Exclusive: McClellan whacks Bush, White House - Mike Allen

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Links for the Day (May 28th, 2008)
Published 5/28/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... 4. "McClellan whacks Bush, White House" : From Politico . [ "Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan writes in a surprisingly scathing memoir to be published next week that President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence. Among the most explosive revelations in the 341-page book, titled “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, $27.95):" ] *** ...

Idle Chatter: Dissing the President, Cheering Al Qaeda
Published 5/28/2008 by Mark Stein at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan's new memoir, What Happened, "is harsher than reporters and White House officials had expected." [Politico] via [ ...

Former Bush Propagandist Scott McClellan's Book Uses Term "Propaganda," "Sounds Like A Left-Wing Blogger" [Crappy Hour]
Published 5/28/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
... even had a sense of humor. But when McClellan got the job, the Washington Post 's Howard Kurtz described him as "soft-spoken, self-deprecating and so cautious that he [made] Ari Fleischer sound like a gangsta rapper." And now he's out with a tell-all (called, appealingly, What Happened? ) (my punctuation) that apparently sounds like the ravings of "a left-wing blogger!" Hey Scott, welcome to the crew! Drinks on us at the next EschaCon! Anyway, after the jump, ...

Scott McClellan Blames the Liberal Press Corps for Eating up Bush's (His?) Drivel Too Easily
Published 5/28/2008 by Jossip at Jossip
... McClellan, who spent 2003-06 lying to the press for President Bush, certainly won’t be seated there. The man who watched his hairline gradually recede on live television is back from the shadows with a new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, where he spells out how the Bush administration has screwed up everything it could get its hands on. Which is everything. Handy bullet points from Politico, which eschewed the publisher’s press embargo and bought its copy from a store, include: • ...

Reasons Why We Invaded Iraq: No.1 - Afghanistan Is Boring
Published 5/28/2008 by Anorak at Anorak News
... The Politico says McClellan charges that Bush relied on “propaganda” to sell the war. As a revelation that’s right up there with news that nine out of then US porn stars sleep on their backs and the Pope has three children living in a beer cellar in Salzburg (everyone knows that, right?). ...

Amendment Targets Embedded-Analyst Program
Published 5/29/2008 at Broadcasting & Cable Articles
... (D-N.H.), asked the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs to hold a hearing on the analyst program. The issue of the administration's efforts to buttress the media image of its Iraq War policy comes as former White House spokesman Scott McClellan alleged in a new book that the administration relied on propaganda to sell the war. The White House has reportedly dismissed the charge as that of a disgruntled ex-staffer. ...