I'm certain that opportunism, rather than conscience, led Scott McClellan to publish his tell-all book now, rather than when it might have had more of an impact. But that does not necessarily mean, as Karl Rove seems to think, that McClellan is lying about what transpired in the Bush White House, particularly during the run-up to war. Rather, a first-hand account like this merely seems to confirm all the circumstantial evidence of a massive propaganda effort by the administration to sell this war to the public and the world using scare tactics.
This also explains why both Rove and Dana Perino have characterized McClellan's book as so implausible that it's almost as though he's taken a leave of his senses. Rove: "First of all, this doesn't sound like Scott. It really doesn't. Not the Scott McClellan I've known for a long time. Second of all, it sounds like somebody else. It sounds like a left-wing blogger." Perino: "For those of us who fully supported him, before, during and after he was press secretary, we are puzzled. It is sad -- this is not the Scott we knew." I also love how ol' Turd Blossom, true to form, threw in the old chestnut of the unhinged liberal blogger -- priceless.
--Mori Dinauer