McClellan, a Tad Late Correcting The Story

[Commentary] In an interview three years ago, when he was waging daily warfare against the White House press corps, Scott McClellan said: "The media's trying to get under our skin and get us off-message." Now it's McClellan who's gone way off-message -- and been embraced by some of his liberal media detractors, even as he is denigrated by his onetime conservative allies. In writing a book that castigates the man he so loyally served, the former presidential press secretary is following a well-worn tell-all path, made surprising mainly because of his reputation as an unyielding George W. Bush loyalist. The media love turncoats, if only to chronicle the teeth-gnashing among the defector's old pals. Indeed, the White House called McClellan "disgruntled," Matt Drudge branded him a "snitch," and National Review Online ran six pieces on Friday trashing him as "pasty," "maladroit," "plodding" and "shameful." Liberal pundits aren't exactly kind -- "Where's the apology?" demanded David Corn of Mother Jones -- but many have welcomed McClellan as a belated truth-teller. After all, McClellan's portrait of Bush as an inflexible, isolated leader who misled the nation into an unnecessary war matches what the left has been saying all along.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR200806...
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