White House Scorns Scotty

The day of and the day after Politico got a hold of Scotty's new book about his life and times at the White House, the Republican machine kicked into high gear. It is easy for them to dismiss anyone outside their tight, little circle, but when one of their own turned against them to make a profit....well, watch out Scotty!

From The Huffington Post:

The White House responded angrily Wednesday to McClellan's confessional memoir, calling it self-serving sour grapes.

"Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House," said current White House press secretary Dana Perino, a former deputy to McClellan. "We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew."[...]

"Not once did Scott approach me _ privately or publicly _ to discuss any misgivings he had about the war in Iraq or the manner in which the White House made the case for war," McClellan's predecessor as press secretary, Ari Fleischer, said.

Said Fran Townsend, former head of the White House-based counterterrorism office and now a CNN commentator: "This now strikes me as self-serving, disingenuous and unprofessional."

Perino described Bush as "surprised" by the book but said the president wouldn't have anything to say about it. "He has more pressing matters than to spend time commenting on books by former staffers," she said.

Karl Rove even said, get this, he sounded like a left-wing blogger. Well Karl, not quite. He certainly did expose your criminality and that of the others around you, but like any other self-serving Republican, he made his dime on someone else's expense and remained ethically dubious about his own misgivings. No one seriously believes that crap about Scotty thinking what he said was true when he said it and then realizing it was wrong. That isn't surprising, in fact, it all makes sense. I wonder who'll come out with the next book, perhaps Dana Perino? Tony Snow? Maybe they could pen something together and title it "I don't and didn't know."

McClellan To Throw Bush Under The Bus

It looks like Scott McClellan is trying to distance himself from the Bush Administration he used to work for. All the arguments they made against the media was hogwash and McClellan said that we should have believed everyone but the White House. Damn, this book might actually be good:

Scotty Show Comes Clean

Unless you really, really, really wanted to believe the words coming out of Scott McClellan's mouth when he was the White House Press Secretary, you had to know he was spewing bullshit day in and day out. Seeing the realities of the world while George Bush saw only god knows what, there had to be someone willing to be the President's mouthpiece. Scott is long gone, having been replaced by Tony Snow and now Dana Perino. Yet Scotty isn't done talking, now he is espousing a little bit of truth.

From Public Affairs Publishing:

The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself.

Only Scotty and that inner circle really know if he knew the truth (or untruths) that he was passing along. Of course in the process of "coming clean" he also passes the blame to his superiors while making a few bucks on the side. Despite the money, this excerpt from the book sheds a tremendous amount of light on what really went down during the height of PlameGate and many other controversies that surround the Bush Administration.

The book will definitely be an interesting read, thats for sure.