A Press Secretary is not, as McClellan now seems to think, a fourth branch of the Federal Government – something the MSM has claimed to be theirs – but a low-level employee of the President. His job is to dissemminate whatever the Administration wants disseminated, and to answer Press questions. Had he any inkling that he was being lied to, and ignored that inkling, then he was, as he is now, a moral coward. He was a PR man, nothing more. Obviously he never quite ‘got it’ and now is trying to make some fast, unsavory money.

I’m glad she’s with CNN. She’s very good, and they’ve been featuring her a lot.

As for the rest, who cares? Scott McClellan will get his 15 minutes (I’d estimate there’s about 12:07 left on the clock at this point), and the hardcover of his book will be discounted by Thanksgiving, if not Labor Day, and there will be no paperback second edition.

Raise a glass to Tony Snow and wish him well.

And now back to the NYC crane collapse.

Seeya!

David Gregory, NBC News’ chief White House correspondent, opined: “I think he’s wrong.” He added: “I think we pushed, I think we prodded. …The right questions were asked.”

Sooooo David, you all still want us to believe your charges about it all being a pack of lies??? If you all would have done the proper ground work, we would have known more, but like usual, you lazy butts couldn’t find your a**es with both hands and a flashlight. – Lorica

- Now, of all things, he has a “White Preacher” that he’s having to distance himself from (He already issued a denouncement, apparently wanting damage control to kick in as soon as possible).

- The question is, how much longer can the Obamamessiah weather these daily mishaps/gaffs before buyers remorse among his supporters sets in. At some point even the true believers are going to grow weary of constantly having to defend this sort of over the top silliness.

- Hillery still lurks, and is expected to “suspend”, not end, her campaign, after the final weeks-end primaries. This so she can stop the financial bleeding, and reorganize for the floor fight she expects to wage at the convention. A mob of screaming Fembots in the auditorium, all screeching for Hillery. Add to that the possibility of a bunch of irate voters from two unhappy state caucases, worth the price of admission.

- BBH –

The Left’s favorite whipping boy during the 1st Bush term .. James Guckert / Jeff Gannon has weighed in with this ..

What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say without fear of contradiction, that I knew Scott better than any other White House correspondent or Washington reporter…

“Not in that exact….

It’s really amazing how this part of the conversation was missed by Glen Greenwort in his Salon piece, that assumed the answer to the question was .. yes.

Frankly, so far this McClellan “thing” seems to be incredibly thin. There is this sense in the air that he is saying .. whatever the listener wants to hear .. but so far it’s been real thin on specifics.

I mean .. the press wasn’t tough enough ? No matter whether or not they were or they weren’t .. except to say that reporters should have let their biases show even more, it goes no where.

The President was selective with the intelligence .. intelligence is aways selective else a form of “administrative autism” sets in with everything having meaning and everything having no meaning at the same time .. with no dots ever being connected.

Anyone who truely believes that the public really wanted ever last detail of information in order to make their decision in regard to the war, should ask why the same has never been done with issues like Global Warming, where Congress would have us spend even more than has been spent on the war. The ‘zzzzzz” would have been deafening. Frankly, the Global Warming discussion would be more useful .. especially at this point in time.

I get this feeling that this book won’t fill in the blanks with any meat .. so you’re left thinking .. where’s the beef ?