McClellan to come forward would have been when he was in the thick of it, not well after he resigned/was fired.
Congress has been investigating the White House for 7.5 years and what have they come up with? Maybe Dennis Kucinich would like to file another impeachment paper or the Liberals can march up to the camera’s and make accusation after accusation which never accomplish anything but create rumor.
As bad as Democrats wanted to kill the Bush administration they have been unable to do anything legal with all there resources to do so if they really had anything more than innuendo, conjecture and lies.