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Doug Schmitz As Scott McClellan punches in as the Left’s newly enlisted useful idiot, he should be grateful he’s not living in the 1800s where treason was a capital offense; otherwise, he’d be hanging in the public square, alongside leftist derelict Dan Rather and his Commie pals at the New York Times and CNN for what they’ve done to the military’s commander-in-chief and to this country in a time of war. But even as the vengeful former press secretary’s being coroneted by the very leftist media sharks who tried to devour him, they will require their usual pound of flesh; they will eventually chew him up and spit him out, like Cindy Sheehan, once he’s served their purposes. After all, that’s “what happened” to former conservative David Brock, who, unlike McClellan, was a rising and promising star – until he shirked back and caved in to pressure from the Left, like McClellan has done. Because he couldn’t handle the pressure from the Left, like McClellan, Brock decided to join them and is now being heavily-financed by leftist billionaire nut job George Soros via Media Matters to mercilessly smear those of us on the Right. Once a credible investigative journalist who became famous for exposing Anita Hill when she falsely accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, and dragged his good name through the mud, Brock has become a caricature, much like McClellan has as he continues to self-destruct before our eyes. Because McClellan couldn’t handle the job, he was rightfully fired and, like the canned former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, is throwing a temper tantrum in book form. “The problem for McClellan is that he appears transparently foolish, reciting charges about the Iraq War and so forth that have mostly been raised before by the President’s political enemies,” wrote Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (May 29, 2008). But, unlike McClellan, as a journalist and a Reagan conservative, I would have considered it an honor and a privilege to have been given the incredibly rare opportunity to work with President George W. Bush as one of his trusted spokespersons. Few get that kind of unlimited access in D.C. But instead of accolades for a job well done, McClellan will go down in history as one of the worst presidential press secretaries ever. McClellan’s a thankless degenerate who will never hold a candle to the character, loyalty and professionalism of Tony Snow and Ari Fleischer, who were always ready to provide facts and figures at a moment’s notice, oftentimes right off the top of their heads. In fact, Snow would go the extra mile by posting corrections on the White House Web site every time he or Bush was misquoted, which was more often than not. Snow, in particular, also displayed a passion for the job that few press secretaries have ever matched. Conversely, McClellan was extremely painful to watch as he stumbled and stammered his way through press conferences, filled to the brim with antagonistic and argumentative left-wing henchman just waiting to lynch Bush and his cabinet officials. On the other hand, as boring as Mike McCurry was as Bill Clinton’s press secretary, he slanted the facts to the point where the left-wing press bought it. But instead of gratitude for being entrusted with such a high-level position to the most powerful man in the free world, McClellan sold his soul to the abyss of the Far Left, where disloyalty and treason are commonplace – and their modus operandi. When the going got tough, McClellan, like O’Neill and Brock, couldn’t stay true to their principles – or America – because they obviously had no moral compass. Instead of maturity, they chose childish rants. While Bush needs to be more vocal on the tremendous progress our troops are making in Iraq – and far more supportive of the beloved nation of Israel, Bush still deserves the utmost respect – not more whimpering and whining from disgruntled girly-men like Scott McClellan. With the Left’s media hounds still drooling all over McClellan, this pathetic turncoat’s futile attempt to smear Bush out of revenge for getting axed for incompetence comes to a screeching halt when readers realize there was absolutely no evidence to excavate as the Left’s new fabulist grabs his 15 minutes. As McClellan is dubbed the belle of the Left’s Bush-bashing ball, flashing his tiara and sash, he’s demonstrating once again why he was never qualified for the job in the first place. Choosing loyalty over competence, Bush has been burned yet again by a so-called trusted colleague. The perennially bungling Barney Fife of the White House press room, McClellan is touting his book of leftist fables that levels false, unsubstantiated charges against the very administration that entrusted him with top secret confidences now being happily paraded as the gospel truth by the Left’s media circus clowns. Such a level of betrayal is almost beyond comprehension as McClellan forms his unholy alliance with America’s enemies on the Left. From McClellan’s fumbling words to the limp in his wrist at the podium, when McClellan went postal on the President in print, he was actually giving more aid and comfort to Democrats – and al-Qaeda, placing our great military in further danger. Like the New York Times, McClellan’s new book, What Happened, is only fit for lining the bird cage. That’s because McClellan, who never weaned himself off a very large pacifier before becoming Bush’s top spokesperson, was one of the most inept, incompetent and disgraceful ingrates in Washington. Instead of acting like a man about his own documented dereliction in failing to deliver for Bush, McClellan, like many other Bush turncoats, has been trying to salvage his sorry reputation by stabbing his former employer in the back. He’s the latest former Bush hack to revise history and lie his way to millions in book sales as he lifts his skirt as the Left’s new Marxist debutante – and their latest media darling. Like Bush’s other disgruntled sore loser Paul O’Neill (who had his book ghost-written), McClellan never once offered to resign in protest. But, instead, he ended up playing right into the Far Left’s hands and has proven to be nothing more than an immature, whiny, spineless cry baby who was never really up to the job. In fact, McClellan has lost all credibility as he displays his trademark incompetence and asininity, and is warmly embraced – at least temporarily – by the Left. “Whatever the justification for McClellan’s tenure, he succeeded in showing that the inability to communicate and the incapacity to deal with the press artfully are not insurmountable obstacles to one’s dream of rising to the position of White House press secretary,” wrote Jonah Goldberg of the National Review (May 30, 2008). Now as McClellan freely lies about Bush, the war in Iraq, Katrina, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, (conveniently leaving out the part that Libby didn’t play in the Valerie Plame kerfuffle), he has NBC willingly doing his dirty work – especially now that we know NBC’s suspicious ties to George Soros. One interesting sidenote is that McClellan’s book was published by Peter Osnos, a Far-Left Communist whose publishing house is affiliated with The Nation magazine, a Stalinist, America-hating, despotic-loving rag that cheerleads for our enemies. Osnos’ six books were heavily-financed by Soros, and McClellan now said Osnos had “tweaked” What Happened. “We’re no longer surprised when a longtime confidant of a president comes out with a tell-all book,” wrote the Investor’s Business Daily editors (May 28, 2008). “It’s almost de rigueur. What’s sad, however, is when so much of what the book tells is, in fact, false.” As McClellan decries the Bush Administration’s so-called “deception,” McClellan is in fact the one who has been cravenly dishonest. He disingenuously instigated the betrayal. But McClellan has shown little remorse as well as his true colors – and where his loyalties lie. To use McClellan’s own words that he used on Bush (in quotes) in his tome, McClellan himself actually turned out to be “a serious strategic blunder” for Bush as McClellan now launches his own “political propaganda campaign” as “a marketing choice” that is “insular, secretive and combative” against Bush. He’s “less than candid and honest” about Bush, as McClellan continues “shading the truth” to sell a worthless piece of left-wing crap, which, unfortunately, is now a best-selling worthless piece of left-wing crap. Robert Ringer, conservative speaker and entrepreneur, could have been writing about McClellan when he astutely assessed the Marxist who believes he should be getting something in return for actually displaying disloyalty and treachery. “Theoretically, the Marxist believes that if a man puts $100 worth of labor into the making of a product (and assuming he makes every aspect of the product himself, which is almost never the case), he is being exploited if someone buys it from him for $100 and resells it for $125,” Ringer wrote (June 2, 2008). “The Marxist would argue that the additional $25 belongs to the laborer. “Of course, the Marxist does not explain what happens if the person who paid $100 for the product can only sell it for $75. Should the laborer then refund his $25 loss? It is only through the phenomena of guiltism, covetism, envyism, angerism, and villainism that left-wing utopian thinkers are able to ignore the absurdity inherent in Communist ideology,” Ringer concluded. Ultimately, those 30 pieces of silver McClellan received for selling out Bush and America will only come back to bite him, once the Left has finished cleaning his carcass. The result, as with Sheehan, is McClellan with end up alone because he has simply become an extension of the bitterness that coarses through the minions on the Left. “The Left’s hate campaign has never ended. Despite all his braying about “transpartisanship,” wrote Ben Johnson (Frontpagemag.com, June 4, 2008), “Scott McClellan’s new book has made sure its noxious lifeblood continues to flow.” In the end, history will prove Bush right about the war in Iraq – and McClellan and other asinine Bush White House turncoats will still be sitting on the wrong side of history. In fact, McClellan has already been proven wrong on everything in his 323-page screed: From Iraq, Karl Rove and Katrina, to the declassification of the National Intelligence Estimate and Valerie Plame, whose equally pathetic husband’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee was proven patently fraudulent, the facts have been working against McClellan. That’s what happened.
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