Ramblings From the Ragged Crumbling Edge Of The Reality-Based Community

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

By Their Caterwauling Yea Shall Know Them 

...one of the most clearly understood tendancies of the failed Bush administration has been the vicious vehemence with which it attacks those critics who have been carving too close to the bone. Hasn't mattered whether it was a long-time foe or former friend, any commentary that has painted this useless band of hacks as anything but the very best and most true-blue group to ever run the Executive Branch of the Federal Government has been attacked with a ruthless zeal that would put a pack of timber wolves to shame. The most clearly understood truth about these attacks has been that the amount of heated vitriol directed toward the critic is usually directly proportional to the amount of truth in the criticism. And so, today we have Scott McClellan...

If a national-level pundit or an A-List blogger had written a book saying the things that Scottie is revealed to have written in his new memoir, the sound of crickets emanating from the White House would have been maddening. But Scottie has clearly touched a nerve, and the echoing blare of the klaxton alarms in the West Wing hallways must have even startled the street people and pushers across the street. Given all we have learned about the particular psychopathy of the Bush administration and its enablers and hangers-on, today's response to the released excerpts from McClellan's book suggest that he's probably hit pretty close to the bullseye...
Posted by: Jack K. / 6:50 PM

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