Scott McClellan: The Weasel Squeaks...and Lies to Enhance His Marketability

Will Malven
5/29/2008

My first disclaimer, I never liked Scott McClellan. I was never impressed by his performance as White House Press Secretary. He always seemed out of his depth and watery-eyed when facing the White House Press Corps.

McClellan variously seemed overwhelmed, panicky, and struggling to keep his head above water when dealing with the likes of NBC's David Gregory, ABC's Ann Compton, and even that useless hag Helen Thomas, formerly of UPI and currently of Hearst.

Scott McClellan was a poor successor to Ari Fleischer and is probably the worst White House Press Secretary I have seen in my 37+ years of following presidential politics.

Thus, I am not surprised to see a "tell-all" book of lies, distortion, and conjecture posing as personal knowledge, come from this loser.

Now McClellan will reap what he has sown, as others (both White House insiders and non-insiders familiar with this White House) begin to rip little Scotty apart for this obvious pander to the Left-wing media.

My second disclaimer. Though I have been pleased with much that President Bush has done during his tenure as President, I am not a big fan of President Bush. He is not a Conservative, he is a Left-of-Center Moderate at best.

Though his judicial appointments have been stellar and his success in the War on Terror has been exemplary, many of his policies, the Medicare expansion, the Illegal Immigration amnesty bill and his refusal to secure our borders, the "No Child Left Behind" policy (written by Ted Kennedy), and his failure to stand firm in the face of the Global Warming hysteria, have proven him to be a bit too enamored the "Compassionate" side of his "Compassionate Conservatism."

So I am no "Bush-bot," but I can spot a weasel when I see one.

First, lets examine what Little Scotty the Weasel said about other "tell-all" books by former members of the Bush administration.

From Jake Tapper of ABC News' "Political Punch" we learn that, commenting on Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's book, "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," McClelaen said:

"It appears to be more about trying to justify personal views and opinions than it does about looking at the results that we are achieving on behalf of the American people."

Then when former anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke published his book, "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," McClellan said:

"Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he's raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. And I think you have to look at some of the facts. One, he is bringing this up in the heat of a presidential campaign. He has written a book and he certainly wants to go out there and promote that book. Certainly let's look at the politics of it. His best buddy is Rand Beers, who is the principal foreign policy advisor to Senator Kerry's campaign. The Kerry campaign went out and immediately put these comments up on their website that Mr. Clarke made. ...

Q: Scott, the whole point of his book is he says that he did raise these concerns and he was not listened to by his superiors.

McCLELLAN: Yes, and that's just flat-out wrong. …When someone uses such charged rhetoric that is just not matched by the facts, it's important that we set the record straight. And that's what we're doing. If you look back at his past comments and his past actions, they contradict his current rhetoric. I talked to you all a little bit about that earlier today. Go back and look at exactly what he has said in the past and compare that with what he is saying today."

Good question Scott. Why, if all of this stuff you claimed was going on in your little work of fiction was actually occurring, didn't you say something in the 3+ years you were speaking to the White House Press Corps? Why, if these alleged occurrences so offended your sensibilities and sense of honor (as if you had any), didn't you resign your position and expose these nefarious goings on?

In all fairness to Scott, we must make allowances. After-all, if he had done the honorable thing and left the Bush White House to make his grievances known, his marketability and his prospects of obtaining a high-paying position with the Left-wing MSM would have been nil. Just like this book, originally scheduled to be released before spring, would have been ignored had he not re-edited the entire thing and added his little embellishments.

Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer revealed yesterday that McClellan told him the book was finished and ready for publication months ago and that Scott the Weasel had scheduled a series of appearances for this past spring to promote the book, but that these appearances and the release of the book were all hastily cancelled and as the publication deadline approached, his editor (see more on the editor below) “tweaked some things closely in the last couple months."

Apparently the truth wasn't marketable enough and McClellan lacked the backbone to protect his own integrity.

It's okay Scotty, I always suspected you lacked any backbone.

Little Scotty Weasel's words have more the vindictive, fictional tone of an unceremoniously dumped politico desperately trying to make himself seem relevant in today's political discourse than they do the clarion ring of truth.

Those little inclusions like the "mysterious" closeted conversation between I. "Scooter" Libby and Karl "The Architect" Rove, who conversed on a routine basis in their official capacities of White House Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff to the Vice-president, and Scotty's conjecture as to what the conversation concerned reek of a nobody's desperate desire to appear relevant.

Much of what McClellan claims as fact involves conversations and meetings of which he was not even a part.

What results is a book with the distinctly distasteful flavor of rank conjecture and pandering to a certain portion of the political class who have been avidly grasping at every pitiful straw man to come down the pike in hopes of toppling President Bush, whom they hate with a passion most Americans reserve for our international adversaries.

Of course none of this matters. The anti-Bush press corps will glom onto this work of fiction as though it is the Word of God and use it to further bash the President with their continued lies and distortions.

Now, thanks to the fine journalists at Little Green Footballs, we now know that McClellan's publisher is Public Affairs Books, the Editor-at-Large of which is a long time Left-wing Political hack named Peter Osnos, Senior Fellow at the Left-wing think-tank The Century Foundation, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of one of George Soros' shill companies, The Perseus Books Group.

Perseus is another of those Soros funded businesses which describes itself as "Independent," kind of like Media Matters for America, I guess.

As for little Scotty, his political roots are anything but Conservative; being the eldest of four sons of Carol Keeton Strayhorn, former Comptroller of Texas and Independent candidate for Governor of Texas. As is typical in Texas political families, she was a lifelong Democrat who was Travis County Campaign Chair for Walter Mondale in 1984, but her political affiliation is more to be classified as "Whatever Party is Convenient" having subsequently run as a Republican and an independent. Don't worry folks that's just old style Texas politics.

McClellan has never been a stalwart Conservative and was chosen by Karen Hughes to succeed Ari Fleischer. When McClellan stepped down he was replaced by Tony Snow, much to the relief of Conservatives everywhere.

It is an unfortunate fact that President Bush has shown on occasion astoundingly poor judgment in appointing members of his own administration (Harriet Meirs as Supreme Court nominee, Alberto Gonzales as AG, the retention of many Clinton hold-over's like Norm Mineta and Richard Clarke), but among those questionable appointments, certainly McClellan has to be one of the stand-out mistakes.

Well Scotty, your 15 minutes will be up soon and you will have destroyed your chances at obtaining any position of trust in anybody's government in the future, hope the 20 pieces of silver you received is worth it.

Time to run home to mommy now.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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