A Spork in the Drawer

Of Andirons

Pierce on Scotty:

It took me about that long to decide that he is indeed the oleaginous little weasel he always was, except now he's telling a bit of the truth. What convinced me not to be convinced is this notion he's floating that he came to Washington believing that "the president" intended to govern in a bipartisan, responsible fashion, and then it all went sour...assuming he had the brains God gave the average andiron, Scotty had to know from considerable experience in Texas that the appointment of a Gaboon viper like Karl Rove as deputy White House chief of staff meant a lot of things, but that a commitment to bipartisan, good government probably was not one of them. Please to be giving me a freaking break here.

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Hogwash. Hogwash! Hogwash!

Two of McClatchy's excellent Washington-based reporters, Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, take down the self-serving Scott McLellan and the equally self-serving "news" media:

Until now, we've resisted the temptation to post on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book, which accuses the Bush White House of launching a propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq.

Why? It's not news. At least not to some of us who've covered the story from the start.

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Second, we find it a wee bit preposterous -- and we are being diplomatic here -- that a man who slavishly - no, robotically! -- defended President Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere is trying to "set the record straight" (and sell a few books) five years and more after the invasion, with U.S. troops still bravely fighting and dying to stabilize that country.

A must read.

[Via scout_prime.]

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Rat Leaves Ship

Discovers that water is wet.

When the most servile of Bush toadies turns the end in truly nigh.

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