Conservatives Crucify McCllellan for Disloyalty but No One Questions His Facts On Bush Administration
RADICAL RIGHT — McCLELLAN SAYS CRITICS ARE TRYING TO ‘TAKE THE FOCUS AWAY’ FROM BOOK’S KEY THEMES’: Last week, in response to Scott McClellan’s explosive memoir, former senator Bob Dole sent a vitriolic personal e-mail to McClellan, calling him a “miserable creature.” “[Y]our type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique,” Dole charged. On CBS’s Early Show yesterday, McClellan shrugged off Dole’s and the right wing’s attacks on him. ”[N]o one is really refuting the key themes and perspectives in the book. What they are doing is taking some of these personal attacks and misrepresentations and trying to shift this focus away from what this book talks about,” he said. Indeed, it’s difficult to find a right-wing personality directly taking issue with the substance of McClellan’s book. For example, former White House deputy press secretary Trent Duffy wrote yesterday, “Please forgive me, Scott, if this sounds personal, but you’ve just filleted me and everyone who worked with you.” “I mean my lack of interest in Scott McClellan’s personal odyssey of self-discovery is a negative,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich.
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Of course people are questioning McClellan's facts. You don't have to agree with the President or the war to see there are serious problems with Scott McClellan.
The first option is he is a liar. There's probably a big dose of that, especially since a far left publishing house substantially revised the book from the proposal he submitted to them. He told Tim Russert he grew while writing the book. Yea right. He grew in his understanding of how to make money on his book, and he sold out what was left of his integrity.
Or he's a hypocrite. When he was in the White House he knew he that what he was pitching was a lie, and he did it anyway because he was intoxicated with power. He didn't have the honor to resign to protest a policy he didn't agree with. There's probably a big dose of that too.
To now paint himself now as a patriot is bunk. Either way, like Bob Dole said he's a weasel.
He may be a weasel but the essence of his story is correct and factual and that's backed up by the 911 Commission report and dozens of other well researched books. I agree he should have stepped aside rather than promote lies especially regarding war but they were lies and this administration sold the war like it was a product at the grocery store. That's despicable, more despicable than an employee turning on his employer.
Roxanne
What precisely are you saying is the "essence" of Scott McClellen's story? What precisely about the "essence" of Scott McClellen's story is backed up by the 911 Commission report and dozens of other well researched books? What precisely are the names of these "dozens of other well researched books?" Did you actually read Scott McClellen's book or are you simply cutting and pasting from other accounts you've read? I look forward to your answers on all these questions. Thanks in advance.