Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Little Scottie's mommie
Posted on 06/02/2008 10:19:33 AM PDT by KatyLoraleyVidales
Former Press Secretary Scott McClellan's new book, What Happened, is sinking about as fast as it was able to rear is ugly head in the first place. Largley considered a political hatchet job, it is becoming more and more clear that McClellan is the one who lied in writing the book, and some, including Bob Novak, are wondering if McClellan even wrote many parts of the book at all. As a matter of fact, Novak's column is where we will start. --- On July 14, 2003, one day before McClellan took a press secretary's job for which many colleagues felt he was unqualified, I wrote a column asserting that while at the CIA Plame had suggested her Democratic partisan husband, retired diplomat Joseph Wilson, for a sensitive intelligence mission. That story would make McClellan's three years at the briefing room podium a misery, leading to his dismissal and now his bitter retort.
In claiming he was misled about the Plame affair, McClellan mentions Armitage only twice. Armitage being the leaker undermines the Democratic theory, now accepted by McClellan, that Bush, Vice President Cheney and political adviser Karl Rove aimed to delegitimize Wilson as a war critic. The way that McClellan handles the leak leads former colleagues to suggest he could not have written this book by himself.
On Page 173, McClellan first mentions my Plame leak, but he does not identify Armitage as the leaker until Page 306 of the 323-page book -- and then only in passing. Armitage, who was antiwar and anti-Cheney, does not fit the conspiracy theory that McClellan now buys into. When, after two years, Armitage publicly admitted that he was my source, the life went out of Wilson's campaign. In "What Happened," McClellan dwells on Rove's alleged deceptions as if the real leaker were unknown....
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read later
not read at all.
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Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Little Scottie's mommie
This guy needs to make a lot of money on this book because no employer anywhere in the world will ever hire him.
George Soros
In case nobody remembers, his father , Barr McClellan, was one of LBJ’s Texas attorneys, and wrote an interesting but lurid book to support his thesis that LBJ all but engineered the assassination of JFK. Book was full of somewhat overwrought Texas political history, yet still interesting.When Scottie came into his former job , there was brief mention of his crackpot father, but it was soon dropped. Now it looks like “the apple doesn;t fall far from the tree”, except that Barr Mc Clellan’s book probably was entirely his own, and Scott’s largely bought and paid for by political interests.
dat’s funny!
his book may do more damage to liberalism than to bush.
libs can’t shoot straight, can they?
Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn
Novak should talk.
What happened was he couldn’t sell his 2007 pro-Bush book proposal. Then Soros buddy Osnos whispered big dollars in his ear. Scott is a nobody, and this book was his one last chance to grab the ring. NOw he’ll repackage himself as a liberal, since it will pay to be a former conservative back-stabber. He’ll be on talk shows forever as the “former Bush supporter.”
Scotty signed his name and took the dough. No sympathy.
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