Monday, November 19, 2007

Scotty is going to tell his story

Scott McClellan, Bush's Press Secretary prior to Dana Perino, is about to publish a book on his experience as Bush's Press Secretary. The title is to be What Happened. By the looks of the excerpt, the White House may not be pleased. Here is the teaser:
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself.
It's due out in April 2008.

I sure hope this is not the best paragraph in the book.

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