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Scott McClellan: Patriot or betrayer? Parallels between ex-Bush aide, Judas Iscariot
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 6/7/08 | Pat Boone

Posted on 06/07/2008 2:27:43 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

He was a spokesman for the Chief. He traveled with him, conversed with him, shared meals and confidences with him, was certainly one of his closest friends. He learned from him, believed in him, benefited greatly from the association – and, when asked, would try to explain him and his mission to others.

He was trusted. He was identified with the Chief, and he basked in that. Oh, he didn't go along with everything the Chief did, and he didn't fully understand all he said, but he tried faithfully to represent the man and what he was doing, and he profited greatly from it.

But a time came when he lost confidence in the chief and sensed that the loss might be mutual, that the Chief didn't fully trust him either. Looking around for one last means of profiting from the relationship, he offered to betray his friend to the highest bidder, to sell him out. And of course, his friend being very high profile and quite controversial, he took a big fee for the betrayal.

His name was Judas.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: betrayal; bookreview; bush; mcclellan; patboone

Scott McClellan stars in Ghost Writer

With Scott McClellan's new book, left-wingers are now absolutely sure Obama will trounce Bush this November! No third term! The little darlings haven't figured out yet that Bush isn't on the ballot this time, so they're frantically putting out movies like "Recount," "Redacted," "Rendition," "Stop-loss," and publishing fiction like McClellan's book, which all liberals with advance copies are excitedly having someone literate read to them, cover-to-cover. Even stupid Scott McClellan is learning what is in it.

In media interviews, McClellan is even considering voting for Obama, so determined is he never ever to vote for George Bush again.

While libbies are wildly excited about the book, the one bummer for them is that McClellan refuses to reveal the truth about . . . WTC Building 7! Bushitler and Cheney and Rove imploded it around 5 o'clock or something like that on 9/11 to hide Enron, man. Rosie O'Donnell says it's totally on the Internet!

But as news of fantasist McClellan's book hit the airwaves, the White House hit back hard, with the press secretary wondering why it took McClellan so long to realize how hideously evil George Bush is: "Why, all of a sudden, if he had all those grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years since he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he's raising these grave concerns that he claims he had." Oops, that was Scott McClellan speaking, back in '04, blasting Richard Clarke for cashing in on his White House gig with a book deal.

McClellan, who served Bush for nearly three years before getting fired for incompetence, admits he doesn't believe "the White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people." Then he says the White House consciously "shaded the truth" and created a "propaganda machine" which consciously used "out and out deception" to sell the need to go to war in Iraq. You really needed deception to persuade Americans that Saddam was a problem. (But, to be fair, 'shading the truth' and "out and out deception" are sometimes necessary, such as when selling a book by a worthless has-been mediocrity who resembles a crash dummy.) On his last day in the White House, McClellan said this of his fellow propaganda machinists: "I have been honored and grateful to be a small part of a terrific and talented team of really good people," (Hat tip: Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO).

From media excerpts, other than the bombshell that an administration used "propaganda" to get its message out (no president has ever done this!), other revelations in McClellan's book include: Katrina didn't go well, the White House was worried about Valerie Plame, Bush is a bad man because he did what presidents do, there are rumors about Bush and cocaine. He also reveals there were no WMDs in Iraq. And that he thinks Bush "misled" us into war. Bush: "Hey, let's invade Iraq for no reason! McClellan informed me that Saddam has no WMDs, so invading will wreck my credibility! Woo-hoo, 30 percent approval ratings, here I come!"

McClellan says he lied for years and years for George Bush, but that he's not lying now for $27.95 a copy. (Soon available at a Dollar Store near you.) McClellan denies being a backstabbing, two-faced, double-crossing little slimeball quisling who wallowed for years in the spotlight holding a comfy job and who then cashes in by dumping a steaming pile of dung. The dung, incidentally, was published by PublicAffairs, which is part of Perseus Books Group, owned by a merchant bank called Perseus LLC, which sort of gives the game away as to who's really pulling Scott McClown's strings, since Perseus has got a few companies with "Soros" in their name: Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund, LP; Perseus-Soros Management, LLC, etc. (Hat tip: Littlegreenfootballs.com.) McClellan hotly denies that money was his motivation, noting that PublicAffairs almost never pays an advance of more than 30 pieces of silver.

The founder and Editor-at-Large of PublicAffairs is left-wing nutcase Peter Osnos, who admits to having "worked closely" with McClellan on 'his' book -- which is another way of saying: I wrote it. Osnos writes a weekly column for the left-wing "Century Foundation," so at least he's not biased.

In a column about Richard Nixon, Osnos attacks George Bush: "Instead of the compassionate conservative with a winning personal style surrounded by competent and experienced advisers, the Bush's administration [sic] has been reactionary and inept." In a column about Molly Ivins a few months after her death, he attacks George Bush: "Bush and company seemed determined to go ahead with the invasion no matter what, and the country, on the whole, went along."

In a column about Al Gore, he attacks George Bush for having "outmaneuvered (Gore) in a presidential contest . . ." Then he blames the media for the Gore campaign's incompetence: "It is fair to say that history can judge the media as one of the main reasons Al Gore lost in 2000, with disastrous consequences for the nation." Any doubt the U.S. and "many other places and global problems would be in better shape if Gore had made it to the White House?" The Earth would be so much cooler right now!

In a dramatic shift, in a column about books about Ronald Reagan, he attacks Ronald Reagan: "What comes through in all the books about and by Ronald Reagan is that he was essentially oblivious to emotion in the way it is commonly understood." In a gracious moment after William F. Buckley's death, he wrote that Buckley's views were of "someone suspended in an Anglophiliac universe of the past," and he blasted Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter in the same column for being "bombastic, aggressive, and mean" to left-wing nutjobs like Peter Osnos.

The real reason libbies are giving the fat tongue bath to McClellan's book is because it recycles their 'Rush-to-War' and 'Bush Lied, Kids Died' tropes now that the surge is working embarrassingly well and their moron Obama is busy being steeped in denial, lamely attempting to relitigate the prewar stuff. McClellan was deputy press secretary for the wimp-o sissy pantywaist domestic issues in the run-up to war, which is why, relitigation-wise, McClellan's book is a fat lot of use for Democrats, since the White House was keen to keep this imbecile out of the war-strategy loop. What was supposed to be one huge demolition job on Bush, McClellan's book became McClellan doing one huge demolition job on McClellan and his "credibility," recounting details of meetings he never attended, of conversations he had that never happened.

As rigged as the media game is, the hideous tyrant Bu$hitler comes out ahead even as little shifty-eyes McClellan struggles out of the corner he's painted himself into.

Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"


1 posted on 06/07/2008 2:27:43 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2

“He was a spokesman for the Chief.”

Judas wasn’t a spokesman.

We laughed when Clinton called Bill Richardson a Judas. This is just as lame.

Neither Clinton or Bush are worthy to be compared to Christ.

No one is.


2 posted on 06/07/2008 2:34:29 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

You’re right. This is lame.


3 posted on 06/07/2008 2:48:28 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Jihad is for wankers.)
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To: JohnHuang2

Oh Pat,come awwwwwwwwwwn!


4 posted on 06/07/2008 3:05:17 AM PDT by Mila
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Weren't all the Apostles more or less "spokesman", in the sense that they spread the message?

Callin a shabby traitor "Judas" is not equating anyone with Christ. It's just... well comparing one traitor with the most famous of all traitors. McClellan is a little Judas who would sell his soul for 30 pieces of silver.

5 posted on 06/07/2008 3:08:08 AM PDT by SolidWood (Refusal to vote for McCain is active support of Obama. Period.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Neither Clinton or Bush are worthy to be compared to Christ.

The main thrust of this article is to compare Bill Richardson with Judas Iscariot. Merely calling someone a "Judas" does not imply, even indirectly, that the person he betrayed resembles Christ; rather, it is merely a figure of speech.

However, I'll grant you that this article does go out of its way to draw comparisons between the betrayers - to the point that it almost becomes allegory. So, I guess that I'll agree with you that the article is "lame" (though I wouldn't go so far as to say that it quite reached the depths of "tastelessness.")

Regards,

6 posted on 06/07/2008 3:14:49 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: JohnHuang2

Jess tryin’ to “get paid”


7 posted on 06/07/2008 3:17:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: JohnHuang2

Pat, I love ya, man, but Scotty McClellan is no Judas. He’s more like Scott Evil...the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough.


8 posted on 06/07/2008 3:21:36 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: RichInOC

Scott McClellan is a pile of Whale Poop!
Why Whale Poop?
Because of the depth that Whales are known to swim in the Oceans...........:-(
We Know there is Nothing Lower than Whale Poop on Our Planet
Because It resides at the Bottoms of the Deepest Oceans!

Hence Scotty(he Slime) McClellan, You are Worse and Lower than Whale Poop!!!!!!!!!!!! This Slime is not worthy of being called Judas. However, this does qualify Scotty McClellan to be a long time close, personal friend and Advisor of B.O. HUSSEIN, just the Ticket! Scotty makes the grade to be on the B.O. HUSSEIN Magic ARAB TEAM!


9 posted on 06/07/2008 5:23:43 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (God Bless America and The Republicans)
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To: JohnHuang2

10 posted on 06/07/2008 5:30:53 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: JohnHuang2
"McClellan denies being a backstabbing, two-faced, double-crossing little slimeball quisling who wallowed for years in the spotlight holding a comfy job and who then cashes in by dumping a steaming pile of dung."

IMHO-most thinking Americans interpret McClellan's actions pretty much as stated above, and they will remember it as long as they remember him; which won't be long. Bush is such a nice guy, he'll probably give Scott a job around the ranch someday so he can feed his family.

11 posted on 06/07/2008 6:10:05 AM PDT by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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