Scott McClellan, of course, is a new hero in new places. The Huffington Post, Buzzflash, and NBC/MSNBC--they can't get enough of Scott now that he has gone from George W. Bush-defending to Bush-bashing. But The Cable Gamer wonders if McClellan will ever go on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown."
If I could find this blistering attack by Olbermann, then McClellan can, too. Here's KO referring to SM as a "blank-eyed bully-collaborator," in the wake of the faulty Koran-flushing story that ran in Newsweek three years ago:
And larger still, in terms of politics, this isn't well-defined, is it? I mean Conservatives might parrot McClellan and say ‘Newsweek put this country in a bad light.’ But they could just as easily thump their chests and say ‘See, this is what we do to those prisoners at Gitmo! You guys better watch your asses!’
Ultimately, though, the administration may have effected its biggest mistake over this saga, in making the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs look like a liar or naïf, just to draw a little blood out of Newsweek’s hide. Either way — and also for that tasteless, soul-less conclusion that deaths in Afghanistan should be lain at the magazine’s doorstep — Scott McClellan should resign. The expiration on his carton full of blank-eyed bully-collaborator act passed this afternoon as he sat reeling off those holier-than-thou remarks. Ah, that’s what I smelled.
It'll be interesting to see if McClellan is so eager to sell books that he will even go on "Countdown."
