Comments on: Former White House flack says Bush played media for saps during run-up to Iraq war

By: Kaus

Kaus — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:43:42 +0000

Scotty IS a sell out. Bush gave him several cushy jobs….he should take the high moral ground and resign on his own rather than get forced out…then write the book. The makings of another disgruntled employee writing a bogus book.

Pat, he was NOT an insider after the 2000 presidential campaign (Deputy Press Secretary) until 2003. Tell me what his role was? Cleaning bath room stalls?

By: Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:36:49 +0000

Pat-my goal in life is to keep you amused.BTW-I’m not a diehard by any means but I don’t take the opinions of a press secretary too seriously especially one who didn’t voice any opposition to that which he now criticizes when he was in the White House. A principled person would have resigned

By: Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:46 +0000

Pat, I am not a die-hard, at all. I don’t dismiss what he’s apparently written and don’t think it should be diminished just because of the timing.

But you have to admit that someone who accepts the job of spokesman — in the inner circle, privvy to a lot of sensitive information and present at some very raw and unsettling moments — is making at least an unstated promise to keep private conversations private.

I don’t know if “disloyal” or “unethical” are the right words, but they are close. If he had such a fundamental disagreement with Bush, he simply should have gotten out.

By: Pat Cunningham

Pat Cunningham — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:18:17 +0000

This is funny. The 24-percenters — the die-hard Bush backers — are all so quick to dismiss McClellan’s book. These same die-hards probably were quick to dismiss the books by Richard Clarke and Paul O’Neill, too. And they’ll dismiss any other book that comes along that dares to tell of this administration’s prevarications. You’re a funny bunch, you die-hards. And I’ll bet you figure history will somehow vindicate your hero. Yeah, sure it will.

By: Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:38:33 +0000

I sure hope good old Scotty enjoys his brief time as a hero of the looney left. It won’t last long.

By: Pat Cunningham

Pat Cunningham — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:45:32 +0000

Kaus: Scotty worked at the White House from the get-go of the Bush administration, not just beginning in ‘03. And why do you call him a sell-out? Because he’s blowing the whistle on that gang of liars? He’s not the first to do so, y’know. Just another nail in the political coffin of the worst administration in my lifetime — and I’m pretty old.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:53:26 +0000

Don’t like the message, so kill the messenger.

By: Kaus

Kaus — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:21:55 +0000

Speaking of Ari Fleischer….he is the man who should be writing the book on Plame and the Iraq war. Sell-out Scotty wasn’t even around to get the inside scoop to write his tell all book. All the action happened before July 2003.

By: Menlo Bob

Menlo Bob — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:52:23 +0000

Bush sure has powerful communication skills. He convinced most of the Democratic presidential contenders to vote in favor of the Iraq War Resolution as well as most of the countries that form the UN Security Council. In addition Bush is scary-good at twisting foreign intelligence services to agree with his evil plans, even when those governments (France and Germany) don’t want anything to do with the war. He’s THAT GOOD! How do we know this? Well Ari Fleisher’s relief pitcher assures us it’s true.