Thursday, May 29, 2008

Former spokesman bashes Bush in new book


"In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level — from too much secrecy to a less-than-honest selling of the war to a lack of personal candor and an unwillingness to admit mistakes.

In the first major insider account of the Bush White House, one-time spokesman Scott McClellan calls the operation "insular, secretive and combative" and says it veered irretrievably off course as a result.

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

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080529/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_mcclellan_book;_ylt=AgBSzTjU1ayyRqOtSPhEKMis0NUE

This is politics, backstabbing and lying. If I were Bush, I would be pissed off right now. Maybe Bush did wrong things, but this guy was working for him as a close aide. Now he goes off and tries to make money off of his former boss. What a jerk. I guess the plus side to this is that we get to hear the truth, or at least the truth according to McClellan.

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