Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The truth hurts

I've always viewed White House press secretaries throughout Bush's reign of terror as soulless ministers of deception -- the enemy of Journalism. And if you watch carefully, it only takes a short tenure of lies and treachery before these despicable flacks get this vacant look in their eyes, as if they have finally realized the internal consequences of their loyalty to an administration that has utterly tainted American society.

Of course, it takes a special kind of evil to stand in front of the media every day and spew pure propaganda and half-truths, knowing that these lies will be disseminated among the hapless public. I can only imagine what it must feel like as every drop of integrity slowly seeps away. The psychological pain of defending a man who is responsible for so much needless destruction and death must be unbearable.

Yet, it seems one of these political hyenas has seen the error of his ways. After a few years of spreading the myth of Bush's America, former press secretary Scott McClellan is admitting in a new book that he was, in fact, full of shit, as was the entire administration. McClellan, of course, was the carnivore who fed on the rotting carcass of Bush's failed policies during Hurricane Katrina and much of the war in Iraq. Also, he doesn't blink. What an asshole.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The spokesman who defended President Bush's policies through Hurricane Katrina and the early years of the Iraq war is now blasting his former employers, saying the Bush administration became mired in propaganda and political spin and at times played loose with the truth.

Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan blasts President Bush and advisers in a new book.

In excerpts from a 341-page book to be released Monday, Scott McClellan writes on Iraq that Bush "and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war."

"[I]n this regard, he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security," McClellan wrote.

McClellan also sharply criticizes the administration on its handling of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

"One of the worst disasters in our nation's history became one of the biggest disasters in Bush's presidency," he wrote. "Katrina and the botched federal response to it would largely come to define Bush's second term."

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