McClellan on Plame (This has to hurt!)

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 2, 2008 | Robert Novak

[dalight]

A partisan Democratic mantra began earlier in the book. McClellan writes George H.W. Bush's 1988 campaign "acquiesced to certain advisers, including Roger Ailes and the late Lee Atwater," who opposed Bush's "civility and decency." (McClellan, then 20 years old, played no part in that campaign.) McClellan contends that thanks to Rove in 2002, "the first cracks appeared in the facade of bipartisan comity."

[haroldeveryman]

“His robotic performances from the White House podium seemed only to disgorge what he had been told, and “What Happened” has the similar feel of someone else’s hand.
The book so mimics the Democratic line that Ari Fleischer, McClellan’s predecessor as press secretary, asked him last week whether he had a ghostwriter.”

This Mc Clellan rehabilitation project sure smells like election year Democrat politics. After his embarrassing stint as press secretary one would conclude that McClellan had to have a lot of help in writing this book. It’s like the old joke about how a midget managed to rape a seven foot woman. His friends put him up to it.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks, and another bump for you.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Basically, Novak intimates McLellan is a stooge.

I don’t always like Novak, but he’s dead on right here.

[torchthemummy]

I am being completely sincere when I say that McClellan had one personal aptitude to being the Press Secretary: a dry, boring style that never made a good soundbite/clip for the MSM. Ari Fleisher and Tony Snow had real presence and clear intelligence which made them more apt to be used in soundbites/clips with the downside being that any "mistake" they made would come across as more theatrical than McClellan.

In the end of course McClellan, like any Press Secretary, is going to be utilized in soundbites/clips no matter what. I just believe the only effective style he had was to sound like a funeral director and thus lull some of the press into a gentle nap.

[weegee]

The Clintons ripped this country to sh!t back in 1993.

And blamed the OKC bombing on anyone who opposed the expansion of government into personal lives or listen to the then “new” talk radio.

When they left office, the peaceful exchange of power forever ended. We almost had riots in 2000 and 2004 when a Republican won the White House. Expect more anger in 2008 if it happens.

[SatinDoll]

McClellan obviously needed money as his book proposal was bland and the very left-wing publisher spiced it up. Scotty did not counter the “tweaking”.

IMHO Scotty has no ethics and no moral judgement. Money here is everything - at least to these people. To Hell with the truth! (sarcasm)

[weegee]

ALL of the big autobiographies have a ghost writer.

It may be one of those things that Obama shares with JFK...

[1035rep]

Thanks for the link. McClellan is looking more like a fool every minute.

[EQAndyBuzz]

McClellan got his retirement package paid for by left-wing lunatics.

[singfreedom]

.....and an innocent, good, family man went to prison because he didn’t keep detailed enough notes on all the people he talked to on the phone, and when. I will never forgive Patrick Fitzgerald for his blatant ineptitude.

[nathanbedford]

Oh, what a terrible web we weave when first we practice to appease!

[andyandval]

who leaked and that what was leaked wasn't a crime.

36 major "news" organizations agreed...

[dalight]

No. Novak intimates that McClellan is a fraud.

He is saying like several others that it appears that someone added all of the controversial vitriol essentially from Democrat talking points and charges made by other authors.

He is saying it doesn't sound like McClellan's hand writing.. and since Scott denies being ghostwritten. That goes to fraud..

[lexusppd]

All that aside, the revelations that you are "intrigued by Senator Obama's message" and that you don't know if you are a Republican anymore make me wonder if you ever had any convictions. If you were just drinking the Kool-Aid at the White House, have you now switched flavors with your newfound friends?

*********************************************************** The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, it would seem. McClellan's own mother ran in Texas as a Republican, Democrat and Ind depending on which way she though the winds were blowing at the time of her drive to power.

People such as the McClellan's have no credibility and no character.

[Loyal Buckeye]

McClellan is an idiot.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Does Barry Hussein Obama know Ted Sorenson?

[syriacus]

they will not question an inept boob who's useful to their agenda.

Scottie McDupeDope

[True Republican Patriot]

“Temp Friends on the Left”!

Who would want to get near Keith Olberdork let alone think of HIM as a friend. McClellan is the lowest of low and a real putrid POS! The Left is ROTFLAH!!!!!

[Ann Archy]

WHO will EVER HIRE Scotty now??? He’s NOT Trustworthy!! No Republican will ever, and not even a Democrat will....ONLY the ENEMEDIA will hire him to do hit pieces on Republicans!!