Scott McClellan finally gives voice to what the Republicans fear most about an Obama Presidency.

[W]hen asked what advice he would give to a President Barack Obama or Democratic Congress on the matter of handling former Bush officials, McClellan speaks now of the perils of probing the past.

“If Obama were to win,” he said last week, “that would be an issue his administration would have to face early ... because he’s pledging to be a uniter, not a divider — without saying those exact words we campaigned on in 2000. He’s pledging to change the way Washington works, and if Congress were to pursue that, it would be very divisive.”

He continued: “That could be very problematic for his presidency right off the start.”

Have I said how much I just love Scott McClellan? He is the gift that just keeps on giving.

And this is why EVERY American SHOULD vote for Barack Obama, and why the Republican party is desperate to stop him.

If you believe that America is about truth and justice, then you should want the Bush administration to be investigated as thoroughly as possible. It is only in that way that we can start to bring integrity back to this country.

You can bet your ass that John McCain's plan is to cover up EVERY crime ever committed by this criminal regime so that the Republicans can cling to power and continue to treat this nation like their own personal playground.

Bill O'Reilly demands that Scott McClellan apologize for outing him as a mouthpiece for the White House.

This is almost as good as Bill's break down on Inside Edition.

The man is such a bully that he simply browbeats poor little Scott McClellan until he does not know if he is coming or going. And check out how he described MSNBC. I think it is abundantly clear that Keith Olbermann has really got under O'Reilly's skin.

Scott McClellan admits that the White House tells FOX News what to report.

This is not news to anybody with half of a brain, but it may cause a media frenzy to have it stated in such stark unequivocal terms.

I have to say that right now little Scotty McClellan is my hands down favorite ex-Bushie.

Not that the field is particularly crowded.

Update: I changed the video above from the original Hardball interview to a YouTube video which I think explains it better. The link in the title still goes to the Hardball interview.

I once called him Puffy McMoonface, and I now humbly apologize. Scotty McClellan you are the gift that keeps on giving.

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, whose scathing memoir about his time in the Bush administration sent waves through Washington D.C., has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, a senior committee official told The Huffington Post.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

I already bought one of his books (It has not yet been delivered, and it has been delayed twice, but I already paid for it.), but now I think I will have to buy a few more and give them to my friends.

What are looking at my like that for? I have friends!

I have not even read it yet, and it is already my favorite book of the year.

Sunday Comics.

Scott makes amends for past sins.

In an encounter last night in the lobby of a New York hotel, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan apologized for denouncing a former White House colleague, Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism adviser, after Clarke wrote a book highly critical of the Bush administration in 2004.

Now McClellan is facing a similar denunciation from the White House for his own highly critical book.

"I should have known how personal it would get when they went after me, well, I mean, after what I said about you," Clarke says McClellan told him in the lobby of New York's Essex House.

"I think I can forgive you now," Clarke says he replied.

"I'd like to ask you to," McClellan reportedly answered.

Personally I would like to see a number of the Bush administratoin toadies getting a taste of their own medicine.

I think George Bush and Dick Cheney could do a tour in Iraq. Right on the front lines of course, not in the Green Zone.

Karl Rove might benefit from a little prison time.

Michael Chertoff can be moved to the Ninth ward of New Orleans where he is periodically frightened by reports of possible terrorist attacks in his neighborhood.

That is a good start though of course there are many more deserving recipients.

Keith spends entire hour on Scott McClellan's book.

Part one.



Part two.



Part three.



Final portion.



I really appreciate that Keith talked bout how the White House is using the same tactics that they used to convince the people that invading Iraq was a good idea to convince us that we need to do something about Iran.

Jessica Yellin backs up Scott McClellan's assertion that the press was not critical enough during the run up to the war.

On Wednesday night, CNN's Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan's tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters "dropped the ball" during the run-up to war.

But Yellin went much further, revealing that news executives--presumably at ABC News, where she'd worked from July 2003 to August 2007--actively pushed her not do hard-hitting pieces on the Bush administration.

"The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings," Yellin said.

"And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives--and I was not at this network at the time--but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time...."

But then a shocked Cooper jumped in, asking, "You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?"

"Not in that exact.... They wouldn't say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces," Yellin said. "They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical, and try to put on pieces that were more positive. Yes, that was my experience."

If you have spent much time at all in the liberal blogoshere this will probably not come as news to you. But as one of those "liberal bloggers" I have to say it is very gratifying to see the truth finally being revealed to the public at large.

And it is especially important now when the administration is using the exact same tactics to push for war with Iran. Where is the critical news coverage about the Iran issue?

Today's news shows are featuring a 24 hour Scott McClellan book commerical.

Wow my television is literally burning up with the spin form the White House about Scotty's book on one side and the reporters spin about his allegation that they did not do their jobs effectively in the run up to the war on the other side.

The White House , of course, expresses anger and dismay and tries to minimize McClellan's allegations. Some going so far as to call it crap.

And it is no surprise that Nancy Pelosi agrees with McClellan's allegations against the Bush administration.

What I find really interesting is how defensive some of the reporters who allowed Bush to lie to us are being. I just watched David Gregory on Hardball and he came off as almost "Clintonesque" in his complete refusal to accept his part of the blame.

Now as a liberal blogger who tried to discover and disseminate the truth about all of this as often as I could, I have to say I am in hog heaven. This will have to go down as one of my most gratifying days in quite some time.

I hope Scott realized when he wrote this thing that he was going to have to do more then simply promote a simple tell all. I think he may have opened a can of worms that finally allows the Congress to aggressively pursue charges against this administration and might even ensure that Barack walks away with this election.

Yep I cannot wipe the smile from my face.

Karl Rove denies accuracy of Scott McClellan's book. Raise your hands if you did not see that coming.

Rove also compares McClellan to "left wing bloggers".

Wow Scott that is really some kind of honor!

I mean left wing bloggers are the most important people on the entire Internet.

How is that for a transformation? Little Scotty was once a toady for the evil Bush regime and now he is numbered among the most influential people on the planet.

See? Dreams can come true!