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Video: Ann Coulter Vs. Scott McClellan and Alan Colmes On Dr. Phil
This is a great clip. The audience cheers after everything Ann says, and they boo Scott McClellan. I still can’t believe Scott the weasel can show his face in public after what he did to president Bush. Scott is a scumbag and Ann calls his ass out!
(hat tip NewsBusters)
Audio: O’Reilly Confronts McClellan About ‘Talking Points’, Scott Apologizes
It’s truly amazing to see how low Scott McClellan will go to sell more copies of his fictitious book. He hasn’t been on NBC in a few weeks, then suddenly he pops up on Hardball and throws the left some red meat to get back in the headlines again. Scott McClellan is a scumbag, a sellout, and a liar.
(hat tip to johnny$)
Video: Scott McClellan Bush Bashing On Capital Hill
As a Texan, Scott should know that loyalty means “dancing with the one that brung you.”
Scott McClellan Continues Book Tour–Now On Capital Hill!
Disgruntled former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is continuing his dubious book tour today, this time on Capital Hill. McClellan is appearing today before the House Judiciary Committee to testify about claims made in his book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.”
McClellan claims in his book that the Bush Administration used “propaganda” to sell the war to the American people. He also alleges that there was a cover-up of the Plame leak investigation that he only fully became aware of after leaving the administration.
McClellan Set To Tesify Before House Judiciary Committee
It looks like Scott McClellan isn’t quite finished promoting his Bush administration hit piece. According to the Huffington Post, Scotty’s grand finale will be in the form of sworn testimony before the House Judiciary committee on June 20th. Mark your calenders!!
Bill O’Reilly Destroys Scott McClellan: Part One
Bill O’Reilly Destroys Scott McClellan: Part Two
Trent Duffy Says Scott McClellan Is A Damn Liar
Here’s what Trent Duffy says about Scott McClellan and his ridiculous book. Duffy worked for McClellan as Deputy Press Secretary.
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me, during a series of personal discussions in your West Wing office in late 2005 and early 2006 (at the apex of what you now call your period of “disillusionment” and “dismay”), that you were happy in your job and proud to serve President Bush and that you had no intention of leaving soon? What about in April 2006, when rumors swirled about a change at the podium, and you again told me you wanted to stay?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you told me around Christmas that the excerpts released by your publisher were being “taken out of context” and that your book wasn’t going to be a hatchet job?
· Was it the truth or a lie when you assured your former deputies that you wanted our “full participation” in the book?
· Was it the truth or a lie when, after countless briefings, you complained that the White House press corps was too tough, unfair, over the top and didn’t get it? ….
When the first “teaser” excerpts of your book hit the press in December, my phone lighted up with calls from reporters. Before responding, I called you; you said the publisher had taken liberties, you didn’t mean to attack the president and to point reporters to your 2006 interview with Larry King as your genuine take on things. You told me that your book was still about the poisonous partisan atmosphere in Washington and didn’t breathe a hint about Iraq or Hurricane Katrina. This was long after you were outside the White House bubble, amigo.
You also assured me, when we’ve talked the past two years, that you wanted your deputies to review the book and share our thoughts. Thinking you actually meant what you said, I reached out to you two months ago to take you up on your offer. Radio silence. Why didn’t you keep your promise to me and the other professionals who gave years of their lives working for you?
It certainly looks like Scott McClellan’s version of events during his time at the White House are completely different everyone else’s.
It’s so painfully obvious that Scott and his publisher sexed up his book by adding every single liberal talking point ever uttered by a Bush-hating blogger.
The McClellan Book: A Weapon Of Mass Deception
An article in today’s Washington Post reveals startling new details about just how Scott McClellan’s book came to be.
Peter Osnos , the founder of Public Affairs, the left-wing company that published “What Happened,” described Scott’s initial book ideas as a “a not-very-interesting, typical press secretary book.”
Osnos said McClellan just needed “editorial guidance” to tell the story he wanted to tell all along. Which sounds to me like a pretty stunning admission.
Roughly translated, Osnos is saying that Scott initially turned in a boring (and likely accurate) book and those books don’t sell. So Osnos gave Scott some “editorial guidance” and together they produced the hatchet job your reading today!
To further prove my point, Osnos told the Washington Post this:
“First we had to ascertain what kind of book he wanted to write,” said Osnos, a former Washington Post reporter and editor. “We are journalists, independent-minded publishers. We weren’t interested in a book that was just a defense of the Bush administration. It had to pass our test of independence, integrity and candor.”
Yet another stunning admission from Osnos. He’s basically saying that Public Affairs wasn’t interested in publishing a defense of the Bush Administration. Scott’s book needed to pass their test of “independence, integrity, and candor.”
The “integrity, independence, and candor” Osnos refers to means that Scott’s book would have to conform to specific liberal talking points if Public Affairs was going to publish the book.
Which explains why Scott’s former boss Ari Fleisher said he was blind sided by the book. Fleisher said he kept in touch with Scott and spoke to him several times over the last year. He said Scott told him the book would be complimentary to the President, but admitted taking some shots at Rove and Libby.
Then when he saw the book he couldn’t believe what he was reading. Moreover, everyone who knows Scott says the way the book reads doesn’t sound like him at all. Bartlett, Rove, Perrino, and Fleisher all say that he doesn’t write like that and it sounds like someone else.
Clearly, Scott’s publisher took the book and did a complete overhaul on it. Nearly every accusation leveled at the administration by left-wing blogs concerning the Iraq war, Valerie Plame, and more, over the last few years is included in the book.
The final icing on the cake is the George Soros connection to all this. PublicAffairs Books is owned by Perseus Books Group. Perseus Books Group is owned by Perseus Funds Group. Perseus Funds Group has a holding company called Perseus LLC which has several joint ventures with George Soros.
Is George Soros Behind The McClellan Book?
LGF has uncovered some very interesting connections between Scott McClellan’s publisher and George Soros. Check it out!
Video: McClellan Defends Book
Scott McClellan: Finished At 40
The more I think about Scott McClellan’s book, the more I wonder what his motives are. I’m far too cynical to believe he just wants to “do the right thing” and “come clean.” In fact, that’s the least likely motivation but one the Democrats are sure to play-up.
Whether or not the allegations in the book are true is irrelevant, it’s McClellan’s motivation for basically spitting on every person who helped him get ahead over the last 10 years that I wonder about. Scott is only 40 years old, but his book will guarantee that he never works in Washington ever again, at least not for any Republican.
I’ve actually met Scott’s mother, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a few times when she was running for Governor here in the great state of Texas. Scott got his start working for her after he graduated from college when she was running for Mayor of Austin.
So Scott’s roots in Texas politics run deep and the most powerful family in Texas is of course the Bushes. George W. Bush’s longtime friend and confidant Karen Hughes hired McClellan to be then Governor Bush’s deputy press secretary.
To make a long story short, for someone who wants a career in Republican politics, working for the Bush family is about as good as it gets. So Scott worked for Bush throughout his two terms as Governor of Texas and continued through the 2000 election.
In early 2003, President Bush appointed Scott to the prestigious post of Deputy White House Press Secretary. Later that same year he became White House Press Secretary when Ari Fleischer stepped down.
Then in April of 2006, Scott announced his resignation.
Now in 2008, Scott has apparently decided that everyone he’s ever worked for can just go to hell. He’s decided to adopt nearly every left-wing talking point word for word and throw it at the President in an election season no less.
He’s even decided to commit the ultimate betrayal and appear on Countdown With Keith Olbermann next week to tout his book.
Even if everything McClellan says in the book is true, why would a person be that disloyal? He was part of an ultra-exclusive club in which few people can ever claim membership to.
Once your “in”, the only cost for keeping your membership is simply to “dance with the one who brung you” so to speak.
Maybe I’m just overly ambitious or morally bankrupt, but if President Bush had given me my career and considered me a friend, I would never even think of betraying him like that.
One thing President Bush is known for and his family is known for is their fierce loyalty. If your a loyal “Bushie” they don’t forget that. In fact, Scott’s brother Mark is the current Medicare Director and the former food and drug administrator under President Bush.
The bottom line is that Scott McClellan is a f*cking idiot to have destroyed an otherwise bright future at the ripe old age of 40.
He’s finished in the Republican Party forever, but I guess like everyone else he’s hoping Barack Obama throws him a few bread crumbs. However, I wouldn’t count on it.
-Chris Jones
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