McClellan Slams Bush

Coming to a bookstore near you, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will be dishing the dirt on his old boss, George W. Bush. Of all the jobs in Washington DC, none is more synonymous with a brown nose than that of the Press Secretary. It's a tough gig, really: a never-ending spin parade to make the president's every decision seem justified to a room full of reporters hell-bent on proving just the opposite. Attributes required to perform the duties of Press Secretary are: staunch loyalty (see Ari Fleischer), deer in the headlights calm (see Dana Perino), combative obfuscation (see Tony Snow). And when, after two or three years of daily spinning, a Press Secretary is simply too dizzy to spin any more, he or she is set out to pasture, comforted by assurances of a spot in partisan heaven.

Unless, that is, you are Scott McClellan. From Politico comes word of the revelations to be found inside Scott's 341-page Bush-buster blockbuster, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception." Snappy title!

Inquiring minds will learn that:

-Bush used "propaganda" to sell the Iraq war!

-The White House Press corps was too easy on Bush in the run up to the war!

-Bush doesn't remember if he ever tried cocaine!

-Condi Rice is a pro at deceiving people!

-Dick Cheney is secretly running the whole show!

-Scott himself often said things that were "badly misguided"!

-Karl Rove and Scooter Libby are both dirty liars!

In other words, nothing you didn't know already. Or maybe you didn't know, and were just waiting for somebody you trust, like a former presidential Press Secretary, to set you straight. Either way, we can all thank Scott for standing by his principles and giving us the truth, albeit a few years after the facts described in his book and at a cost of $27.95.